The iPhone needs a car mode

Question

I'm very pleased so far with my Iphone except for one problem. I always would use my old Ipod in the car every day, and it was easy to use, just plug the aux in to the headphone jack and play it. Switching from song to song if I needed was easy, I just had to press right on the well or left, no need to look at the actual ipod whild doing this, and pausing was just as easy.
Problem:
But with the Iphone its very difficult to actually control the ipod features while driving. The buttons are not easy to hit if your trying to concentrate on driving and not finding the buttons, pausing is just as difficult.
Solution:
On the contrary it seems like an easy fix for apple. Just add in a car mode for the ipod functionality.
Skipping songs: Simply touch somewhere on the screen and drag to the left to skip back, and drag to the right to skip forward. This would effectively eliminate the problem of having to look at the iphone to find the skip button when your driving.
Pausing/Playing: I'm sure someone could think of a good tapping method for this, or maybe dragging the up or down would pause and stop.
It just seems to me that using the ipod functions in the car while driving is actually dangerous if you want to switch songs, pause, play and whatnot because it requires looking at the phone. (im sure some peoples solution is to just use a playlist, but thats really not ideal if you are tired of a song, or just need to pause for a moment.)
Message was edited by: invulse

Answer 1

I just purchased an install the Alpine CDA-9886 car audio receiver in my car, with the KCE-411i iPod Adapter. The 9886 has iPod controls built in and works with my iPhone. You just use the actual buttons on the receiver, rather than the phone, to pick your songs, playlist, volume, pause, play, etc.