Amazon's Alexa can now boss around Hyundai Genesis cars

Amazon's Alexa can now handle commands for the Hyundai G90 luxury car (Photo: Genesis) Hyundai announced Thursday that it has partnered with Amazon to let motorists use their home digital assistant Alexa to boss around their new Genesis luxury car. From inside their homes, owners of Hyundai's Genesis G90 sedan will able to use voice commands through their Amazon Echo speakers to command the Alexa system to have their cars perform certain basic functions, Hyundai says. So, for instance, the customer who wants the car running and air conditioning blasting for a daily commute need only say something like, "Alexa, tell Genesis to start my car at 70 degrees." Or an owner might bark, "Alexa, tell Genesis to lock my car" from the comfort of their living room. In addition, Alexa can flash the car's headlights, honk the horn or turn off a running engine.