Creating an advanced mobile intelligent space is the mission of Xiaomi's car manufacturing.
This is the description in the latest news of Xiaomi Lei Jun, and it is accompanied by a poster.
How to interpret this passage?
First of all, it is not Xiaomi's mission to change the car from a travel vehicle to a mobile intelligent space, but the inevitable result of the development of the new four modernizations of automobiles, and all car companies and vehicles need to evolve in accordance with the four steps of electric, connected, intelligent and sharingSo this description sounds big but it's true, but it seems too early to talk about "going to a mobile smart space". When the car becomes a mobile intelligent space, the car will be defined by software, and Xiaomi will inevitably show its advantages at this time, or it may have already become a first-line car manufacturer.
It's just that why we need to use software to define a car, this question still needs to be explained.
When performance, handling, and design converge, the attractiveness of the car will gradually decrease;When the car is completely homogeneous, the car itself is no longer attractive.
When choosing a mobile phone ten years ago, everyone paid attention to what chip to use, how much memory it had, and how many points it could runThrough the hardware device model and parameters, you can judge the performance of the device, whether it can run smoothly when the program is open, and whether it can run large software smoothly. But now there are really few mobile phone users who still pay attention to these, and the reason is that the most ordinary thousand-yuan smartphones also have strong computing power, which can run more smoothly and use large software;Among them, the biggest credit is Xiaomi, a brand that is gradually lowering the threshold of smartphones and achieving high performance and cheapness.
So what are today's mobile phone users concerned about?
It's nothing more than a sense of design and an operating system, but the design of smartphones is almost the same, and it looks pretty much the same;In the end, the operating system became the most concerned topic for users, so the mobile phone changed from hardware-defined value to software-defined value.
The same is true for cars, when the most ordinary mainstream cars have strong power and excellent handling, the hardware platform of the car is not attractive;The electric drive technology has caused the homogenization of car design, whether it is Xiaomi Su7 or the same level of electric or hybrid cars launched in recent years, just look at the side I am afraid that there is more than 80% similarity, and now even the design of the front and rear of the car is highly similar. Over time, it will inevitably be aesthetically fatigued, so the playability of the cockpit system and the stability of the intelligent driving system have become two factors that users pay attention to.
At this stage, the most concerned is the intelligent driving system, and if you want to fully evolve the car into a mobile intelligent space, the premise must be that the intelligent driving system reaches a highly stable standard lineTo put it bluntly, after the car can achieve complete unmanned driving, the car will completely lose the attractiveness of the hardware platform, and it will take about ten years to reach this level.
Recently, many brands of vehicles have been approved for L3 intelligent assisted driving, and it seems that driverless cars are just around the cornerHowever, Level 3 is not autonomous driving at all, but only an assisted driving system that can be used in limited scenarios. Highly automated driving is Level 4, and the car still requires the driver to observe the vehicle operation and be ready to take over the driving operation at any timeTrue full autonomous driving is Level 5, and the steering wheel can theoretically be eliminated when the standard is reached.
L3 4 5 seems to be very close to each other, but it is difficult to move up the next level.
Because unmanned driving requires not only the high-level control system and hardware configuration of the vehicle, but also the improvement of supporting facilities, such as intelligent transportation system and three-dimensional transportation.
While cars, motorcycles, non-motorized vehicles, and pedestrians still have two-dimensional intersections, it is difficult for driverless cars to avoid accidents with other traffic participants, because the logic of humans and the logic of AI are completely differentTherefore, it seems that a three-dimensional transportation system is needed to achieve unmanned driving, but many cities do not have the foundation to establish a three-dimensional transportation system, let alone the reserve for building a smart transportation database.
So autonomous driving may not be a goal that can be achieved in three or five years, so it seems really too early to talk about turning travel vehicles into mobile smart spaces.
Conclusion: The author doesn't understand what Xiaomi's poster really means, but as a user of Xiaomi series of smart devices, as well as a supporter of independent brands that treat them equally, I personally still hope that Xiaomi Su7 can be more conservative in terms of intelligent driving technology;There are not a few new brands that have carried a big heel in this field, and there are even fewer brands that can withstand the wind and waves, Xiaomi is still in the "novice village" in the automotive field, although the electric drive technology has matured, but the brand power is still relatively weak or even fragile. Therefore, it should be the most conservative in the technical field that is most prone to bugs, and perhaps the first Xiaomi car should still focus on the performance ratio of the hardware platform and the vehicle.
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