The most powerful car computer in Japan? Honda releases the third generation Honda CONNECT system

What are the advantages of Japanese cars in your impression? Fuel-saving, durable, and high value retention rate, behind these advantages is the embodiment of the "craftsman" spirit often mentioned by Japanese brands. However, when facing the impact of intelligence, Japanese brands are not too "craftsman". For example, the car system is really like the "primary school student" level. However, the above are all ridicule. A few days ago, Honda China officially released the third-generation Honda CONNECT (Intelligent Guide Interconnection) system, which I would like to call "the strongest Japanese". To be honest, if you want to talk about the car system, you have to look at our Chinese technology companies. This time, Honda is jointly developing a new generation of systems with Alibaba and iFlytek. The new system can support mobile phone remote control, car-home interconnection, AI smart assistant, car machine OTA online upgrade and other mainstream functions in the industry. The author believes that the core upgrade parts of the third-generation Honda CONNECT system mainly have two points, one is AI smart assistant; the other is mobile phone remote control.

Let's talk about AI smart assistant first. This really needs to be developed in a "localized" way. As the most important part of the profound Chinese culture, if the car system cannot recognize dialects, what is the difference between it and "salted fish"? According to official introduction, the third-generation Honda CONNECT system can realize dialogues in multiple dialects. However, there are too many dialects in our country, and the dialects spoken in each district and county in the same city may be different. Therefore, this will have to wait until the car is installed in the future to experience it. In addition to dialect dialogue, since it is called "AI smart assistant", it must have strong natural dialogue capabilities, otherwise it will be silly to just support some fixed dialogue logic. This time, the third-generation Honda CONNECT system has a strong natural semantic understanding ability, responds quickly, and can realize natural and smooth dialogue between people and cars. And it can also provide wake-up word customization function according to user preferences. Based on the AI ​​smart assistant function, users can also "do not move hands but only move mouth" to realize intelligent navigation, information search, entertainment operation, air conditioning and window opening and closing and other functions.

The second core upgrade is the remote control of the mobile phone. The more basic remote start can unlock and start the vehicle in advance with the key, and the more advanced ones can also turn on the air conditioner in advance. However, with the third-generation Honda CONNECT system, the mobile phone can replace the car key. Through the Honda CONNECT APP on the mobile phone, after binding the vehicle, you can use the mobile phone digital key to start the vehicle and perform some remote operation functions. In addition, the mobile phone digital key can also be authorized to family and friends, eliminating the inconvenience of operating with a physical key. In addition, we may usually encounter the embarrassment of forgetting where we parked our car while shopping in the mall. The third-generation Honda CONNECT system can support the use of mobile phones to check the status and location of the vehicle, and quickly find the parking location of the vehicle through positioning. Of course, the remote unlocking, locking, and air conditioning functions mentioned above are even more "small cases".

In addition, car-home interconnection and OTA upgrades are also highlights of the third-generation Honda CONNECT system. Since it is a collaboration with Alibaba, Tmall Genie must be used. In the future, at home, you only need to use Tmall Genie paired with the car system to keep track of the vehicle status, such as mileage, and you can also use Tmall Genie to remotely start the vehicle and turn on the air conditioner. Conversely, you can also control smart home products at home through the central control screen in the car, and you can also order takeout, shop online, etc., which is very convenient.

As an "open source" car system, when AI technology continues to iterate and evolve, the third-generation Honda CONNECT system can also add new functions through OTA, such as new applications, map data updates, customized voice functions, and more personalized exclusive services.

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In fact, Honda was already cooperating with Alibaba and iFlytek when developing the second-generation Honda CONNECT system. Among Japanese brands, Honda is considered a brand with a relatively high level of car-machine system. Moreover, as an underlying "open source" system, many Honda models that use old car machines can also realize navigation projection, free installation of software, Baidu CarLife, voice control navigation, music and other functions by cracking ROOT. Of course, the author does not recommend you to do this here. If you want to experience a more powerful car-machine system on a Honda car, look forward to this year's new car. It is reported that the new system will be installed on Honda's new models from the second half of 2021. For example, the eleventh-generation Civic!