Automotive AI
| Chevrolet has announced that their new Sonic and Spark models will offer integration with Apple's Siri artificial intelligence. "Eyes Free Integration," will enable iPhone users to drive while initiate and answer phone calls, interacting with their calendars, play music, hear transcriptions of incoming text messages, and compose outgoing text messages all by voice. |
"The Chevy Sonic and Spark are the first vehicles to offer Siri Eyes Free integration," said Cristi Landy, Chevrolet marketing director for small cars. “Safe, easy, reliable and portable connectivity is a top priority for our customers, and Siri complements MyLink's existing capabilities to help deliver an incredible driving experience."
Through the cars' standard Chevrolet MyLink infotainment system, customers with a compatible iPhone running iOS 6 can direct Siri to perform a number of tasks while they safely keep their eyes on the road and their hands on the wheel.
To further minimize distraction, Siri takes hands-free functionality even further with an Eyes Free mode which enables drivers to interact with their iPhones using nothing more than their voice while keeping the device's screen from lighting up.
According to Chevrolet, users will simply connect their iPhone with the MyLink radio via Bluetooth, pair with the system, and use the steering wheel voice activation button to begin and end sessions with Siri in Eyes Free mode.
Users can use Siri in Eyes Free mode to:
- -Make voice-activated, hands-free calls to Contacts on their iPhone
- -Play songs in their iTunes libraries, and even switch music sources automatically from AM/FM/XM radio to iPod mode
- -Listen to, and compose and send an iMessage or text message to a phone number or anyone in saved Contacts
- -Access Calendar and add appointments
- -Minimize distraction even more by keeping the screen of the iPhone from lighting up even when Siri answers simple questions such as game scores or the dates of national holidays
Current 2013 Chevrolet Spark and Sonic owners can upgrade existing MyLink radios for Siri capability beginning in March.
Core 77 poster hipstomp offers a great feature that needs to be added to this Siri-Chevrolet integration:
An app that enables you to call out the license plate of the car in front of you that just cut you off. It automatically dials that driver's phone, and you can tell them exactly what you think of them without needing to roll the window down and yell it.
SOURCE GM News
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