Honest question, what are the advantages of an integrated system? These three things are kind of the whole game for me, but I also don't have a very sophisticated taste when it comes to cars.
1. Native car OS can be deeply integrated with the car's own design, both UI and physical controls. eg.
- Nio Firefly and the Smart # series are good examples where the UI is strongly tied to the exterior/interior design language.
-Xiaomi car system is not only connected with the phone, but also with a whole set of Xiaomi smart home devices, from PCs and TVs to robot vacuums, light bulbs and smart plugs and so much more. They literally made almost all the home appliances, which all can connected with the car.
2. More importantly, it can access lower-level vehicle information and control. For example, different navigation routes can influence different driving styles, and even the basic LLM voice assistant can actually control parts of the car.
Some examples from the biggest Chinese EV makers, all with at least hundreds of thousands of annual sales:
It can also navigate to a battery swap station, automatically book the swap, and then use assisted driving / automated parking to complete most of the process:
https://www.nio.cn/app-articles/527488
- Li Auto can use the car itself as a physical feedback device when playing games on the in-car screen. For example in a racing game, it can combine the by-wire chassis and active suspension to tilt the body and give a real 4D feeling.Setting aside who really plays racing games this way, but it is basically using the whole car as an expensive moving racing simulator:
https://www.lixiang.com/news/159.html
- AITO(Huawei) cars can link the cabin environment with current air quality, sunlight and other sensor data, then automatically adjust the AC, air purifier, electric sunshade and so on:
https://aito.auto/model/m9-new/?utm_source=chatgpt.com
And many more.
Chinese EV makers are doing software in a very deep and sometimes strange way. Compared with them, even Tesla feels very simple and crude.
- Nio Firefly and the Smart # series are good examples where the UI is strongly tied to the exterior/interior design language.
-Xiaomi car system is not only connected with the phone, but also with a whole set of Xiaomi smart home devices, from PCs and TVs to robot vacuums, light bulbs and smart plugs and so much more. They literally made almost all the home appliances, which all can connected with the car.
2. More importantly, it can access lower-level vehicle information and control. For example, different navigation routes can influence different driving styles, and even the basic LLM voice assistant can actually control parts of the car.
Some examples from the biggest Chinese EV makers, all with at least hundreds of thousands of annual sales:
- Nio can use road data collected by previous cars to predict bumps and adjust the active suspension in advance: https://www.nio.cn/app-articles/532868
- Li Auto can use the car itself as a physical feedback device when playing games on the in-car screen. For example in a racing game, it can combine the by-wire chassis and active suspension to tilt the body and give a real 4D feeling.Setting aside who really plays racing games this way, but it is basically using the whole car as an expensive moving racing simulator: https://www.lixiang.com/news/159.html- AITO(Huawei) cars can link the cabin environment with current air quality, sunlight and other sensor data, then automatically adjust the AC, air purifier, electric sunshade and so on: https://aito.auto/model/m9-new/?utm_source=chatgpt.com
And many more.
Chinese EV makers are doing software in a very deep and sometimes strange way. Compared with them, even Tesla feels very simple and crude.