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"  Today, Honda announced support for Apple&amp;#039;s Siri in the upcoming 2013 Honda Accord, Acura RDX, and ILX as a dealer-installed option. Using an Apple device that&amp;#039;s Siri-enabled (iPhone 4S and 5, third and fourth-gen iPads, iPad Mini, and fifth-gen iPod Touch), users can connect via Bluetooth to make and receive calls, hear emails and texts read aloud, and send replies via voice. Adopting Apple&amp;#039;s famed voice-controlled assistant to add &amp;quot;eye-free&amp;quot; functionality to infotainment systems is nothing new to the auto industry. Chevrolet is integrating her (it? them?) into the 2013 Spark LTZ and Sonic RS, and select Mercedes-Benz models will do the same in the near future. And while three companies co-opting Siri isn&amp;#039;t necessarily a trend, it certainly points to a future of smartphone-run infotainment systems. Not all cars are going this way. As we noted before, Ford and GM are trying to court smartphone developers over to their all-inclusive systems. But it certainly makes sense to let Siri handle it. Why spend time and money trying to develop a natural-language voice-control system when you can simply co-opt the one in your customer&amp;#039;s pocket? Still, automakers haven&amp;#039;t quite figured out how to incorporate a feature-rich system on par with a smartphone without interfering with the car&amp;#039;s main function: driving. Bringing in Siri will help with navigating kludgy menus to access basic phone functions, but it&amp;#039;s not hard to imagine that eventually drivers will want everything Siri has to offer\u2014directions, restaurant recommendations, music control, and random internet searches\u2014integrated into their in-car tablet-sized screen.  Eyes on the road, people. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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