{"id":562435,"date":"2026-03-25T02:58:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T02:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/562435\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T02:58:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T02:58:12","slug":"googles-new-version-of-android-automotive-will-move-beyond-infotainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/562435\/","title":{"rendered":"Google&#8217;s new version of Android Automotive will move beyond infotainment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Letting Big Tech interact with a car\u2019s hardware opens a whole can of worms. So, Android Automotive has thus far been limited to <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2023\/01\/android-automotive-goes-mainstream-a-review-of-gms-new-infotainment-system\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">infotainment systems<\/a> to handle mapping and streaming music\u2014all the things you can do with a phone mounted to the dashboard. Google\u2019s next step offers carmakers a full Android Automotive SDV, allowing the embedded Google software to interact with non-safety parts of the car. So the Android-powered screen in a car might be able to control the air conditioning or pipe in driving data to let you know when maintenance is required. However, it won\u2019t be responsible for making sure your intelligent braking or lane-keeping systems work as intended.<\/p>\n<p>            <a class=\"cursor-zoom-in\" data-pswp-width=\"6124\" data-pswp-height=\"4082\" data-cropped=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Original-18637-my25-gti-autobahn-kings-red-interior-trahan-0160.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" data-pswp-><br \/>\n              <img width=\"6124\" height=\"4082\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Original-18637-my25-gti-autobahn-kings-red-interior-trahan-0160.jpg\" class=\"fullwidth full\" alt=\"VW infotainment screen\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/><br \/>\n            <\/a><\/p>\n<p>              VW\u2019s infotainment is built atop Android Automotive OS.<\/p>\n<p>\n                  Credit:<br \/>\n                                      Volkswagen\n                                  <\/p>\n<p>\n      VW\u2019s infotainment is built atop Android Automotive OS.<\/p>\n<p>          Credit:<\/p>\n<p>          Volkswagen<\/p>\n<p>Google claims the new AAOS will take pressure off of individual carmakers to provide a good user experience, while also delivering features to drivers more quickly and efficiently with Android OTAs. The locked-down Android Automotive experience has gotten some traction, with companies like Volvo, BMW, Volkswagen, and Rivian using it in at least some vehicles. They\u2019re not all on board with the platform\u2019s SDV future yet, though.<\/p>\n<p>Google says its early work on AAOS SDV includes Renault and Qualcomm. The OS will be released to open source later this year, allowing other automakers to experiment with it. Naturally, they\u2019ll have to go through Google if they want to actually license the services that make it all work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Letting Big Tech interact with a car\u2019s hardware opens a whole can of worms. So, Android Automotive has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":562436,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[64,63,203,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-562435","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-mobile","11":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=562435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/562436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}