CarPlay will be updated soon! A few days ago, at the Apple Global Developers Conference WWDC, apple demonstrated a new generation of CarPlay. Compared with the existing version, it has made many innovations. Whether it is UI design or functional performance, it has the potential to "fully take over the car cockpit." " gesture.
But at the same time as CarPlay was unveiled, the new car-making forces from China seemed not to be "cold" by Apple's blockbuster product. Some people think that Apple CarPlay is only a unique solution for this generation of cars, while Jidu CEO Xia Yiping pointed out more bluntly that "CarPlay is to solve the intelligence of non-smart cars." The biggest change in the next generation of smart cars is software and hardware. deep integration.
Just last week, Jidu’s first automotive robot concept car ROBO-01 was officially unveiled. The smart cockpit is equipped with Qualcomm 8295 chip, cabin-driving fusion technology, fully offline millisecond-level voice, 3D dynamic human-machine co-driving map, and 3D unbounded integration. Make the screen larger and cancel a large number of physical buttons...
(Jidu ROBO-01 concept car)
Obviously, in the face of competition from the new version of Apple CarPlay, Xia Yiping's "fearlessness" is because of Jidu ROBO-01 Concept cars have brought smart cockpits to the next era.
What’s different about the new version of CarPlay?
In the past, products such as Apple CarPlay and Baidu Carlife were born out of the background that traditional car phones were difficult to use and had too single functions, while smartphones evolved very quickly. So is there a technical means that can directly map the powerful functions of smartphones to the car screen?
Therefore, Apple CarPlay is actually mobile phone mapping, which moves some functions of the mobile phone, such as calls, messages, music, podcasts , and maps, to the car.
So what is different about the new version of Apple CarPlay?
First of all, Apple CarPlay extends control from multimedia information to control of vehicle functions. It will occupy the central control screen and instrument panel, and can display driving information such as vehicle speed, rpm, and fuel level. At the same time, it can also control functions such as vehicle air conditioning and seat heating.
(New Apple CarPlay)
Secondly, Apple CarPlay has better adaptability to the screen. No matter whether the screen in the cockpit is large or small, tall or wide, it can adapt. In addition, there are also great innovations in UI design. The new version of Apple CarPlay is very similar to iWatch, and users can customize the interface skin.
However, it can be seen that although Apple CarPlay has been greatly upgraded compared to the old version, its essence is still an extension from the mobile phone to the car, rather than based on the HMI experience of the overall smart cockpit. Baidu 's Carlife, Huawei's 's Hicar are all solutions at the same level as Apple CarPlay.
The smart cockpit embodied in the Jidu ROBO-01 concept car does not emphasize "mobile phone mapping", but to a greater extent interprets the design concept of future travel space. This is also the fundamental difference between the two.
In addition, Apple also claimed that many car brands including Ford, Porsche , Mercedes , Audi , Honda , etc. will support the new version of CarPlay. At first glance, these car brands are all well-known companies with a good reputation in the world today, and their popularity and brand power are enough to dominate the world.
(an overseas brand of car and machine)
However, if you look closely, you will find that these overseas car brands can no longer keep up with the new domestic car manufacturing forces in the innovation of car and machine. Their car and machine systems are not only old, have small screens and poor UI design It is lagging behind, and the HMI interactive experience is even worse than that in China.
The intelligent innovation of smart cockpits far exceeds that of foreign countries, and it is an industry consensus that is beyond debate. This is why Xia Yiping and other industry insiders believe that Apple CarPlay is the solution to "the intelligence of non-intelligent cars."
What should the future smart cockpit look like?
As mentioned above, Apple CarPlay solves the problem of extending the mobile phone to the car, and what the future smart cockpit will solve is "space". To be more precise, it is the "mobile travel space" based on high-end autonomous driving. From a long-term perspective, the greater competitive space for smart cars in the future is actually not autonomous driving, but smart cockpits.
