‘You have reached your destination, I’ll be back’

Starting next week, you’ll be able to hear Waze voice instructions intoned in the familiar Austrian-accented voice of the Terminator aka former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Schwarzenegger is pushing his new movie “Terminator Genisys,” which opens July 1.

Speaking to USA Today, the Austrian muscleman touched on the irony of using his voice in an automated navigation system.

“In 1984, when we did (the first) Terminator, we talked about the world being run by machines. It was science fiction then,” Schwarzenegger told the paper. “Now you have machines telling you where to drive.”

The Israeli startup Waze was purchased by Google in June 2013 for $1.1 billion. The app competes with dozens of other navigation applications using phones’ built in internet connection and GPS receiver, but Waze has an edge in that it’s community-driven and includes, for example, real-time recalculations if a road becomes congested. The app also allows users to message each other.

Schwarzenegger worked hard before becoming a star actor and in his early years was told that he would never be a leading man because of his very noticeable accent.

“Here we are 40 years later and my accent is a big asset. It’s what people enjoy,” Schwarzenegger told the paper. “When I dreamt of a career, I had no idea that one day I would be telling 50 million drivers (where) to drive.”