With the rapid development of intelligent networked vehicles, automotive intelligence will become the focus of car companies for a long time to come. Among them, the intelligent car machine system has played an important role, and has gradually been favored by more and more consumers, and even become one of the necessary conditions for car purchase. As the first mass-produced model born on the Volkswagen MEB platform, it is also the most entry-level model of the Volkswagen ID. family, and the Volkswagen ID.3 has long been sold well in the European market. Although the domestic Volkswagen ID.3 is late, with its unique positioning of pure electric compact cars, it still occupies a certain market opportunity in the joint venture brand. So, for volkswagen ID.3, which undertakes the task of walking, what are the highlights in terms of the intelligent car machine system valued by the mainstream young consumer group? Can it successfully attract consumers to pay? This issue of "Intelligent Vehicle And Machine Evaluation" will comprehensively evaluate the Volkswagen ID.3 vehicle system through the two dimensions of system hardware and system software.
First, the system hardware
1. Hardware parameters
The interior of volkswagen ID.3 adopts a simple design style, and the 5.3-inch full LCD instrument and 10-inch central control display screen constitute the main body of vehicle information display and function control. Among them, the central control display is moderate in size, the display content is relatively rich, and the screen ratio basically reaches the mainstream level. The overall size of the full LCD instrument is slightly smaller, using a suspension design, the UI style is mainly based on simplified abstraction, and the reading information is more intuitive.
2. Hardware evaluation
The Volkswagen ID.3's central control display features a slightly biased design towards the driver's side for easy viewing and control, but there is still a reflection at a specific angle that needs to be optimized. Due to the high contrast of the screen, the reflection of the full LCD meter is not serious. It is worth mentioning that the Volkswagen ID.3 provides two rows of touch buttons under the central control display, although it is not as practical as the physical buttons, but it is still of great help to improve the convenience of control.
The multi-function operation area of the steering wheel is made of piano paint material, the buttons are touch-designed, and there is vibration feedback, which makes the control feel good. The button design layout is more reasonable, the left side is the adaptive cruise related function settings, and the right side integrates the instrument panel display, voice interaction and multimedia control and other functions.
Second, the software system
1. Software parameters
The MOS 4.0 system equipped with volkswagen ID.3 is based on the underlying android development, and currently does not support OTA upgrades. As an electric vehicle, the Volkswagen ID.3 does not provide a start button, open the door on the car vehicle is automatically in the powered state, while the car machine system will also automatically open, and the start speed is faster. The manual is located in the application list, which is more convenient to view.
2. Basic application evaluation
Volkswagen ID.3 car machine system interface is relatively simple, the main interface adopts multi-page card design, common functions can be directly connected with one key, convenient for daily use. The screen is also equipped with an infrared sensor function, which automatically calls out the menu when the hand is close, and supports gesture control, and swipe left and right in front of the screen to complete the page turning. In the actual experience, the touch operation is smooth to frequently swipe the screen page and open the function item many times, and there is no stuttering phenomenon, but the use of gesture operation occasionally appears unrecognized.
The dashboard is divided into three functional areas, the middle area mainly displays the current speed, power and mileage and other information, the left side is the driver assistance related information display, and the right side is the map navigation display. The dashboard adopts a black background design, the background is relatively single, but the font is relatively large, and the display clarity is good.
3. Comfort application evaluation
Volkswagen ID.3 air conditioning panel integrated in the car machine screen, can be called out through the CLIMA touch button below the screen, the control panel includes classic air conditioning, intelligent air conditioning and purified air three modules, the main page classic air conditioning provides a wealth of functional control, in addition to adjusting the air conditioning, you can also operate the steering wheel and seat heating. Smart air conditioning includes functions such as quick defrosting and fresh air, and supports one-button opening, which can simplify the driver's operation steps during driving. Ambient mood lights support multi-color adjustment, while the display brightness can also be set.
4. Map navigation evaluation
Volkswagen ID.3 is equipped with Gaode map kernel, supports a variety of activation methods, navigation interface can adapt to the current light to adjust the background color, a total of white and black two colors to choose from. When entering the destination name, the system supports three ways: pinyin, handwriting and pronunciation. In the actual experience, the speech recognition rate is high, and the destination association function is good, only 1 or 2 Chinese characters can be quickly associated with the relevant destination. After selecting the destination, the navigation system provides three route plans, and can also set "avoid highways and city expresses" and "avoid toll roads" according to personal preferences. Unfortunately, the system does not support the automatic countdown selection function, and you need to select it manually before you can start navigating.
In the actual driving experience, the route guidance of the navigation system is accurate, and the refresh of the vehicle position is timely. However, during the test, it was found that when using the mobile phone map to navigate to the same destination synchronously, the estimated time of the car navigation was a certain deviation from the mobile phone navigation.
5. Video and audio entertainment evaluation
Thanks to the underlying architecture of Android, the Volkswagen ID.3 car machine system is more open, in addition to the conventional radio and navigation software, it also provides two online applications of Cool Me Music and Himalaya FM, and supports the application market to download third-party APPS, but the number of downloadable apps is not much. The Volkswagen ID.3 series is equipped with 5 speakers as standard, and does not support soundstage effects, so the actual experience of sound quality performance is decent. The test model is equipped with traditional FM/AM broadcasting, which can be adjusted by voice and manual, and the collector's station needs to first slide out of the channel home page on the right side of the band page, and then click the heart-shaped icon at the bottom right, which is slightly cumbersome to operate daily.
6. Vehicle interconnection evaluation
Although the intelligent car machine system is very advanced today, there are still many car owners who rely more on mobile phones, play their favorite songs through mobile phone interconnection, chat and interact with friends, and so on. Volkswagen's ID.3 car system supports Carplay and CarLife, but still uses traditional wired connectivity, and there is still room for improvement in this regard. In terms of remote control, the performance of Volkswagen ID.3 is also in line with expectations, by downloading the SAIC Volkswagen Super APP, you can view the current status of the vehicle in real time, and can remotely control functions such as turning on air conditioning, opening the engine, etc., but due to account reasons, this time did not carry out the actual test experience.
7. Intelligent interactive evaluation
In the actual experience, volkswagen ID.3 performed satisfactorily overall in terms of voice interaction. The voice interaction system supports steering wheel button wake-up and voice wake-up, and after wake-up, the system software such as volume adjustment and hardware such as seat heating, air conditioning, and sun blinds can be controlled, but it is impossible to control the window lifting and closing and sunroof opening and closing. The speech recognition rate is relatively high, and some commonly used fuzzy speech semantics can be accurately recognized, but continuous instructions cannot be recognized.
8. Driver assistance evaluation
The Volkswagen ID.3 model tested this time was not equipped with a HUD function. Although the reversing image is good in sharpness, the overall picture is dark, and there are still more obvious distortions at the edges. Functionally, the reversing image supports two different viewing angles and is equipped with a reversing side warning system.
summary
Through a series of experiences, the overall performance of volkswagen ID.3 intelligent car machine system can basically meet the needs of daily use, although there is still a big gap with the current domestic leading intelligent car machine system, but the mainstream function is not seriously missing, and the system based on the underlying development of Android also has certain advantages in application expansion. For multimedia, navigation and voice interaction with high daily usage frequency, volkswagen ID.3 performance is also remarkable. In contrast, there is still room for improvement in the display effect of the reversing image and the operation level of some functions.