GM gives its most important trucks a new UI—and includes CarPlay
GM gives its most important trucks a new UI—and includes CarPlay
通用汽车为其最重要的皮卡车型更新了用户界面，并保留了 CarPlay 支持
General Motors is about to launch new versions of its bestselling Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra pickup trucks for model year 2027, and among the changes are new user interfaces for the trucks’ digital displays. The automaker has gone for a more minimalist approach than we’ve seen from it in the past, and after a demo yesterday, it seems like it has been listening to constructive feedback to improve the products. And yes, unlike GM’s electric vehicles, these trucks still let you cast your Apple or Android phone to the infotainment system.
通用汽车即将推出 2027 款畅销车型雪佛兰 Silverado 和 GMC Sierra 皮卡的新版本，此次更新包括了车辆数字显示屏的全新用户界面。这家汽车制造商采用了比以往更简约的设计风格。在昨天的演示之后，可以看出他们确实听取了建设性的反馈意见，并以此改进了产品。而且，与通用汽车的电动车型不同，这些皮卡仍然允许用户将苹果或安卓手机投屏到车载信息娱乐系统上。
Although GM showed us video of the main instrument cluster—the gauges and info that’s presented to the driver—we don’t have any screenshots we can show you. But I was impressed with the restraint and lack of visual noise; instead, the background is always black, which should be dark even at night thanks to local dimming technology. There are a number of different views. One with simple half-moon dials for speed and engine rpm; on the right side of the display is a user-configurable zone, where you can browse your music or audio feeds, display trip info, or turn-by-turn directions.
虽然通用汽车向我们展示了主仪表盘（即呈现给驾驶员的仪表和信息）的视频，但我们目前没有截图可以展示。不过，其克制的设计和极少的视觉干扰给我留下了深刻印象；背景始终保持黑色，得益于局部调光技术，即使在夜间也能保持深邃。仪表盘提供了多种视图模式：一种是带有简单的半月形速度表和转速表；显示屏右侧是一个用户可配置区域，你可以浏览音乐或音频源、显示行程信息或查看逐向导航。
Another is a driver assist display, with green as the highlight color to show when Super Cruise is active; this shows you a representation of what the car’s fused sensors are seeing around it. A third is for off-road driving, with your various angles and diff settings, and a fourth is for towing. But there’s also an even more minimalist version that simply shows the speed as big white digits and nothing else. This is similar to the night mode you’d find in Saabs, and it’s very useful for night driving. At the base of the main instrument display is a strip of information that’s permanently displayed regardless of the view mode you choose—this includes things like your fuel level, the drive mode, and any warning lights that may appear.
另一种是驾驶辅助显示模式，以绿色作为高亮颜色，显示 Super Cruise（超级巡航）是否处于激活状态；它能直观呈现车辆传感器所感知的周围环境。第三种是越野驾驶模式，显示各种倾斜角度和差速器设置；第四种则是拖车模式。此外，还有一个极简版本，仅以白色大数字显示车速，不显示其他任何内容。这类似于萨博（Saab）汽车的夜间模式，对于夜间驾驶非常实用。在主仪表盘底部，有一条无论选择何种视图模式都会永久显示的信息栏，包括燃油油位、驾驶模式以及可能出现的任何警告灯。
Yes, it has CarPlay. The central infotainment screen still runs on Android Automotive OS, but now the home screen is a more useful split view showing the music and navigation apps, with a full map view rather than the limited map that GM previously showed in its split-screen view. “If you wanted to search something or provide feedback on road conditions or something like that, when you tapped on the screen, it took you out of the home screen and took you to the full-screen maps. Here, you can do everything that full-screen maps can do right inside this window,” said Colin McCormick, group product manager at GM.
