Cancel the physical button. Is BYD’s new generation of Tang a breakthrough or playing with fire？

BYD’s last bomb in the new energy battlefield this year was finally dropped, and a new generation of BYD Tang, which received much attention, was officially listed. The BYD Tang released this time has made great progress over the previous generation in terms of appearance, interior, powertrain and technology configuration. Undoubtedly, its appearance means that BYD has reached a new level in new energy vehicles.

The car is definitely a good car. From the attention before listing, we can see how high expectations manufacturers and fans have for it. However, there is a detail in BYD Tang that makes me uneasy, that is, the new generation Tang will remove all the physical buttons of the central control, leaving only a few buttons around the gear lever and on the steering wheel, and replace them with a 14.6-inch intelligent floating large screen. At first glance, the sense of science and technology is full of intelligence and high-end atmosphere, but combined with the actual use process, I can’t help but think about it.

Nokia becomes Apple BYD is playing with fire.

BYD has always had an inexplicable ambiguity about the buttons on the central control. From the first model released in Dynasty series, BYD changed all the buttons on the central control to Chinese printing, in order to highlight that the vehicle was made in China and convenient for China people to use. A few years later, BYD developed to the second stage. The Tang released this time simply saved all the central control buttons, leaving none, just playing with the IPod. Technology has been upgraded, but what should we do about safety?

All Chinese keys

To give a simple example, the earliest popular mobile phone was Nokia. At that time, it was all physical buttons, and each button only represented a function. After a long time, we could operate the mobile phone to send text messages and make phone calls without looking at the screen, because each step was fixed and the buttons were fixed. Later, Joe helped the Lord break the pattern of mobile phones, and Apple brought the whole mobile phone industry into the era of smart touch screens. The mobile phone has no physical buttons, only a big screen is left. No matter how long it takes, it won’t be able to send short messages without looking at the screen as before, because every operation you make is a non-directional command, and you don’t know what you ordered at the moment. At the same time, the functions of mobile phones and the amount of information they carry are also increasing, and people’s eyes stay on mobile phones for a long time, thus ignoring the surrounding situation. The emergence of smart phones once increased the road accident rate.

The same thing happened in the car. In the past, we could control the switch of the air conditioner with one hand without leaving the road ahead, and adjust the temperature, air volume and radio frequency of the air conditioner. Now I want to do this series of actions with Tang, so I must shift my eyes to this big screen, then slide the screen, click on the air conditioner application, and then click on it to adjust the temperature and air volume after entering the interface.

In case I miss something in any step, I have to press the back button again, so my eyes will look at the big screen from time to time, I can’t concentrate on the road ahead, and the risk factor of driving will be greatly improved. This is just a function. If you put a movie on the big screen, the ending is too beautiful for me to watch. . . .

It’s dangerous for drivers to look at their mobile phones while driving, so you just put a big ipod next to me naked. Can I paint Tik Tok, eat chicken and drive a good car?

Voice control system cannot represent everything.

If you can cancel the physical keys, there will inevitably be a successor, that is, the popular voice control system, which is linked to the Internet and can complete the corresponding instructions through voice recognition. The voice control system has been used by major brand manufacturers in recent years and has gradually become the standard of new cars. But the voice system is the icing on the cake after all, and it still can’t be the dominant one at the present stage.

Analysis, although BYD has not announced it, the supplier of voice system should be iFLYTEK, and iFLYTEK has always been in a leading position in the field of voice recognition. In recent years, the car-mounted voice system developed has been widely used in different models of major brands, and its voice recognition accuracy has reached more than 95%.

However, used riders know that the voice recognition system in the car is also flawed; First, the response is too slow, and it usually takes a few seconds to respond after a command is spoken; Second, even if the recognition degree has reached more than 95%, there will often be recognition errors and unrecognizable situations, and used riders should all have experience, so at this stage, voice control can’t represent everything.

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It is undeniable that with the development of science and technology, cars in the future will become more and more intelligent and technological. You don’t even need to press buttons, and you can fully realize human-computer interaction and unmanned driving. From this point, BYD is undoubtedly a pioneer. But at present, the level of intelligent technology is not enough to support this change. Otherwise, with the technical strength of BBA, I dare not try to cancel the physical keys of central control so far.

Some people will say that Tesla doesn’t have physical buttons either, because the market share of Tesla is too low. Even if there is a problem in this respect, it is considered as an individual phenomenon, but the sales volume of Tang after listing will be more than ten times that of Tesla. With such a large market share, the problem will soon be highlighted.

Of course, these are only analysis. Only after the vehicle is handed over to consumers for a period of time can we know whether the worried things will happen. If you have any questions, welcome to smash the hammer.