Today's cars have become more and more like an "electronic product" rather than a "means of transport", although the car bought two or three years ago is not different from the current model in terms of engine, gearbox, chassis and other overall architecture, but in the interaction, intelligent configuration, driving assistance experience, but there is a world of difference.
Because of this, the competitiveness of many models at this stage, in addition to the traditional power, space, appearance and other factors, intelligence has also become an important dimension. With the release and listing of MG ONE, the compact SUV market within 150,000 yuan has ushered in a fist product with intelligence as the gripper. Taking advantage of the fact that the new car has just been launched, the author came to the closed venue and experienced mg ONE through three scenes: blind driving, car follow-up and parking.
"With your eyes closed" you can also drive
In the first scene, the author mainly experienced "blind driving", of course, this is not really "closing the eyes to drive", but using a blackout cloth to block all the surrounding windows of the vehicle, so that the car's original open field of view in all directions becomes 0 visibility. In this case, the cameras around the vehicle become the real "eyes" that need to observe the surrounding environment through them.
Before explaining the specific experience, we should remind everyone not to imitate this test link under any circumstances, because it was in a closed test site and there was a special person next to it who was responsible for safety protection. From the actual experience, MG ONE first provides a 360° view without dead angles, through the central control screen can view the complete environment around the body, which is also an experience that many vehicles can achieve at present.
Then compared with the same level of joint venture models, MG ONE also has some experience advantages, first of all, the camera transmission of the picture delay is very low, while the fluency of the picture is enough, to know that the driving speed at that time in 20 ~ 30km / h, if the screen appears stuck or smeared, then the car is likely to be because the direction is not adjusted in time and rushed out of the road, and MG ONE has no such problem at all.
Secondly, it provides the field of view of the bottom of the car, that is, the 4D transparent body function, which is still more important for novices, even if the 360 ° images provided by 4 high-definition cameras have realized the perception of the surrounding environment of the vehicle, but it is easy for novices to ignore the current position, such as when going up and down the shoulder or driving on the rural road, because the friction, bumping and even dragging the bottom caused by not seeing the bottom of the car are possible.
Especially like the MG ONE is still an SUV model, many people will ignore a lot of complex ground bumps, feel that relying on their own high ground clearance, what ridges, ditches, raised manhole covers, regardless of direct pressure, is actually a very dangerous behavior.
Of course, this "blind driving" experience also has corresponding application scenarios in daily life, such as reversing in a dark environment at night or making a U-turn in a narrow alley, and may rely more on cameras to accurately observe the surrounding situation and the location of the vehicle.
L2.5 assisted driving, traffic lights can "perfect start"
Although the popularity of intelligent auxiliary driving systems in automotive products in the past two years is rising, but in the fuel models below 150,000 yuan, it is rare to achieve L2 or even L2+ level intelligent auxiliary driving vehicles, manufacturers will focus on the technical layout of 200,000 yuan or even more than 300,000 yuan of products, which on the one hand is limited by the overall cost control, on the other hand, it is necessary to support more high-end product positioning through these functions.
For the MG brand, there is no excessive baggage, they need more is to occupy a certain market segment through a model, and win the recognition of young people, so in MG ONE, whether it is the installation of Qualcomm Snapdragon 8155 car machine chip, or the emergence of MG PILOT 2.0 high-end intelligent auxiliary driving system, it is not surprising that MG wants to create the strongest intelligent product at the same level.
In the intelligent driving assistance function, MG ONE is equipped with ACC/S&G full-speed adaptive cruise/automatic vehicle start-stop system, FCW front anti-collision alarm, AEB automatic emergency braking, RDA rear blind spot detection system, which is the most widely covered rate in the same class, and it is also the most abundant intelligent driving assistance system with the richest application scenarios.
For high-speed sections, the car is also equipped with ICA integrated high-speed intelligent cruise, LDW lane departure warning, LDP lane departure correction and LKA lane keeping assist system. In the actual experience, the functions related to intelligent driver assistance are integrated in the left area of the steering wheel, and the overall operation logic is relatively simple, and for novices, there will also be text and image prompts on the LCD instrument in front.
Compared with the same level of models, the outstanding advantage of MG ONE is that it has a low-speed segment of auxiliary driving function, such as if the car encounters traffic lights when the car is automatically braked, and after the current car starts, it can not step on the accelerator, just press the button, you can continue to keep in a state of follow-up with the car in front.
In the actual experience, MG ONE's recognition and capture speed of the front car is relatively fast, and in the process of starting and stopping at the traffic light, compared to the driver, there is still a moment of delay, this process first requires the driver to confirm, and then the vehicle will start slowly, the experience is more natural and smooth, there is no sense of abruptness.
In addition, the SAS Speed Assist system equipped with the vehicle can automatically detect road traffic signs, on the one hand, it can prevent the driver from speeding, but also to ensure that the vehicle does not have speeding problems during the use of the assisted driving system.
Supports 29 kinds of automatic parking scenarios to save "parking difficulties"
Equipped with 4 cameras and 12 ultrasonic radars around the MG ONE, in addition to the two scenarios mentioned above, it can also help you solve the last link when you arrive at your destination: reversing. The APA all-scenario automatic parking function is equipped with the APA automatic parking function, which can cope with various parking problems in actual driving.
When using this function, the vehicle will automatically identify the location of the parking space, and then will send parking instructions to the driver, and there will be a prompt to start parking on the central control screen, after clicking the vehicle will enter the automatic parking link, the whole process is not required to human intervention, after entering the parking space, there is no need to step on the brake pedal, the vehicle will automatically brake.
However, from the current system experience, the recognition efficiency of the parking space can continue to improve, and the algorithm of parking is very accurate, as long as the parking space is recognized, it can basically be "a bit into place". For MG ONE, thanks to its SIGMA architecture, the OTA upgrade of the whole vehicle can be realized, and it is believed that the performance in this regard will be continuously optimized after the listing.
At present, the APA automatic parking function has supported 29 scenarios, covering parking spaces with side, vertical and tilt angles. However, in the experience link of the day, the author also failed to experience RPA remote control parking, which is indeed a pity, compared with APA automatic parking, the RPA function can achieve the point-to-point parking function, which will be the "complete body" of automatic parking.
Overall, from the three aspects of intelligent driving, OTA upgrade potential and daily intelligent assistance, MG ONE is the leading product in the same level, and many high-end intelligent technologies rarely seen in products below 150,000 yuan in the past are installed in this model.
Combined with the overall sports exterior design and the interior atmosphere with a sense of technology, the whole vehicle is very suitable for the current young users, as the first car after 90/00, MG ONE is a very suitable and cost-effective choice. (This article was first published on the Titanium Media APP)