{"id":264553,"date":"2026-06-04T07:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T11:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/04\/rivians-software-chief-explains-why-apple-carplay-android-auto-and-even-analogue-buttons-are-destined-to-be-completely-obsolete\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T00:40:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T04:40:42","slug":"rivians-software-chief-explains-why-apple-carplay-android-auto-and-even-analogue-buttons-are-destined-to-be-completely-obsolete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/04\/rivians-software-chief-explains-why-apple-carplay-android-auto-and-even-analogue-buttons-are-destined-to-be-completely-obsolete\/","title":{"rendered":"Rivian&#8217;s Software Chief Explains Why Apple CarPlay, Android Auto And Even Analogue Buttons Are Destined To Be &#8216;Completely Obsolete&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/autos.yahoo.com\/ev-and-future-tech\/articles\/rivians-software-chief-explains-why-110110981.html\">Rivian&#8217;s Software Chief Explains Why Apple CarPlay, Android Auto And Even Analogue Buttons Are Destined To Be &#8216;Completely Obsolete&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/autos.yahoo.com\/ev-and-future-tech\/articles\/rivians-software-chief-explains-why-110110981.html\">https:\/\/autos.yahoo.com\/ev-and-future-tech\/articles\/rivians-software-chief-explains-why-110110981.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-04 07:01:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"autos.yahoo.com\">autos.yahoo.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 min-w-0 leading-7 break-words md:leading-8 col-body text-[18px] charcoal-color\">Benzinga and Yahoo Finance LLC may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 min-w-0 leading-7 break-words md:leading-8 col-body text-[18px] charcoal-color\"><strong>Rivian Automotive Inc.<\/strong> Chief Software Officer <strong>Wassym Bensaid<\/strong> said <strong>Apple Inc.<\/strong> CarPlay, Android Auto and physical buttons will become &#8220;completely obsolete&#8221; as deeply integrated automotive artificial intelligence changes how drivers interact with vehicles.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"heading-mb col-body heading-text-style font-bold charcoal-color\"><strong>Rivian Rejects Screen Mirroring Approach<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p class=\"mb-4 min-w-0 leading-7 break-words md:leading-8 col-body text-[18px] charcoal-color\">&#8220;The challenge with screen mirroring solutions is that they take over every single pixel in the car,&#8221; Bensaid said, speaking on The Verge&#8217;s latest episode of the &#8216;Decoder&#8217; podcast. He said Rivian instead wants to build its own interface around &#8220;end-to-end integration.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 min-w-0 leading-7 break-words md:leading-8 col-body text-[18px] charcoal-color\">Bensaid said &#8220;deep AI integration into the car&#8221; will eventually make the debate over CarPlay &#8220;completely obsolete.&#8221; He argued that Rivian owners will eventually access the core functions of many apps through an AI agent rather than switching between CarPlay, Android Auto or native apps.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 min-w-0 leading-7 break-words md:leading-8 col-body text-[18px] charcoal-color\"><strong>Don&#8217;t Miss:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"col-body mb-4\">\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\"\/>\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\"\/><\/ul>\n<h2 class=\"heading-mb col-body heading-text-style font-bold charcoal-color\"><strong>AI Agent Could Reshape Driver Apps<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p class=\"mb-4 min-w-0 leading-7 break-words md:leading-8 col-body text-[18px] charcoal-color\">&#8220;I really believe that the way you interact with apps which are mono-threaded, single buttons, single icons, a lot of that will be now completely reshaped into a world where it will become an agentic integration that presents itself into a wholesome user experience to the user,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 min-w-0 leading-7 break-words md:leading-8 col-body text-[18px] charcoal-color\">Bensaid acknowledged that an AI agent capable of replacing CarPlay apps will take time to develop.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 min-w-0 leading-7 break-words md:leading-8 col-body text-[18px] charcoal-color\">He said Rivian owners are also less interested in CarPlay than they once were. According to Bensaid, more than 70% of customers wanted CarPlay when Rivian vehicles first launched about five years ago, but a recent survey showed that figure had fallen below 25%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 min-w-0 leading-7 break-words md:leading-8 col-body text-[18px] charcoal-color\">Rivian is not alone in betting on voice-first systems. Volvo&#8217;s all-electric EX60 is set to launch with <strong>Alphabet, Inc.&#8217;s<\/strong> Google Gemini, enabling drivers to have more natural conversations with the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 min-w-0 leading-7 break-words md:leading-8 col-body text-[18px] charcoal-color\"><strong>See Also: <\/strong><strong>Avoid the #1 Investing Mistake: How Your &#8216;Safe&#8217; Holdings Could Be Costing You Big Time<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"heading-mb col-body heading-text-style font-bold charcoal-color\"><strong>R2&#8230;<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/autos.yahoo.com\/ev-and-future-tech\/articles\/rivians-software-chief-explains-why-110110981.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rivian&#8217;s Software Chief Explains Why Apple CarPlay, Android Auto And Even Analogue Buttons Are Destined&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":264554,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/lo\/mysterio\/api\/97245ae727f9a78e58a3f92ea0c784b587eb73478abc9e6ff54e2c8c9ec6f242\/lightyear_networkapi\/resizefill_w1200;quality_80;format_webp\/https:%2F%2Fmedia.zenfs.com%2Fen%2Fbenzinga_79%2F89e5f446a26ac998c30d3ce8b3bfe502","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[70,72],"class_list":["post-264553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-android","tag-google","tag-pixel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264553"}],"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=264553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264555,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264553\/revisions\/264555"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}