Amazon Alexa Auto Mode To Roll Out In India: Here’s How It Aims To Make Cars Smarter

The new Auto Mode aims to turn the user’s phone into a smart display that enhances Alexa’s in-vehicle voice experience. The company claims that the Auto Mode was designed to help the driver stay focused on the road with easy to read visuals, large touch targets and intuitive features and shortcuts for the most common actions used in the vehicle like navigating to saved locations, placing calls to contacts and Alexa devices, and playing recent media. According to the company’s official blog, the new Auto Mode is rolling out to Android and iOS in the coming weeks and will be available in India, U.S., Canada, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, UK, Australia and New Zealand. Auto Mode consists of four screens – the Auto Mode home screen, Navigation, Communicate, and Play – and a persistent menu bar allows users to quickly switch between them. The Auto Mode home screen is designed to provide one-touch access to frequent actions, with shortcuts to play and pause current media source, navigate to home or work, and to make a call. As Alexa reads back the responses, Auto Mode displays a simplified list showing relevant information, allowing input via voice or touch.