Lucas Beyer reports Gemini assistant in new Volvo refused window and seat commands

Lucas Beyer says the Gemini assistant in a new Volvo refused to open the passenger window, citing safety, and told him to install the YouTube app to enable seat massage.

Asked to fix the cold, it replied that friendship kept it warm. Beyer says a Gemini assistant on an XPeng handled the first two requests without problems, and he suspects Google's car-system integration rather than the Gemini model is at fault. The report is a single post on X, and no Volvo or Google response is reported.