Shot this with the iPhone as I went to get the car Thursday morning. Turned out pretty well. Unedited.
Was watching some YouTube videos of cars stuck in the snow south of Buffalo. Pretty bad.
One thing that's very helpful is the outside temperature reading. As long as the air temperature remained above 32°F I wasn't too worried. I was worried that if it dropped precipitously, we'd be facing a much different situation, with wet snow freezing to ice. I'm pretty sure they were salting the roads as they were plowing, but I'm not certain.
Snow, in modest accumulations, I can handle. Ice means get off the roads.
Another feature I'd like to see added to either CarPlay or the general instrument cluster is an elevation display. Below 1,000' we were seeing mostly rain, above 1,000' it was generally snow. I asked Siri once what my current elevation was, and I got a response that sounded reasonable, like 1,300' or something. I asked again later, and it prompted me to give Siri permission to use my location, which seemed weird. And then it couldn't tell me my elevation.
CarPlay would show yellow and red roads where there were no backups, or cars, for that matter. I'm guessing they were getting data from cars moving slowly in those stretches.
Originally posted at Nice Marmot 07:03 Saturday, 30 November 2024