Alexa is installed in e-tron of Audi SUV

The car buddy who speaks.

Amazon announcing that will make automotive Alexa-powered devices directly, or somehow, making it possible to use voice assistants and smarting cars.

Finally, Alexa will be equipped as standard on the new car e-tron SUV of Audi

According to the THEVERGE, you can listen to music and weather information by voice commands while driving, you can add to-do lists and order products. Furthermore, it seems possible to operate the home Alexa device from a driving car.

e-tron is Audi's first commercial EV. The battery is 95 kWh and the cruising distance will be 400 km. The release is in mid-2019.

Although smartphones are unnecessary for the operation during driving, when the driver sees the above picture. The driver taps the smartphone in advance or pushes the button on the handle before issuing the command. The complete handsfree operation does not seem to be possible. But it's definitely a convenient and cool feature.

Already, Amazon has released the " Alexa Auto SDK " of the Alexa development kit for automotive use. So it seems that automobiles that customized Alexa will be equipped as standard will be appearing more and more from each company.

The cars will become more and smarter, artificial intelligence will become real.

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