In the past two years, the development of smart cars has been obvious to all, mainly in the two directions of intelligent cockpit and intelligent driving. If you ask me who is the brand that can represent the development of the self-owned brand intelligent cockpit three years ago? I will tell you without hesitation: zebra.
The model I test drove this time is the MG ONE, which is equipped with the "Roselle Intelligent Cockpit System" jointly created by Zebra and SAIC.
The first time I learned about this model was that MG ONE had a "human-machine interview" with "topic terminator" Teacher Yi Lijing.
Let's start with the cockpit
Although this is a dynamic test drive of the whole vehicle, I still want to start with the intelligent cockpit, after all, this is a model equipped with Zebra's latest car machine system and has also undergone the "poisonous tongue baptism" of Teacher Yi Lijing.
MG ONE itself said that the car is equipped with a thirty-foot wrap-around triple screen, but the fact is that there are only two screens of the LCD instrument and the central control screen, although the touch adjustment panel on the left side of the LCD instrument is distributed with many touch buttons, but I do not think it is a "screen".
MG ONE integrates mirror adjustment, lighting adjustment, door locks, music and Bluetooth into this touch adjustment panel. It seems to borrow a little bit from the porsche Taycan instrument design.
Indeed, the design similar to the tri-fold screen makes the center console have a refreshing feeling, but the interaction of the touch panel is indeed more direct than the physical buttons, especially the adjustment of the rearview mirror. When adjusting the rearview mirrors, the driver generally looks at the rearview mirrors, and the touch panels with dense key arrangements are prone to accidental touch.
And there is a big problem, MG ONE's screen reflection, glare is very serious, in the daytime driving will have a certain impact.
In addition to the screen, MG ONE is also equipped with a headrest speaker in the main car, which can play the Bluetooth phone and navigation broadcast independently through the headrest speaker to avoid the impact on other passengers.
Let's talk about the Zebra Roselle intelligent cockpit system.
MG ONE's cockpit SoC is equipped with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8155 chip, and the overall fluency and clarity are still satisfactory. Gauges can display map navigation and ADAS visualization.
The HMI layout of the central control screen adopts a card-style UI, and the functions include maps, cool me music, mini programs, weather, calendars, and so on.
At present, the Mini Program in this system provides three categories of services, life and entertainment, including illegal inquiries, refueling services, travel services, information, online audio and online video functions.
The bottom Dock bar is equipped with navigation/home button switching, music, vehicle settings, parking images, air conditioning, and other functions commonly used in driving.
The drop-down menu contains the Centralized Control Center and Notification Center.
It is worth mentioning here that the Zebra Roselle Intelligent Cockpit System presets 5 cockpit scenes in the centralized control center, including smoking mode, romantic moments, fatigue relief, passenger rest, and nap mode. After these scenes are run, the software and hardware such as music, air conditioning, seats, and windows in the cockpit will run according to the settings to meet the needs of different scenes.
The ecological application of the car machine system is currently installed with Bilibili and NetEase Cloud Music, and also provides Himalaya, interactive radio, coffee takeaway, smart device, DingTalk, smart parking, smart refueling, express inquiry and so on in the app store.
However, due to insufficient permissions of the test drive account, the download experience cannot be downloaded for the time being.
In terms of navigation maps, MG ONE is equipped with the "Ali series" of the same "Ali series" of The Zebra, which supports the team travel function in addition to the basic operation of the navigation map.
As for the voice assistant, the Zebra Roselle Intelligent Cockpit System gave it the name "Little Heel Spot", which adopts Dharma AI semantics and supports T+X learning mode. It is equipped with an AI scene engine that can listen at any time, actively intelligently push, understand dialects, and can interact in real time; it can actively learn online, chat, encyclopedia, check stocks and other scene functions.
Also, small heel spots support custom wake words.
Also support to turn on the talk mode, Zebra itself has given it a definition of "more words"...
Another point is that this time the Zebra Roselle intelligent cockpit system and Bilibili jointly created a car theme. After switching themes, the ADAS visualization of the meter will change to a rainbow color, some cards will switch the accent color, and the image of the small heel spot can be changed to Bilibili "Little TV" in the background.
In terms of the performance of the smart cockpit alone, MG ONE seems to be deliberately creating a sense of technology, especially the design of the touch adjustment panel. The direction of creating a sense of technology is the right one, but it seems to have made the otherwise more convenient and reliable interaction design more complicated. The content ecology of the Zebra Roselle intelligent cockpit system is still relatively rich, which is enough to meet all the car scenes used in daily use.
100,000-level products use man-machine co-driving
The MG ONE is equipped with mg PILOT 2.0 intelligent driving system, equipped with 3 mm wave radar, 4 ultrasonic radar, 6 cameras, to meet the L2 driver assistance function.
Features include ACC adaptive cruise at full speed, FCW forward collision warning, AEB automatic emergency braking, RDA rear blind spot detection system, ICA integrated high-speed intelligent cruise, LDW lane departure alarm, LDP lane departure correction, and LKA lane keeping assist for high-speed road sections.
In addition, mg ONE is also equipped with "cruise voice control", after turning on the driver assistance function, you can adjust the cruise speed and the following distance through voice commands.
Talk about the ride experience
The MG ONE is powered by a MEGA Tech 1.5T four-cylinder high-power engine with a maximum power of 181Ps and a maximum torque of 285N·m. The drive is mated to Bosch's CVT gearbox, and the thickened steel belt can withstand 325N·m of torque.
The STEERING WHEEL of MG ONE is equipped with the SUPER SPORT button, which can open the Super Sport mode with one button, and the power response will become more sensitive. Overall, the power output of the MG ONE is very smooth, but as a model with a sporty orientation, it still lacks some explosive power.
But in terms of driving experience, MG ONE's chassis tuning is still satisfactory. The MG ONE features front McPherson independent suspension and rear multi-link independent suspension, which exhibits good support and filters out fine bumps. The suspension is tuned to be more comfortable and more suitable for everyday driving, but a degree of roll can be felt when cornering.
At last
Ten years ago, an MG 6 was probably the family sports sedan that many young people would choose. Five years ago, Zebra Zhixing was definitely the pioneer of its own brand car machine system to enter the intelligent and networked. The MG ONE, created by these two brands, does have a certain competitiveness in the products of entry-level home SUVs.
In the products of 100,000 self-owned brand SUVs, from smart cockpits to intelligent driving to the most basic driving experience, MG ONE seems to have given all the functions and experiences that can be given. Even, in the intelligent driving, the addition of man-machine co-driving is also the first step to break through themselves.