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OpenAI Brings ChatGPT to CarPlay for Hands-Free Voice Conversations

This doesn’t work for me. I’m trying to add ChatGPT to my car in CarPlay but it doesn’t show up as an available app. Why version of the ChatGPT app supports this? I’m already on iOS 26.4.
 
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Imagine Siri driving the car....

  • Siri start the car !
  • ... ... ... ... .... ... ... .... .... .... Here is what I found for "stratocar" on wikipedia....
  • NO ! START THE CAR !  START !
  • ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... sorry I didn't quite get that.
  • ok fine... I just start it myself it's faster... here it is..... vrooooom vroooom..... vroooooom... Siri turn right.
  • .... ..... ..... Ok !
  • NOOO I said "turn right" why are you going straight ?
  • ... ... ... ... ... ok, now adding to your contact card that you're straight. Done.
 
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There are som interesting use cases for this, I like brainstorming with ChatGPT and really the only place I don't mind talking on the phone is in the car. So its kind of a win-win for me, it would be even better if you could use the the live video function with ChatGPT and use it as a pseudo dashcam and ask questions about your surroundings.
 
We have had this in the Tesla with Grok, except it can interface with the car on some features, such as the navigation, amount of charge, distance, total miles driven etc. You can actually carry on a descent conversation with the AI companion of your choice. Mine is set to Eve, I like her British accent.
 
Apple’s strategy here makes sense for them. They are years behind the competition in AI and the brain drain to those companies is only going to get worse.

So open up your operating systems to let AI apps interface with them. Put in all the hooks they planned on putting in when they thought their own AI would be able to utilize them and open them up to third party development.

Let Open AI, Google, Anthropic, etc. spend 100’s of billions on R&D, infrastructure, ridiculous pay packages for engineers, figuring out how to monetize their technology, etc. while you sit back and watch them fight it out.

You open up your platform and partner with them when and where it makes sense. Treat it like you treat the default web search provider in Safari.

Make them pay you for the privilege of being the default AI that powers your devices or certain areas of your devices, but give your users a choice. Most will stick with the default if you partner with one of the companies leading the pack.
 
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It would be useful for a chatbot to be able to add a stop to your Apple Maps navigation for the cheapest gas along the route, and give it your remaining fuel range.
 
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I just plug a USB thumb drive into the USB-C slot with all my music on it. I don't see any value in using Android Play or Apple Car Auto.
 
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gothicgeek said:
There are som interesting use cases for this, I like brainstorming with ChatGPT and really the only place I don't mind talking on the phone is in the car. So its kind of a win-win for me, it would be even better if you could use the the live video function with ChatGPT and use it as a pseudo dashcam and ask questions about your surroundings.
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exactly. i have like 4-5 threads going with ChatGPT on any given moment about various topics and i'd love to use my commute time to work on them.

lots of folks here not seeing the utility of this
 
I went out to the car to try it out. I was disappointed - I asked ChatGPT for some complication navigation instructions, and instead of just opening it in maps it was giving me instructions on how to setup all the waypoints in maps app instead of just doing it for me 🙁
 
I’m so freaking sick of AI being everywhere.

It sucks at everything, and nobody wants it. Yet companies are forcing it down everyone’s throat.

We are truly living in the darkest timeline.
 
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tyranne201 said:
"hey chatgpt, what is the chance of dying when using chatbots in the car?"
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I think that is a very interesting and relevant question. So, I asked ChatGPT: "How do the chances of getting into an accident increase when using a vocal chatbot inside an automobile?"

MacRumors has rules to limit the amount of posting of AI generated text in their forums. But, I think since the question was asked, posting the summary of its answer seems relevant (and hopefully doesn't violate the rules):

ChatGPT said:
Best evidence-based summary:

Using a vocal chatbot while driving does increase accident risk, but the magnitude is not well pinned down for modern chatbots specifically. For brief voice commands, the increase is probably smaller than for texting or touchscreen use, but still nonzero. For extended multi-turn conversation, the available evidence implies a meaningful increase in risk due to cognitive distraction, even if the exact odds ratio is not yet established. Broad in-vehicle system interaction has been associated with roughly multiple-fold increases in crash odds in some naturalistic studies, whereas simple conversation alone has mixed findings.
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In its longer answer it referenced a research paper Assessing driver distraction from in-vehicle information system: an on-road study exploring the effects of input modalities and secondary task types which has fascinating information on the subject. Chasing references can give you even better handle on what you already know: chances increase, how much has yet to be studied. For some types of interactions with in-vehicle information systems and young drivers one study found the odds of an accident to increase 4.6x.

It reminds me of a time I was in a car with a friend. He was driving. We were talking about whatever the deep subject was we were interested in at the time. I asked him a question. While pondering it, he ran a red light. He could have killed us both.
 
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I went out to the car to try it out. I was disappointed - I asked ChatGPT for some complication navigation instructions, and instead of just opening it in maps it was giving me instructions on how to setup all the waypoints in maps app instead of just doing it for me 🙁
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That’s agentic AI with access to other apps. That’ll be a whole other ball of wax.
 
All these negative posts and no one has even used it 😀

Be grateful. Gemini is next I would imagine. I wonder why there's no wake word?
 
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contacos said:
Why would I need to ask "my car" random ass questions while driving that aren't related to my cars functionality or navigation
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I’ve been doing it through a voice call over my truck’s speaker for a while. Super handy. I’m often brainstorming ideas and working out problems as I’m leaving work. It’s been great to bounce ideas of it or learn about some concept as I’m driving. It’ll be nice to have it easier to access.
Great for me but your mileage (hah) may vary.
 
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coolfactor said:
You'll need to open the ChatGPT app directly for now, but this is just the beginning.

Rumour: With Siri planned to be an app in iOS 27, that suggests you'll be able to choose which app serves as your Personal Assistant, and that should carry over to the Voice Control button in a car. Press that button and it will invoke your preferred Chat agent.

Right now, it's not hard to do it all hands-free.

"Siri, open ChatGPT", or press the Voice Control button on the steering wheel, and then say "Open ChatGPT".
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Does ChatGPT hesitate/delay an answer when you converse with it and a situation develops in traffic that requires full attention or traffic is dense? Or alert you to it? Obviously, talking to someone on the phone cannot provide such assistance either but human passengers can.

It seems that self-driving car tech could be tapped to bring monitoring functionality to CarPlay enabled chatbots. If the Apple Car development got as far as the necessary sensors, cameras, and lidar scanners and software, Apple might be in a position to provide such integration via Siri. I guess, though, the hardware could not be made available as an after-sale installation kit … or could it?

Personally, I am still fine with listening to music after so many years and eventually adding podcasts on longer solo trips … I’m a Gen 8-track 😊
 
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