Google Gemini is now rolling out on Android Auto – here are the upgrades you get (www.techradar.com)

Google is rolling out Gemini as the in-car AI on Android Auto, effectively replacing the legacy Google Assistant for some users. The update appears to be a server-side switch that’s surfaced for a subset of testers (reports suggest it may require Android Auto 15.6/15.7 beta), and you can’t force it — when it arrives you’ll see a brief intro screen the next time you launch the assistant. There’s no official announcement yet, and early adopters note some gaps (for example, contact nicknames may not work). For the AI/ML community this is notable: Gemini on Android Auto delivers the same conversational experience you get on mobile/web, including Gemini Live’s follow-up and interruption handling, and deeper cross-app orchestration (integrations with Google Home, Keep and Maps). Practically that means you can ask for a shopping list in Keep, then request navigation to a store, or query Maps about places and traffic incidents with richer, context-aware dialogue. Technically this signals wider deployment of an LLM-driven assistant into vehicle UIs — promising richer multimodal, contextual interactions but also raising practical considerations around latency, connectivity (likely cloud inference), feature parity, and safety in driving contexts as the system scales.