Honda’s subsequent Accord would be the automaker’s first car to support Google built-in integration, enabling native Android apps and over the air (OTA) software program updates (via Automotive News). It will probably be included as an ordinary characteristic within the prime Touring trim of the 2023 Accord, arriving early subsequent yr.

If you’ve by no means heard of “Google built-in,” that’s as a result of it’s simply one other identify for Android Automotive — the software program large’s car working system. Considering Google additionally has a similarly-named phone-to-car integration system known as Android Auto (like Apple’s CarPlay), it is sensible that the much less complicated “Google built-in” seems to be the corporate’s most popular identify going ahead.

Honda hasn’t revealed if its different autos will probably be getting Google built-in but. The automaker had beforehand used customized (and now outdated) embedded Android software program in a few of its vehicles, however now it’s absolutely leveraging Google’s choices to sort out all of the arduous infotainment stuff. Navigation within the Accord will probably be taken care of with utilizing Google Maps, voice controls can change issues like passenger air temperatures, and music apps will probably be only a faucet away. Honda signed up for Google’s infotainment platform final yr, on the time saying it will begin rolling it out to vehicles in 2022.

In the brand new Accord, Google built-in will function throughout two screens: a ten.2-inch digital instrument cluster, and a 12.3-inch heart display screen. It’s the largest infotainment display screen Honda has ever made, and greater than Volvo’s 9-inch display screen within the XC40 — one other automobile that makes use of Google built-in as nicely.

Honda’s car OTA updates will “add function two, three, or eight years after it’s been sold,” says American Honda Motor Co. VP of CASE and Energy Jay Joseph, talking to Automotive News. “[It] can really change the dynamics of the ownership experience and the used-vehicle market,” Joseph stated.