Steve Jobs had a dream. The dream of an icar. Well we are still far far away from a day like that many car companies are talking with Apple to possibly integrate the lovely Siri to cars from BMW, GM, Mercedes and Jaguar but integrating her to the steering wheels of the cars. At the WWDC keynote on Monday the SVP Scott Forstall showed off many ways in which the Apple planned on uniting mobile phones and automobiles with turn by turn navigation. Also stated that Siri will be integrated into cars in the coming year. Mercedes-Benz has already developed an application for the iPhone that allows the user to connect to the car using MBrace. Donna Boland a US spokesperson for Benz had this to say, “We’re going to be taking it a step further by allowing iPhone users to plug their iPhone into the car and access a Mercedes-Benz app that will then take over the screen,” Boland adds. “It’ll allow navigation, Facebook–whatever is on your iPhone; that includes if you have an iPhone 4S or higher with Siri, then you’ll have Siri in the vehicle as well.” The biggest thing is there are already buttons for certain cars for things like onstar so the concept is not uncommon when it comes to this type of technology. The biggest question will be if this button will be an apple only button or will be integrated to any type of phone, only time will tell.
