{"id":1285,"date":"2019-09-13T05:50:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-13T05:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1285"},"modified":"2025-09-29T15:39:44","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T15:39:44","slug":"new-app-allows-spouse-to-control-the-car-with-voice-commands-from-passenger-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1285","title":{"rendered":"New app allows spouse to  control the car with voice commands from passenger seat!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Yes! I need this for when Brigid is in the driver&#8217;s seat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e20240a483094b200c-pi\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e20240a483094b200c-320wi\" alt=\"Spouse controls car\" title=\"Spouse controls car\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/babylonbee.com\/news\/new-app-lets-your-spouse-control-the-car-with-voice-commands\">Whenever your spouse says things like, &#8220;Why don&#8217;t you take Fifth, it&#8217;s a lot faster?&#8221; or &#8220;This way&#8217;s a lot slower than my way,&#8221; the car will instantly respond to their commands.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;There was a ton of demand for this app,&#8221; said Backseat Driver CEO Matthew Kyle. &#8220;Spouses everywhere love making passive-aggressive suggestions the entire time their husband or wife is driving around town. But despite their constant comments on your driving, the car doesn&#8217;t respond to their helpful suggestions and advice. Well, no longer. Now their comments are just as effective as if they themselves were in the driver seat.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Specific voice commands programmed into the app include the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>&#8220;You&#8217;re driving too fast&#8221; &#8211; immediately makes the car slow to a crawl<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;You&#8217;re driving too slow&#8221; &#8211; causes the car to go as fast as physically possible<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;Take this other street, it&#8217;s a shortcut only I know about&#8221; &#8211; makes the car take their strange route that&#8217;s almost definitely not any faster<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;Everyone knows parking&#8217;s a lot better around back&#8221; &#8211; makes the car skip all the perfectly good parking and drive around to their secret parking<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;MERGE, HONEY! MERGE!&#8221; &#8211; merges even if that means you slam into a semi truck<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes! I need this for when Brigid is in the driver&#8217;s seat. Whenever your spouse says things like, &#8220;Why don&#8217;t you take Fifth, it&#8217;s a lot faster?&#8221; or &#8220;This way&#8217;s a lot slower than my way,&#8221; the car will instantly respond to their commands. &#8220;There was a ton of demand for this app,&#8221; said Backseat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1285"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12978,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285\/revisions\/12978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}