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Bye bye intelligent assistants; hello virtual friends

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I drive a Holden Commodore, and though it’s supposedly fully voice-controlled, I can’t talk to it. It wants me to talk to it in a way that it’s defined to understand. So if, for example, I want it to navigate somewhere, I’m supposed to say, ‘Navigation’ plus the destination and post code, and wait for it to respond. Whereas now I can call on Google or Siri and say, ‘How do I get home?’ and it knows where I am and where my home is. Plus, it understands from the string of words I’ve said what it is I actually want. It’s a solution that’s much more appropriate – and natural – to me than the one my Australian car offers.

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