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Google to Integrate Gemini AI into Android Auto for Smarter In-Car Experience
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We need an alternative to android auto now๐ญ
this post was submitted on 14 May 2025
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I upgraded to an older car that doesn't have any of that nonsense.
Great! another feature I have zero interest in will be shoved down my throat!
Could they just try to make it so it actually works rather than telling me my wife doesn't exist in my contacts list when I ask it to call her?
That's just Gemini trying to break you out of the Matrix. You don't have a wife. There's no contact list. Wake up then_three_more!
"Smart AI" is like saying "Microsoft Works"...
It's a more talkative, more delusional Clippy.
please no
Boo hiss fuck off
I wouldn't be so pissed if Gemini actually had good audio to text
Don't do evil
Good thing I don't use android auto either then I guess.
There is a simple solution: stop using Android Auto.
And use what
Nothing. Perhaps wean yourselves away from it.
So replace it with nothing. Down grade my experience. That's your solution?
Use the radio which is full of ads and don't use Google maps on my dashboard?
People have been navigating with physical maps a lot longer than smart phones.
Or use Open Street Map
Right and it was a pile of shit.
Google maps is a million times better, that's why most of the people use it, over a physical map.
Argumentum ad populum fallacy.
Fallacy fallacy.
I use Android Auto with open street maps
How is it a downgrade to disable a torrent of shit you don't want?
Drop some small change on a mobile-data-enabled tablet if you want Google Maps. Even better, use one of the many GPS apps based on Open Streetmap, or even Here We Go. Some of those have an excellent disconnected (from mobile data, not GPS) operating mode and route-finding that's no worse than Google's.
How is it a torrent of shit that I don't want exactly?
It gives all I need, music, maps, Google assistant. In no way it's out an issue.
You're just a malcontent looking for issues, with a chip on his shoulder.
I might try some other software, but android auto is dependable and pretty good.
What the hell are you talking about?
How about instead you make it where I'm can constantly connect the first time!
At least KITT was charming, this is just trying to shove AI into as many place as possible...
I do not normally say this, but please, for the love of fuck, make Gemini a premium feature
the monkey's paw curls
There will now be constant popups for you to upgrade and regular "free trials" that shift around the ui so you use it accidentally, and then go back to normal a week later.
They couldn't possibly make it any more garbage than it actually is.
In the middle of an audio book in any media player but you connect to your car? Too bad! Android Auto is its own separate little world and your playlist position is different in the car vs. out of it.
Someone sent you a text but ye gods forbid, they sent it before you started driving your car? Too bad! You can't see past text messages, just the ones that were sent while you were driving. I guess if somebody texted you an address in advance you'll have to fish your phone out of your pocket.
Somebody's calling you who is already in your address book. Too bad! We'll only show the phone number on the screen and not their contact name.
Etc., etc.
Android Auto is basically useless. My car stereo supports both, so I just screen mirror if I actually care about functionality. I only use Android Auto itself when all I want is a map.
My favorite thing to hate on Android auto is: if you get a call or text while using google maps for directions, the notification blocks your view of your directions. I drive with the voice dictation off, i hate driving with 'turn left, turn right, turn left...' Announcing every 2 minutes while I'm in the car so I glance at the screen before I need to make turns. In this case, if someone messages or calls you before an exit number or turn on google maps, you will miss it, I've passed many highway exits because of this.
All 3 of these things are Google's own products, how the fuck couldn't they have thought this through? It also gives the impression, they do literally no real world testing.
That's also happened to me many times lol! But honestly this is my only real gripe with Android Auto. I hope Gemini doesn't make it worse
The position thing is the fault of the app developer. I don't have that issue with Podcast Republic.
~~smarter~~ worse
FTFY
You are gonna use this AI, boy
I am doing what's best for you, trust me
Sundar the Creep speaking to the normie, circa 2025
Smarter eh? My BP already usually up when driving in traffic. You sure this isn't just going to piss me off more because I feel like this is just going to piss me off more?
I know people depend on auto implementation a lot and even I have hard time breaking away from Maps. But we are frogs and this water is getting hot.
Only proper solution is to deny the parasite engagement. We do it now or later. The more we wait, the harder it will be.
Fuuuuuuuuuuuck google
This is why I didn't buy a wireless android auto adapter when I bought a different car. I figured Gemini was going to get stuffed down our throats there.