Trend｜Summary of cockpit experience in 2022, do you want to roll up your sleeves in the new year?

Before you know it, today is already the third day of the Lunar New Year! First of all, there must be no shortage of blessings. Bulling wishes everyone a happy Year of the Rabbit and eternal happiness!

In 2022, Bulling experienced some different types of smart cockpits. Let's first take a look at some smart cockpits that impressed Bulling!

Three impressive cockpits for 2022

Jidu ROBO-01 lunar exploration version: See the rabbit and look after the dog (the original metaphor is that although the matter is urgent, it is not too late to take measures in time.)

Baidu entered the game late in building cars, but it still delivered a satisfactory answer. The "space cockpit" of this car really attracts the attention of young people. It has a special-shaped steering wheel, wrap-around changeable atmosphere lights, textured plaques co-branded with China's lunar exploration, gooseneck lights on the seats, and a 35.6-inch integrated The large joint screen and so on make the overall sense of technology in the cockpit more in place.

With the blessing of the 8295 chip, the voice interaction of this car can also create a senseless interactive experience. Based on Baidu's voice technology, ROBO-01 can achieve fully offline millisecond-level voice interaction inside and outside the car. Not only can smooth voice interaction be achieved in areas such as tunnels and winding mountain highways, but "sensorless operation" is also a popular interaction method in the past two years.

And the Space Rabbit digital collection jointly released by Jidu and China Lunar Exploration coincides with the Year of the Rabbit, a proper technological rabbit!

BYD Seal : Feng "Rabbit" Renqing (originally refers to the unique natural environment, specialties and customs of a place.)

The interior of BYD Seal may be in response to the "sea life" theme, and the decoration part is a bit too complicated. However, the blue color of the interior is relatively small and fresh, which is a color that young people like very much. The seal tail on the steering wheel also reveals a hint of liveliness and playfulness.

What makes Bulling most special is Seal’s car-machine interaction. The most amazing thing about BYD is that its car’s intelligence seems to be both bad and good. It can only be said to be very BYD!

For example, although Seal's car-machine chip is not the Internet celebrity chip 8155, you may say that the car-machine chip is not good, but the response speed of voice interaction is quite fast, and the execution of instructions can also meet the standards of mainstream new force cars.

You might say that the function classification is confusing. It seems that there is nothing wrong with putting the wiper adjustment in "Welcome". When passersby approach, the wiper shakes like the two little hands of the car to express welcome. It is really cute! As for the pop-up windows clicked on the car, some can be closed by clicking on a blank space, while others cannot. It is indeed an elusive "little seal", but it seems to be an exclusive feature of BYD!

The new Weilai ES8: Volume "Rabbit" comes back (originally described as reorganizing forces to fight back after a setback.)

In fact, it is slightly inappropriate to use this idiom, but the brand-new NIO ES8 is indeed a powerful counterattack for the new energy market. The smart cockpit of this new car still maintains NIO's consistent simple and high-end style, and at the same time, the improvement in texture is also visible to the naked eye.

In addition to using a new self-developed seat frame platform, the third row of seats is also very user-friendly, supporting heating, backrest adjustment, cup holders and Type-C charging ports.

In terms of entertainment cockpit experience, the convenient and iterative N-BOX enhanced entertainment host is used to support multi-person AR experience interaction. The entertainment hardware that facilitates iteration also provides a new possibility for cockpit entertainment upgrades in the new year. As for whether it will become a new trend in the cockpit field, we still need to wait and see.

A new trend in the development of smart cockpits?

Speaking of trends, let’s take a look at the development direction of smart car cockpits in the new year.

From the auditory, visual, tactile, and olfactory experiences of smart cockpits of different models, combined with the information revealed at the auto show held in the second half of the year, we can also roughly deduce the development of smart cockpits for new energy vehicles in the new year of 2023. trend.

In terms of vision, the application of AR-HUD in cars in 2023 will be more common and more developed. Judging from the release of the BMW concept car at CES, in the future, AR-HUD projections above 7m will be larger, and the 3D effect of virtual reality will be better.

With the assistance of HUD, the design form and displayed information of the digital instrument panel will become more concise, but from the current point of view, the probability of imitating the ideal and directly canceling the instrument is still relatively small.

At the same time, you must already know that Lotus ELETRE and BAIC MCU can be equipped with optional electronic exterior rearview mirrors! According to the new standards released by the country at the end of 2022, electronic rearview mirrors using a combination of cameras and screens can replace traditional optical rearview mirrors.

In addition to the two models mentioned earlier, manufacturers such as Xpeng, GAC Aion, and Honda will install CMS systems on some models in the future.

Regarding the number of screens in the car, in fact, the models of various manufacturers have been basically quantitatively finalized. In the future, new models will be more inclined to use a smaller number of integrated screens. Of course, the UI design and functional classification of the car will also be more perfect.

Bulling would also like to make a suggestion here. The vehicle and engine segment is still in a state of development in the new energy market, and there are no clear rules and regulations.

In terms of UI design, if the relationship between shape and light and shadow is not well controlled, the interface will appear hard and low. Therefore, if car companies are not sure, there is no need to blindly follow the trend. If not, just follow the traditional interface design form and build on this basis. The detail improvement effect will also be better!

In terms of hearing, the smart car audio market has always been monopolized by several well-known brands such as Dynaudio and Bose. Therefore, the audio quality of vehicles will also be stable in the new year. In addition to the audio experience, this year car companies will also pay more attention to the linkage of ambient lighting with other experience media in the cockpit.

In addition, according to the cockpit experience test results that Bulling went to a friend's company in the second half of 2022, car companies should pay more attention to the warning sound reminder function in the cockpit in the future. In addition to more comprehensive sound classification, it will also be related to related functions. The degree of appropriateness and linkage with the lights will also be higher.

The voice assistant function that everyone is generally most concerned about will develop further in the field of "emotional interaction".

The scope of tactile interaction is relatively wide, covering everything from steering wheels, gear shifting, screen interaction to seats. After many users’ feedback on the lack of physical buttons in the car, future vehicles should retain necessary physical buttons, such as rearview mirror adjustment buttons and window adjustment buttons.

The air purification system and aromatherapy system for olfactory experience can essentially prevent users from motion sickness and improve driving comfort, and will be more perfect in the future.

Overall, with the launch of NIO’s ideal AR technology, NIO’s new models can already support multi-person AR experiences, and the new car models launched by Yikatong at the CES show also focus on high-end game console-level cockpit experiences. .

Therefore, smart cockpits in 2023 will also focus more on "virtual reality". In addition to the gradual increase in the number of AR/VR technology on the car, the related words of the cockpit atmosphere may also change from the mainstream "interstellar" and "space" in 2022. "Cabin" turned to words such as "metaverse" and "AR game".

Everyone knows that the new energy vehicle market in 2022 will be huge, and the new year is certainly no exception. In addition to the dimensions mentioned above, we are also looking forward to more possibilities. Of course, the most important thing is the coordination of the functions of the various parts of the smart cockpit!