I drove the world's first car with Android Automotive for a day — here's what it's like

Google's in-car OS could be a game-changer for the next generation of mainstream vehicles

The Polestar 2 is an important car. While it is the first legitimate competitor to Tesla's wildly successful Model 3, it's also the debut vehicle for Google's Android Automotive, an in-car infotainment operating system designed to control everything from navigation and music to your air conditioning and traction control settings. Entrusting Google to build such a platform may sound a bit iffy if you're not familiar with the vehicle space, but if you are, you know automakers have been using Android for years, generally without Google's blessing (and often ludicrously old versions of the platform).

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