It's not just the auto industry that drives automation

2017-11-07

From the beginning of twentieth Century a preliminary conception of automatic driving vehicle automatic driving technology development has experienced dozens of years, into twenty-first Century, with the research and promotion of Volvo, Audi, BMW, Mercedes, Volkswagen and other car manufacturers to automatically drive a car, the car manufacturers and Google company under the guidance of self driving cars began to forward. From conception to reality into 2017, automatic driving has become the automotive industry and technology sector of the hot topic.

Automatic driving will lead to drastic changes in the automotive industry

At the moment, whether it is a traditional car manufacturers, such as Volvo, Audi, BMW, Mercedes Benz, Volkswagen, Ford, TOYOTA, Citroen, Peugeot, or car Tesla, and the new auto parts manufacturers such as BOSCH, ZF, China and Japan Denso, whether traditional technology giant Intel, apple, Samsung, Google and Internet Co Baidu, Amazon, Uber, LYFT, in the R & D efforts to increase the automatic driving, in addition to some States introduced the corresponding policies, enterprises with the road testing self driving cars outside Europe, Germany, Japan, South Korea, Singapore also has also promulgated relevant policies and regulations. At present, the field of automatic driving technology involves both passenger cars and commercial vehicles.

Compared to other companies' auto driving program, the Swedish national electric vehicle (NEVS) launched the concept of InMotion enough to detonate the automotive industry. Since the name of Saab was stopped in June last year, the Swedish national electric vehicle (NEVS) launched the 5 level InMotion electric vehicle auto driving concept at the 2017 Asia consumer electronics show in June 7th. InMotion uses plastic diamonds and wheel pods as part of the forward-looking concept car, which has no steering column or even steering wheel, or even dashboard control, and basically looks like a modular room on the wheel. The occupant adjusts the vehicle interior lighting, sets up the carriage environment, adjusts the seat's front and rear position and the height by the pairing application. Even the glass on the window can be used as a display to maximize the working space. Although there are other car manufacturers have also introduced a concept with independent adjustable interior, such as the Mercedes Benz F 015, but these car manufacturers have been reluctant to take risks and abandon the stick, they are reluctant to abandon the purpose is to nervous occupant psychological hint when the abnormal situation, to ensure that any abnormal conditions have the ability to take over any passenger car control. And NEVS's InMotion electric car canceled the driver's column and steering wheel, in unmanned driving is more thorough. We have reason to believe that the future of automatic driving and the concept of working in the car will come soon.

Obviously, in the era of auto driving, there will be a great change in the automotive industry.

The vehicle is highly electronic, so that the focus of the industry continues to change from mechanization to electronics, from hardware to software. The most traditional mechanical parts, such as steering wheel, rearview mirror, were replaced or abandoned, the steering wheel was canceled, the dashboard was replaced by new display technology, the traditional window glass into a touch screen, rearview mirror was replaced by a camera. And these don't include mechanical parts that have been abandoned or cancelled from fuel trucks to electric cars. All kinds of high-precision sensors, will become the standard vehicle. Software needs more and more high precision maps, vehicle operating systems, big data, machine learning and artificial intelligence algorithms have become the new commanding heights of the automotive industry.

In the era of automatic driving, the value chain of the auto industry will be constantly shortened. And the essential elements of traditional car dealers, maintenance plants and other industries will undergo qualitative changes. Since it is automatic driving, rental vehicles and cars are the same, do not need people to drive. Is it necessary to buy a car? So, in the future, the demand for transportation services is greater than the demand for purchasing vehicles, then the 4S store may become a service provider for timeshare leasing.

If the automatic driving vehicles are all electric vehicles, then the gas station also does not need, the owner and two barrels of oil dealing with the times into a net era, that is, the owner's life can not do without two nets (national grid and China Southern Power Grid).

There is no doubt that auto driving will usher in a big change in the era of auto driving. Vehicle identification function will be very perfect, even if the car stolen and robbed, as long as not the owner or owner authorized person, can not enter the carriage, therefore, no longer need to steal the rescue. In addition, the owners also need to buy insurance? "Car" and "driving responsibility" should be separated, because the owner of the car just after the car occupant, not the owner, then the running process of the accident occurred is not the responsibility of owners, there may be a car manufacturers, telecom operators or technology companies, the insured should not be the owner.

Is this just a drastic change in the automotive industry, just a change in the auto industry?

 

Auto driving, not just the automotive industry, is changing

 

Whether or not InMotion will eventually become a small auto drive like Google, or other types of autonomous vehicles, you can be sure that NEVS sees it as a public vehicle that allows people to work in the car. Imagine if InMotion as the time of rental vehicles, when you set your desired space inside the vehicle, after booking the vehicle, the vehicle will automatically run to your location to pick you up, when you get on the bus after the car interior space before you switch to the default appearance, the feeling is not very good?

When time-sharing leasing becomes the main way for people to use cars, the problem is coming again. The peak hour of work every day, when the office workers rushed to CBD, how to solve the problem of parking, how to dredge traffic congestion?

When the automatic vehicle becomes a public vehicle, a taxi that may cruise on the street does not need a driver, nor does a bus or a truck need a driver. The communications operators that has nothing to do with the automotive industry has become very important, if the network has a problem, the vehicle will not be able to receive traffic lights information, there will be traffic accidents caused by red light or green light when the vehicle is moving congestion caused problems, they will promote the city construction department of road infrastructure and communication facilities for adjustment.

In the era of automatic driving, work, entertainment, friends gathering, drink, don't worry about drunk driving, don't worry about 12 points can not drive the problem, because the car is not you open, you are only a crew. Even the driver's license may not be needed. The car is driverless. What's the use of a driver's license? No driver's license, and some traffic laws are not need to be adjusted, without driving license, there is no reason to exist, so the car around the industry chain will not.

These are just part of the era of auto driving, and auto driving is not just about the automotive industry, but it's also about transportation, finance, legislation, urban construction, services, and many other areas, and we're looking forward to it!