Clippy for cars. Bleagh.

This seems way too similar to that infernal paper clip that Microsoft created.

What if the electrics of the car are not working (which is quite a major problem with Audi)? Now you wish you had a good old paper book with the codes in it.

Interesting to see how long it takes for something logical to develop in steps, now what is still to be implemented is when problems arise for the avatar(?) to tell you what to do to get the problem solved, including giving you directions to the nearest locale where said problem can be fixed. And how about letting the car do what you ask verbally? And the last step.. let the car drive itself to where you need to go. Including indicating points of interest like ´look to your left now and you will see your neighbor pulled over for DUI´ while you´re pulling the cap of another bottle of beer.. cheers. As for dependability, let automakers look at the aviation industry, they let computers in airplanes take lots of people everywhere, every day, with a safety record unsurpassed by any form of transport.

a horrible vision. HORRIBLEEEE

If there was something I ABSOLUTELY HATED it was this idiotic Clippy character in MS Office. Not only I was in deep trouble already but then came this idiot and added to the misery. I was livid with rage by the time I found how to switch it off.

(apparently I was not alone in my sentiments ...Clippy was later designated as uniquely unhelpful/useless feature in MS Office...that is why you are not being bothered in later MS Office versions)

Now imagine something similar starts bothering you in your car !!!!

I hate the childish and patronizing UI experience of machines pretending to be a human.
I know these things are computers regurgitating stored information.
Enough with the window dressing. That means no talking heads or cutesy slang voices.
If it can display text, then it should do so. If there is a justifiable reason why text cannot be used, then it should speak in a normal voice.
If my car begins talking to be with that awful, overly-smug "your call is important to us" voice then I will rip the f***ing speakers out without hesitation.

First question to Avatar: How do I shut down the Avatar function of this car?

Have you seen that cartoon that has clippy popping up saying:

It looks like you\'re writing a letter. Would you like me to:

a) Bollocks it up for you
b) Just f*** off and leave you alone

8^)

Still a car that starts to act like the Star Ship Enterprise might be fun.....

I was working on an open source 3D character animation engine a few years back that Ford expressed interest in for a similar idea. They contributed some to funding the project http://charengine.sourceforge.net/ but seem to have either lost interest or went a different route. You can see a quick demo of it halfway through the video on the project page.

Worst. Idea. Ever. Go back to Product Marketing 101 and come up with something useful. Or consider a new career.