What stages are included in a complete automotive testing system? What testing content corresponds to heavy camouflage, light camouflage, and de-camouflage?
A complete testing system for a vehicle goes through the entire process of laboratory bench testing, standardized test track testing, and then real-road testing. The heavy camouflage, light camouflage, and de-camouflage stages during road testing correspond to different validation focuses and are standard R&D processes in the industry.
The earliest laboratory and test track testing primarily complete the basic performance validation from components and systems to the complete vehicle, serving as a standardized "entrance exam." After entering real-road testing, the first is the heavy camouflage stage, where the core focus is validating the basic performance, structural reliability, and extreme environment adaptability of the complete vehicle, with an emphasis on the stability of core functions. In the light camouflage stage, the need for exterior confidentiality decreases, and the testing focus shifts to optimizing detailed experiences and fine-tuning functions, refining aspects strongly related to user perception. In the de-camouflage stage that everyone sees now, the vehicle enters the final fine-tuning and calibration stage before launch, undergoing a new round of full-scenario validation in a state closest to mass production.
The reason for advancing step by step through so many stages is essentially because real roads are a complex combination of driving conditions, road conditions, and climate, which laboratories and test tracks can never replicate 1:1. Only through phased and focused gradual validation can both basic performance and detailed experiences be perfectly refined.