Volkswagen's ChatGPT: Your Car's New Co-Driver for Questions You Never Asked
It’s a funny thing, talking to your car. Not your old yelling-at-the-engine dirty old van kind of talking. I’m talking heart-to-heart stuff. The kind of exchange where if cars had souls and ethics, you’d expect them to have a say. Welcome to 2025 where VW, wielding AI like a shiny new sword, insists that Jetta owners start ranting about the meaning of life or indie film scripts and ChatGPT, dear OpenAI’s little Frankenstein, will nod along and giggle in binary.
Volkswagen’s moving forward with this Frankenstein experiment; IDA is their name for it, except it’s not as cool as it sounds. Stiff German engineering clinks glasses with Silicon Valley smarts, and your Jetta suddenly becomes part humorist, part weatherman, wedding officiant, and that’s without adding GPS.
In a word: radical. It’s one of those leaps only engineers would get so stoked about, it seems rational to stuff your dash with a plethora of potential answers to questions you never thought you’d utter to anyone, let alone an inanimate object. Thus begins September 6th, when steel and silicon shake hands, inaugurating your car as your new alter ego.
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