At the beginning of the new year, major new energy brands have shown their own year-end sales data, the most prominent performance is Tesla, In 2021, Tesla's global electric vehicle delivery volume soared by 87%, this news also made Tesla's stock price rise sharply by 13% on Monday, giving investors betting on new energy vehicles stronger confidence.
Not only that, the brand has also shown a situation of short supply, which can be seen that consumer demand for new energy vehicles has become more and more vigorous. After years of development, the advantages of new energy vehicles have been far more than no shake, fast speed, low cost of car, etc., intelligent travel has become synonymous with new energy vehicles.
Take the previous highly popular intelligent auxiliary driving, which has now been upgraded to a more advanced pilot assistance driving, Tesla, Weilai, Xiaopeng and GAC Aean, which are at the forefront of intelligence, have also launched their own pilot assistance driving systems.
To be honest, I don't fully believe in the navigation assistance system, but seeing the steady performance of GAC AION V Plus's NDA intelligent pilot assistance system in professional tests on multiple automotive vertical platforms, especially in the Pacific Automotive Review, AION V Plus surpassed model Y in the top three in the ranking of 43 models, which instantly aroused my curiosity.
As the third model between traditional car companies and new forces, GAC Aean is rooted in traditional car companies and has a car-making concept that is different from traditional car companies. The brand received a report card of 120,200 units in 2021, up 101.8% year-on-year. Relying on such a background, why can GAC Aean achieve such surprisingly good results?
Is there really something special about the NDA, the other day was lucky to experience this black technology on the AION V Plus.
With doubts, we finally chose the actual test location in the 8D magic mountain city of Chongqing, and the complex road conditions are the actual combat scenes that test intelligent assisted driving, and we also give you a thorough understanding in advance before starting: quite reliable!
Soft and hard at the same time, more in line with the driving habits of Chinese users
As a native of Chongqing, taking the wrong road is something we often have, not to mention friends from other places in Chongqing, I do not exaggerate this, I do not believe that the next time you have the opportunity to experience the Panlong interchange near my home, because no matter what navigation, walking to this will warmly remind you: Ahead is the world's most complex overpass, please drive cautiously.
We can first look at a set of Panlong interchange data, up and down 5 floors, leading to 8 directions, with 20 ramps, the highest point of the bridge deck is 37 meters from the ground, is an important fast hub connecting the north and south districts of Chongqing, because of the complexity caused many foreign cars to take the wrong intersection more than half a day Chongqing self-driving tour.
Only such a complex road can truly test the true strength of the NDA intelligent pilot assistance system. Because it is more difficult to achieve operations such as up and down ramps and automatic lane change overtaking on complex roads, the requirements for algorithms will be more complex and more reflect the reliability of the system.
The AION V Plus test drive mainly examines the NDA's "road recognition ability", assesses the difficulty and humanization of the operation, and mainly includes several key performances of active lane change overtaking, automatic up and down ramps, and the number of manual takeovers. At the same time, we also found that NDA has more advanced functional highlights and more detailed thinking than other brands of intelligent driving technology, which will be introduced in detail later in the article.
First of all, let's take a look at the extremely powerful hardware and software equipment of AION V Plus: the software contains the latest ADiGO 4.0 intelligent cockpit and ADiGO 3.0 intelligent driving assistance system, and has 1 monocular driving perception camera, 5 surround view cameras, 1 medium and long-range millimeter wave radar, 4 millimeter wave radar, 1 high-precision map module, Snapdragon 820A car specification chip, 5GV-BOX communication system and other technologies on the hardware.
It can be seen that AION V Plus takes the route of multiple perception technology, compared with the Model Y (9 cameras, 1 millimeter wave radar) based on visual perception, AION V Plus undoubtedly has more all-round perception capabilities, and the fully armed configuration is called a high-end level in the industry.
The actual experience is also very good, want to achieve NDA intelligent pilot assistance is very simple, just set the destination in advance on the navigation of the car machine system, and then open the AION V Plus, successively press the adaptive cruise button on the right side of the steering wheel and the integrated cruise button, and finally enter the high-precision map coverage area, the system will prompt you that the NDA function has been activated on the central control screen and the way of voice broadcast.
As for the biggest advantage of NDA intelligent pilot assistance, compared with Weilai NOP and Tesla FSD, it only relies on the fixed logic of driving action by relying on front and rear left and right vehicles, which is based on the high-precision navigation map updated with minute-level information and developed in full accordance with China's road driving habits.
It is worth mentioning that after entering the pilot driving, it will be reminded by voice broadcast, including the corresponding specific road conditions, about to change lanes and other operations will prompt you in a voice way, so that you can clearly know which state you are in now, and you do not have to repeatedly confirm whether the intelligent pilot assistance has been opened, compared to the Way that Tesla Model Y only emits a tick-tock prompt sound is more intuitive and convenient.
The NDA that is better used makes the "standard function" more refined
Taking the access ramp as an example, normal human operation will generally adjust the speed into the rightmost lane in time according to the situation on the rightmost road, before the ramp comes.
The logic of the NDA intelligent pilot assistance is also a reference to most of the human actions, it will change into the rightmost lane in advance 2 kilometers before the lower ramp, gradually slow down to 80Km/h, and after completing the lane change, it can automatically adjust the speed, while Tesla will only maintain the low speed in and out of the ramp, and after entering and leaving the ramp, it will need to be manually adjusted back to the normal speed, which will appear very mechanically rigid.
In the actual experience, I obviously felt the smooth operation of the NDA like a person. When encountering too much traffic in the right lane, the system will make its own decision to complete the acceleration and deceleration of the lane change, smoothly merge into it, avoid the situation of missing the ramp intersection due to excessive traffic, and greatly improve the success rate of the upper and lower ramps, which is a special plus for this experience.
