Do you know right away where your head for the seat heating in the car is? Or which commands your navigation system, in which order expected, to enter an address by voice?
That's the problem. Actually, voice control is useful. It is the most natural form of understanding among people. Would not it be great if your own car understood so much language and then its meaning as a human? So far, the wealth of useable sceneries has been limited by many manufacturers. Until now.
"Hey Mercedes"
With this command, the latest generation of Mercedes Comandsystem listens to the driver. MBUX is celebrating its world premiere at the CES in Las Vegas "Winter test of the A-Class in Sweden" test.
With the premiere of the new A-Class in the spring, Mercedes-Benz will also launch the most advanced voice control system on the market. The list of possible commands is too long to handle individually and, moreover, this would not help because the logic of the system is constantly evolving. You can imagine it like a little child. In the beginning the vocabulary is limited, with time it learns more and more. When you talk to him.
With the new "MBUX"(Mercedes-Benz User Experience) the car will be able to translate logical statements like" Hey Mercedes, I'm cold, "" Hey Mercedes, drive me to the next Italian "and things like that. Be it to increase the heating or to drive to the nearest Italian restaurant. The possibilities for the future are immense. MBUX also stands for a new digitally processed experience in the field of "displays", the use of data and their visualization in the cockpit. The basic approach, the car learns from the driver and not the driver learns the operation of the car is thus extended across all interfaces between "man and car".
With the new operating system attracts a new ecosystem of apps in the A-class. For example, did you already know "What3Words"?
With three words to the goal
What3Words is a GPS-based app that packs every point on earth, limited to 3 × 3 meters, into three words. “Seine.Büchse.Wundervoll” - is the entrance to the office of mein-auto-blog. Sure, we have a street with a name, a house number and little potential for confusion. But what if you are "in the middle of nowhere"? Or in a foreign city. At one of the 12 entrances and exits of a huge shopping mall and want to tell someone where to pick them up. This is exactly where "what3words" plays the bridge. You could send a link from device to device. With the integration of what3words, it is also sufficient to pass on "three words" by phone, which are entered into the A-Class navigation system and the route configuration is ready. Admittedly, it's all very nerdy. But that's exactly why it's so important.
From the retiree car to the home of the nerds?
Mercedes-Benz is particularly popular with retirees, one current study spoke of 17.8% the buyer of a Mercedes are pensioners. With the new fully digital cockpit and the most advanced voice control program on the market, that could go one step further. Ideas that come from Silicon Valley, seamlessly integrated into the latest model of the Stuttgart. With the fully digital cockpit, Mercedes-Benz shows at first glance into the interior how seriously one wants to play the topic of "digitization". The use of MBUX is something that you have to get involved in, and of course the system is, first of all, only available through the list of options.