Your cell phone is your car's remote control.

Your phone is your car's remote control, your car itself is a built-in 3G card Internet access equipment, this is BYD in the new car thinking of the cloud service, is a very high attention to the current "car networking", "Smart car" concept of practice; How to play the network of the Enlightenment phase, "hardware Re-invention" Specially found a test drive, and we discuss the various manufacturers in the direction of the different way of intelligent.

All the automakers are actively changing, in the automotive intelligence, networking, cloud service efforts, the direction is toward the direction of intelligence, but now lacks a unified platform, basically go each road, at present, the BYD think Rui's attempt and BMW idrive is in the functional scenario to assume more grounding gas choice, But BMW is taking the high-end route, BYD is the Chinese characteristics of the cost-effective road, with millet method for ordinary household vehicles armed with intelligence and cloud services, to see how to do.

July BYD Cross-border invited the IT media to understand the development of their automotive electronics, then saw this car, not listed, the past weekend in detail experience two days, can chat.

The car itself rides the feeling part to have many professional media to test, as the ordinary user gave me the impression is thinks Sharp has a class car the price, the configuration and the appearance all is rushes to the B class car to go, runs on the road to return a good. In particular, two conspicuous in the control and instrument screen (12.1-inch dashboard and 10.2-inch control screen), the lack of interior work owes some, hard plastic material use more, can see the control of the cost limit, after all, is only a 100,000 car.

Specifically speaking of cloud services, think Sharp also specially equipped with a "BYD Cloud Service Handbook", look at these functional icons know is a configuration emperor. The cloud services can be grouped into these categories:

1. The Internet function of the car itself

The car itself is equipped with a 3G card, that is, a mobile phone number, the control screen can display signal strength, and mobile phone, this 3G service can be used for 2 years free.

With this number, what can be done on the car side? Can see real-time city weather, can see CMMB Mobile TV, CMMB Mobile TV is not a novelty, but probably many people have forgotten, in 2008 3G Universal when there is, and now play a role in the car. TV loading speed is good, or only a few test stations, can also full screen, but the screen resolution is lower, the light when there is a strong impact.

Because of the 3G card, think sharp navigation can show real-time road conditions, I follow the instructions on the instruction, in the corresponding settings interface did not find the option to open real-time road conditions, may be related to the test car system version.

Si Rui's car system is based on Windows CE modified, the main screen plus several features list screen also has 5 screen, you can touch the steering wheel through the multi-function between. Listen to BYD technical director Shepinsen said, the Android system will be available next year, and now there are third-party Android on-board controls, and next year Apple iOS in cars will also be commercially available, and soon a mobile system is at the entrance of the car, when the car also has a variety of brush ROM appear , not surprisingly.

(System interface)

BYD has also designed the application market for this onboard system, although the application is not much, the function is also counted, because has 3G network, can download the application at any time, downloading a bubble dragon, calculator and so on these simple application is no problem, but the quantity is very limited; As for the touch experience, this resistive screen still has no iphone, The ipad's capacitive screen is straightforward, especially when handwriting input Chinese characters, easy to break pen, touch experience must be a car in the control screen quickly need to popularize a point.

(Application Market)

2, the Internet experience of mobile phone end

On the mobile phone, BYD has a client to think about, support iOS and Android, you can search for the BYD cloud services found.

The core function of this application is to control and monitor your car, the control can be opened air-conditioning, switch doors and so on. Monitoring the status of the car is tire pressure, fuel consumption, mileage and so on data, can also check the car 14 vehicle indicators of the state is normal.

Remote unlock is a very practical function, this I have experience, a car keys accidentally put on the dashboard, and then lock the car, and finally found when dumbfounded, can not open the door. Fortunately, the lock before soon just set up a mobile phone landing, directly through the phone to unlock the door open, solve the urgent.

Another powerful function of the handset is "location service", because the car itself has 3G card + GPS navigation, the location of the car you can always grasp, like Google vertical or Apple to retrieve the iphone function, and you can at any time on the phone to look at the past few days of the car track, More humane than finding the iphone, but if the password is known, there is no privacy, and it needs to be used with caution.

(Vehicle trajectory)

3, PC-side car Internet experience

With the PC-side of the internet to get through, this think sharp also take into account. On the PC side there are two fun places, one is you can set a good destination navigation, in the Baidu map to send to the map, you may not pay attention to Baidu Map has this function, now supports a total of 3 brands of cars, in addition to BYD and Mercedes-Benz and BMW.

This function design is good, also more reliable. Experience is not good is to send the time to enter the license plate, telephone and other information a lot, and the original car navigation used in general.

Location and bottleneck of intelligent experience

According to the above three lines can more clearly see BYD to think sharp as an example of automotive intelligence, Internet understanding. The core idea is to allow the car itself to access the Internet, access to content, at the same time through the mobile terminal to control and obtain the status of the car, but also through the traditional PC Web page to communicate with the car. But this is after all the initial stage of car networking attempts, the deficiencies include: 1, although the screen is large but the PPI is not very high, the entire platform's hardware processing performance needs to improve. 2, the Resistance screen has not reached the iphone, the ipad, the capacitive screen of the smooth touch experience. 3. The market for open system applications based on wince transformation is also limited.

This is what thinking is doing in intelligence, in fact, as the car itself there are some more fun features, such as Think Rui support remote control parking, with remote control can stand in the car outside the vehicle's forward back and turn, although not fully automated parking, but the way the remote control is compared to the geek play.

In addition, Si Rui also equipped with a 360° full car image, night vision mirror, is a reversing weapon, very easy to use, this is BYD uses its own expertise in the electronics, to think Sharp armed.

(360° full vehicle image)

The difference of the play of intelligent car

The first electronic car, add a few electronic screens (in addition to two large screen and the head and rear view mirror of the compass is a total of four screen), and then access the Internet, and mobile devices interoperability, this is BYD's thinking on the attempt.

At the same time, in the intelligent aspect of the active Ford approach is through the Sync AppLink car platform and mobile phone interoperability, so that mobile applications can be used in the car environment, such as the mobile phone application project to the car screen, not thorough enough.

Honda's approach is somewhat similar to that of Ford, but by choosing to work with an internet company such as Gould, by A-link Technology, it also projects a mobile screen onto a car screen.

(BMW's idrive car system)

In contrast, the old car companies try in the direction of the intelligent process is not so direct, as the inventor of the car, Mercedes-Benz has opted to connect directly with the ipad as an entertainment system, but also choose and Garmin such as the navigation manufacturers to cooperate in the car entertainment system, Mercedes-Benz's newest Mbrace2 car system is starting to integrate social networks, search capabilities, and Android and iOS to find a vehicle location.

BMW's idrive is also a pioneer in automotive intelligence, BMW did a multi generation upgrade, and even with a stand-alone 3D image processing chip, map support 3D display, and access to the LTE network, with the computing and network functions, and the implementation of the functions and BYD do not difficult, Listen to BYD related people say they are in and BMW to do this cooperation development.