{"id":258774,"date":"2026-05-29T10:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T14:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/29\/rivian-is-pretty-sure-customers-want-ai-not-android-auto\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T11:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T15:05:08","slug":"rivian-is-pretty-sure-customers-want-ai-not-android-auto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/29\/rivian-is-pretty-sure-customers-want-ai-not-android-auto\/","title":{"rendered":"Rivian is pretty sure customers want AI, not Android Auto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/no-android-auto-carplay-for-rivian-3672638\/\">Rivian is pretty sure customers want AI, not Android Auto<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/no-android-auto-carplay-for-rivian-3672638\/\">https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/no-android-auto-carplay-for-rivian-3672638\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-29 10:59:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.androidauthority.com\">www.androidauthority.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TL;DR<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Rivian software chief Wassym Bensaid says the company still isn\u2019t interested in shipping Android Auto or CarPlay.<\/li>\n<li>The company\u2019s proprietary AI software may eventually integrate with apps like Gemini to control apps on your phone, Bensaid said.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Electric vehicle maker Rivian is about to launch its new SUV, the R2, on June 9. In a recent podcast appearance, the automaker\u2019s software chief Wassym Bensaid dismissed the possibility of Rivian embracing popular third-party infotainment integrations like Android Auto or Apple CarPlay, saying that \u201cdeep AI integration\u201d makes \u201cthe entire CarPlay debate completely obsolete.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Appearing on the\u00a0Decoder podcast to talk about the R2 and Rivian\u2019s joint venture with Volkswagen, RV Tech, Bensaid told The Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel that the company\u2019s proprietary Rivian Assistant AI will be able to interface with other AI assistants like Gemini, eliminating the need to project software from your phone onto an in-car display.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Don\u2019t want to miss the best from Android Authority?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img class=\"e_Jg\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"9.375rem\" title=\"google preferred source badge light@2x\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/google_preferred_source_badge_light@2x.png 676w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/google_preferred_source_badge_light@2x-64w-20h.png 64w\" alt=\"google preferred source badge light@2x\" src=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/google_preferred_source_badge_light@2x.png\"\/><img class=\"e_Jg\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"9.375rem\" title=\"google preferred source badge dark@2x\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/google_preferred_source_badge_dark@2x.png 676w, https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/google_preferred_source_badge_dark@2x-64w-20h.png 64w\" alt=\"google preferred source badge dark@2x\" src=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/google_preferred_source_badge_dark@2x.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Bensaid acknowledged that Rivian\u2019s customers wanted integration with systems like Android Auto and CarPlay at one time, referencing surveys that showed \u201cmore than 70 percent of customers were requesting CarPlay.\u201d But in a more recent survey, he says, that number was under 25 percent. Thanks to improvements in Rivian\u2019s own software, Bensaid says, \u201cCarPlay or Android Auto is no longer the topic of discussion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Patel pressed Bensaid on what seems like an irreplaceable benefit of platforms like Android Auto and CarPlay: baked in support for all your apps without any extra work for automakers. Bensaid said that \u201cin the future,\u201d it\u2019ll be possible for Rivian Assistant to integrate with Gemini to control specific apps on your phone by voice, eliminating the need for popular third-party infotainment integrations.<\/p>\n<p>Rivian\u2019s been a notable US holdout in Android Auto and CarPlay adoption, and given Bensaid\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/no-android-auto-carplay-for-rivian-3672638\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rivian is pretty sure customers want AI, not Android Auto https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/no-android-auto-carplay-for-rivian-3672638\/ Publish Date: 2026-05-29 10:59:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":258775,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Rivian-new-navigation-experience-with-Google-Maps-featured.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[70],"class_list":["post-258774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-android","tag-google"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258774"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":258776,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258774\/revisions\/258776"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}