WeRide, the world's leading L4 level autonomous driving technology company, announced that the autonomous driving mileage on the public road has taken the lead in breaking through 10 million kilometers, of which the full driverless mileage exceeds 2.5 million kilometers, leading the industry in the scale of the scene and technology iteration, officially opening a new era of full unmanned driving and commercial landing.
Wenyuan Zhixing's 10 million kilometers are accumulated from more than four years of continuous testing and operation of the self-driving fleet of more than 300 vehicles in China and the United States, forming a huge and high-quality scene library. Wenyuan Zhixing's fleet includes autonomous taxis (Robotaxi), driverless minibuses (Robobus), driverless freight vehicles (Robovan) and other different models, the layout of Guangzhou, Zhengzhou, Nanjing, Wuhan, Anqing and San Jose and other cities in China, testing and operation is mixed, covering day to night, CBD to urban villages, tunnels to highways, high temperature and heat to rain and snow, man to cargo and other traffic scenarios, producing a large number of valuable automatic driving data every day.
The 10 million kilometers accumulated by Wenyuan Zhixing on the open road are simultaneously reproduced and generalized on its self-developed city-level simulation platform, forming a simulation test mileage of more than 8 billion kilometers, which is equivalent to 300 self-driving cars of Wenyuan Zhixing on the real road for 50 years. Mileage is the cornerstone of the development of Wenyuan Zhixing's automatic driving technology, which is composed of tens of millions of miles of open roads and billions of miles simulated by simulation, which greatly expands the coverage of the scene, improves the test efficiency, enables the automatic driving system to carry out more frequent and accurate effective test verification in more abundant and complex scenarios, shortens the function development and test cycle, and continuously promotes the rapid iteration of wenyuan Zhixing's data model and the optimization of algorithms.
10 million kilometers led Wenyuan Zhixing steadily towards the mass production of autonomous driving frontloads. Under the huge number of scenarios and continuous test operations, the key indicators such as perception ability, stability and tolerance of Wenyuan Zhixing sensor suite have been comprehensively tested, and have been upgraded five iterations, bringing more integrated, efficient and stable hardware solutions. The latest generation of sensor kits, The WeRide Sensor Suite 4.0, released in November 2021, is the highest in the L4 autonomous driving industry and is the industry's first small-size, lightweight kit portfolio that can be widely used in different passenger models, a key step towards large-scale mass production of autonomous vehicles.
Operating mileage is an important part of Wenyuan Zhixing's 10 million kilometers. In November 2019, Wenyuan Zhixing launched China's first Robotaxi commercial operation, and the service is open to the public. In addition to safety and stability, the ride experience and efficiency of autonomous driving are particularly important in operation and have become an important indicator of system capabilities. Wenyuan Zhixing has developed a measurement system for Comfort and Progress, continuously evaluating the performance of autonomous vehicle fleets in these two dimensions. 10 million kilometers brings a large enough sample size for the engineering team to be able to find problems in a targeted manner, solve problems systematically, and effectively cope with the challenges of large-scale commercial landing in the future.
In the process of landing autonomous driving technology, 10 million kilometers is a new peak, but also a new starting point, Wenyuan Zhixing's next stage of tens of millions of miles will be brought by fully unmanned driving and commercial landing, and it will come faster. Wenyuan Zhixing will continue to move forward steadily and firmly guard the safety of every kilometer.