HOT 256: Android Auto & Google Assistant Driving Mode - Text Messages & Android Auto
Hands-On Tech (Audio)
Leo Laporte
4.3 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 1 March 2026
⏱️ 10 minutes
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On this week's episode of Hands-On Tech, Mikah helps out Mike with how he can have Google read his text messages aloud while using Google Maps and how to allow hands-free replies while driving.
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Host: Mikah Sargent
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on Hands on Tech, let's take a look at the current state of Android Auto and |
| 0:07.0 | driving mode on your Android device. Stay tuned. |
| 0:11.0 | This is Twit. |
| 0:17.0 | Hello and welcome to Hands On Tech. |
| 0:22.5 | I am Micah Sargent, and this is the show where I take your wonderful tech questions, |
| 0:27.3 | and I answer them. |
| 0:28.7 | Can you believe it? |
| 0:29.7 | I go Hands On with the Tech to figure out what's going on, and then I answer your question. |
| 0:33.7 | That's why it's called Hands on Tech. |
| 0:35.8 | If you have questions that you would like answered, |
| 0:40.1 | you can email me, HOT at twit.tv is how you get in touch. And I would love, love, love to hear |
| 0:46.6 | from you. So this week's question comes in from Mike. Mike has written in to ask about Android |
| 0:53.8 | Auto. Mike says, howdy, long time Twitter, |
| 0:57.0 | I have an issue that I hope you can help me with. |
| 0:59.0 | When driving and using Google Maps on my phone, |
| 1:02.0 | after entering a destination, Google will read my text messages to me |
| 1:05.0 | and allow me to respond all hands free. |
| 1:08.0 | However, I can't find a way to have those texts read without having to enter a |
| 1:13.3 | destination in maps. Often, I'm taking a 30 to 40 minute drive to a known location and don't need |
| 1:18.7 | the directions. Is there a way to accomplish this? Thanks in advance for your help. So this is an |
| 1:24.9 | interesting one because, Mike, when it comes to Android, |
| 1:30.7 | different people are running different versions of different flavors of Android. |
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