Following the announcement that Gemini is coming to vehicles, Volvo is utilizing I/O 2025 to announce a brand new expanded partnership with Google. The businesses’ new deal makes Volvo’s vehicles reference {hardware} for future Android Automotive OS improvement, and means Volvo drivers can be “among the many first to profit” when Gemini totally replaces Google Assistant in vehicles.
Volvo describes itself as Google’s “lead improvement companion for brand new options and updates,” making the corporate’s vehicles the primary to obtain new updates to the Android Automotive OS. Google gives Android Auto as its CarPlay-like answer for beaming a software program interface out of your telephone to in-car shows, however its Automotive OS is extra full, operating in your automobile regionally and linked to automobile controls for A/C and extra. You may already expertise Android Automotive OS in Volvo’s EX90, for instance.
Google’s present imaginative and prescient for Android in vehicles is, maybe unsurprisingly, centered on getting drivers to speak to Gemini. In a automobile with the assistant, you can ask Gemini to ship a message, pull up instructions, or reply the extra open-ended, pure language questions that Gemini Stay is designed to deal with. If it really works as marketed, it appears higher than pecking at a display, and Volvo notes it may “assist cut back your cognitive load with the intention to keep centered on driving.”
There is not any launch date for when you’ll be able to anticipate Gemini to point out up as your driving copilot, however on the very least this new partnership means it will be in Volvos first.
