【EV Vision Report】In today's Internet era where big data is rampant, the car no longer exists as a cold means of transportation, and the addition of the smart cockpit gives the vehicle a "temperature" that is closer to human nature, becoming the entrance and starting point of human-vehicle interaction, and eventually evolving into one of the important criteria for car buyers in the new era.
Remember that on February 24, 2020, 11 ministries and commissions, including the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and the Ministry of Science and Technology, jointly issued the "Intelligent Vehicle Innovation Development Strategy". It is clearly pointed out that intelligent vehicles have become the strategic direction of the development of the global automobile industry, and the development of intelligent vehicles has important strategic significance for China. At the same time, the document points out that by 2025, smart cars that achieve conditional autonomous driving will reach large-scale production, and highly automated intelligent cars will be market-oriented in specific environments.
At present, the intelligent cockpit is the most mature application of intelligent driving, in the car to the direction of intelligent, networked development of the general trend, intelligent cockpit is expected to become the standard of the car, and the current penetration rate of the intelligent cockpit in the new car is only about 30%, the future market prospects are broad!
So in the face of this, Landu FREE gave its own answer in terms of smart cockpit.
The Four "Ones" Behind the Evolution of Landu FREE
On October 16, 2021, at the first user night held by Landu Automobile, the Lando FREE Vehicle OTA Plan was officially released and promised to be carried out within the year. On December 27 of the same year, Landu Automobile officially provided the first vehicle remote OTA upgrade service (version number V1.1.0) for Lando FREE car owners. It is reported that the vehicle OTA is not only at the level of correcting BUGs and algorithm optimization, but also from the power, driving assistance, body control, chassis control to intelligent cockpit for all-round upgrades, including the vehicle's entertainment, driving, intelligence, safety and other aspects, a total of more than 60, upgrade optimization items exceeded the previous commitment of 50 items.
In fact, if it is simple to say, the OTA upgrade of Lantu FREE can be summarized by four "ones".
Enjoy the journey all the way, sing when you want
This OTA upgrade, Lantu FREE adds k-song function, after the upgrade, it will make the family travel and long-distance driving more relaxed and happy, singing and enjoying the time along the way. At the same time, users can enjoy the member song library at will, support double duet, immediately open your own mobile K song space, Danna audio & 10 speakers of the whole car, indulge in HIFI high-fidelity sound quality, to create an exclusive mobile K song space that opens immediately.
In addition, the new second screen Bluetooth headset connection: In order to solve the problem that users reflect that the co-driver watches movies or TV to affect driving navigation, the OTA upgrade adds a new bluetooth headset connection function for the co-driver screen, and the media sound of the co-driver screen can be played through the Bluetooth headset.
Adjust the layout at a glance to make the interface of the car machine clearer
This upgrade adjusts the layout of the Lantu FREE central control main screen media application to make the layout clearer, and at the same time places the display music player on the top to make it easier to open the operation. In addition, the position of the card on the home page of the central control vice screen has also been optimized and adjusted to make it easier for the co-driver to operate.
One-click direct 丨 quick operation, simple and effective
In this upgrade, Lantu FREE's car machine has added a one-click direct access function to enhance the car experience of car owners. For example: adjust the air suspension welcome logic to unlock outside the car. When we approach the vehicle, the vehicle is not only automatically unlocked, but also automatically lowers the suspension height of the vehicle to the welcome height when getting on the car, and the minimum ground clearance is 125mm, which is convenient for drivers and passengers to get on the car. At the same time, the suspension status icon has also been optimized, and when the suspension is not adjustable, it can also be fed back to the user.
In addition, the OTA upgrade has also adjusted the trigger scenario of the LANTU FREE automatic window closing function, from staying away from the locked window to any form of locking and closing the window, and also optimizing the situation that the window cannot be automatically closed after leaving the car. And the Lantu FREE tailgate opening method has also been adjusted, and the remote control key opening tailgate is adjusted from long press to double-click to avoid the accidental touch of the key due to squeezing.
In terms of cabin, the main screen of the vehicle has added three energy mode switching functions of fuel priority, pure electric priority and intelligent mode, and the seat has added three kinds of seat comfort adjustment of ventilation, heating and massage, added convenient getting on/off, and convenient adjustment of the brightness and darkness of the sky, while the air conditioning temperature can retain the last set value and use it more intimately.
If the vehicle needs to be replenished, when querying the nearby charging station in the map of the lantu free machine navigation, the free charging station cooperated with lantu will be listed first. In addition, it also optimizes the situation that after the slow charging pile is cut off and the external discharge is stopped, the situation that the gun needs to be pulled and re-plugged, which solves the troubles encountered by users when charging. It is worth noting that the Lantu FREE parking quick operation prompt has also been improved, the user in the parking trailer P gear, the car machine will automatically display the prompt to open the fuel tank mouth cover and charging port cover, so that the user's energy operation is more convenient.
A broken word 丨 no need to do it, you can say what you see
In terms of interactive functions, Lantu FREE has added a "visible can speak" voice assistant, which has more powerful voice interaction functions and more convenient interactive functions. After the upgrade, Lantu FREE voice assistant can achieve rapid response, accurate recognition, and cover more use cases, making the human-machine dialogue smooth as new.
OTA upgrade pre-vehicle testing
Vehicle-to-machine testing after OTA upgrade
In addition, compared with the previous generation system, Lantu optimizes the speech wake-up speed from 800ms to 300ms, optimizes the accuracy of the vehicle-machine speech system by optimizing the noise reduction and echo cancellation effects, and expands the scope of semantic generalization to improve the fluency and accuracy of the voice dialogue. At the same time, the coverage of voice basic functions has also been optimized, more than 10 new functions of voice control car and machine systems have been added, and the opening and closing of voice control cameras have been added.
