Nearly a decade after its launch, ETA’s simple drive times app is finally making its way to Apple’s CarPlay. The newly updated app, which offers an alternative first step to planning a trip, isn’t meant to directly compete with mobile maps or other navigation apps. Instead, it serves as more of a “location dashboard” that can also sync with your calendar, showing you the travel times and traffic warnings to various destinations, like home, work, school, your next meeting, or anything else, across multiple forms of transport. When you’re actually ready to go, ETA can kick off the navigation in the navigation app of your choice and share your arrival time with friends.
Yes, it’s a bit wild that such a tool would not have been available in the place where so m...
