Yesterday, Volvo exposed a message that the steering wheel of the main driver can be translated to the co-pilot. At the same time, Volvo also announced its own new patent for steering system. The steering wheel of an automobile can realize position interchange and can be seamlessly connected with a moving automobile. The steering wheel can even be moved directly to the middle of the car for control.
In recent years, the explosive development of the automobile industry is obvious to all. New energy vehicles, smart and self-driving cars are emerging one after another. People from all walks of life want to enter the automobile industry and share a piece of it. At the peak of automobile development, there were hundreds of enterprises doing automobiles in the market. Now that the policy has receded and the heat has dissipated, only a dozen can still gain a foothold in the market.
As an established automobile brand, Volvo's position in the industry is beyond doubt. With the continuous upgrading of intelligent self-driving cars, Volvo has also started to upgrade its own cars and develop new smart cars from traditional car companies to meet the needs of the times.
On the other hand, steering wheel switching depends on automatic driving to some extent. After all, the original purpose of the idea is to make the car switch directly between the main driver and the co-pilot during driving, rather than stopping the car to replace it. In that case, just stop and change seats. There is really no need to deliberately switch the steering wheel, so that consumers really feel redundant.
Volvo can release its own steering wheel and apply for a patent in this case, which already shows that Volvo is about to use this new technology in its own cars. For some people who drive for a long time, this operation is really more worry-free and labor-saving, and it can greatly reduce the driving pressure of drivers. From this perspective, we can also guess that some performances of Volvo's new car are likely to be biased towards long-distance transportation rather than urban transportation.
However, it should be noted that the common operation in China is left-hand drive, and many operations are carried out around the main drive. After suddenly switching to the co-pilot, there are certain requirements for the driver's technical requirements and proficiency. If you use it improperly or suddenly fail to respond, it is likely to increase the risk of accidents.