The level of intelligence of the vehicle is basically a big problem in front of all new energy vehicle companies, in this piece of the car companies that do a good job are Xiaopeng and Tesla, their Xiaopeng P7 and Tesla Model 3 have also become hot new energy models on the market with good intelligent driving assistance functions. They can achieve today's level of intelligent driving assistance, which is inseparable from OTA upgrade after OTA upgrade. In the last month of 2021, Xiaopeng P7 and Tesla Model 3 completed the last OTA upgrade push of the year, today we will start from the improvement of intelligent driving assistance functions, to see what they have upgraded in the past year?
Xiaopeng new feature +2, Tesla "tinkered" another year
The "hardware surplus" Xiaopeng P7 and Tesla Model 3 have long paved the way for subsequent OTA software upgrades, while Tesla Model 3 launched navigation and driving assistance functions as early as 2019. Before 2021, Tesla Model 3 does have a lot of advantages over Xiaopeng P7 in the field of intelligent driving assistance.
However, in 2021, after having enough data support, Xiaopeng P7 has added high-level intelligent driving assistance functions that are enough to go hand in hand with Tesla Model 3. Among the more significant new features are the NGP navigation driver assistance function for users in early 2021, and the new VPA parking memory parking function in June. And in the other two OTA upgrade pushes in August and December, Xiaopeng also optimized these two functions. This enables vehicles to drive autonomously according to navigation in partially closed roads, as well as automatic parking from the entrance of the parking lot.
In the self-driving assistance function update for the whole year of 2021, the Tesla Model 3 mainly has made a series of optimizations and upgrades to the existing functions. One of the more important upgrades is to replace the service provider of the map with Baidu Map at the beginning of the year, and optimize the navigation system in the middle of the year, so that it can better cooperate with the new map, thereby improving the accuracy of the navigation and driving assistance function. At the same time, Tesla has also optimized the safety of its own driver assistance system to a certain extent.
On the whole, the Xiaopeng P7 has played a combination of "new + optimized" in the driver assistance function, so that it has the same or even stronger book capabilities as tesla Model 3 at the end of 2021.
All have navigation and driving aids, but Xiaopeng is "more aware of the road" than Tesla
Let's talk about who is better to use these two cars after the last upgrade in December? After all, user experience is a more important part of the configuration than stacking configuration.
The navigation and driving assistance function of the Xiaopeng P7 is still relatively high in most of the time. On the urban expressway or highway covered by the high-precision map, the Xiaopeng P7 can independently follow the navigation and complete functions such as changing lanes, surpassing slow trains, and switching roads. After an upgrade to this feature in August, it was able to drive according to speed limits when cornering or going up and down ramps. The entire navigation driving assistance function experience, anthropomorphism and reliability are still good, which also allows Xiaopeng P7 owners to drive for a long time on the highway, can be much easier.
The VPA Parking Memory Parking feature allows the automatic parking function to "start in the last mile". Through data collection and transmission from the cloud to the vehicle, xiaopeng P7 can know where there is a parking space from the beginning of entering the parking lot, and then arrive and park by itself, without the need for driver intervention throughout the process. After an upgrade to this feature in December, it was able to better avoid pedestrians and vehicles in parking lots. For people who have had the "painful experience" of driving around the parking lot to find a parking space, having such a feature makes the parking process a lot easier, especially in parking lots with many vehicles or unfamiliar with them.
Although tesla model 3 in the navigation driver assistance function, by replacing the map service provider and upgrading the navigation function to achieve a certain optimization effect, but because Tesla can not draw a high-precision map for Chinese car owners, the navigation system and the underlying map provided by the supplier is not as good as Xiaopeng in terms of connection ability, and the experience of the navigation driving assistance function will be slightly inferior. And the automatic parking function, Tesla still uses the traditional search for parking space and then click automatic parking, although the accuracy is good, but there is no Xiaopeng P7 from entering the parking lot to start the vehicle to take over to find a parking space and parking to cool.
On the whole, although from the basic driving function, xiaopeng P7 and Tesla Model 3 can bring enough perfect experience. However, from the perspective of "master tricks", Tesla Model 3 seems to be "behind" by Xiaopeng P7. Although the Xiaopeng P7 has only launched the NGP navigation driver assistance function this year, because it can draw high-precision maps for vehicles, and the navigation system is more in line with China's road conditions, it is better than Tesla in terms of functional experience. And it also launched the VPA parking memory parking function, which we don't currently see on the Tesla Model 3.
summary:
After a year of OTA upgrades in 2021, who is better to use the Tesla Model 3 and Xiaopeng P7? Although the Xiaopeng P7 belongs to "catching up" with the Tesla Model 3 in terms of functional implementation, from the actual use experience, due to the utilization of big data by the Xiaopeng P7 and its ability to draw high-precision maps to provide the advantages of the vehicle, the Xiaopeng P7 is better than the Tesla Model 3 in the actual experience of the high-end automatic driving function. Although the latter is also trying to "follow the customs", it cannot stand Xiaopeng as the "root of the Chinese brand".