Now, the tenth generation Mercedes-Benz E-Class has been on the market for four years, and this product has passed a long lifeline. This year, this car began to undergo a mid-term change. This means that it will be 3-4 years before the arrival of the next generation of Mercedes-Benz E products. Apple phones are replaced at most once every two years (such as iphone? 1 1 to iphone? The new generation 12 took more than a year.) When the average replacement cycle in the automobile industry has been shortened to 4-5 years, Mercedes-Benz E can be said to be a long standby car. Therefore, the mid-term change of Mercedes-Benz E has also changed a lot.
Mercedes-Benz official said that this is the biggest change in the mid-term of Mercedes-Benz E in previous dynasties. In fact, this is inevitable. In more than four years, everything else has been completely replaced. Wouldn't it be useless if we didn't make more changes? Bian Xiao recently tested the Mercedes-Benz E, which was redesigned in the mid-term. Generally speaking, there are two impressions: First, the driving feeling is better. The second is the improvement of intelligent functions. After the mid-term change, Mercedes-Benz E not only continued in appearance, but also changed greatly inside. ?
Generally speaking, most luxury cars have little difference in functionality. As far as intelligence is concerned, L2-class autopilot is already a necessity for this price model, which means that drivers can realize the functions of automatic lane change and low-speed (60KM/h) autopilot. In addition, our common automatic parking, emergency braking, adaptive cruise and so on are more common. Of course, not to mention voice control and so on.
Many people don't understand the concept of capacitance very well, and it is certainly not a new concept for some elderly readers. In the development of mobile phones, your first touch screen and buttons are resistive, which means that you need to use a physical pen to control them, such as nails. Later, keys and screens evolved into capacitors, that is, we now operate directly with our fingers, and the resistance pen can't operate. I won't elaborate on the distance here. This concept is well known, mainly to facilitate the understanding of capacitive steering wheel.
Capacitive steering wheel is a new generation omni-directional digital steering wheel of Mercedes-Benz. On the capacitive steering wheel, the steering wheel contains a dual-zone sensing pad, which can detect whether the driver's hand is holding the steering wheel. Touch control buttons in spokes can also be controlled by digital signals. The touch control buttons integrated in the steering wheel spokes now also have a capacitive function. This minimizes the mechanical interface. The control panel, like the smart phone, records and evaluates the touch through capacitive sensor technology, and can realize intuitive operation by sliding gestures and pressing familiar symbols.
That is to say, the driver can not only get a response by pressing the above function symbols, but also get additional functions by sliding and other actions. Through the steering wheel, the driver's control state of the steering wheel can be detected, which replaces the traditional physical torque perception, and the recognition of the driver's control driving state is faster and the intelligent driving is safer. Simply put, when you hold the steering wheel, the car can detect your state. If you hold the steering wheel while driving, but don't operate it for a long time, the car will start emergency parking assistance to ensure your safety.
The structure of capacitive induction steering wheel is quite complicated. One of them has a six-layer material structure, which consists of a leather (leather or wooden material) outer coating, a dual-zone capacitance sensor pad, an insulating layer, a PU heating layer and an internal foaming material from the outside to the inside. This is also the first car company with an inductive steering wheel and intelligent driving. Of course, there is a corresponding camera on the mid-term change E to capture the driver's posture, so as to judge his driving state and improve safety.
As the inventor of the car, the technical update of Mercedes-Benz on the steering wheel has also brought new technologies. When Mercedes-Benz made its first car, it referred to the design of bicycle and used handlebars similar to bicycles, but changed the two-handed operation to one-handed operation. Then at 1897, Daimler. Paririan made the first car with the steering column and steering wheel tilted, which is the first car with the steering wheel tilted in the world (Phoenix? Phaeton)
The reason is this-1897 One day, in a repair workshop of Daimler Company, when a crane worker hoisted the repaired body back for assembly, the hook suddenly slipped out and the body fell on the steering column, causing the steering column to bend several degrees from the vertical position. A repairman tried to correct the bent steering column, but unexpectedly found that the new angle made the steering wheel no longer difficult to operate and blocked the line of sight.
(Phoenix? Phaeton)
In the 1920s, in Mercedes-Benz Typ? 680? Mo Deer? The ring horn first appeared on the spokes of the steering wheel. It was still the standard configuration of vehicles until the 1970s, and it became more and more refined. In 1950s (1950s), the steering wheel became the central interface between the vehicle and the driver, and became the control center, which could realize new comfort functions and have higher safety.
(Source: Daimler, model: Typ? 680? Mo Deer? s)
Until the 1970s (1970s), the gear lever on the steering column was still a common method to operate the gearbox. In 2005, Mercedes-Benz relaunched DIRECT? Select the automatic shift lever to release the center console for other purposes. 1955, a new function is added to the steering wheel to control the lever of headlight flashing. 1958, Mercedes-Benz introduced the power steering function on the 300 sedan.
(Source: Daimler, model: Type? 170? Sb)
In order to further improve safety, Mercedes-Benz has introduced a patented safety steering wheel system, which is equipped with a telescopic steering column and shock absorber, and has become the standard configuration of all Mercedes-Benz passenger cars in 1967.
197 1 year, 350? SL？ Roadster models have introduced a four-spoke safety steering wheel. As the support device of the steering wheel, spokes can absorb the impact force in the event of a collision accident and transmit the impact force in a way that will not break the steering wheel.
(Source: Daimler, model: Typ? 220? Sb)
Since 198 1, the steering wheel design has undergone a decisive change, that is, Mercedes-Benz S-Class (126? Series) introduced the first airbag, achieving a new safety standard that has never been reached in previous collisions. 1992, the driver airbag became the standard configuration of all passenger cars of Mercedes-Benz. 1994, passenger airbags become standard.
(Source: Daimler, model: 350? SL)
Another technical innovation of the steering wheel appeared in 1998. This is a multi-function steering wheel, which was introduced together with COMAND (Cockpit Management and Data) system. First applied to the S-class 220, this steering wheel not only embodies many functions of the vehicle, but also reflects the progress of new equipment such as information, navigation and entertainment. This new standard multi-function steering wheel allows drivers to control multiple systems and call important information by touching it. This is also the first time that the steering wheel is combined with the car radio, car phone and the display screen in the middle of the dashboard, and as many as eight main menus will appear.
(Source: Daimler, model: S-class 220)
By 20 16, Mercedes-Benz E-Class sedan has become the first car with touch buttons on the steering wheel, which can control the whole infotainment system by sliding fingers without leaving the steering wheel. Press the touch button and slide your finger to activate the selected function. In addition, each switch panel is equipped with four buttons to realize common functions such as volume control and telephone call. ?
(? Mercedes e? 20 16)
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