You can actually watch Station B! Why does Haval F7 install the “WeChat applet” in the car?

[Autohome?Internet Travel]? There is no doubt that the best Internet of Vehicles product managers/operations and engineers in the world are in China. Counting from 2016, in just 4 years, China's Internet of Vehicles has solved the process of high-frequency rigidly needed functions (navigation, music, etc.) from "difficult to use" to "usable" to "easy to use" and "easy to use". There are also unlimited solutions. But after meeting the “high-frequency rigid needs”, what’s the next step? After trying out many new cars recently released with the "Internet of Vehicles" as the promotion point, we believe that the new intelligent vehicle interconnection system on the Haval F7/F7x (the two are identical at the system level, hereinafter referred to as the Haval F7) is currently the most advanced. One of the good "solutions".

Why do you say that? Putting aside all the fancy functions, the foundation of the Internet of Vehicles lies in "interaction". Simply put, it means whether you are comfortable or not when using it. We have seen too many "do-everything" vehicle systems, but people don't want to touch them at all. In the past two years, more and more car models have chosen to integrate air conditioning control functions into the screen, but the experience is often not as good as physical buttons. As a frequently used function, "air conditioning" often requires several steps to complete the adjustment on the screen. , and it cannot be done "blindly" and requires attention for a long time.

It can be seen that while Haval F7 retains some air conditioning control buttons, it can also be seen that some thought has been put into the system. After going around and around for many years, the Internet of Vehicles industry has prospered and developed, and the "integrated" air-conditioning control has finally reached the experience of traditional "button-type" air-conditioning control, which can be regarded as a blessing.

Another interesting thing is that Haval F7 has a custom button on the steering wheel. You can freely set the function of this * button.

This reminds me of the design on cameras and game consoles. Customizing buttons may not bring qualitative changes to convenience, but it is a very interesting idea.

Look at Bilibili via mini program

In terms of functional highlights, first of all, as an in-vehicle system based on Tencent TAI? 3.0, the in-vehicle WeChat is definitely a highlight, you can use voice throughout the process Control sending and receiving WeChat messages, receiving location and setting navigation, and making and receiving voice calls. There is also a separate button on the steering wheel for in-car WeChat.

We have conducted detailed tests on in-vehicle WeChat. Interested students can refer to the functional test of the official version of WeChat in the article "In-vehicle WeChat Three Vehicle Hengping Reviews"/use/202006/1003069.html? As a result, I will stop here and won’t go into details.

A more distinctive feature is that Haval F7 integrates mini programs into the system, which you can understand as mini programs on your mobile phone's WeChat.

In the post-App era, there is no doubt that mini programs are a more suitable service carrier than apps on many platforms because they occupy less hardware resources, require no installation, and are faster.

On the Haval F7, there are still quite a lot of functions in the mini program, which basically cover all the general car life application scenarios. In addition, you can also look at Station B, which I have never seen on any model before.

Regarding videos, on the Haval F7’s native application, in addition to watching Bilibili, you can also watch iQiyi and Douyin. These three companies are considered to cover the main types of video entertainment.

For these video platforms, as well as QQ Music and other built-in entertainment functions in the car, you can log in to your personal account and bind it to the system account. On the one hand, you can enjoy membership rights, and on the other hand, you can use the "super "Account" system, the videos you haven't finished watching at home and the songs you haven't finished listening to can be continued directly on the car system.

I won’t introduce you to the video. Everyone has seen it, and it’s almost the same experience as using the web version or iPad version. And Haval F7 can choose to limit video usage scenarios in the settings, which is worthy of recognition.

I believe you may have a question like me: Does anyone really have to watch videos in the car?

I communicated with the engineers of Xiandou Intelligence on this issue.

According to past data, especially in third-, fourth- and fifth-tier cities, consumers want video functions, but this does not mean they must watch videos while driving. After research, engineers found that car owners often just want to listen to MV versions of songs.

Whether the sense of the picture came out immediately, this conclusion is something I have never thought of before. I'm not saying that there are no safety risks while "listening" to MVs while driving, but this conclusion is quite interesting and answers a question I have always had. I don't know if it also answers yours.

Last Mile Navigation

The new Haval F7 vehicle system is equipped with two sets of map navigation, including Amap and Tencent Maps, which gives car owners one more choice .

The interface of Amap is the same as the public version of Amap Car Version 3.0. This time, Haval F7 focuses on “last mile” navigation.

Since the car is in the 4S store and cannot be demonstrated, I will briefly describe the purpose of this function here: When we navigate to a certain place, we often end up not stopping at that location accurately, but at Find a parking lot nearby and walk to the destination you navigated earlier.

On Haval F7, once you encounter this situation, when you turn off the engine and lock the car, the system will send a notification to the AutoNavi App on your mobile phone, and you can directly set the walking navigation for your destination. The navigation covers the entire trip and the last "one kilometer", which solves a small pain point.

Li Bai and Daji Voice Assistant

As for the voice control function, Haval F7 integrates most of the common functions, and the overall recognition rate and feature richness are also good.

Supports Tencent’s Li Bai and Daji voices. If you don’t like the stereotyped “Hello, Haval”, you can also invoke voice control by directly saying “Call Li Bai”.

Supports wake-up word operation within 60 seconds after a single voice wake-up, which means that you only need to say "Hello, Harvard" or "Call Li Bai" once, and any voice operation will be performed within the next 60 seconds. Commands can be given directly without having to wake up the voice control again.

In addition, dual-zone voice is also supported, that is, the system can distinguish which passenger is giving the command. When the main driver says "open the window" or "turn on the seat heating", the corresponding function of the main driver will be activated. Reacted, and so did the co-pilot.

Functionally, it can control navigation, music and some car control functions. It can realize "visible and speakable", that is, as long as there are options and buttons on the interface, you can activate voice control and directly speak the option text to control it.

Even small programs can be controlled by voice, and the depth of voice embedding is quite surprising.

Summary

Is the so-called intelligence just crazily stacking functions? Is it just to disturb the car owner for no reason and just tell the car owner a joke? After trying several recent models that are advertised as "intelligent", I don't think this should be the case. Haval F7/F7x provides another "solution", intensive interaction, and satisfying the needs of users as much as possible without disturbing the car owner too much and ensuring that people have the desire to use it. We feel that this is the right way to go. . Machines are just like people. Excessive force is often counterproductive. "Just right" is the real "wisdom." (Photo/Text? Autohome? Zheng Xu)