Huge Android Auto update embarrasses Apple CarPlay with full-screen experience

Full-screen navigation sounds cosmetic until you remember how much dead space most car displays waste on letterboxed phone projection. The real story isn't Android 'beating' CarPlay on a feature — it's that the phone-projection layer is now where the in-car experience actually competes, not the carmaker's own software. That's a quiet shift in power: drivers increasingly judge a car's interface by how well it gets out of the way of their phone, not by what the manufacturer built. For anyone choosing a car, screen size finally starts to matter for the right reason.