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Turning or not turning is a question worth considering; silently enduring the poisonous arrows that cannot be done both horizontally and vertically, or standing up against the constant suffering of the angle and sweeping them away by tilting the head 90 °. Which of these two acts is more noble?
Zhao Changjiang, general manager of denza's sales division, asked everyone such a question a few days ago: If the big screen of Denza's new car does not turn, will you still love me?
Unsurprisingly, the comment area is noisy, some say that the rotation is just a gimmick, cut well, and some say that the vertical screen has its own vertical screen, and I like to rotate and close my eyes and tiptoe. Standing spinning and standing not turning are basically five or five open, and the dragonfly captain has no move when he comes.
As we all know, BYD has been deeply tied to the interior design idea of rotating central control screen in recent years, and most of its main models have used large-area rotating central control screens. Because dextile's latest new car has an ineffable relationship with BYD Tang, naturally it also inherited the rotating screen at that time, so there is today's "turn or not" question.
There is a cost to turning
The rotating screen people's BYD side of the good use, are about to become the brand's iconic features. If a BYD does not have a large central control screen that can be rotated, it is like there is no willow leaf steamed dumpling on the Snack Menu in Shaxian County. Why is Denza discussing the possibility of "not turning" at this time?
Ben Hu seems to have not pronounced this sentence for a long time: there is no free willow leaf steamed dumpling in the world. There is a consideration behind everything, there will be a price behind the convenience, the ideal of rotating the screen is very full, then the reality must be carried by someone.
Yang Zimo, a current GAC interior designer who previously served in the design department of Mercedes-Benz and participated in the interior design work of Denza, said that there are two main problems with the rotating screen: one is that other interior structures need to make room for rotation for the screen, which limits the three-dimensional sense of the shape and affects the layout of other operating components; the second is that the central air outlet should avoid being blocked after the screen is erected, so it has to be arranged in a low position.
These two problems are not difficult to understand, but frankly speaking, they are not absolute reasons to refuse to rotate the screen. Interior design three-dimensional problem, today there have been a considerable part of the interior design does not care, typical of Tesla Model 3 as a representative, the single protruding and existing central control screen can almost be seamlessly changed to rotation.
The location of the air conditioner outlet can be solved by some unconventional design. However, for a wider range of conventional air conditioning outlets, the horizontal screen can be arranged above or below, the portrait screen can be arranged on both sides of the screen, and the rotating screen is unable to arrange the air outlet in a whole circular area that rotates and crosses, and if it is arranged below, it will be too low.
But in addition to these two immediately visible problems, the central control screen is rotated, but also faces the pressure of cost, weight and reliability. The cost is the best to understand, the weight can also be imagined, if there is no benefit or the benefit is too small, it is natural to hold up the Occam razor. On the other hand, there is also the durability of long-term use, and any movable parts of the car need to experience harsh temperature and humidity changes to ensure that there is no problem in working over the years.
And all this, of course, must be reflected in the price of the car, or has been included in the price of the car. After all, the wool is out of the sheep, and the benefits of these costs can of course take into account the advantages of the horizontal and vertical screens.
Horizontal screen is the most common way for us to face large-screen displays every day, more importantly, the horizontal extension direction is consistent with the front field of view, and when the line of sight moves left and right on the horizontal screen, the degree of attention shift from the road surface is always limited. However, it is difficult for the horizontal screen to further achieve a larger area, otherwise it can only use a "fish screen" or joint screen design with a large aspect ratio, and this expanded screen area has limited improvement for navigation and other scenarios.
The vertical screen is more accustomed to using smart phones today, especially in scenarios such as navigation, there will be a more ideal way to display information. But the vertical screen is more suitable for distributed information arrangement (think mobile APP desktop), the driver's attention will inevitably move downwards, and the danger caused by this puts forward requirements for UI design. If the UI design is separated from the top and bottom, it is inevitable that the screen area will be wasted.
There is a way not to turn without turning
In this world, after all, there are more screens that can't be turned than screens that can be turned. In the past few years, with the mainstream area of the car central control screen, from the past "a few inches" to 10.1 inches of entry, 12.3 inches of standard equipment, 17 inches to dare to brag, car designers are also trying their best to make these big guys reasonable.
At present, the most mainstream way should be to simplify the complex: a traditional 16:9 ratio of horizontal central screen, directly placed in the middle of the interior. Tesla Model 3, Q&I M5, and the redesigned Model S are all the same, referring to the latter whose limit area can reach 17 inches, which is enough regardless of horizontal and vertical use.
The main problem is that those models that do not have the conditions to use such exaggerated screen sizes, some are interior designs that cannot or do not want to be so swayed by the screen, and some are purely positioning and cost issues. When the screen area is reduced to about 12 inches, the longitudinal area may not be as generous as the horizontal area.
The screen is too large and there is also too much trouble, the impact of the deflection angle of the horizontal screen of more than ten inches is too large, if the bias is too much, the co-driver is not easy to operate, if the bias angle is too small, the far end is too far from the driver. So much so that at home and abroad, there have been aftermarket magic packages that can be deflected for the Model 3 to modify the screen angle. And this design has evolved to the extreme, becoming the central control screen of Gaohe HiPhi Z with its own gimbal.
If you want to make the screen bigger, either move the screen and then stretch it horizontally, typical of the horizontal multi-screen style of BMW and Ford's latest generation models. However, this method of area expansion is not efficient, and although it seems that the width is amazing, the actual display information area has not increased much. The display area that is too slender is not conducive to the arrangement of information, and the area away from the driver is used at a low rate, and it is mostly used as a co-driver screen.
Another approach is to expand downwards, such as the 17-inch vertical screen of the Tesla Model X that we are very familiar with, and the latest design language of Mercedes-Benz has also chosen a vertical screen. This is very conducive to navigating the map display, which is more in line with the intuitive direction of progress than the horizontal screen; the vertical screen has a smaller span in the left and right directions, and it is not easy to have the problem of difficult to use the remote UI control.
But the span in the up and down directions can also bring problems, such as for different heights of drivers are not all friendly enough, such as too large a longitudinal span will make the top of the screen either difficult to touch or difficult to observe, so that Mercedes-Benz on the SL uses a screen design with a tiltable angle, which can be adjusted between 12-32 degrees.
Although it is divided into horizontal and vertical, the seemingly vertical screen like SL has a horizontal-to-vertical ratio that is relatively close to the square. A more square aspect ratio may be one of the directions that take into account the advantages of horizontal and vertical screens. The iPad we are familiar with, because of the need to play videos in both portrait and landscape orientation, has maintained an "ancient" ratio of 4:3 for a long time. Computer screens are mostly 16:9, and the "better ratio" that has become popular until today is only 16:10 or 3:2.
Of course, the on-board screen needs to adapt to the layout of the car, and the experience of handheld devices cannot be taken directly. It's just that if the central control screen really has the conditions to use a more square proportion, or like Tesla and EQS, the area itself is large enough that the vertical height of the horizontal screen is close to the limit, then it is no longer important to rotate or not.