As an illegitimate son abandoned by ACW in Guangzhou, it was rare to return to the company last week to participate in a topic selection meeting, and everyone began a fierce discussion on the issue of buying a pure tram or a fuel car. ACW active male model Super Super was the first to jump out and said: "Have this money and not get on the performance car?" ”
Teacher Ka: "I wish I could reach my destination while lying down, not a sweaty performance car"
I hid in the corner silent, not because my skin was too dark to be ignored (it just so happened that the wall was dark), but because I knew that similar arguments were nothing new, especially under the same car purchase budget, with characteristic trams and fuel cars of the same price always lead to endless quarrels.
The self-driving labels carried by smart cars are ushering in their spring, and the surging romantic feelings of performance cars are equally attractive, the former is the future, the latter is the present, and everyone will have their own choices. From my personal point of view: I accept new things, but only if I want technology to improve my shortcomings, not the field where BB I am good at.
So when A test drive invitation from W6 was handed to me, the concept of "parking a car without driving" was so attractive, and the combination of the two was exactly the theme I wanted to say: the story of automatic driving was played almost every day, but there were not many cases that could really solve pain points with technology from the scene of personal life. There are ideas that never cowhide, can land on the ground to call cattle.
What can be seen and touched is the PPT,
What is used is worthy of technology
At this stage, it is indeed a difficult thing to fully trust in "autonomous driving".
On the one hand, the objective and necessary conditions such as algorithms, computing power, equipment hardware and so on are still growing, and more importantly, there are quite a few variables in the actual traffic situation, and factors such as the division of accident liability, laws and regulations, and technical reliability are all within uncontrollable risks.
Instead of launching a full range of autonomous driving from the beginning, it is better to gradually delegate some of the scenarios involving automatic driving to the life scenarios that can be reached at present, so that users at this stage can perceive the power of future technology in advance in the most down-to-earth way, which is a good idea.
In fact, this is also one of the solutions of WM W6 to promote "unmanned driving" and its highlights.
"Driverless parking" is an autonomous driving solution for WM W6 corresponding to daily life scenarios. In the actual intelligent experience, WM W6 can do: when you rush to catch a plane, drive the car into the parking lot closest to the elevator to get off the car, WM W6 will automatically drive into the parking lot in a no-man's state, find and park into a parking space that can be parked. The same is true when picking up the car, when you return from a business trip, back to the place where you left, the mobile phone remote one-click operation, the vehicle will still automatically drive out of the parking lot in a no-man's state, quietly come to the owner.
Compared with the same level of products, Xiaopeng and Tesla's similar "automatic parking assistance" can be described as almost the same, nothing more than the vehicle itself to find a parking space, when the owner starts the parking function, the vehicle starts the automatic parking state. Its experience is only different in terms of efficiency, operation experience, and success rate.
In terms of meticulous operation logic, most of them correspond to the parking scene where the starting and ending routes of the home or company are fixed. As long as the WM W6 is led to learn a parking route, the system will automatically remember the driving trajectory and the position of the preset parking space in the local and cloud through 5 77GHz millimeter-wave radars, 2 high-definition front-view cameras, 4 high-definition surround view cameras, and 12 ultrasonic radars, so as to realize automatic parking in unmanned situations. And when you summon it, it can also avoid obstacles, avoid pedestrians, and automatically pick up the driver.
At the hardware level: WM W6 adopts a new electrical and electronic architecture, the hardware level is equipped with Qualcomm 8155 chips, 5G baseband and self-developed autonomous driving domain controllers; the whole vehicle deploys 24 sensors, including 5 millimeter wave radar, 7 cameras and 12 ultrasonic radars.
Secondly, WM and Baidu began to cooperate earlier, the two companies as important strategic investors, WM W6 based on baidu Apollo platform, using a new electronic and electrical architecture, will take the lead in equipping the world's first "cloud intelligent unmanned parking system", with L4 level unmanned driving capabilities in specific scenarios, technology ahead of the other three new car-making forces.
