Founded in 1903, Ford Motor Company, as one of the largest automobile manufacturers in the world, has changed from simply focusing on automobile manufacturing to building an intelligent world.
At this year's CES, Ford's brand-new pure electric SUV was released last year 165438+ 10. Wild horse? Mach -E? The GT high-performance version is the carrier, which shows Ford's cognition of smart cars.
Wild horse? Mach-E is based on the new Ford modular electric vehicle platform, equipped with SYNC? System 4 and on-board OTA technology combine Ford's most advanced technology, which is a test of the cooperation results between Ford and other enterprises.
Synchronization? 4. Vehicle OTA technology
Synchronization? 4 is Ford's latest generation in-vehicle infotainment system. According to Ford Motor Company, the system will be used in some new Ford models in North America from 2020. When referring to the system, Tang, executive vice president of Ford automotive product development and procurement, said: "SYNC system has always been the best representative of Ford's innovative spirit, helping Ford car owners manage their busy lives and keep in touch with the outside world at all times. With synchronization? With the release of 4, the SYNC system has developed into your car intelligent voice assistant. "
The system can adapt to the high-definition touch screen between 8 inches and 15.5 inches, realize the wireless interconnection between car and smart phone for the first time, and support CarPlay and Android? Auto, users can use SYNC? AppLink function, Will, Waze, Ford? +? Applications such as Alexa are wirelessly connected to the vehicle, and functions such as lighting and air conditioning of the vehicle can also be controlled by smart phones.
It is reported that SYNC? 4 Cloud platform connection function will be standard, and cloud big data will be connected synchronously? 4. Through the link with the cloud data, the navigation function can update the actual road conditions, and the voice processing function in the cloud can realize more travel scenarios for users. Compared with a system, synchronous? More like a friend introduced by Ford Motor Company to users. It can judge users' preferences through the analysis of big data, such as providing relevant destination recommendations according to users' navigation habits, or actively pushing users to call contacts frequently to create a brand-new intelligent scene.
Besides, synchronization? Equipped with a brand-new digital user manual for the first time. If you want to know the detailed information of vehicle functions, users can directly search the database without looking through dozens of pages or even dozens of pages of instructions. The digital owner's manual also provides video learning related functions, which enables users to understand product features more quickly and directly, and enables intelligent and convenient users to have a car life.
And the OTA technology of the whole vehicle is a wild horse? Mach-E has become the main driving force of real smart cars. Wild horse? Mach-E is equipped with the industry-leading OTA technology of the whole vehicle, which realizes the remote software upgrade of almost all automotive electronic modules in the car. Ford can constantly push new functions to users through this technology, and users can upgrade existing vehicles simply and quickly through this technology, thus reducing the number of maintenance and prolonging the service life of the car.
The use of this technology allows users to obtain new functions after buying a car, and allows users to ensure the advanced functions of the vehicle by upgrading the vehicle for a long time. It is worth mentioning that Ford gives this technology a humanized setting, which greatly reduces the impact of OTA on the daily driving of car owners. Until the new version is updated, the current software will continue to run and will not affect the normal driving operation.
Ford's Smart City Platform
Except for the smart car mustang? In addition to Mach-E, Ford Motor Company also released a brand-new software-Urban Intelligence Platform at this year's CES. This software will use parking, commuting, traffic, safety and census data to visualize the traffic system of the whole city, thus helping managers to understand the traffic situation of the city more easily and explore various solutions before various measures are actually applied.
It is reported that through cooperation with relevant departments of the local government in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, the Ford Urban Intelligence Platform has helped the Ann Arbor municipal government to solve the problems including setting parking spaces, setting reasonable warning signs to avoid pedestrian traffic accidents, and integrating local alleys into the entire urban transportation system.
In the near future, Ford will leave this platform in 10 cities in the United States, including ann arbor, Austin, Indianapolis, Pittsburgh and Detroit.
In addition, starting from 20 18, Ford cooperated with Microsoft to test a variety of different traffic scenarios by using algorithms inspired by quantum computing, and simulated scenes of as many as 5,000 cars driving on busy roads. When each vehicle can use 10 different route choices, all vehicles simultaneously request the fastest route recommendation through busy roads in big cities. Within 20 seconds, the overall optimized route suggestion was transmitted to each vehicle, thus reducing the overall congestion by 73%. At the same time, the average commuting time has also been reduced by 8%, and the time saved by congestion has exceeded 55,000 hours every year.
In addition, at this year's CES, Ford also exhibited the co-pilot 360? Driving simulator with the latest function of Zhixing driving assistance system. This simulator adopts AI algorithm and machine learning, and can learn from the accumulation of driving scenes and rules to help improve the co-pilot 360? The algorithm of the function. Every simulation made by Ford developers in the simulator will help to enhance the algorithms used in future mass production.
Co-pilot 360? Software and algorithm models are developed by Ford Global R&D team, which are suitable for vehicle hardware and more localized in different markets. At present, the co-pilot 360 on Ford production car? The system has been equipped with L2 autopilot functions, including APA2 one-button parking assistance, ACC full-speed adaptive cruise control system and LC intelligent navigation assistance system. Ford Motor Company recently announced that it will launch the first L4-class self-driving production car in 20021year, which will be used in the fields of online car rental and logistics.
In addition, at this CES exhibition, Ford showed a robot Digit, which was made by Agility? The biped robot designed and manufactured by the robot company can deploy Digit to grab the package from the vehicle when the driverless car arrives at the destination in the future, and carry out the last step of the delivery process, thus solving the "last mile" problem in the express delivery industry.
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Ford's appearance at this CES has demonstrated its determination to develop intelligently, and we can clearly see from Ford's recent series of actions in the field of car networking that as a car giant, Ford is very executive in every decision, whether it is the cooperation between the domestic market and Zebra Network, Baidu, or the global SYNC cooperation. With the release of system and vehicle OTA technology, Ford can quickly realize specific products, which is the charm of Ford for a hundred years.
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