Android Auto’s weather experience is broken, and a raccoon meme isn’t going to fix it

In early September, our Authority Insights team uncovered a potential new Android Auto feature intended to quickly inform drivers of weather conditions. As someone who regularly braves the various seasonal storms the Cape has to offer, I was genuinely ecstatic to learn of this development. But all that changed when I learned about the feature itself.

What if I told you this potential feature might involve a tiny animated raccoon parading across the dashboard, with the current conditions blasting down on it, and a tiny caption above it showing the temperature? Suddenly, it sounds pretty surreal, as if Google’s next April Fool’s joke spilled months too early.