Along with obvious infractions like speeding and talking on hand-held phones, which is illegal in Britain, the violations include things like changing CDs, fiddling with the radio, folding maps, programming GPS navigation devices, dialing hands-free phones, looking for stray French fries in fast-food bags and steering with one's elbows while pouring a cup of coffee.
To use Google's telephone directory or audio car navigation service, customers dial the relevant number and say what they are looking for.
The dial navigation coupled with added menu functionality makes the system much easier to use, and Assistant is an unquestionably handy addition.
The other notable feature in today's update is the dial-like navigation on the homescreen which lets you quickly access trending mixes, featured mixes, and your own recent listening history, among other things.
The big thing, he tells me, is that it strives to dial down the navigation process into something more manageable.
Both watches take full advantage of Android Wear 2.0's new features, including improved navigation, which utilizes the the wearables' dials to zip around similar what's offered up on the Apple Watch.
Recently, technologies have been developed that utilize speech recognition algorithms that allow the driver to use voice commands to control various technologies such as adjusting the radio, processing email, phone dialing, and entering destinations into a navigation system.
It's easily my favorite navigation interface in smartwatches, beating out Apple's spinning dial.
On the left side is a small speaker port and on the right, a trio of navigation buttons — or, rather, two navigation buttons and a big dial in the center, which takes advantage of an Android Wear improvement, serving to navigate around the UI in a manner similar to what you'll find on the Apple Watch.
It's got basic e-mail, voice dialing, chat and (for $10 a month) a slowish GPS navigation feature that gives you turn-by-turn driving directions.
