During the 2021 Shanghai International Auto Show, Autohome had the honor to have a dialogue with Liu Peng of Volvo Cars. We took a closer look at Volvo's highlights at the show and the brand's future plans in the Chinese market. Here are the details of the interview:
Autohome: Today we are honored to have Volvo Cars Liu Peng. First of all, what new information does Volvo bring to the Shanghai Auto Show?
Liu Peng: The biggest information brought by Volvo at the Shanghai Auto Show is that we have a **XC60 that made its debut in China, which is a car that can solve the daily anxiety of modern people, it can allow drivers to say goodbye to their dependence on mobile phones when driving, in our car machine system, integrating many top ** businesses such as iFLYTEK, AutoNavi, Huawei, etc., from the moment they get into the car, the driver can completely say goodbye to the mobile phone, and the XC60 car machine is a mobile phone in the driving environment,** The XC60 gives you a smarter, more powerful and more secure driving experience.
Autohome: The new generation of car machine system, running smoothly, can it replace mobile phones, and in what aspects?
Liu Peng: Many people are controlled by mobile phones, we are inseparable from mobile phones, mainly relying on various applications on mobile phones, **xc60 combines the ecology of Tencent and Ali, mobile phone navigation, listening, checking air tickets, watching, ordering takeaways is not a problem, daily common operations on mobile phones can be realized in the car, and modern people's dependence on mobile phones has formed a habit. According to the survey, the average time spent on mobile phones by contemporary people every day has exceeded 5 hours, even if it is not ** for a second, they are afraid of being out of touch with this society, which is why the mobile phone holder has become a relatively frequent accessory for cars, but over-reliance on mobile phones will cause great driving safety hazards. Let me share a set of data, using a mobile phone while driving, the brain's reaction speed is 35% slower than under normal circumstances, and the probability of accidents while driving and looking at the mobile phone is as much as 23 times that of ordinary driving, XC60The intelligent car machine system brought this time is not only for experience, but also for safety.
Autohome: Voice assistant has become the standard configuration of various brands of mobile phones, and to a large extent, it has also become a way for users to communicate with mobile phones, such as Siri on my mobile phone, some jobs I operate directly through voice. At this point, can the XC60 do it?
Liu Peng: It can be done completely, we don't have Siri, but we have "Xiaowo", our voice recognition system comes from iFLYTEK, iFLYTEK's voice assistant can be said to be the best software in Chinese speech recognition, how powerful it is, we know how powerful it is. Our **XC60 is equipped with iFLYTEK's voice recognition system, which can not only recognize standard Mandarin, but also recognize Mandarin with an accent, like I have a big accent, it can recognize. We don't have to worry that our Mandarin is not standard, "Xiaowo" can understand it. There are a lot of car machines that can understand talking, but there are very few cars that can understand you, "Xiaowo" can not only understand human words, but also have a continuous dialogue with it, you can also interrupt freely, and there is also an AI self-learning function, with the increase of the driver's vocabulary and knowledge, it can also continue to learn new knowledge to keep up with the rhythm of the driver, and the more you chat, the more it will learn your habits, more and more understand you.
Autohome: When we usually drive, the most inseparable is the mobile phone navigation, the navigation system on the car machine, the map is old, the operation is complicated, and the mobile phone navigation is an era worse, **XC60 can really replace the mobile phone navigation?
Liu Peng: We think that it is not only able to replace, but also to be able to do better, our car machine is Gaode navigation, and the mobile phone Gaode account to get through, if you are a user of the mobile phone Gaode, it is simply seamless, and the central control 9-inch LCD touch screen display effect seconds kill the mobile phone, we can take the mobile phone next to a pad, you can feel this gap, in addition to the car machine system also uses a high-performance chip, its response speed is comparable to the flagship mobile phone, the operation is very smooth, get used to this** After the XC60's in-car navigation, I guess drivers will never want to use their mobile phones to see the navigation again.
Thank you very much to Volvo Liu Peng for his vivid description of the **XC60, which is compared to a super-large mobile smart device, which undoubtedly shows Volvo's leading position in intelligence. **XC60's intelligent functions not only meet the needs of modern people's life and work, but also let us see Volvo's determination to continue to innovate and embrace change. Thank you again for your wonderful sharing, and look forward to more surprises from Volvo in the future.