{"id":50686,"date":"2026-01-09T17:04:54","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T22:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=50686"},"modified":"2026-01-09T17:04:54","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T22:04:54","slug":"choosing-a-driving-route-in-carplay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/09\/choosing-a-driving-route-in-carplay\/","title":{"rendered":"Choosing a Driving Route in CarPlay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/leancrew.com\/all-this\/2026\/01\/choosing-a-driving-route-in-carplay\/\">Dr. Drang<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/leancrew.com\/all-this\/2026\/01\/choosing-a-driving-route-in-carplay\/\">\n<p>That the default route&rsquo;s Go button is gray while the alternates are green is a stupidity addressed by <a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@sageolson\/115574876728650307\">Sage Olson<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/duck.haus\/@joesteel\">Joe Rosensteel<\/a>, so I won&rsquo;t bother.<\/p>\n<p>What I will address is that whichever route you choose, you have to tap its Go button. Even though the full description of each route looks like a button, the only part that&rsquo;s tappable is the part that looks like a button inside another button.<\/p>\n<p>Is this just as stupid as having a dull color as the default and a bright color as the alternate? Yes. And Apple has known that descriptions should be click\/tap targets since the very beginning of the Mac. Here, courtesy of <a href=\"https:\/\/infinitemac.org\/1984\/System%201.0\">Infinite Mac<\/a>, is MacWrite 1.0 running on a simulation of an original Macintosh.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/10\/icons-in-menus-everywhere\/\">Icons in Menus Everywhere<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Drang: That the default route&rsquo;s Go button is gray while the alternates are green is a stupidity addressed by Sage Olson and Joe Rosensteel, so I won&rsquo;t bother. What I will address is that whichever route you choose, you have to tap its Go button. Even though the full description of each route looks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2026-01-09T22:04:57Z","apple_news_api_id":"3f63cca8-f16c-4069-bfce-542ed5c19122","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2026-01-09T22:04:57Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AP2PMqPFsQGm_zlQu1cGRIg","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[618,794,77,31,2741,2785],"class_list":["post-50686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple-maps","tag-carplay","tag-design","tag-ios","tag-ios-26","tag-liquid-glass"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50687,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50686\/revisions\/50687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}