Hyundai’s Blue Link service, in addition to offering automatic emergency support, lets owners control various aspects of their cars remotely through a connected smartphone, Apple Watch, or Android Wear device. At CES 2017, the car company announced a new partnership with Google to add voice control for your car through the Google Home.
The integration works via Hyundai’s Blue Link software, which you tell Google Assistant to interact with in order to control connected features on the cars. This means that the car owners will be able to ask Google to start their car, lock doors, and perform other similar tasks. Blue Link also supports Google Maps, so you can send directions and addresses using Google’s mapping data straight to your car through voice control.
It also requires that a Hyundai car owner provide Google Assistant with their Blue Link PIN to ensure they actually have the authority to control the vehicle. This integration and support for voice control isn’t a new feature for Hyundai. The car maker has already offered similar capabilities of controlling your cars through phones and smartwatches. However, it will be one of the first official integrations for controlling a car with a digital home assistant.
Hyundai said that more features will be added soon but the company did not clarify what these additional features might be. It also didn’t specify an exact date as to when the Google Home integration will be officially released.
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