When you receive a message while driving, Android Auto notifies you about it and even reads it aloud. It is okay if you have received a couple of messages, however, things get irritating when you constantly receive group messages. The read-aloud feature could be disruptive and annoy you, diverting your focus from driving.
Thankfully, Google seems to have acknowledged this issue, and Android Auto might be getting a new feature to help resolve this problem. In an APK Insight post, folks at 9To5Google spotted that Android Auto will make use of Google Assistant to summarize your messages. Notably, Android Auto will summarize the messages using AI, so Android Auto, during the setup process, will show you a warning message, “These summaries will be generated by artificial intelligence, so it’s possible there could be mistakes.”
The codes for this upcoming feature were spotted in the Android Auto Android app v14.52
Google will give Android Auto users the option to turn off this feature at any time from the Android Auto Settings menu. The strings of codes that indicated this new Android Auto Google Assistant AI feature to summarize messages appeared in the Android app v14.52. This version of the Android Auto app is in beta, so there is no clarity on when this feature will debut.
Multiple other Google products offer you the option to summarize messages. However, as noted by 9To5Google, the closest comparison to this new upcoming Android Auto feature is Google Chat's ability to recap Spaces to help you catch up to the speed of a group conversation.
