Mercedes-Benz's sense of luxury is beyond doubt, and now under the wave of intelligence, Mercedes-Benz's century-old accumulation of luxury has been integrated into a large number of scientific and technological elements, from the Mercedes-Benz models in recent years, it can be seen that Mercedes-Benz not only plays luxury clearly, but also walks in the forefront of the industry in terms of intelligent technology. According to the convention, Mercedes-Benz will apply the latest technology to the Mercedes-Benz S-Class models. This time, let's explore what kind of "smart wave" experience mercedes-Benz S-Class can bring us.
"CC-1000T Intelligent Cockpit Evaluation System" covers the user car journey of 8 major car owners, with 32 secondary journeys and dozens of tertiary journeys, covering more than 200 standardized test items, realizing a large and complex user car journey that can be split and mapped, standing from the user's point of view, and fully evaluating each minimum value unit of the intelligent cockpit.
The model we tested this time is the 2021 Mercedes-Benz S 500 L 4MATIC version of the model, the official guidance price of 1.8388 million yuan, this generation of S-class central control screen abandons the previous generation of dual screen design, instead uses the vertical large screen layout, coupled with the application of various technologies in the car, this generation of S-class is known as the Mercedes-Benz brand to fully embrace the turning point of the digital cockpit, through the second generation of MBUX system with NVIDIA Parker 6 core chip, has made it from "elegant luxury" to "technology luxury" transformation.
Mercedes-Benz S 500 L relies on a strong hardware foundation, coupled with the advantages accumulated by MBUX system for many years of experience, and finally ranked No.2 in our "CC-1000T Intelligent Cockpit Evaluation System" hundred models, with a small gap of 25 points to follow the NO.1 players, with money firepower suppression + excellent user experience to suppress almost all the players in the market under the banner of intelligence.
In the first "ready to go" journey, although its completion reached 74%, but there is no outstanding or obvious shortcomings, the score is more balanced under the secondary journey, it is worth mentioning that it is in the "looking for a car" journey, the remote positioning ability of the vehicle is very good, and even can display the front direction of the parked vehicle, which can help users find the location of the car faster, and the operation on the mobile phone App is also very convenient, 2 steps can complete the search for the car action, but also can view the current parking lot charges, Key information such as business hours.
In the "seat in the car" journey impressive is the sense of ceremony it brings to the user, no matter what kind of key is carried close to the vehicle, the sense of ceremony displayed by the vehicle is layered and progressive to the user, such as approaching the vehicle about 5 meters, the door handle first automatically pops out, at this time the door is locked; when approaching the door, the headlights are lit and accompanied by waterfall lights; when the door is opened, there is a Mercedes-Benz LOGO welcome light, and the interior atmosphere light will be lit through a special dynamic multi-color; when the door is closed, the door supports the quiet closing of the electric suction door. At the same time, the seat, steering wheel, and rearview mirror will be linked to adjust the preset position in place; when starting the vehicle, the headlights are accompanied by matrix scanning lights, and the tweeters on both sides of the A-pillar will light up and rotate and extend; when the seat belt is worn, the seat belt buckle on the seat has an empty color atmosphere light, which is convenient for quickly inserting the correct position at night, and after fastening, it will be tensioned and adjusted according to the actual driver's figure; when logging into the car machine, face recognition can be performed through the camera hidden in the dashboard, or it can be logged in through voiceprint recognition. You can also use your fingerprint to log in to your account under the central control screen, a total of 3 login methods.
It also has a good performance in the "preference preset" secondary journey, first of all, the system in the menu of each level of the interface, touch (horizontal / vertical / multi-point) response speed is very good, no sense of delay, home page and main interface visibility is high, icons and machine screen adaptation is good, size and position are comfortable. However, it does not support custom wake words, and the ability to formulate voice assistants is almost missing, such as voice cloning/ boot greetings/ TTS selection / speed selection / Q&A customization / instruction customization / continuous conversation time can not be customized.
In addition, it does not have a virtual image of a voice assistant without anthropomorphism/skeualization, lacks animation effects such as expression and orientation, and lacks anthropomorphic and emotional experience. However, the navigation planning ability is very strong, supporting avoiding areas (you can set your own address), avoiding ferry terminals, avoiding unpaved roads, and avoiding tunnels.
In the "comfortable travel" secondary journey, the air conditioning cooling/heating speed is very fast, the average cooling speed can reach 2.33 seconds, the heating speed reaches 2.81 seconds, and the people in the car can quickly perceive the change in wind temperature. The smart steering wheel not only supports electric adjustment, but also supports the favorite button, can enter the central control screen favorite interface, there are 9 types of functions countless small items can be added to the favorites, convenient to the extreme; support steering wheel heating / vibration; button layout is reasonable, support click and slide operation, sensitive and accurate, and low misoperation rate.
In the "vehicle driving" journey, it also got 74% completion, which is a better performance result. In this journey, after the voice assistant wakes up, the system executes the instruction very quickly after the user finishes the command, with an average speed of 1.48 seconds, without any sense of delay. The panoramic image is instantaneously opened, which can see the road conditions tens of meters away on both sides of the parking lot passage in front of the front of the car, and the breadth/distortion/clarity are better controlled.
