The UK government has banned the use of hand-held mobile phones and other devices while driving a vehicle, with drivers now required to be stationary or use an accurate speech-to-text system to make calls or send messages. The increasing prevalence of accidents caused by texting and driving has led manufacturers to adopt the latest speech-to-text technology in their vehicles, enabling drivers to perform various tasks such as changing songs, finding routes, setting appointments, and even sending emails while keeping their hands on the wheel. To test this technology, Speechmatics conducted an experiment using a corpus of audio recordings from 86 English speakers in-car environments with varying noise conditions, finding that its Autonomous Speech Recognition (ASR) system outperformed competitors by up to 60% accuracy levels, with the largest difference seen in noisy conditions. The company's focus is on developing accurate voice recognition technology for various use cases, including hands-free driving, and has partnered with manufacturers such as BMW and Microsoft to create more natural-sounding systems that account for non-perfect speech. As a result, vehicles' AI is becoming increasingly competent, with 73% of drivers anticipating the use of built-in voice assistants by 2022 and 90% of new vehicles expected to have in-car voice tech embedded by 2028.