We are no strangers to Industry 4.0, for instance: the use of computers in our daily lives; from smartphones to self-scan supermarket checkouts, computers are used seemingly everywhere to make our lives easier. While Industry 4.0 is not something most are unfamiliar with, not all people understand just how impactful it’s been and how significant the impact will continue to the auto industry? How do Automotive technology students prepare to meet the demands of the 4th industrial revolution?
In Industry 4.0, the automotive industry will be strongly impacted in all fields from design technology, production technology, to transportation services, after-sales and repair services, etc.
In the field of automotive technology manufacturing, in this period, intelligent robots and supercomputers are clearly able to do many jobs better than humans can, especially in areas that require high levels of accuracy or calculations using large amounts of data. In the short term, it is likely that we will see a rise in unemployment as workers in various industries are replaced by machines or software programs. It is human beings who will be asked to provide oversight of a new, automated workplace. It is human beings who will design, build and maintain equipment.
In the field of transportation, cars that don’t include human intervention are increasing. The self-driving car is summoned by a smartphone for pick up at the user’s location with the destination set. Furthermore, the problem of self-driving cars was solved. The problem becomes making them safe enough to use in their respective environments.
For example: Our car today usually only handles a few simple math at the same time and needs a lot of separate “ECU brains” to compute and control separate systems. Vehicles on the road do not have information connection with each other, so self-driving control or “communication with other vehicles haven’t existed yet”. In the 4.0 era, self-driving cars will be developed to be able to continuously get data from the “cloud system” (Imagine it as a cloud in the sky, it has enough information about the weather of the day, traffic density, and road conditions ahead. The car just needs to connect to that cloud and get data into the central ECU) and from surrounding cars making them safe enough to use in their respective environments.
In addition to intelligent self-driving cars, the connection between people and automotive technology through smartphones will also be very developed. You can use your phone to control the car to start automatically, check the safety systems, and export the necessary information about the car for you to “diagnose” it yourself. Moreover, you can use a mobile phone to park your vehicle remotely or call a driverless taxi from your phone, etc, and many other related applications.
Flying cars are also an automotive technology that will be quickly applied in the near future. In developed countries, they have researched and tested flying motorbikes and taxis.
There are obviously people in the field of car service that need intelligence. Because machines are hard, and you have to be fairly intelligent to be successful. If you don’t master automotive technology and fully understand how it works, you will have to “surrender” to it.
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