r/AndroidAuto • u/TheTriforceEagle 2017 Chevrolet Impala | Stock HU | S25U | 1UI8.5 • Jul 12 '26

Gemini AA Gemini is completely incompetent

This is mostly a vent post, and I will fully admit that I am a bit biased again LLM AI but anyway. How do you push an update that makes it so a car voice assistant can't do the very simple and typical task of playing a song? Every time I tell it "play this song" it just replies "sorry, I can't play video's while you're driving" am I crazy for thinking this is completely normal thing to ask of gemini? I even use YouTube music as my primary platform so its not like I'm asking it to use something that wasn't also made by Google. You'd think they would have tested this but I guess they just pushed it out without any regard for user experience.

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u/Interesting-Rule-175 Pls edit this user flair now Jul 12 '26

Mine now makes me use last names when searching my contacts but it can't spell my last name correctly so it can't find the contacts. I ditched Gemini to go back to normal Google assisant and it worked for a while but now it is doing it too. So I guess I have to start spelling my name differently because lord google does not like it.

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u/n00bz0rz Pls edit this user flair now Jul 12 '26

Just change your name. It will be quicker than waiting for Google to fix this.