Jaguar Land Rover wraps Apple CarPlay and Android Auto into its own justDrive app

LOS ANGELES—While other automakers are working to implement Apple CarPlay and Android Auto into their vehicles, Jaguar Land Rover is taking a different route. At the LA Auto Show, the British company debuted justDrive, an “app technology that integrates multiple smartphone apps into a single, voice-activated in-car experience.”As Jaguar Land Rover describes it, justDrive is an app that opens up into an “experience” when your smartphone is connected to your car. It’s currently available for iOS 8 users, and will be available for Android users in early 2015. The “experience” involves natural-language speech recognition, similar to Siri’s functionality (without having to go through voice-activated menus).To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here