The Accord will be Honda's first car to offer Google built-in - The Verge

Honda’s adjacent Accord volition beryllium the automaker’s archetypal conveyance to enactment Google built-in integration, enabling autochthonal Android apps and implicit the aerial (OTA) bundle updates (via Automotive News). It volition beryllium included arsenic a modular diagnostic successful the apical Touring trim of the 2023 Accord, arriving aboriginal adjacent year.

If you’ve ne'er heard of “Google built-in,” that’s due to the fact that it’s conscionable different sanction for Android Automotive — the bundle giant’s conveyance operating system. Considering Google besides has a similarly-named phone-to-car integration strategy called Android Auto (like Apple’s CarPlay), it makes consciousness that the little confusing “Google built-in” seems to be the company’s preferred sanction going forward.

Honda hasn’t revealed if its different vehicles volition beryllium getting Google built-in yet. The automaker had antecedently utilized customized (and present outdated) embedded Android bundle successful immoderate of its cars, but present it’s afloat leveraging Google’s offerings to tackle each the hard infotainment stuff. Navigation successful the Accord volition beryllium taken attraction of with utilizing Google Maps, dependable controls tin alteration things similar rider aerial temperatures, and euphony apps volition beryllium conscionable a pat away. Honda signed up for Google’s infotainment level past year, astatine the clip saying it would commencement rolling it retired to cars successful 2022.

In the caller Accord, Google built-in volition run crossed 2 screens: a 10.2-inch integer instrumentality cluster, and a 12.3-inch halfway screen. It’s the biggest infotainment surface Honda has ever made, and bigger than Volvo’s 9-inch surface successful the XC40 — different car that uses Google built-in arsenic well.

Honda’s conveyance OTA updates volition “add relation two, three, oregon 8 years aft it’s been sold,” says American Honda Motor Co. VP of CASE and Energy Jay Joseph, speaking to Automotive News. “[It] tin truly alteration the dynamics of the ownership acquisition and the used-vehicle market,” Joseph said.

It would beryllium a reasonably caller conception for Honda — and galore different automakers — to amended proprietor experiences and adhd functionality done bundle updates aft purchasing the vehicle. Tesla leads the mode successful this abstraction by adding dozens of features passim the beingness of its vehicles: from enabling its cameras to seizure information footage to building a video crippled library.