In the absence of a week for the next Developer Conference of Google, I/o 2025the company announced yesterday a series of News related to their operating systems and Android Auto. Among them, the integration of AI Gemini with more platforms, among which the latter is, and that leads to the question of What is an AI for?
The most important aspect that Gemini brings to Android Auto is The paradigm shift in the interface. Currently, the driver can interact by voice with Android Auto, but he must think how to ask the questions to obtain a useful answer and the possibilities of interaction are limited. That will change with Gemini Livethe voice mode of the Google AI with which you can speak with natural language, interrupt, redirect conversation and virtually treat any subject. Ironically, for MicrosoftGoogle is going to use users A authentic co-pilot while they are behind the wheel.
‘Live is a conversational experience with Gemini that adapts perfectly to the car,’ says Google in a blog post. Gemini Live will reach both Android Auto, currently used in 250 million vehicleslike those who directly integrate Google software, more than 50 modelsthis same year. For the former, ‘in the coming months’, for the latter, ‘at the end of the year’.
What can you do with Gemini while you are behind the wheel
With Gemini Live, you can forget to have to say precise commands or touch buttons on the screen to obtain results. For practical purposes, it is how to have another person in the passenger seat that is responsible for performing the tasks you ask for on Android Auto and the apps with which you can collaborate. These are some use cases raised by Google to use AI while driving.
- You can tell Gemini to always send the messages to a certain contact In the language you choose. Supports more than 40 languages.
- You don’t have to limit yourself to dictating it. Gemini can help you create it for you telling him what you are looking for. It also helps you edit it without having to write it again from the beginning.
- Ask him to find sites to eat a certain type of menu on your route and then that Discuss users’ opinions about the establishment.
- Gemini is connected to applications such as Google Maps, Gmail, Calendar, YouTube Music or Spotify. For example, if you do not remember the location of your child’s football match, which you received a long time ago in a mail already buried in Gmail, Gemini will find the information for you.
- Do you go to an important meeting? You can prepare it with Gemini indicating something like ‘I need to talk to my boss about a new ascent. How do I do it? ‘ and develop the topic with questions such as ‘What is the best time of day to have that conversation?’
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In general, Gemini in Android Auto can get a similar utility A When you use it on your mobile or in your computer’s browser. In that sense, it is not a novelty. What is important is the change of interface with Android Auto and how it multiplies the possibilities, with natural language and effortlessness on the part of the user, while keeping eyes and hands where it is owed: on the road and on the steering wheel. Thus you can use AI to inform yourself about your route, advance job issues or simply entertain and have someone to chat if you travel alone.
Google points out that the APPs catalog that can be used with Android Auto will expand, including new categories such as Games and videosindicating that YouTube It will end up officially landing on the platform. In the next Google I/O, which will take place the days 20 and 21 of this monthGoogle will show more use cases and applications of AI in Android Auto.