Federal regulators nudged the auto industry last week to make vehicles a bit more like Apple iPhones on wheels.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has tentatively embraced voice recognition to reduce driver distraction. Automakers already were working to replace tedious memorized commands with a more conversational approach, popularized by the iPhone, to retrieve such information as a weather report.
Now Ford, General Motors and others are working to make conversational commands easier and more intuitive. But the task is daunting in part because smartphones typically have far more computing power than a car's infotainment unit.
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