Today, Honda announced support for Apple's Siri in the upcoming 2013 Honda Accord, Acura RDX, and ILX as a dealer-installed option. Using an Apple device that's Siri-enabled (iPhone 4S and 5, third and fourth-gen iPads, iPad Mini, and fifth-gen iPod Touch), users can connect via Bluetooth to make and receive calls, hear emails and texts read aloud, and send replies via voice.
Adopting Apple's famed voice-controlled assistant to add "eye-free" functionality to infotainment systems is nothing new to the auto industry. Chevrolet is integrating her (it? them?) into the 2013 Spark LTZ and Sonic RS, and select Mercedes-Benz models will do the same in the near future. And while three companies co-opting Siri isn't necessarily a trend, it certainly points to a future of smartphone-run infotainment systems.
Not all cars are going this way. As we noted before, Ford and GM are trying to court smartphone developers over to their all-inclusive systems. But it certainly makes sense to let Siri handle it. Why spend time and money trying to develop a natural-language voice-control system when you can simply co-opt the one in your customer's pocket?
Still, automakers haven't quite figured out how to incorporate a feature-rich system on par with a smartphone without interfering with the car's main function: driving. Bringing in Siri will help with navigating kludgy menus to access basic phone functions, but it's not hard to imagine that eventually drivers will want everything Siri has to offer?directions, restaurant recommendations, music control, and random internet searches?integrated into their in-car tablet-sized screen.
Eyes on the road, people.
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