{"id":174962,"date":"2026-01-06T10:08:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T15:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/06\/we-went-looking-for-the-best-ai-assistant-in-a-car-and-discovered-they-all-stink\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T10:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T15:10:10","slug":"we-went-looking-for-the-best-ai-assistant-in-a-car-and-discovered-they-all-stink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/06\/we-went-looking-for-the-best-ai-assistant-in-a-car-and-discovered-they-all-stink\/","title":{"rendered":"We Went Looking for the Best AI Assistant in a Car and Discovered They All Stink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.motortrend.com\/features\/artificial-intelligence-best-tech-2026\">We Went Looking for the Best AI Assistant in a Car and Discovered They All Stink<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.motortrend.com\/features\/artificial-intelligence-best-tech-2026\">https:\/\/www.motortrend.com\/features\/artificial-intelligence-best-tech-2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-06 10:08:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.motortrend.com\">www.motortrend.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Grok&#8217;s limitation in interacting with a Tesla vehicle\u2019s systems, including navigation and climate controls, due to its lack of awareness of the vehicle\u2019s status and initial inability to relay commands.<\/li>\n<li>The release of an update in December 2025 that allows Grok to pass navigation commands, despite its limited capabilities compared to Tesla\u2019s old-school voice commands.<\/li>\n<li>BMW\u2019s Intelligent Personal Assistant\u2019s success in achieving effective in-car voice command functionalities without requiring scripted inputs.<\/li>\n<li>BMW\u2019s next-gen assistant, based on large language model tech, that can handle complex requests and conversations.<\/li>\n<li>The broader context of ongoing AI developments that promise to enhance in-car technologies, raising expectations for future virtual assistants.<\/li>\n<li>A suggestion to use drive time for personal interaction or quiet reflection until AI assistants provide notable improvements.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We Went Looking for the Best AI Assistant in a Car and Discovered They All&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":174963,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/hips.hearstapps.com\/hmg-prod\/images\/cc2f941b-c216-4650-b02b-1a01ebd885c4.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-174962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-large-language-model"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174962"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174964,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174962\/revisions\/174964"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}