是的，它支持 CarPlay。中央信息娱乐屏幕依然运行 Android Automotive OS，但现在主屏幕采用了更实用的分屏视图，同时显示音乐和导航应用，并提供完整的地图视图，而不是通用汽车之前在分屏视图中显示的受限地图。“如果你想搜索内容或反馈路况等，以前点击屏幕会让你离开主屏幕进入全屏地图。现在，你可以在这个窗口内完成全屏地图能做的所有事情，”通用汽车集团产品经理 Colin McCormick 表示。
A dedicated row at the bottom of the screen is for the climate controls, although, as you’ll note from the photos, there are physical dials to change the temperature, as well as physical buttons for fan speed and demisting. GM has also integrated more Android-like notifications into the infotainment system and included the ability to create quick actions. It has also changed the behavior of some of its apps—now, if you accept a phone call, it won’t switch you out of whatever app was active to dump you into the dialer app anymore.
屏幕底部有一排专门用于空调控制的区域，不过正如你在照片中看到的，调节温度有物理旋钮，风扇速度和除雾也有物理按键。通用汽车还将更多类似安卓系统的通知集成到了信息娱乐系统中，并增加了创建快捷操作的功能。它还改变了一些应用的行为逻辑——现在，如果你接听电话，系统不会再强制切换出当前正在运行的应用，而是直接跳转到拨号界面。
GM made the decision to drop Apple CarPlay and Android Auto phone casting from its newer EVs, and it’s one we’ve been pretty critical of. Although the automaker told us it made that decision in order to offer a better, more unified experience to its customers, that may well have changed: here, customers still have the choice to just cast their phone to the center screen. And it has done a better job of integrating CarPlay and Android Auto into the experience, putting the casting apps in a large window or tile that takes up most but not all of the infotainment screen.
通用汽车此前决定在其新款电动汽车中取消 Apple CarPlay 和 Android Auto 手机投屏功能，我们对此曾提出过严厉批评。尽管该车企告诉我们，做出这一决定是为了给客户提供更好、更统一的体验，但情况可能已经发生了变化：在这里，客户仍然可以选择将手机投屏到中央屏幕上。而且，他们做得更好，将 CarPlay 和 Android Auto 整合到了体验中，将投屏应用放在一个占据信息娱乐屏幕大部分（而非全部）区域的大窗口或卡片中。
To the left is another card that allows you to access other native apps, like towing or music. Porsche took a similar approach to working with, rather than against, users who enjoy CarPlay, and this looks like a welcome step from GM. GM’s spokesperson wouldn’t be drawn on whether this means we’re going to see a corporate retreat from the previous stance on EVs, but I will note that the press release it sent Ars does say that the system was built “as a single scalable foundation across electric, gas and diesel-powered vehicles, it transforms time spent behind the wheel into an effortless, personalized journey,”—emphasis mine.
左侧是另一个卡片，允许你访问其他原生应用，如拖车或音乐。保时捷也采取了类似的方法，选择与喜欢 CarPlay 的用户合作而非对抗，这看起来是通用汽车迈出的受欢迎的一步。通用汽车发言人未透露这是否意味着公司将撤回此前在电动汽车上的立场，但我注意到其发给 Ars 的新闻稿确实提到，该系统被构建为“一个跨越电动、汽油和柴油动力车辆的单一可扩展基础，将驾驶时间转化为轻松、个性化的旅程”。
Passenger screens are here to stay. Complaining about the trend of OEMs putting an extra infotainment screen in the dash for the front passenger is evidently a losing battle now, because such a feature will be available on the Sierra and Silverado. The screen is coated in a polarized filter, so the driver can’t see what they’re doing or watch what they’re watching. This can be streaming content or video piped in via HDMI from a port down by the passenger’s knee. And the passenger infotainment screen will pair with Bluetooth headphones so the driver doesn’t necessarily have to listen to whatever it is, either.
副驾屏幕将成为标配。抱怨汽车制造商在仪表盘为前排乘客增加额外信息娱乐屏幕的趋势显然已经无济于事，因为 Sierra 和 Silverado 都将提供此功能。屏幕涂有偏光滤镜，因此驾驶员无法看到乘客在做什么或看什么。这可以是流媒体内容，也可以是通过乘客膝盖旁边的 HDMI 端口输入的视频。此外，副驾信息娱乐屏幕可以与蓝牙耳机配对，因此驾驶员不必被迫收听乘客的内容。