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In-car voice controls
Raised as a usability problem by 11 people on Hacker News over 7 years (2019–2025), in 9 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
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Voice commands must use exact phrases to workUnreviewed
20192026- Voice commands get garbled by passengers' speech and respond with noticeable delay2025-07-03
- Voice commands often misunderstand or trigger the wrong function, like heat instead of defrost2024-03-05
- Drivers can't figure out phrasing; assistant misinterprets speech and is slow2024-03-05
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 11 complaints
- Voice commands get garbled by passengers' speech and respond with noticeable delay2025-07-03
- Voice commands often misunderstand or trigger the wrong function, like heat instead of defrost2024-03-05
- Drivers can't figure out phrasing; assistant misinterprets speech and is slow2024-03-05
- Voice commands repeatedly misunderstand non-native English speakers2023-03-22
- Interrupts playback and takes a long time to process and repeat inputs2022-08-17
- Voice control doesn't work as an alternative to pressing buttons and looking at screens2022-08-17
- Can't figure out the voice command to exit navigation; ends up using a physical button2022-01-02
- Voice control misrecognizes songs and artists, forcing workarounds and distraction2021-02-27
- Voice commands require saying exact magic words, so they feel unreliable2021-02-26
- Built-in car voice controls work poorly, unlike Siri through the audio system2020-03-31
- Voice input fails to recognise Swiss place names, even when speaking clearly2019-06-17