However, before fully unleashing the changes brought about by smart cockpits, we must first use autonomous driving that is safe and intelligent enough to liberate people. This is also the fundamental reason why all companies including , Tesla, , Huawei, and "Wei Xiaoli" are desperately trying to break through the L2 bottleneck and break through to advanced autonomous driving.
(Jidu ROBO-01 concept car)
How does Jidu think? This aspect is inseparable from Baidu's blessing. Apollo has actually reached the L4 level. Jidu leveraged Apollo's atomization capabilities to conduct reintegration, development and verification, creating high-end autonomous driving for passenger cars. Theoretically, Jidu's so-called "high-level autonomous driving" is actually a more intelligent system than L2 level, which can take over driving rights from humans. It's just limited by regulations. In terms of ability, it already has the ability foundation of L4 level.
Of course, Jidu has also been emphasizing that the high-end autonomous driving they have created with the "three-domain integration" of highways, cities, and parking is high-end autonomous driving within the scope of the law and in multiple scenarios. At the same time, Jidu also introduced the "Three Safety Concepts" to ensure the safety of high-level autonomous driving through dual radars, dual top-mounted chips, cabin-driving integration, algorithm verification, and systematic perception interaction.
(cabin-driving fusion)
Take cabin-driving fusion as an example. When the smart driving domain controller fails in extreme circumstances, the 30TOPS computing power of the Qualcomm 8295 chip in the smart cockpit can take over the driving task at any time, greatly improving the performance of high-end autonomous driving. Security and stability.
In terms of smart cockpit, Jidu ROBO-01 concept car has thrown out many new technical points. Taken together, the special feature of intensively building a smart cockpit is that the entire vehicle is considered as a travel space, rather than innovating around one or two points. As the saying goes, "Those who do not think about the overall situation are not interested in one area." When the entire vehicle has high-level autonomous driving capabilities and humans are liberated, what can be done in the cabin, how to interact with the vehicle, and how to provide people with a better riding experience?
(unbounded integrated large screen)
is first of all an upgrade to the large screen. The new version of Apple CarPlay can adapt to various in-car screens, but Jidu has created an unbounded integrated large screen, and it is truly one screen, not a "pseudo" spliced by three small screens like other large screens on the market. Big screen".
In addition, the innovation of human-computer interaction is also a highlight. The Jidu ROBO-01 concept car cancels a large number of physical operations such as central control buttons, and completes most of the controls through fully offline voice. Voice interaction can also be carried out in tunnels, basements and other places where there is no network, and the response is still milliseconds. In one fell swoop, it solved the current shortcomings of in-vehicle intelligent voice that cannot be separated from network signals and response delays of more than 1 second.
(foldable steering wheel)
In addition, the 0-gravity seat also comes with a noise-cancelling audio headrest, an unbounded integrated large screen equipped with liftable speakers on both sides, and the ambient lights in the cabin can also be adjusted automatically with high-end The color changes when driving is turned on, and the foldable steering wheel will also be folded away during high-level autonomous driving. The 3D dynamic human-machine co-driving map is more like bringing the external physical world to the large screen inside the car, just like the car is running in the digital world.
(3D dynamic man-machine co-driving map)
Various design innovations all show that the smart cockpit of the ROBO-01 concept car has gone beyond mobile phone mapping and is not limited to the improvement of the large-screen experience, but is based on a complete The transformation of “space”.
Moreover, there are few other competing products on the market that can achieve these features, such as integrated large screen, fully offline millisecond-level voice, and 3D dynamic human-machine co-driving map. Of course, if combined with the exterior interactive AI pixel lights, "jumping light" dual-lift laser radar , active rear wing and other designs, the "car robot" attributes of the ROBO-01 concept car have been fully developed. Technology value.
From Apple CarPlay to the smart cockpit of the Jidu ROBO-01 concept car, it not only presents a leap in the "mobile travel space", but also reflects the thinking of new domestic car manufacturing forces on future smart cars. It is foreseeable that in the era of smart cars 3.0, the technological benchmark represented by integrated automobile robots will lead a new round of intelligent competition.
