Software and hardware integration+independent research and development, this China brand car is impressive.

The core idea of this article (too long to read the whole edition)

1. Job Pro is equipped with GKUI 19 Ji Ke intelligent ecosystem developed by Yi Cartoon, and the integrated research and development of software and hardware has realized a major upgrade of Job's automobile intelligence;

2. It has a high level in car entertainment and human-computer interaction, and ranks in the forefront of the evaluation models;

3. A lot of innovations have been made in car entertainment and cockpit intelligent control, and some functions are original and practical;

4. It represents the development direction and level of Geely automobile intelligence.

Job Geely has achieved very good market results since its listing on 20 16, but with the passage of time, Job gradually began to feel the competitive pressure from competing products. Especially today, with the continuous upgrading of product intelligence, the degree of cockpit intelligence has a great influence on consumer decision-making. Therefore, in 20 19, Job was also upgraded and turned into Job Pro.

Job Pro is equipped with GKUI 19 in-vehicle system independently developed by Geely. The computing power of GKUI 19 system comes from "E0 1 chip" of Yi Cartoon, a technology company under Geely, which can be said to be the "super brain" of Job Pro.

It is precisely because Job has adopted the fruits of independent research and development in both software and hardware that he has done more in intelligent vehicle control than other China brands.

In addition, GKUI 19 also brought us many surprises in terms of content ecology and intelligent interaction. Please read on for details.

Many car companies choose to cooperate with Internet giants like BAT. On the one hand, it is ecologically easy to be kidnapped by a single source. On the other hand, due to reasons such as confidentiality and incomplete interface opening, some functions can only stay on the surface and cannot meet the deep-seated needs of users.

As Yi Cartoon is a subsidiary of Geely, Job Pro's intelligent cockpit can be said to be independently developed within the Geely system, with better compatibility and coordination between software and hardware and various functions, and higher openness of interfaces, so it can be further developed in some automobile control functions, such as the richness of voice automobile control and the perfection of various function customization.

In addition, perhaps Geely thinks GKUI 19 is good enough, and the car does not support the screen projection function of CarPlay/CarLife mobile phone. From the future trend, the car opportunities will be more and more perfect and the experience will be better and better, so the screen projection function of mobile phones will become more and more marginalized. At present, many brands have given up this function.

1, the overall speed performance is good, and the car cold start is slow.

Traditionally, we first test the performance of the cockpit in terms of speed, and the specific test results are as follows:

The bottom layer of GKUI 19 is Android system, and the cold start speed of the car is obviously slow. We have tested for more than 20 s several times, but it will still bring some anxiety to impatient users.

In addition, Job Pro is also equipped with three kinds of maps: Gaode, Baidu and Tencent. When testing the start time of navigation, we also tested various map software, and finally scored according to the average time.

Because different software exists in the car machine in the form of independent APP, it needs to be matched with the car machine system, and the overall startup time is still slightly delayed. Compared with the Haval H6 and H6 cars we tested before, we cooperated with Baidu, and the system and map software were provided by Baidu, so the matching degree was better and the starting speed was faster. Of course, it has its own advantages and disadvantages compared with Job Pro, a completely self-developed vehicle-mounted system.

2, equipped with three kinds of maps to meet the needs of different users.

Different from most other brand products, the original ecology of Job Pro car machine is equipped with three kinds of maps: Gaode, Baidu and Tencent, which give users a choice to meet the usage habits of different users.

All three maps have been adapted and integrated with the car, instead of simply adding a third-party map APP. Voice interaction can control the currently active map. No matter which map users use, the experience is good, and there is no obvious difference.

3. Music and audio are rich in ecology, open and average in aggregation.

In terms of content ecology, Job Pro is relatively rich and open. For example, music applications include accompanying listening to songs, QQ music, cool music, cool dog music, singing, listening and so on. Audio applications include Himalayan, Mango, Companion Listening, Tencent News, Jixun Radio and so on. The video application is mainly Tencent Video Car Edition. See the table below for details:

Although the content is rich, compared with navigation applications, the combination of music applications and car machines is obviously low. Third-party applications, such as QQ music, cannot be directly controlled by voice. Through voice search songs, the system will play with accompaniment music by default, but the accompaniment music library is relatively small, and there are many missed songs, which will bring some inconvenience to users.

