Car Navigation Head Using a Google Pixel Tablet? Never connect your phone to your car (except bluetooth for sound system)

Ok, I’m 100% sure that I’m not the first one to think about this. We have a worrisome and invasive privacy problem with auto manufacturers. One should not connect their phone to those new cars.

Given the world we are living in now, where the minority cares about privacy and those few need to adapt, what should we do about cars?

Well, if someone has a Google Pixel Phone with GrapheneOS and wants to integrate it with a Google Pixel Tablet running GrapheneOS to create a car navigation head unit, as shown in this video would that be a step in the right direction to regain some privacy?

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Google Pixel C and Pixel Tablet have no GPS. Likely done purposely.

The Wi-Fi only variants of the Nexus 7 (2013) and Nexus 9 do have GPS however, but they’re both quite old and slow.

I’m not sure if I’m missing something but I was thinking that the phone would be the GPS and the tablet would be the “bigger” screen. One can advocate that why not just use the phone only directly which is also a good point I’d say. With the tablet maybe there are someways to transform it in a more integrate standalone unit with dash cam and some other car centric ideas but always relying on the phone to be the network hotspot and no data sent back to the car manufacture.

Probably this idea isn’t that good. I think I’ll only use my phone and be it but thought about asking.

Back in ye olden days, I used to use an external GPS antenna that connected through Bluetooth to my Symbian phone. It seems external GPS antennas for phones and tablets still exist, so you could connect one of those to the tablet.

@quitet.gear
An external GPS dongle would likely require direct support from whatever app you want to use it with, as standard Android has no mechanism for external GPS source afaik.

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I guess I am not getting something here. As I see it the car already has a GPS so it knows where you are going. It has a microphone which is recording what you are saying so it knows what your phone calls are about, it has sensors to tell it which seats are occupied so it knows how many people are in the car. About the only things it does not have is your contact list. Finally it has its own data link to send it all. So what is all this effort gaining?