Detailed interpretation of the two new experiences of intelligent driving in 2023

Blind-filling lidar opens a new chapter in parking

Autonomous parking has not been able to get rid of the "tasteless" label for many years. A large part of the reason is that the safety is not enough. Although the speed is slow, there is almost no life safety problem, but it will hurt the wallet if it hits a wall or a pillar and scratches other cars. , so the parking functions of many models try to find a balance between safety and efficiency, but the result is that they end up with extremely poor usability.

In 2022, many lidar manufacturers will launch blind-filling lidar products, and some of these products will be mass-produced and launched in 2023. The automatic parking experience is very poor. Ultrasonic radar is mainly responsible for its low accuracy, low latency and low resolution. Apart from the advantage of being cheap, the rest are all disadvantages.

Blind-filling lidar is just the opposite. Apart from being expensive, it has all the advantages. With lidar’s high-precision 360-degree 3D environmental information, car companies can confidently and boldly make the automatic parking function usable and easy to use. The details are as follows New Experience:

It is no longer a dream to lose your hands and eyes, it is truly fully automatic. Automatic parking is the first smart driving function that can achieve "hands-off". With blind-filling lidar providing accurate and high-resolution spatial information, parking is likely to take a step forward and allow drivers to take their hands off the car. You can even get out of the car and take a step first.

Remote control parking is no longer a trick. Nowadays, some unauthentic manufacturers are falsely promoting the remote control parking function. They film some drivers parking their cars on the side of the road and then leaving, letting the car hear the fake trick. In fact, remote control parking is also an auxiliary driving function. Next The driver still needs to observe the road environment at all times and be prepared to take over, because remote parking is enabled and if the car crashes, the driver will still be fully responsible.

Blind-filling lidar is very likely to create a "self-driving model house" in the parking scene, helping the vehicle to park safely, and truly letting the car park into the parking space by itself after getting off the car, so that the remote parking function can It makes sense.

However, even with blinding lidar, if you want to achieve safe autonomous driving, the scene will still be very restrictive. The current ability can only achieve autonomous driving in front of closed parking spaces, and higher-level self-service valeting. Parking is still too difficult.

AR-HUD opens up a new experience of human-machine co-driving

As the current assisted driving is getting closer and closer to L3 autonomous driving, human-machine co-driving is increasingly recognized by everyone. Therefore, human-machine interaction enabled by smart driving is also receiving more and more attention.

In the past 2 to 3 years, real-time modeling of the traffic environment based on high-precision map data, also known as the "SR interface" that is often heard, has become the highest priority interactive window in smart driving, according to a report by Ruisiqi Automotive Consulting. , 93.42% of consumers regard the SR interface as the main window to understand the intelligent driving system.

But I think the interaction of the SR interface is not the optimal solution for human-machine co-driving HMI. This is the most convenient form of presentation of the machine, allowing people to adapt to the machine. The most ideal interaction must be through technical means, allowing the machine to adapt to human observation. Therefore, I believe that the AR interaction carried by AR-HUD will gradually replace SR and become the main interaction window of smart driving.

The current hardware cost of AR-HUD is still relatively high, and only a few vehicles are equipped with it. At this stage, the only one that can be integrated with the function is the Feifan R7. After experiencing it, you will have the following advantages:

It is closer to human intuitive interaction and the cost of understanding is extremely low. The important value of the SR interface is that it allows people to understand the intentions of the vehicle. For example, if the large truck on the left is marked in yellow, we will know that the vehicle thinks that the large truck in front is pressing the line, so it turns to the left to avoid it. Another example is using arrows to mark a subsequent driving trajectory, so that the vehicle changes lanes in line with our psychological expectations.

However, this interaction method needs to be explained first, and what colors mean what. AR-HUD can directly mark the real road environment you see through AR. For example, the large truck mentioned above, the system can A danger sign flashes on the left side of the truck. If the vehicle wants to change lanes, it can directly map the lane change trajectory arrow to the corresponding road it sees, which is very intuitive.

There is no need to lower your head, and it is safer to use. Most of the current SRs are placed on the central control screen. If you want to see it, you have to lower your head and temporarily take your eyes away from the road environment ahead. With AR-HUD, this information can be mapped directly in AR. Now that you're in a real road environment, you don't need to bow your head anymore.