Under the journey of "driving into high speed", the dynamic anti-interference ability of the voice assistant is very strong, and when the window is opened at high speed and the music volume is ± 70 decibels, it can resist most of the interference, the wake-up rate of the main driver is 95%, and the wake-up rate of the passenger driver is 100%, and the user's availability in this scenario is very high. And its driving mode ease of operation is also full of points, support 5 driving modes to choose from (simple, sporty, standard, augmented reality, energy saving), high degree of freedom and clarity.
However, the performance of the "contact friends" and "pick-up" journeys is average, there is no outstanding performance, and even mobile phones and car machines do not provide social skills, which may be related to the positioning of Mercedes-Benz S-class models. In the "Friends With You" journey, although it does not have a co-driver screen, it supports 2 entertainment screens on the left and right of the rear row and 1 central armrest screen in the rear row. These three screens support massage, atmosphere lights, refreshing, entertainment projects (only Tencent video and B station and 3 games), the central control screen can share the rear function entertainment screen, the rear central armrest screen supports quick disassembly, as a handheld IPAD, and can be linked with the rear entertainment screen, logical and reasonable, better experience.
In the "special case" journey, its performance is somewhat unsatisfactory, mainly "occasional failure" secondary journey is more crotch, first of all, it does not support mobile phones or car machines on the refueling / aftermarket independent third-party related services, but the "road encounter anchor" journey performance is very good, especially B-CALL security services are very practical, providing SOS physical buttons, located in the central control area of the roof, the location is obvious and with a protective cover, no need to connect to the Bluetooth phone can be used, the integration of road rescue / manual customer service and other services, Automatic access to critical data on customer vehicles.
In the "parking nap" journey, experienced the strength of the HMI interaction of the car, not only support a variety of interaction methods (fingerprint, facial vision, voiceprint, voice, touch, buttons), but also a strong screen linkage ability, the whole car supports 3 kinds of screen linkage, including instrument -center control navigation interaction, central control of the rear screen sharing, rear PAD and rear screen linkage. High convenience and practicality. The wake-up speed of the voice assistant also has no sense of delay, and the average wake-up speed reaches 1.42 seconds, which is the beginning of natural human-machine communication. In addition, the whole car is equipped with 31 speakers of Berlin Sound Audio, which supports a rich sound field and sound effect control, and there is a resonator hidden inside the seat, which is linked with the sound effect, the sound quality is good, and the sound source depth is reasonable and stable.
However, the voice assistant does not support specific information inquiries, such as customer service telephones such as China Merchants Bank, does not support yellow page information inquiries, such as the Haidian District Taxation Bureau telephone; nor does it support specific geographic information queries, such as where is the capital of France, which city is located in Chaka Salt Lake; nor does it support multi-instruction operations, and cannot perform voice talk with two instructions at the same time, such as the command is "open air conditioning and close the car window", the system only performs to open the air conditioner; the emotional expression of the voice assistant is also weak, and the sense of situation and naturalness is weak. There is no expression output of emotion, and these communicate with voice when stopping for a nap, which may affect the user experience.
"Travel again" journey in its comprehensive performance has just passed, "substitution driving" in the "safety management" "electronic manual" related capabilities performance is flat, in the mobile phone App remote unlock / lock, it can be 2 steps quickly completed, lock the car without entering the security code, unlocking the need to enter a 4-digit security code, sliding operation, there is a vehicle model diagram linkage effect, the execution of instructions without any sense of delay. The anti-reflective ability of the instrument screen is outstanding, and when driving in the day/night/strong backlight/built-in light source environment, it will basically not cause trouble to the driver to obtain information. But it does not support voice control screen backlight adjustment.
In the "Vehicle Reach" journey, the scores have no outstanding features, only 34% of the completion degree, the mobile phone geofencing ability makes it 3 points, supports 17 meters to an infinitely large fence range, can be set more than 10 fences, can be set separately to open the state of each fence, support driving in/out/driving in and out to trigger mobile phone message reminders, but not associated with smart homes.
In the final "driving memory" journey, it won 96% of the completion of nearly full marks, only because the cabin environment and technology configuration is very high, the cabin interior luxury, sense of technology, color collocation, sense of ceremony, design and style, the overall layout are almost full points, no money is not spent, 1.8388 million yuan naked car price to pull these elements full is also deserved. However, the easy learning of each function in the system is indeed very high, and it is relatively easy to get started without the help of any user manual. In the 5-day test process, no problems or bugs were found, no crash / loss of function / data loss problems, only 3 times when the voice command was entered, there was no logic jump to the navigation situation, so that it lost 2 points, the comprehensive quality and reliability of the car system is still very high.
Summary of the full text
This generation of Mercedes-Benz S-class not only has a new design voice, but also carried out intelligent reforms, but compared with the new forces and independent brand models, Mercedes-Benz's MBUX system in terms of functional richness to appear more rational and more in line with their own positioning, Mercedes-Benz S-class customers should rarely have in the car to play games brush vibrato, so many fancy features it does not have, but because of the smoothness of touch, UI design, ease of use of the performance, giving a good impression, coupled with the luxury and technology elements of the cockpit, the sense of atmosphere created is very in place, This added a lot of points to its innovations, and it eventually got the current No.2 ranking in the system.
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