In addition, when encountering a large round bend on the ramp, the vehicle will automatically slow down through the corner, even if you do not have a hand steering wheel, it can complete the corner on its own, but for safety it is recommended not to try it easily.
The actual measurement proves that the NDA intelligent pilot assistance system does have outstanding features in terms of fluency and smoothness.
But for the NDA, in fact, I still have a little doubt, that is, whether it can really help users alleviate the fatigue of long-distance driving, because there are too many auxiliary driving on the market can only play a role in helping you step on the accelerator, and can not really alleviate the fatigue caused by long-distance driving, so you have to come to a long-distance high-speed driving to test the NDA intelligent pilot assistance.
The driving of high-speed road conditions seems simple, but a little inattention to the old driver will also be powerless, so do not pursue fast on the highway, and the NDA intelligent pilot assistance is therefore designed to be quite decisive, smooth, stable, in addition to the conventional point-to-point pilot assistance, after the NDA intelligent pilot assistance is activated, the vehicle will generally only stay in the center lane, not the leftmost lane that many drivers are accustomed to, after all, whether it is man-made or machine, driving in the middle lane can minimize the risk of suddenness, In the same level, only the NDA intelligent pilot assistance has such a design.
On the high speed, there is often a situation where the speed of the car in front of the car is slower, and for the novice Xiaobai, when to change lanes and overtake has become a particularly nervous problem, but with the NDA intelligent pilot assistance, such a problem can be solved.
Because the intelligent lane change function in the NDA intelligent pilot assist will continue to detect the adjacent lane vehicles in real time, and finally actively light up and voice prompt you to change lanes according to the results of the detection, and the left and right sides can change lanes to overtake, and finally you only need to lightly hold the steering wheel to confirm, and the vehicle will automatically accelerate and decelerate to change lanes.
The author has also experienced Tesla, Weilai, Xiaopeng pilot assistance before, their system will only carry out a single accelerated lane change, if the speed of the car is too fast, the probability will travel lane change failure, and then immediately need to be humanized hosting, so there will be certain security risks, and the smart and decisive NDA intelligent pilot assistance will naturally appear safe and secure, the success rate of lane change will be much higher, and the number of takeovers will be greatly reduced.
In addition to "basic literacy", the NDA also has exclusive skills
Not only that, NDA intelligent pilot assistance also carefully combines many real use scenarios, the most worth mentioning is that there are large trucks in the adjacent lanes, which will bring a sense of oppression to the driver, but also need to always beware of the safety hazards caused by unruly cars changing lanes.
Before the emergence of NDA intelligent pilot assistance, only Xiaopeng NGP designed to deal with similar situations, but it only set up the logic of direct overtaking, and there was still the danger brought about by the lateral swing of large trucks.
NDA intelligent pilot assist has optimized this, in the left acceleration over the large truck at the same time, will be to the large truck lateral opposite direction to avoid 30cm, of course, the system will also detect the safety distance between the maintenance and the left side of the car, so as to achieve the purpose of overtaking and large truck to maintain a certain safe distance, this 30cm in the actual driving can really give you a full sense of security.
In addition, the NDA intelligent pilot assistance is also distributed to safety, and the 12.3-inch LCD meter can clearly see the number of lanes, the type of vehicle and even the guardrail of the road, as well as the voice prompts mentioned above.
DMS smart housekeeper will also monitor the driver's status in real time through face recognition and other technical means, and when the driver's state is not good, it will remind the driver to concentrate on driving, so as to ensure the travel safety of all vehicle personnel to the greatest extent.
However, the most pleasing to me among these functions is that when driving, just hold the HOD capacitor steering wheel lightly, and the system can determine that you are driving seriously, because there are too many brands on the market that require you to hold the steering wheel, and the system will know that you are driving artificially, which will easily cause fatigue in the hands.
When changing lanes to confirm the operation, Tesla needs to turn the steering wheel to confirm, and it is easy to over-rotate in actual operation, which will cause risks.
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After experiencing an NDA intelligent pilot assistance in the field, the overall feeling of the NDA experience is very friendly and smooth, in the general autonomous up and down ramp, active lane change overtaking performance is excellent, the details are more in line with human driving logic, its multiple perception is more reliable than the Model Y pure visual route, the ramp speed control is safer, the acceleration and deceleration lane change is more intelligent, let me also begin to trust the pilot assisted driving, willing to give the power of long-distance driving to it.
At the same time, we also further feel that automatic driving is not far from our real life, and has gradually begun to penetrate into our daily driving habits.
The most gratifying thing is that NDA or non-subscription, the buy-in version already contains this function, and can be commonly used through OTAs, and is not like Tesla (6.4w), Weilai (3.9w), Xiaopeng (3.6w) need additional price increases to buy.
At the moment when automobile manufacturers are gradually becoming software sellers, GAC Aeon has not blindly followed the trend, but has started from the interests of consumers, truly benefiting the intelligent driving technology to more users, showing enough sincerity and boldness.
Since the release of the GAC Xingling Electronic and Electrical Architecture at the Guangzhou Auto Show last year, GAC Ae-En is currently rapidly paralleling the dual-track in the field of EV and ICV with a trend of one-step technology enjoyment. It was yesterday (January 5) that GAC AE officially launched the world's first three second-generation lidar AION LX Plus, which is expected to soon achieve the unique high-speed + urban all-scenario NDA function of the same level.
In the future, GAC Aean will also work with giants such as Huawei to mass-produce L4 level assist/autonomous driving capabilities as early as 2024, making true unmanned intelligent driving further. In 2022, GAC Ae-Ion is also becoming a leader in the industry with strong sales and rapidly improving technical capabilities.