The history of the car can be traced back to 1886, Carl Benz designed the world's first three-wheeled car, in 1888 Mercedes-Benz produced the world's first car available for sale, in 1893 the world's first car license and driving license was issued in France. Back in China, the word "car" in Chinese first appeared in the Tang Dynasty astronomer Monk And his party's "method of rotating the copper wheel, with fire steam transportation, known as the car", in the late Qing Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty, the car was used to refer to the steam train traveling on the railway, until after 1905, it began to have the definition of motor vehicle as we know.
Only 130 years have passed since the appearance of the first car, but the style and function of the car have changed dramatically, and in the early days of the car, its function was only given the role of a transportation tool, in design and manufacturing, more to consider how to get passengers to their destinations faster. However, with the continuous emergence of traffic accidents, the need for safety has been mentioned, and safety designs such as airbags and seat belts to protect drivers and passengers and shell buffers to protect pedestrians have become important criteria for evaluating a car. With the emergence of the Internet, more and more advanced driving assistance functions have also been applied to cars, entertainment, intelligence and other standards that have nothing to do with transportation tools and safety attributes have also become an important consideration for consumers to buy or not, and "car machines" are important tools to achieve car entertainment.
The vehicle machine refers to the abbreviation of the in-vehicle infotainment product installed on the car, which can realize the interaction between the driver, passengers and the car during the driving process of the vehicle. With the development of science and technology, the car machine from the early radio, CD, DVD, navigation, gradually towards intelligent, information development. At present, in addition to the traditional radio, music video playback, and navigation functions, the functions of the car machine also realize the information communication between people and the car, the car and the outside world, and the realization of advanced auxiliary driving systems, which not only enhances the driver's driving experience, but also makes the driving process more safe and convenient.
The development of the car machine is mainly divided into 3 stages, the initial car machine is the traditional car machine based on audio and video entertainment, in this stage, the main function of the car machine is to play music, audio news and other content in the process of being used in the vehicle, the operation mode is mainly the driver through the control of the entity buttons to operate the work of the car machine; with the development of Internet technology, the car machine technology has also made a leap, with the Internet applied to the car machine, voice interaction, gesture recognition and other technologies, the car machine playability has become higher, more practical , such as the driver or passenger can directly through the voice to let the vehicle play music, set navigation, can be through the car machine to let the glass lift and fall, but at this time the car machine is still based on human control, through the instructions given by humans to complete the corresponding action, the current car machine is at this stage.
Often see about the Internet enterprises to build cars (related reading: a brief discussion on mobile phone manufacturing enterprises to build cars), and even car manufacturers into the mobile phone news, the underlying logic, is to make the application scenario of the car machine wider, more operational, the Internet giant in the field of car machine main solutions have 2 kinds, one is the car machine as a mobile phone extension of the car machine technology, mainly the function on the current smart phone, such as music software, navigation software, etc. through the way of the car machine presentation, The software that has been maturely applied on the mobile phone will be put on the vehicle, so that the car machine can realize the functions of some smart phones. The other is the overall car-machine solution based on the underlying operating system, which is to re-develop a car-machine system independent of the mobile phone system.
Unlike mobile phones are already Android, Apple 2 points of the world (can also become Android, Apple, Hongmeng 3 points of the world), the car machine system also belongs to the stage of hundreds of controversy, due to the protection of the car factory for its own data, in the selection of the car machine system is also more cautious, many Internet companies, are hoping to be able to share a piece of the car market, but because of the protection of the data of the car factory, Internet companies can not obtain valuable car data, thereby enhancing the new energy of their own car machine.
The forefront of intelligent driving believes that many traditional car companies have more vehicle information access channels, but the design of the car machine is not particularly perfect, and with the gradual increase in the proportion of mobile phones occupying people's daily lives, the development mode of interconnecting mobile phones and car machines is becoming clearer and clearer, and functions such as opening and closing doors and remote calls through mobile phones have gradually become a reality. The concept of vehicle-road collaboration allows the information between cars and cars, cars and people to achieve interoperability, and mobile phones are important ports for pedestrian information output, which further promotes the necessity of mobile phone system and vehicle-machine system integration. In the future, the dividing line between the mobile phone industry and the automotive industry will become more and more blurred, and because the corporate culture and concept between Internet companies (more mobile phone companies) and traditional car companies are not consistent, cross-border cooperation is more difficult, which leads to the emergence of Internet companies and car companies to make mobile phones.
As mentioned above, the current car and machine system presents a state of contention, such as Audi's MMI, SAIC's Zebra Zhixing and so on. But the future development of the car machine will be the same as the mobile phone system, the formation of a certain or several unique situation, with the concept of vehicle-to-road collaboration proposed, in order to better achieve the vehicle-to-road collaboration, the unification of the car-machine system will also become inevitable, the future is more likely to have a car-machine system enterprise such as Google, to many OEMs to provide independent car-machine system, become the leader of the car-machine industry.
With the continuous popularization of autonomous driving technology, the future car machine system will also become the steward of the automatic driving system to serve passenger travel. The forefront of intelligent driving believes that when the automatic driving system reaches L3 to L4, the vehicle machine system will change from the current human control of the car machine system, so that the car machine system works passive operation, to the active adjustment of air conditioning and seat active operation according to the driver's driving habits, after the driver enters the driving position, the car machine system can analyze the driver (if a vehicle has multiple drivers), and the driver's driving habits are read, and then actively adjust the air conditioning temperature and seat position of the vehicle.
After the realization of real commercialization of automatic driving, the car machine system will be more intelligent, and the car machine system at this time will reach the artificial intelligence stage, just like the current mobile phone system, everyone has their own car machine system assistant, which can be used to serve everyone's travel entertainment and safety needs. After passengers enter the autonomous driving car (sharing under the automatic driving world as an example), the car machine system can interact with the mobile phone system carried by the passengers, and the passengers' travel habits are synchronized directly to the car machine system through the mobile phone system, if the passenger forgets to carry the mobile phone, the self-driving car can also obtain the passengers' travel habits by scanning face information, etc. During the passenger travel process, the car machine system can actively play the music that the passenger likes or the film that has not been watched before at home. The car machine system can also remind passengers in time according to the memo entered by the passenger in the mobile phone, according to the urgency of the passenger memo, when necessary (such as the passenger is asleep on the self-driving car can not make decision-making instructions for the self-driving car in time), you can take the initiative to make a decision to take the passenger to the destination.
Autonomous driving will be a product of the intelligent era, and the car machine system will become the travel steward of the automatic driving era, making passenger travel more interesting. What do you think about the future of vehicle and machine systems? Welcome to pay attention to the forefront of intelligent driving and leave a message for communication.
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