Mahindra and Mahindra which revolutionized the SUV market in India is all set to place another bench mark in the SUV category and bringing up a stiff competition among its rivals. It is said that Mahindra and Mahindra would introduce voice command technology in its popular Mahindra XUV500 by later this year, a segment first and an amazing breakthrough for an Indian car manufacturer.
image – Mahindra XUV 5OO India
Mahindra & Mahindra received 25,000+ booking application by its customers in its second phase of bookings for the SUV XUV500. Bookings were reopened on January 25th last month till February 3rd this month and were closed within ten days. Adding to this a face lift Xylo was launched which and featured some first things in its segment. The new Mahindra Xylo which also features a new transmission known as the MT320 features a new five speed manual gearbox and based on the MHawk platform. This new transmission would also be featured in the Scorpio in days to come. Below is a video demonstration of the Xylo E9 Voice Command Technology which is expected to launch with the XUV5OO by the end of year 2012.
video – Mahindra’s Voice command technology demo video
Adding to this Mahindra and Mahindra is said to be experimenting with a voice command system for the XUV 500. Since this is not the first time that Mahindra and Mahindra has shown its interest on the voice command system, the system was first seen in the Scorpio which used to tell the driver to strap on the seatbelts and close the door. Later on much more developments were made on the Xylo E9 variant which could be used to switch on and off the vipers, control the music system and even the headlamps. The voice command feature was so user friendly and functional that it could detect Indian accent of communicating with the car.
Currently there is no voice command feature in the XUV 500, Mahindra and Mahindra is all set to add this missed out feature by October this year. Although there is no word from Mahindra and Mahindra, sources speculate that there could be an automatic transmission on the offering and suggest that the voice command system could be featured in the higher end variants of the XUV500. This voice command technology is said to be more user friendly and much more advanced.
via – MotorBeam
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