<story><title>Build Apps for Cars on the New Automatic Developer Platform</title><url>https://developer.automatic.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>atonse</author><text>I didn&amp;#x27;t know there was already a second generation Automatic.&lt;p&gt;I pre-ordered the first one and had a lot of problems with it constantly losing connection and not tracking trips. I checked the app a few times to find out that data was just not collected, and it was just cumbersome to get the device to reconnect, with having to turn off my engine and do a dance to get it to talk to my car, that it just became a pain and sat in my glove box for months.&lt;p&gt;Hope they&amp;#x27;ve fixed these issues, but I&amp;#x27;m skeptical about buying a 2nd gen after that experience.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lsllc</author><text>I also have a 1st Gen Automatic that I got with the launch&amp;#x2F;pre-order.  Same issues!  I have a 2nd one I ordered last year for our other car ... same problem there.&lt;p&gt;It mostly just won&amp;#x27;t connect, seems far worse with the iPhone 6 than it was with the 5S.  I tried Automatic Support, but didn&amp;#x27;t get very far beyond &amp;quot;iOS is killing the app due to memory&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;When it works it&amp;#x27;s great!  I&amp;#x27;m also skeptical about buying a 2nd gen.  Would love this to work properly!</text></comment>
<story><title>Build Apps for Cars on the New Automatic Developer Platform</title><url>https://developer.automatic.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>atonse</author><text>I didn&amp;#x27;t know there was already a second generation Automatic.&lt;p&gt;I pre-ordered the first one and had a lot of problems with it constantly losing connection and not tracking trips. I checked the app a few times to find out that data was just not collected, and it was just cumbersome to get the device to reconnect, with having to turn off my engine and do a dance to get it to talk to my car, that it just became a pain and sat in my glove box for months.&lt;p&gt;Hope they&amp;#x27;ve fixed these issues, but I&amp;#x27;m skeptical about buying a 2nd gen after that experience.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>RyJones</author><text>Completely agree. Why would you trust these guys again? I won&amp;#x27;t. I didn&amp;#x27;t sign up to be a system administrator for my truck, and they see no problem with shipping hardware that can&amp;#x27;t do the ONE THING that they claim to sell it for. Track trips - maybe!</text></comment>