Broadcast, audio, etc. There is a certain content ecology, which can meet the basic user needs. The specific situation in voice search is as follows:

Job Pro's car video category ecology is relatively simple, only supporting Tencent video, not voice search. There are some integrations in ecological navigation. The game category is only simple idioms solitaire, but the tourism ecology is completely vacant. In addition, cars and apps also have a certain owner service ecosystem, but the practicality is relatively general.

4, voice vehicle control and information query ability, voice interaction ability can be "well-trained"

The software and hardware of GKUI system are easy to be developed by cartoon, which can be said to be self-contained and has its own remarkable characteristics in voice interaction.

①? Strong vehicle control ability

Yi Cartoon is a subsidiary of Geely, and Geely will obviously be more generous in the interface of "own people" in car control, so Job Pro's voice car control ability is still relatively strong. Some specific test cases are as follows:

It can be seen that in addition to the headlights and wipers, Job Pro can also control functions such as seats through voice, which can be said that the degree of control is already very high.

②? Good pronunciation comprehensive ability and strong translation ability.

We have also prepared a large number of use cases to test the comprehensive ability of voice interaction. The specific test results are shown in the following table:

It can be seen that in terms of natural language understanding, Job Pro lacks the ability to distinguish keywords such as "eating" and "listening", and it is impossible to accurately judge words like weather query or expressing feelings. But this one is more difficult, and there are not many voice systems that can stand the test completely.

In terms of information query, Job Pro has certain query ability, especially hotel information also supports follow-up operation, but it is lacking in geographic information and yellow pages query.

Mathematical calculation, unit conversion, date query and other functions. Job Pro is still relatively good, and it can basically cope.

It is worth mentioning that Job Pro's powerful translation ability not only supports multilingual translation, but also supports voice broadcasting in some languages. Among the tested models, language translation ability is second to none.

③? Some interactions are very human.

If you give the command of "turn the volume to 100%" while driving, the driver will give a feedback that "the maximum volume will affect driving safety, so help you turn it to 70%".

In addition, if you say "I want to see the stars" during the day, the car will feedback "Let's watch the stars together at night".

④? Small shortcomings of voice interaction

First, the voice customization function is weak. Phonetics, two women and one man, there are * * * three kinds of pronunciation to choose from, the speed of speech and greetings can not be adjusted, slightly monotonous.

Second, we can have a simple multi-round dialogue, but the recognition ability in the process of dialogue is weak, and there are often unrecognizable situations.

Third, the emotional expression of voice interaction is still relatively blunt. Perhaps Geely itself is aware of this problem, so it has specially set up the "AI Magic Book" function, allowing users to "train" voice AI through the AI Magic Book to enhance the interactive ability of the car.

5. There is a strong ability to open accounts between cars and mobile phone applications, but there is a lack of unified account management.

The accounts of navigation, music, video, audio and other applications have perfect ability to get through. After the car logs in, the collection, history and other information can be completely synchronized, which provides great convenience for users.

However, although car accounts can be associated with Baidu, WeChat and Alipay accounts, they are not associated with various application accounts. Each application account is logged in independently and cannot be managed in a unified way. This is a small regret.

As a fuel car, Job Pro's cockpit control is generally biased towards the use habits of traditional cars. There are not many unconventional operations such as the function buttons of the steering wheel, the start of automatic driving assistance, and gear selection. A row of air conditioning entity control buttons are also arranged below the central control panel, which is convenient for users to operate quickly.

In the use of various functions, ordinary consumers can easily get started smoothly, and the learning cost is not high. For the voice interaction function, the car machine has built-in AI magic book to strengthen the teaching of voice function. As long as you read the teaching content carefully, you can know most phonetic operations like the back of your hand.

In addition, in the process of voice interaction, the car machine will also give a prompt to inform the user of the instructions that can be issued, so that the interaction is more efficient and smooth.

1, rich car interface themes and wallpapers.

GKUI uses the Android underlying system, so cars are close to the feeling of mobile phones in use, and many games are similar to mobile phones.

