Hey Merdedes - A loving look at MBUX

Published on May 17, 2018

Mercedes has announced an all new infotainment systems, MBUX is rolling out first in the A-Class and it’s approach isn’t much different than what most manufacturers are doing in their cars. If you want to keep your hands on the wheel and your focus on the road then you need to have a strong voice assistant, Hey Mercedes is different than other systems on the road because it works offline! Most of the infotainment systems on the road send your queeries to the cloud, something that becomes frustrating when connectivity is limited. It’s noticable when you’re on test drive because connectivity isn’t always the best and the cars are often meant for different markets and merely brought into whatever country is deemed prettiest for the drive. What makes Hey Mercedes stand out is that everything will work offline, the system obviously needs internet to get traffic or weather updates, but it doesn’t feel broken when it’s not connected to the internet.