Russian competitor Android Auto introduced into AvtoVAZ cars

The Yandex team announced an important achievement for the Yandex.Avto project, the de facto Russian competitor to Android Auto and Apple CarPlay.

Russian competitor Android Auto introduced into AvtoVAZ cars

The platform will appear in AvtoVAZ vehicles – models of the LADA Vesta, XRAY, XRAY Cross families. Yandex.Auto is integrated with the new multimedia system LADA EnjoY Pro.

Car owners equipped with the LADA EnjoY Pro multimedia system get access to all Yandex.Auto services, including Yandex.Navigator, Yandex.Music, and Yandex.Fueling and the voice assistant “Alice”.

Yandex.Auto data can be synchronized with your Yandex account. As a result, drivers can build routes on their smartphones and transfer them to the Yandex.Auto screen. A special icon on the Yandex.Navigator map will show the location of the car in the parking lot.

Russian competitor Android Auto introduced into AvtoVAZ cars

As the developers note, Yandex.Avto is deeply integrated with vehicle systems, reads information from sensors and acts in accordance with it. For example, depending on the light of the headlights, the day or night mode on the screen changes. And if the speed of the car is more than 5 km / h, the video in the background stops – to make it safer on the road.

Yandex.Auto project manager Mikhail Malakhov noted:

Yandex has been participating in this project since the creation and testing of the first prototypes, so we were able, together with our colleagues from AvtoVAZ, to select hardware to meet our standards. The system is built on the basis of a modern processor and runs under the control of our modified car version of Android 9. The result is a solution comparable to smartphones in many respects, including smooth operation, response speed and performance. ”

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