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If it doesn't exist yet in the latest car models, I'm sure it will soon: voice-automated controls. Should be pretty trivial to do basic things like climate cont
by IkmoIkmo 11y ago
If it doesn't exist yet in the latest car models, I'm sure it will soon: voice-automated controls. Should be pretty trivial to do basic things like climate control via voice, and seeing as a car is a private environment (my biggest gripe with talking to my phone in public), I think it'll quickly overtake physical controls as the preferred mode of use.
- semi-extrinsic 11y agoVoice activation in cars has existed for ten years, and it's been a running gag for ten years how poorly it works; see e.g. Top Gear: "Call Richard Hammond" - "Deleting contact info".
- ams6110 11y agoTo be fair, what you see on Top Gear is all scripted and staged for entertainment value.
- lostcolony 11y agoTo be pedantic, he did say 'gag'
- Animats 11y agoIn "Car Guys vs. Bean Counters", Bob Lutz describes the day he killed voice input for GM cars in the 1990s. He tried the demo, and decided that working through the voice menus was just too clunky. So he killed the project.
- IkmoIkmo 11y agoYeah but something siri like or ok google like?
- nommm-nommm 11y agoVoice controls are terrible for anyone without a Standard American Accent. I also feel voice automated controls are very distracting.
- Grishnakh 11y agoWell, you could just speak with a Standard American accent when using voice controls. If we Americans can easily ape British accents, you shouldn't have much trouble doing the reverse.
- underwater 11y agoNo, you really can't.