Asked what underpinned the confidence that drivers would prefer using a voice assistant to buttons by 2020, he replied: “There are two things. At the (Las Vegas) Consumer Electronics Show you see this proliferation in voice assistants.”“The second thing is, when you try this system … you just don’t stop talking to your car. It’s so amazing. What I’m telling my people is just keep your brain open. See how far you can go.”
As for where the man charged with further developing Hey Mercedes thinks the system could be taken inside the car within five to 10 years, he mused, “not only in the car, why just in the car?”
“Both in and outside of the car. So we just presented MBUX that is for us, a whole ecosystem and environment – using your Mercedes Me, for example, to give information to your car, or combining it with your voice assistants at home. The sky’s the limit here.
