Google's Android Automotive Is Moving From the Dashboard To the 'Brain' of the Car (theverge.com)
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- News link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/03/24/1958223/googles-android-automotive-is-moving-from-the-dashboard-to-the-brain-of-the-car
- Source link: https://www.theverge.com/tech/899034/google-android-automotive-os-software-defined-vehicle
> With its new software, Google is promising faster over-the-air software updates, better voice assistants, and more proactive vehicle maintenance alerts. Non-driving functions like climate control, lighting, and seating adjustment would fall under Android's control. And the system would move beyond basic infotainment to create a unified ecosystem for features like remote cabin conditioning, digital key management, and personalized driver profiles.
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> For automakers, the new system promises less expensive software development costs and an opportunity to focus on what matters most to them: branding. By providing the "foundational code and a common language for their software," Google says automakers will be free to design cool experiences for their customers. Google says its already working with companies like Renault Group and Qualcomm to bring its new software-defined vehicle version of Android Automotive to more cars. A variety of automakers already use regular Android Automotive, like Volvo, Polestar, General Motors, Nissan, and Honda.
[1] https://www.theverge.com/tech/899034/google-android-automotive-os-software-defined-vehicle
[2] https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/platforms/android/android-automotive-os
"Proactive Maintenance Reminders" (Score:2)
Get ready for those!
Nope (Score:3)
You idiots are going the wrong direction. I don't need my "digital life" to follow me around in the "brains" of my car.
Make it Shitty! (Score:2)
[1]https://youtu.be/T4Upf_B9RLQ [youtu.be]
What else would you expect from Google?
[1] https://youtu.be/T4Upf_B9RLQ
Hell to the Nah (Score:1)
Someday in the near future, someone will want to brick the world. With ever-more entrenched 3 parties in our daily life, it is just a matter of time until a button gets pushed and the whole US of A gets stood on it's end. A car isn't a phone, a calculator or a blender/mixer. Its a vehicle. Tires, steering wheel, petals, seats, power source and 2 hands. Doomed, I tell you, doooomed! (Prof. Farnsworth)
Gemini Is Worse Than Old Android Auto (Score:2)
The new Gemini voice integration with Android Auto is terrible.
It knows less than the old voice assistant, is much more verbose and can't read/remember preferences for apps like spotify for music and google maps for maps.
A truly awful experience.
Absolutely not (Score:2)
"From a truly integrated voice experience to proactive maintenance reminders, your car will become a true extension of your digital life," Sounds like dystopian horror to me.
Re: (Score:2)
Wait until the HUD displays ads while you're stopped at a red light, when you start your car, when you turn off the engine, etc.
If these were self-driving cars, it would be different, but I'd cut the antenna wires before getting home from the dealer.
Moving (Score:3)
The word you are looking for is metastasizing.
What could go wrong? (Score:2)
Just as a cell phone is a computer with a dedicated audio service, Google will make your car into a computer with wheels. Thus, all the problems with your phone and laptop (data security, privacy, software freezing, bug-ridden updates, zero-day vulnerabilities), will now affect your car.
What could go wrong?
There's already a movie about that, The Fate of the Furious (2017): The swarm of drone cars, not the harpooning-a-car-like-a-whale scene.
Another case of so much "No". (Score:2)
> "From a truly integrated voice experience to proactive maintenance reminders, your car will become a true extension of your digital life," ...
(a) I don't like "voice experiences" and try not to use them.
(b) I don't want my car nagging me about recommended maintenance - or anything really.
(c) I have a minimal "digital life" and don't want my car(s) involved with that, especially as an "extension" - whatever that means here..
I'm not a Luddite, but don't need or want every part of my life integrated, especially as Google (and/or others) will be trying to track and monetize it. There's nothing wrong with compartmentalizing things.
Well this is going to be a disaster (Score:2)
So this kind of software is very expensive. Which is why the automotive companies are happy to offload it onto google. Google of course is probably planning on hoovering up a ton of information about you related to your car as part of this. How I wouldn't be surprised to find them trying to hook into your GPS to monitor everywhere you go. For the record I turn my GPS off not because of privacy but because it eats phone battery life but still..
The issue here is that Google is probably going to find that
The reason I like CarPlay & Android Auto. (Score:2)
Is that it is tied to my phone and NOT to my car.
Re: (Score:2)
Yeah, I prefer cars w/o "brains" of their own!