Silicon Valley is quickly shifting gears to create software capable of powering the next generation of automobile dashboards, but at least one Japanese automaker plans to keep that work entirely in-house for the time being.
As part of a larger piece documenting Google and Apple’s efforts to power car dashboards, The New York Times reported Sunday that Toyota “currently has no plans” to adopt either tech titan’s automotive platform in the United States.
Toyota’s National Manager of Environmental, Safety & Quality Communications John Hanson confirmed that neither Android Auto nor CarPlay were on the automaker’s roadmap, despite frequent talks with both Google and Apple.
“We may all eventually wind up there, but right now we prefer to use our in-house proprietary platforms for those kinds of functions,” Hanson said.
