As the "pioneering work" of Zhiji Automobile, Zhiji L7 has reconstructed the development mode and product logic of intelligent vehicles in the AI era with the new standard of "1+1+3" from "data cooker", to 22 months of "agile development", and then to the "three new benchmarks" of the calibration of deep intelligent vehicles, and comprehensively show the "what cars should look like in the intelligent era".
Since the project was launched in March last year, the Zhiji L7 has been polished for 22 months and ushered in the delivery of the Beta Experience Edition. On December 27, the first batch of 200 Beta Experience Editions of Zhiji L7, the first product of Zhiji Automobile, was officially delivered at the Lingang Intelligent Factory of SAIC Motor Group, and the "urban parade" of 9 cities across the country was launched synchronously. It is reported that at the end of February next year, the Zhiji L7 test drive will be successively in the store, and the real car test drive will be fully opened in early March.
The scene of the event (Image source: screenshot of the live broadcast)
"Since the release of the Zhiji L7 in January and the pre-sale of the Shanghai Auto Show in April, we have held nearly 40 user co-creation activities across the country and obtained valuable suggestions from a large number of users." Liu Tao, co-CEO of Zhiji Automobile, said, "On this basis, we have completed more than 30 important performance optimizations and improvements, and refreshed the industry standard of intelligent electric vehicles with a series of measured results. Today, we will bring the appearance of the intelligent era car to everyone again. ”
According to Liu Tao, the off-line delivery of the Zhiji L7 Beta Experience Edition is a necessary process for the development process of intelligent vehicles in the AI era, known as "data cooker". "Zhiji Auto believes that the data cooker is an indispensable development link that is highly responsible for users, and the development process of smart cars should be redefined in this way. We will use the 'golden key' of real scene data to rigorously verify the intelligent performance of deep intelligent vehicles and bring higher quality user delivery experience." Liu Tao said confidently.
Liu Tao, co-CEO of Zhiji Automobile (Image source: official photo)
After the offline production, the Zhiji L7 Beta Experience Edition has fully complied with the legal and regulatory requirements for driving on open roads. After delivery to the system test users, the "Urban Parade" activity covering 9 cities across the country was immediately launched, starting the data-driven full journey optimization process in the real environment.
In this process, Zhiji L7 will fine-tune the intelligent performance of user contacts and product software systems, and optimize the calibration of high-load usage scenarios of mass production vehicles by refining the perception system, domain controller software, and human-computer interaction of the product. On top of the strict quality verification process such as design verification and product verification, we create a new link of real scene data verification, and constantly verify and polish the user experience to ensure that zhiji L7 becomes the high-quality delivery benchmark of deep intelligent vehicles when it is officially delivered to users.
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It is worth mentioning that since the project was established in March 2020 and the first car of zhiji L7 was delivered off the production line, zhiji automobile only took 22 months to complete the entire development process with high speed, efficiency and high quality, and explored a set of development mode of "agile development" of deep intelligent vehicles.
According to Liu Tao, the four new product architectures are the underlying innovation of Zhiji L7, and also the core research difficulties of development. Among them, the iO origin high-end pure electric architecture provides advanced four-wheel steering and four-wheel drive to improve performance; the new generation of domain fusion central computing digital architecture carries 521 functions Of Nature, supporting the vehicle depth OTA; SOA atomization software architecture breaks the boundaries between various functions from the bottom layer; IM AD intelligent driving system brings users the "most human-like" intelligent driving experience.
Zhiji L7 (Image source: Official image)
In the face of the development challenges of Zhiji L7, Zhiji Automobile draws on the successful experience of "agile development" in the Internet industry to compress the development cycle by "designing, developing, integrating, and iterating"; at the same time, iterates with partners to overcome difficulties one by one and improve development quality and efficiency in the form of multiple rounds of offensive battles.
In the past month, the architecture software of Zhiji L7 has iterated 88 versions; every 3 days, a version of the intelligent driving function software iteration is completed; and the user contact IM Zhiji APP has realized the normalization of the update frequency of 2 weeks and 1 iteration. The development method of "agile development" finally ran out of the "wisdom speed" of 22 months, and initially formed a mature and reproducible intelligent car development model.
In addition, Zhiji Auto closely follows the trend of "software-defined car data determines experience", and defines three new benchmarks for intelligent car products in the AI era through data training, cross-domain integration, and global deep OTA.
It is reported that Zhiji Automobile builds a data factory to achieve full-process data drive in perception, integration, prediction, regulation and control, etc., forming a value closed loop; Zhiji L7 opens up various control domains of the vehicle from the bottom layer, seamless integration, and realizes the "cross-domain integration" of intelligent scenarios. In addition, Zhiji L7 has more than 40 modules of deep OTA coverage, from large in-vehicle domain systems, small functional modules, can be upgraded, FOTA is updated every 3 months, SOTA is updated at any time, and the user experience is refreshed from time to time.
As the "pioneering work" of Zhiji Automobile, Zhiji L7 has reconstructed the development mode and product logic of intelligent cars in the AI era with the new standard of "1+1+3" from "data cooker", to 22 months of "agile development", and then to the "three new benchmarks" of the calibration of deep intelligent vehicles, and comprehensively shows the "what cars should look like in the intelligent era". (China Economic Network reporter Jiang Zhiwen)