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hey guys it's David from Android Authority and I wanted to take a minute to talk about the new Android auto features that Google is showing off at Google i/o 2018 so the biggest thing to announce here is that Android auto and Google assistant are really now just baked right into the car so you no longer need to use your phone to use features like maps and Spotify and all those different things theoretically you could have Spotify running you could have maps running because as has its own LTE chip now it's really up to the car manufacturer whether they want to charge you for this LTE connectivity but it's just a concept that's showing like what's possible when you can completely just put Android auto in your car now for example you could ask the assistant to turn up your AC you could ask the assistant to roll down your car windows they really want the assistant to be more baked into the car experience the shooting car manufacturers like Android OEMs so the manufacturers really get to dictate what parts of Android Watteau they want to have functionality in the car google showed me a Dodge Ram 1500 concept which they outfitted themselves which really just showed off a lot of the different features I'm using Android auto as the brains of the car so this new version of auto is running on top of Android PE and that really gives it some new functionality it's now gonna have support for the full Google Play Store so it's really up to those app developers whether they want to develop apps that take advantage of the bigger real estate in Android auto you can even switch users so if you're logged into your Spotify account and your spouse or someone else is sharing the car with you it also has a Spotify account they can have a user account so that when they get in the car to drive they just pick their user account and it's already logged into their Spotify to their Google Maps and just to the Google account in general now Volvo is the first manufacturer that has committed to using this new version of Android auto and we'll probably see that hit the market in the next few years our manufacturers are going to put their own version of Android auto in their cars so think of it as if you have a red car with a red interior you can have a red background in Android auto if it's Volvo you can have a little Volvo accents on it it's really up to the manufacturer how they want it to look but it's going to use Android auto as the core brain and the main features of so your phone's not necessary anymore but you can still connect it to the car which gives you access to sending messages to other people to playing things directly off your phone so you can still use Android auto like you used to in a wireless sense but you're not gonna actually need it if you just want to use it for navigation and other things like music almost the only one that's actually said that they're gonna roll this out in the next few years but a lot more manufacturers are probably going to be taking advantage of Android auto in the near future what features do you want to see present in your car via Android auto let us know in the comment section below and stay tuned to our media channels for everything new from Google i/o and beyond because of course we are your source for all things in