Audi's digital transformation path: virtual cockpit force

The current car, the meaning of the driver is more and more not limited to a driving tool, sometimes it is not only a status is a symbol, it can even be a mobile "personal assistant", scheduled travel, appointment business meeting and many more. It can be said that the car has developed to this stage, and it is inseparable from a control system that communicates and interacts with the driver. Just like Audi's virtual cockpit technology, traditional instrumentation and function buttons are replaced by a multi-function LCD screen. The advancement of digital and intelligent technology has also changed the traditional way of communicating information between cars and drivers. This time we will talk to you about the virtual cockpit technology of the new Audi A4L.

Audi A4L interior

What is a virtual cockpit?

Interpreted from the official definition, “virtual cockpit” is a function that combines the functions and services of the vehicle and personalizes it according to the driver's needs, or according to the importance of the environment, and displays it with the driver. Interactive "display and control" system.

Audi A4L virtual cockpit

This doesn't sound easy to understand. To put it in a straightforward way: Just like a smartphone with a big screen instead of a traditional button and a single function display, the "virtual cockpit" is a set of integrated vehicle control settings. The function of integrated display control technology, which replaces the original functions such as instruments, entertainment control systems, etc., provides drivers with information on the car, environment, and social.

In terms of the function of the new Audi A4L "virtual cockpit", the 12.3-inch full LCD instrument behind the steering wheel can display the vehicle core data in the traditional form; at the same time, the navigation mode can also be used to display the map directly on the instrument. On the board; in addition, in the "entertainment" mode of work, in the center of the display focus on the phone, radio, television or mobile Internet information and so on.

Audi A4L virtual cockpit

Audi mobile internet technology

The "virtual cockpit" used in the Audi RS high-performance sports car is even more "increasingly" - the entire instrument interface only highlights the tachometer, tire pressure, engine torque and other information related to the race, help The driver is focused on driving. Even Audi's MMI infotainment system has been integrated, all operations can be done through the multi-function button on the steering wheel and the multimedia control button on the right hand side of the driver.

Audi virtual cockpit

Audi A4L MMI multimedia system

How did virtual cockpit technology develop?

Speaking of this, you may ask, is Audi's virtual cockpit replacing traditional instruments with LCD meters? In fact, it is far from being so simple. How can it be seen? This topic will also be explained from the perspective of aviation technology.

Audi A4L interior

When an automotive engineer scratched his head and placed so many instruments and control buttons in a limited space in the car, the aerospace engineer was also plagued by the same problem and endured for a long time. Look at the meter of the "Concorde" supersonic passenger aircraft cockpit, full of a screen to see it? And the aircraft has developed to this day, if there is no new solution, I am afraid that the complexity of the aircraft cockpit will reach an "unprecedented and shocking" degree. The safety of flight can naturally be imagined.

"Concord" supersonic passenger aircraft cockpit

"Concord" supersonic passenger aircraft cockpit

With the development of digital technology, the number of aircraft cockpit instruments is much lower than before. Just like the cockpit of the latest Boeing 787 aircraft, almost all the instruments have been replaced by liquid crystal displays, and the number of control switches has also been The onboard computer is managed in a unified manner.

Boeing 787 passenger aircraft cockpit

Boeing 787 passenger aircraft cockpit

In fact, the simplicity and intuitiveness of the display level and the simplicity and integration of the control level are new design trends in the field of transportation. Not only in aviation, but also in automobiles, with these two “transformations”, The "de-pointing" of the automobile industry. The task of communicating the communication between the driver and the car is the integrated display control technology, because only it has the ability to integrate and display a large amount of information in a limited space under the existing technology framework.

What kind of technological value does the Audi virtual cockpit reflect?

As you said, you may understand that Audi virtual cockpit technology is not as simple as changing a liquid crystal meter. In fact, the meaning of "virtual cockpit" is far more profound than the appearance - for example, the emergence of "virtual cockpit" seems to change the "language basis" and "conversation" of driver and vehicle information and control interaction. "Environment", this is like the account of the old-age accountant shopkeeper, you must use the old abacus to slap the account to calculate the account, but in modern times, the account is entered into the computer, and it will be fixed in a few seconds.

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