Has Your Consumption View Changed?
Before starting, let me talk about my personal change in consumption view.
As a fan of the automotive industry who has bought six traditional cars and one smart car, I believe that the future trend of automotive consumption will be different from what it is now. Because when you use a smart car, you greatly reduce the impulse to replace cars.
In the era of traditional cars, your desire to buy a car is endless. After buying a Volkswagen, you want to buy a Mercedes-Benz; after buying a Mercedes-Benz, you want to buy a Porsche. There is always a material goal beckoning to you in the distance.
In the era of smart cars, your desire to buy a car has changed direction, and you are more interested in a car’s space for growth. Just like my Ideal ONE, after owning it, I lost interest in cars as material symbols.
Although Ideal ONE is only a basic model in the era of smart cars, it still impressed me greatly after long-term use. Nowadays, people already regard smartphones as extensions of human organs. In five years or ten years, smart cars will also become extensions of your living space.
The reason why smartphones are smart is that the ecosystem of clothing, food, housing, and transportation revolves around smartphones. When the same ecosystem is transferred to smart cars, it will be an even more ideal world.
Therefore, let’s talk about the most important operation basis in smart space next – the voice assistant.
Hello, Ideal Assistant
The Ideal Assistant is the small assistant in our smart cabin. When you master its essence, it will make your driving more efficient.
At first, I also criticized the Ideal Assistant for not being user-friendly enough. Compared horizontally with some voice assistants in the home, it falls a little short. Therefore, please restrain your criticism if you also want to criticize. I understand all the aspects you want to critique. But compared vertically with the voice assistants developed by carmakers, the intelligence level of the Ideal Assistant is still in the first echelon.
Moreover, the Ideal Assistant can realize four-tone zone interactions and recognize the command positions of four passengers in the front and rear rows. This is our unique feature.
How to Wake Up the Ideal Classmate?
There are four ways to wake up the Ideal Classmate, and I recommend the first three.
- Say “Ideal Classmate” and wake it up. (Suitable for passengers)
- Click the voice control button on the right side of the steering wheel and give instructions after hearing the prompt. (Suitable for drivers)
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Give instructions directly without shouting “Ideal Classmate” through voice wake-up. (Suitable for drivers)
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Click the image of the Ideal Classmate on the center console screen to wake it up. (Not used frequently)
What Can the Ideal Classmate Do?
After the last complaint that the Ideal Classmate was not intelligent enough, I carefully read the product instructions of the voice assistant in the “Help” section of the car interface, and redefined the Ideal Classmate, mainly to confirm its ability boundary.
Here are the 4 most commonly used types of voice commands and commonly used control functions for you to learn. Let the Ideal Classmate become your good helper.
- Vehicle Control
- Listening to Music
- Making Phone Calls
4. Navigation
Lazy Man’s Gospel: Wake-Up-Free Instructions
Wake-up-free instructions are my most frequent voice interaction method now, without calling the name of Ideal student, just call the function, comfortable!
Before I mastered this feature, every time I got in the car and wanted to play music, I had to press the play button on the center console, which was a bit inconvenient to get up and raise my hand, while I wanted to be lazier.
Now, after getting in the car, the first sentence is “resume playback”, and the second sentence is “navigate home”, just move your mouth without moving your hands.
The above are some usage experiences of Ideal student at the current stage. Those who have not yet mastered them can learn about them. Thank you @ 胡含 @ 赵彤 for their strong support to this guide.
This article is a translation by ChatGPT of a Chinese report from 42HOW. If you have any questions about it, please email bd@42how.com.