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Smart vehicles have become an important development direction of the transformation and upgrading of the automotive industry. Highly intelligent smart vehicles can free human drivers from driving tasks, endowing cars with the mobility and instrument properties. Smart cockpits integrate the media for interactions between humans and environments inside and outside cars. This paper has explored the components of smart cockpits, sorted out three development stages of smart cockpits from such three dimensions as man, car and environment, analyzed the characteristics of the second development stage (Stage 2.0), and illustrated the necessity of the competition between smartphones and head units at the second stage. Based on the comparison of merits and demerits between smartphones and head units, this paper has proposed three principles for an ideal division of duties of smartphones and head units.

Automotive safety is always the focus of consumers, the selling point of products, the focus of technology. In order to achieve automatic driving, interconnection with the outside world, human-automatic system interaction, the security connotation of intelligent and connected vehicles (ICV) changes: information security is the basis of its security. Functional safety ensures that the system is operating properly. Behavioral safety guarantees a secure interaction between people and vehicles. Passive security should not be weakened, but should be strengthened based on new constraints. In terms of information safety, the threshold for attacking cloud, pipe, and vehicle information should be raised to ensure that ICV system does not fail due to malicious attacks. The cloud is divided into three cloud platforms according to functions: ICVs private cloud, TSP cloud, public cloud.

In order to address the increasing energy and environmental concerns, China and the US both launched the fuel economy regulations and aim to push the development of technology. In this study, the stringency of CAFC and CAFE regulations and the technology development of two countries are compared. Besides, the optimal technology pathways of America and automakers for the compliance of CAFE regulations are calculated based on the modified VOLPE model, and the results are used as reference for China. The results indicate that the annual regulation improvement rates of China is higher than America and the AIR of China 2015-2020 regulation reaches 6.2% and is the most stringent phase in 10 years from 2015 to 2025. From the perspective of technology, there are still big gaps between China and the US in the applications of advanced fuel saving technologies.