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Post by michael on Feb 3, 2018 22:45:17 GMT
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Post by Blarno on Feb 4, 2018 12:14:58 GMT
How very 'youth' of them.
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Post by ChrisM on Feb 5, 2018 8:24:59 GMT
Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz?
Friends' cars all have touchscreens and I must make amends
Would be cool to shout out to phone all my friends
Just by me shouting out "Hey Mercedes Benz"
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Post by grampa on Feb 5, 2018 10:34:31 GMT
I don't like talking to Siri and so don't do it, I sure as hell wouldn't like talking to my car, especially if I'm going to have to use a particular vernacular.
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Post by racingteatray on Feb 5, 2018 11:27:26 GMT
As children, if we said "hey", my grandmother would reply "straw" admonishingly.
It was right up there with "pardon" on her long list of "Words We Do Not Use".
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Post by Ben on Feb 5, 2018 14:43:49 GMT
C'mon now. We all know the yoofs of today don't 'talk'. They stare at their screens and text instead. What it needs is a keyboard, with emojis.  |
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Post by Roadsterstu on Feb 6, 2018 10:23:48 GMT
Maybe a camera facing the driver so they can pull a face to produce the appropriate emoji. Might not work too well for a smiling poo emoji...
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Post by Tim on Feb 6, 2018 13:53:31 GMT
According to CAR mag Merc were the number 2 seller in the UK market last year!
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Post by cbeaks1 on Feb 6, 2018 14:03:47 GMT
According to CAR mag Merc were the number 2 seller in the UK market last year! Must be a subset of sales. Think they were 4th after Ford, VW, Vauxhall. I would be surprised if they aren’t 3rd in 2018 though. Vx down 22.6%, Merc up 6.7%. Private retail they were 4th after Ford, VW and Audi. BMW fifth. Vx not even in the top 15. |
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Post by michael on Feb 6, 2018 14:10:50 GMT
I do wonder what will become of Vauxhall now it lives in a PSA portfolio of overlapping brands.
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Post by cbeaks1 on Feb 6, 2018 14:14:30 GMT
Peugeot down 10.1% yoy
Citroen down 13.3% yoy (DS now separate which may explain)
Industry down 5.4%
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Post by Tim on Feb 6, 2018 15:10:54 GMT
I was surprised about Merc but then there are a lot of A Class on the roads.
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Post by michael on Feb 6, 2018 15:26:51 GMT
I was surprised about Merc but then there are a lot of A Class on the roads. More here than anywhere else. |
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Post by LandieMark on Feb 6, 2018 18:03:06 GMT
I find this sort of bollocks very high on my cringe scale.
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Post by racingteatray on Feb 6, 2018 18:24:13 GMT
It reminds me of the very first in-car telephone system I ever had back in the late 90s, which was one of those ones where you slot your mobile (in my case a StarTac) into a dock attached to the centre console. That had a voice-activated dialling feature and the keyword was "Motorola", which seemed sensible enough seeing as it's a distinctively cadenced word that you wouldn't use in normal conversation.
As ever theory and practice are two very different things. It turned out to be all to eager to respond to random conversation or indeed chatter from the radio if it discerned an even faintly similar word. And I found passengers to be decidedly disconcerted the first time they were randomly asked by a Mk2 Golf to "SAY A NAME", usually followed shortly by "THAT NAME IS NOT RECOGNISED. PLEASE TRY AGAIN" or worse "CALLING MUM" in sepulchral digital female tones.
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Post by LandieMark on Feb 6, 2018 19:34:25 GMT
I’ve just remembered that my TomTom has this feature - “Hello TomTom”. I’ve disabled it.
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Post by Martin on Feb 6, 2018 19:48:07 GMT
I use the voice control in the BMW quite a lot, but that’s activated by a button on the steering wheel.
Alexa is well used in our house, it does loads include controlling the Sonos, heating, main lighting etc and we even used it to switch the Christmas Tree lights on and off (WiFi plug) as it meant we didn’t have to squeeze past it twice a day to get to the socket.
So, while it’s daft saying the Mercedes phrase, as long as it works really well I can see the benefit , especially cars get more features and touch screens become more and more common.
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Post by Martin on Feb 6, 2018 19:50:12 GMT
I’ve just remembered that my TomTom has this feature - “Hello TomTom”. I’ve disabled it. You really should disable the “Hello Landie” feature that triggers a new issue to keep you busy and entertained! |
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Post by ChrisM on Feb 6, 2018 21:08:32 GMT
I’ve just remembered that my TomTom has this feature - “Hello TomTom”. I’ve disabled it. You really should disable the “Hello Landie” feature that triggers a new issue to keep you busy and entertained! LOL ! I thought I had disabled the voice activation on my Tom Tom, but occasionally and very randomly it announces "I'm listening...." It doesn't like being ignored and does not recognise "Turn voice control off" |
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Post by LandieMark on Feb 6, 2018 21:49:23 GMT
I’ve just remembered that my TomTom has this feature - “Hello TomTom”. I’ve disabled it. You really should disable the “Hello Landie” feature that triggers a new issue to keep you busy and entertained! Ouch! I don’t mind maintenance, but catastrophic failures I can do without. |
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Post by Martin on Feb 6, 2018 21:57:17 GMT
You really should disable the “Hello Landie” feature that triggers a new issue to keep you busy and entertained! Ouch! I don’t mind maintenance, but catastrophic failures I can do without. I would only joke about the minor stuff. |
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Post by racingteatray on Feb 7, 2018 12:21:21 GMT
The amusing part of TomToms is the ability to record your own instructions. I recall we borrowed one from a friend which, if you missed your turning, instead of saying "please perform a legal U-turn", yelled "Turn yo ass around!".
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Post by Blarno on Feb 13, 2018 14:21:46 GMT
I dislike talking to people, let alone a car.
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Post by alf on Feb 14, 2018 13:06:29 GMT
I love voice control, although (and I probably shouldn't say this) I can never get the TomTom one to work! It's all the more useful on devices like phones now I need reading glasses, but in the car it is handy that I can keep my eyes on the road and say "phone dial X" to make a call. The XFR has an old-style and clunky system that means I need to record the names/numbers but 90% of my work phone calls are to the same 20 or so people so that's fine. Mrs ALF uses the C Max's more modern system a lot to initiate phone calls.
I am guilty of fiddling with the TomTom screen a bit while driving - I can still watch the road while doing so as it's higher than a car touch screen but still not ideal. On Monday I get a couple of the latest TomTom family from my side of the business, I'm hoping the voice commands are better and I'll be using them. I can also send myself full routes rather than destinations from our new Telematics interface which stops me fiddling with the device so much - I'm often adding a "pin" to my route to make it more fun or avoid roads I don't like....
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