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A ride with your iPhone
Get more out of your iPhone with smart car accessories
Whether you want to listen to music on the go or just charge your phone in silence as you drive, here are the best accessories you can get for using your iPhone in your car.
Eyes on the road, not on your phone
Best third-party CarPlay apps
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Get on the road with these great apps that you can use with CarPlay.
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Plugged in
Tesla owners need this $150 Android-powered CarPlay hack
Elon Musk's Tesla might make some of the most popular electric cars in the world but it still refuses to add a basic feature that owners have been crying out for in recent years. Tesla refuses to add CarPlay support, leaving some to take matters into their own hands.
Mapped out
Google Maps now tells you how much it'll cost to drive on toll roads
Google Maps has added support for toll road pricing, giving people more information about how much it will cost before they get to a road that requires a toll to drive on.
Mapped out
Google Maps helps you breathe more easily with new air quality index layer
Google Maps is rolling out a new air quality index (AQI) feature to give people as much information as possible about the air that they will breathe when stepping foot outside. The new feature is available as an additional mapping layer.
Office only
Elon Musk's Tesla home-working move could spell doom for Twitter employees
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Tesla CEO and prospective Twitter owner Elon Musk has written to employees of the electric car maker to say that working from home is no longer an option — they have to work a minimum of 40 hours per week from a Tesla office.
Oh Elon
Teslas could get new iPhone connectivity, but not the one you want
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Tesla electric cars could add support for Apple AirPlay, allowing people to more easily stream audio and potentially video from their iPhones. But CEO Elon Musk remains steadfast in his refusal to discuss adding the feature everyone really wants — CarPlay support.
2007!
Google Maps Street View gains a new time travel feature going back to 2007
Google is celebrating 15 years of Street View by announcing a time travel feature of sorts, allowing people to scroll back and see how things looked at various points between now and 2007.
Mastering Siri
Get directions home or find new places with Siri and Maps. Here's how!
Siri can help you figure out how to get home or to new places, even getting transit and walking directions for you. Here’s everything you can do with Siri and Maps on your iPhone.
Tesla
You can now add CarPlay to your Tesla if you're up to the task
There's now a way for everyone to run CarPlay on their Tesla display, but it's going to take some work and hardware to make it happen.
Mastering Maps
Apple Maps makes it easy to find the best public transit route to take
Need to find the best route to take for public transit? Apple Maps makes it super easy!
Mastering Maps
See something? Report it in Maps on iPhone to help out other drivers!
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You may encounter some kind of incident on the road while you're driving. If you do, you should report it to Apple Maps to help other drivers out. Here's how!
About-turn
Elon Musk makes eleventh-hour about-turn, won't sit on Twitter's board
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Twitter won't have Tesla CEO Elon Musk on its board after all despite both parties saying that it would. The decision was announced on Sunday evening, the day after Musk was supposed to take his place on the board.
Mapping good time
Google Maps is getting some massive improvements on iPhone, Apple Watch
Google has announced a slew of new updates and improvements that are set to make its Maps app a much better experience on iPhone and Apple Watch.
big moves
Elon Musk spent almost $3 billion to become Twitter's biggest stakeholder
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has become Twitter's biggest stakeholder after splashing almost $3 billion on shares. 73.5 million of them, to be precise.