These 3 buried Android Auto settings stopped my phone from cutting out in the car

Driving through a tunnel or under a lot of trees should not turn your car’s dashboard into a strobe light. When your dashboard system constantly flickers between light and dark modes, it becomes an active distraction that pulls your attention away from the road. This is just one of many ways Android Auto fails when it tries to be too smart for its own good. By letting the car and phone fight over sensor data, resolution, and wireless signals, you get a system that stutters or disconnects at the worst possible moments. You can take back control with a few tweaks in some hidden menus you can tweak.