2. Intelligence: Reduce costs and improve security
The intelligence of the truck is understood as a higher-level driving assistance system according to the current situation. Of course, the ultimate goal is to achieve automatic driving, but there is still no lack of real people as drivers.
This means that as a commercial vehicle, it will be an intelligent upgrade focusing on safe driving and improving economy for a long time in the future.
For safety, including driving safety, pedestrian safety, cargo safety, etc., for example, the aba5 (fifth generation active braking assist system) currently equipped by Mercedes Benz, the front short range assist newly developed by Volvo (front radar and camera monitor whether there are cyclists or pedestrians in the dangerous area in front of the truck), etc., and real-time monitor the surrounding environment of the vehicle through various radars and cameras, Enable the vehicle to realize active and passive safe driving assistance.
Finally, intelligent driving functions such as automatic driving, automatic parking and automatic avoidance can be realized through sensors and intelligent algorithms. At the same time, it should also have an intelligent logistics scheduling and navigation system, which can realize the optimal route planning, traffic congestion prediction, logistics information sharing and other functions, and further reduce the operation cost.
In addition, in the future, hardware will certainly not become a barrier to the upgrading of commercial vehicles. Software programs are the areas that each company needs to break through. At the same time, it should also have the online program version iteration (OTA) function, so that the whole vehicle can be upgraded and iterated quickly.
3. Humanization: the driver's experience is also very important
Since the development of the logistics industry, it can be seen from the trend that the weight and proportion of large and super large logistics companies are getting higher and higher, while small and medium-sized logistics companies and individualization are constantly marginalized and even eliminated. In the foreseeable future, most truck drivers will become professional drivers and work in large logistics companies.
As an operator, the primary consideration for trucks must be the cost, which is easy to cause a problem. Under the background of increasingly stringent cost control, the driver's experience will certainly not be the first, and it is also a part that can be chosen when necessary, which may lead to the reduction of comfort configuration for real drivers.
For the next generation of models, people's experience cannot be ignored. Standards such as humanization and comfort can not be realized by stacking screens like many products now. More importantly, it is important to collect the actual needs of users, ranging from parking heating and air conditioning to an air gun and an extended external air pipe interface.
Based on the upgrading of humanization and comfort, future trucks should think more about how to improve the working efficiency and comfort of drivers and reduce fatigue and traffic pressure.
For future trucks, the upgrade should be comprehensive. There should be a systematic upgrade from design and manufacturing, use to after-sales. On the surface, modularity, intelligence and humanization are relatively independent, but in practical application, these are complementary and indispensable.
