Hyundai is the first car-maker to offer Google’s Android Auto framework incorporated with its cars. It will deliver in its 2015 Sonata model with the implicit route choice.
Likewise beginning Tuesday, Android owner with a 2015 Sonata can approach merchants to download the framework free of charge.
Existing Sonata proprietors must have inbuilt route that is a piece of a discretionary innovation bundle. Android Auto will soon be accessible on other Hyundai models.
Android Auto interfaces with drivers’ devices and gives them a chance to get to specific applications, as Google Maps or Spotify, by voice, guiding wheel controls or touchscreen design on the dashboard. It secures their smartphones while utilization to help keep drivers’ eyes out and about.
Google says Android Auto is relied upon to be offered on 28 distinct brands by the 2016 model year. Hyundai says it hopes to offer Apple’s rendition of the framework, CarPlay, in the not so distant future.
The organization in a press proclamation included, “Owners will need the Android 5.0 Lollipop operating system or later, and the Android Auto companion app on their compatible phone to integrate Android Auto into Sonata’s screen and controls. A Micro-USB cable is required to connect the phone to the car’s USB port. The first time an owner plugs his or her phone into their parked Sonata, the phone will prompt the download of the Android Auto companion app from the Google Play.”
