immediate review: intelligent cars should also accommodate car radios
2024-09-22
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physical radios, which have been with cars for more than a hundred years, may soon be mandatory for cars. recently, the ministry of industry and information technology publicly solicited opinions on the mandatory national standard formulation and revision project for the "in-vehicle wireless broadcast reception system".
for a long time, radios were standard equipment in cars. listening to the radio while driving is also a habit of countless "old drivers". however, in recent years, under the wave of automobile intelligence, physical car radios have been gradually eliminated by some car brands, replaced by radio software transmitted through data streams. for this reason, at the national people's congress last year, some npc deputies submitted a proposal to "mandatorily install radio broadcast receiving terminals in new energy vehicles".
why should car radios not be reduced at will? because it is not just an optional entertainment system, but also plays an irreplaceable role. the draft for comments points out that the car wireless broadcast receiving system is an important infrastructure to ensure that the public can quickly and effectively receive authoritative emergency information in an emergency situation. in other words, as an emergency means, car radios should still have a place in the era of smart cars.
in fact, even without the emphasis in the project opinion, the irreplaceable nature of the physical radio, which already has a certain "nostalgic atmosphere", is still not difficult to perceive. for example, when typhoon makar landed in hainan some time ago, some places were cut off from water and electricity, and communication base stations were disconnected, resulting in a lack of mobile phone signals. some local residents once relied on radios to receive relevant information.
for example, in july 2021, zhengzhou was hit by a rare torrential rainstorm, during which water, electricity and internet were cut off in some places. many citizens and trapped people listened to information or broadcast for help through car radios, and many rescuers carried out rescue operations through the help information broadcast on the radio. some people even found that in the science fiction movie "the wandering earth", radio broadcasts appeared more than once at critical moments.
in september last year, the state administration of radio and television, the ministry of industry and information technology, and the state administration for market regulation jointly issued a notice to standardize the management of vehicle-mounted wireless radio receiving terminals, and actively guide and promote the configuration of wireless radio receiving modules in vehicle-mounted terminal equipment of all domestically produced and imported automobiles produced and sold in the domestic market.
all these phenomena show that the role of in-car wireless radio is irreplaceable. although it looks like a traditional physical radio, it actually has the real function of transcending technological cycles and time and space.
strictly speaking, it cannot be said that there is no radio in today's intelligent cars. in fact, compared with physical radios, the radio content in some audio apps is richer and more entertaining. however, there is a significant difference between these audio contents supported by data signals and physical radios transmitted through analog signals. that is, the latter can still provide services when the communication base station is paralyzed and the signal is lost, showing a stronger emergency response capability.
therefore, the ideal relationship between internet audio broadcasting and traditional car radio should be to complement each other rather than replace each other. perhaps in most cases, many people are used to opening apps to listen to audio content, but at critical moments, the car radio that does not look so "modern" can be more useful.
in the era of smart cars, some car companies have reduced the use of car radios for many practical reasons. for example, the sound quality of traditional car radios is unstable, which may also affect the "beauty" of the increasingly simplified center console. but in the final analysis, the cost considerations are the reason behind this. after all, if car radios are really regarded as a standard module, car companies can increase their efforts in related design and research and development to achieve better compatibility between car radios and modern car systems.
at the same time, in terms of overall design concept, car companies can also use car radio as an important configuration to serve the safety performance of the car. what's more, some users still have the need and habit to listen to car radio, so keeping it is also a kind of respect for users.
yu heng, special commentator of the paper
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