In addition, the vehicle OTA upgrade also carried out more new and optimized functions such as adaptive high beam speed reduction to low beam, object recognition optimization of night vision system, and optimization of occasional stop charging problems.
Based on intelligence security first
Landu FREE is the first model of Landu Automobile, positioned in the "performance level intelligent electric SUV", is currently the only electric SUV in the industry to choose pure electric and extended range electric dual power layout, equipped with the world's first integrated liftable triple screen design, from the electric drive performance, driving control performance, large five-seat space, million-level luxury comfort equipment and excellent intelligent performance, to provide users with a driving experience far beyond the same level. And this car accelerates at a speed of only 4.5 seconds from zero to 100 kilometers per hour, which has the power performance comparable to that of a luxury supercar. According to data, in December 2021, Landu FREE delivered a total of 3330 vehicles. Since the launch of delivery in August 2021, Landu has achieved a month-on-month increase for five consecutive months, with a total of 6791 vehicles delivered annually, which is enough to prove that the emergence of this car is deeply trusted by the majority of users.
Of course, the success of Lantu FREE is far more than the excellence of the car machine system, for vehicle safety, Lantu FREE is based on the actual scene of the user's car, Lantu from preventive warning to active intervention, from body safety, cockpit protection to battery safety, giving users a full range of peace of mind and reliable car experience.
Landu FREE adopts the world's first TRB+Patch composite structure thermoformed A-pillar, and adopts TRB thermoforming process B-pillar. TRB+Patch technology can effectively improve bending resistance, while helping to reduce weight and improve, resisting front and side touches. An important indicator to evaluate the safety of vehicle rollover accidents is the roof static pressure, Lantu's original and pioneering composite structure scheme can make the peak pressure of the body top pressure reach more than 100kN, while the peak peak of the roof static pressure of domestic medium-sized and medium-sized SUVs is basically around 60kN~80kN. In addition, as a key reinforcement to resist side impacts, the door anti-collision beam can play a role in reducing the amount of collision intrusion and effectively ensuring the safety of occupants. For the first time in the world, Landu uses 2000MPa aluminum-silicon coated door anti-collision beams, which effectively improves the stiffness and strength of the vehicle. At the same time, the aluminum-silicon coating also solves the anti-corrosion problem of the door after easy water ingress.
In addition, Lantu FREE car height strong steel accounted for 75%, of which 1500MPa above the thermoforming ratio of up to 31%, mainly used in body A column, B pillar, threshold, middle passage, seat beam, front and rear longitudinal beam and front and rear door anti-collision beam and other body frame parts, basically leading foreign luxury brands of the same level of products, to ensure the safety of vehicle collision.
In terms of battery safety, Lantu FREE is based on the industry's first "three-dimensional thermal insulation wall" technology, PACK five-layer security protection, Lantu exclusive cloud BMS, Lantu has created an industry-leading battery system active/passive safety solution, comprehensively improve the safety of battery systems, and create battery "safety zero anxiety" for users.
In terms of active safety, the lantu FREE series is equipped with L2+ level intelligent driver assistance system as standard, with 24 sensors throughout the car, including 3 millimeter wave radar, 9 cameras and 12 ultrasonic radars. The whole series is equipped with 20 intelligent auxiliary configuration functions as standard, such as fatigue reminder, blind spot detection, lane departure warning and a number of convenient and safe intelligent auxiliary functions. Whether it is from driving safety warning to active intervention, to various driving scenarios under high-speed, congested, and night road conditions, it can assist safe driving to ensure the safety of members.
Landu FREE is also equipped with NVS active night vision driving system, night vision maximum visual distance of 150 meters, can actively emit infrared light, higher than passive recognition rate; at night, fog, heavy rain, tunnels and other driving scenarios, the system can warn of potential dangers in real time, AI automatically identifies pedestrians, cars and bicycles, the recognition rate ≥ 95%.
For the protection of personnel outside the vehicle, Landu FREE is equipped with an automatic emergency braking system, which supports the intelligent and accurate identification of pedestrians, vehicles and bicycles, and the 77G millimeter wave radar + monocular vision scheme can realize real-time monitoring, early warning of collision risk, brake intervention in emergency, and implement multi-layer three-dimensional protection for vehicles.
Finally, in terms of preventing fatigue driving, Lantu's original VOYAH Attention awakening mode, Lantu FREE can warn the main and co-drivers of fatigue driving, and provide 6 kinds of warm reminders of sound, image, air conditioning, fragrance, service area navigation and instrument indicators to ensure driving safety.
Editor's Summary:
It can be seen that this OTA upgrade, Lantu has fulfilled the service commitment of the OTA upgrade on the user night, and will carry out the OTA upgrade at least once a quarter, which is a very good thing for our users. It should be known that from August 2020 to the present, Lantu has held 7 global test companion activities, attracting more than 2,000 people to actively participate, collecting more than 200 suggestions from users and accumulating more than 130 improvements and optimizations, involving detailed workmanship, vehicle-machine interaction, driving experience, NVH, experience optimization, intelligent driving and other aspects, so in the process of Lantu's continuous evolution, we will inadvertently experience the change of Lantu FREE in daily driving, and gradually pull into each other's relationship. Let the temperature of their affection gradually sublimate, becoming the most trusted partner in our daily commute.