Job Pro provides a wealth of car themes and wallpapers for users to download and use. Users can choose different colors of theme styles, such as science and technology style, Republic of China style, constellation theme, festival theme and so on. Change the "skin" of the car at any time according to your own preferences. At the same time, they can also decorate their cars with different wallpapers to better meet their personal preferences and create a personalized car experience.

Of course, the disadvantages are also obvious. The rich colors brought by the theme style sometimes have some side effects, which will inevitably make people tired after reading for a long time.

2. The overall feeling of the cockpit is consistent with the brand tonality.

Job professional company has made a lot of efforts in building the cockpit. From the overall layout and details, it is a sense of science and technology and luxury, and it also injects some design elements of Geely brand, such as the back pattern in the interior, the chrome-plated decorative strips of various parts, the stitching of leather seams, and the decorative plates with wire drawing texture.

From the details, it really feels good, but the overall style is not impressive, there are not many unique features, and the direction of science and technology style and luxury style is not clear enough. The interweaving of the two reveals some entanglements and reflects the ambiguity of China brand design.

Although Job Pro's comprehensive score on the sense of technology and luxury is not high, this style matches Geely's tonality and complements the price of the product, which is enough to satisfy the vanity of consumers at this level.

During our whole test, we didn't encounter any faults and software bugs, and the navigation and car entertainment software also worked normally, but occasionally the sound was awakened by mistake, and the reason for the false awakening was unknown.

The dashboard and APP remind the abnormal state of the vehicle relatively comprehensively and timely, and the owner can find the problems existing in the vehicle at the first time. When the vehicle is driving, the nearby vehicles will also be displayed on the HUD screen in the form of red dots to assist the driver in judging the safe distance.

But there are no physical buttons for E and B calls in the car. In case of emergency, it is really inconvenient to call for rescue service from the car.

Job Pro's innovation score reached 65 points, which is a very high level among the tested models, and it can be said that it exceeded our expectations. There are many practical functions in it.

1, schedule management (5 points)

It realizes the linkage of car, mobile phone APP and mobile phone calendar, and can be set by voice, which is very practical and convenient to use.

2. Navigation car/WeChat interconnection (10)

This function solves the interconnection between mobile phone location sharing and car navigation, which is convenient and practical.

3, 360 car housekeeper (5 points)

The inherent problems brought by Android system. Mobile phone memory occupation is high, use 360 mobile phone housekeeper; Car machine memory occupation is high, with 360 car machine housekeeper.

4, AI magic book (3 points)

The reason why you don't give 5 points is that this function can only make the voice conversation more natural and interesting, and it will not affect the realization of intelligent control in the cockpit for the time being.

5, Cao Cao hitchhiking (3 points)

This innovation directly opened up Geely's online car service, which is simply the gospel of hitchhiking drivers. However, considering the relatively narrow scope of application and the current environment of hitchhiking business, 3 points are given.

Other innovations and scores:

Opinions of Che Yun Research Institute:

Job Pro's final score of 720 points is a good result, and it is also above average among the models we have tested.

The results of converting the scoring system into scoring according to cockpit function items are as follows:

It can be seen that Job Pro's cockpit intelligence is based on independent development and deep customization, and it has a good performance in intelligent vehicle control, in-vehicle entertainment and human-computer interaction, with rich innovative functions.

Compared with the new force of making cars, although Geely is a traditional car company, it has been laid out in advance in the direction of car intelligence. Yi Cartoon is a strategically invested and independently operated scientific and technological innovative enterprise of Geely Holding Group. The excellent performance of GKUI 19 intelligent system and E0 1 chip on Job Pro also brought a refreshing feeling to researchers, which gave us a new understanding of China brand's independent research and development and innovation ability.

Relying on independent research and development and software and hardware integration, Geely can further strengthen its advantages in this respect in the future. First, it can improve the matching degree between the chip and the software system, making the system faster and smoother; Secondly, more hardware interfaces can be opened to enrich and improve the intelligent control function of vehicles, from cockpit intelligence to vehicle intelligence; Third, we can get rid of the dependence on external suppliers, start our own business and avoid the hidden dangers of constraints.

This article comes from car home, the author of the car manufacturer, and does not represent car home's position.