It is worth mentioning that the comprehensive "cloud computing power" of its system has reached the level of million-level TOPS (computing power is the latest measurement standard for contemporary intelligent electric vehicles). Referring to the current supercomputing platform of WEILAI using four NVIDIA DRIVE Orin chips, its comprehensive computing power is 1016 TOPS, while Tesla's HW3 chip hash rate is 144 TOPS.
To put it bluntly, as long as there are enough fixed facilities, the more fixed the route, and the data is enough, this system only needs a small amount of computing power to achieve unmanned driving, what lidar is not used at all, like a relatively closed parking lot once combined with high-precision maps, similar experience can be sustained and smooth. (So there must be enough people to use)
Of course, simply looking at this function, at most it is to improve a part of the life scene, which is not enough to explain how much pain point is solved for life travel. But with WM's brand positioning of advocating "technology inclusion", low-cost high-tech can bring a certain degree of stimulation to new business models, such as self-driving software subscriptions. Just think, not all trams can have autonomous driving conditions, as long as the data is perfected, it can achieve similar functions through OTAs to products with lower thresholds, which is a positive result for some consumers.
I used to drive,
Now the car is with me
As a "conservative person" who does not oppose new things, my position has always been that I do not want vehicles to interfere with too much autonomous behavior. After the opening of a brand of assisted driving system, from the main road to the auxiliary road, the machine behavior of the machine speed from 120km/h to 60km/h speed in an instant makes me feel extremely uncomfortable, and in the urban roads with many variables, smart cars should be more tolerant. Asking the owner to trust the machine completely, at this stage I think is impossible and not necessary.
Rather than highly integrated software and hardware, it is better to leave more tolerance to the driver, the purpose of intelligence is to improve safety, if you can do the necessary emergency braking and sudden lane changes and other reactions, I think it is more practical.
In experience, in the matter of driving, WM W6 is still more suitable for me as a "conservative person", you can think of me as Will Smith in the movie "I, Robot", I can accept it, but I prefer that I can control everything.
So I don't want to have to adapt from scratch when driving a new car. In the main driving seat of the W6 for the first time, the operation logic of its full functions is almost similar to that of traditional oil vehicles, and novice masters can get started with zero difficulty, which is its initial good feeling to me.
The second thing to praise is its electric door setting, which, at the initial start, when you are still wondering if it will be as sensitive as other trams on the market, in the first half, which will cause the vehicle to slip away when driving in the city. The WeinaW6 and the traditional German oil car is very similar, the first half of the gentle and harmless, stepping more and stepping less, the vehicle is slow to force, even if the girl suddenly stepped on the air, there is no need to worry about the car suddenly power.
When the speed exceeds 60 kilometers, its acceleration returns to the feeling of a conventional tram, that is, stepping on it, the power feeling is smooth and easy to control, and at the same time it is still similar to some oil cars, when the low speed switches to the high speed, the inexplicable sense of downshift ceremony, perhaps specially left to the passengers of the special sense of ceremony, such an advantage is that even if the kinetic energy recovery is in the medium or weaker level, it is difficult for passengers in the back row to feel the sense of vertigo. (Just rush this detail, I really want to name some traditional car companies, and they are not as good as Weima.) ）
Coupled with the chassis deliberately adjusted thick and tough style, in the test drive of the route, I don't know if it is the special intention of the organizers, there is a very bad construction section, no matter what kind of impact from the road surface its vehicle is suffering, the chassis feedback is always in step, which is the low center of gravity benefits brought by the battery bottom, so that engineers can do suspension and suspension system tuning, it is easier to achieve balance through four-wheel weight distribution, in the past, traditional oil vehicles need to pass a lot of time and road tests to obtain relatively average values, Therefore, in terms of comfort, the tram has its natural advantages.
I always heard friends say that when you buy a tram, you will find it difficult to go back, one is to use the car cost immediately plummeted, and the other is to experience that the traditional oil car can not give.
For this evaluation, my point of view has always been half open, can make the latter valid, I think the minimum standard must be at least a W6, easy to drive and energetic, but also have a personal voice assistant, can perform most of the functions of the vehicle, bored, tired, query and control functions, can wake up the voice assistant, and even has become a habit of driving any new car today.
It used to be you driving, now it's a car to accompany you, and it's great to experience life from a different perspective.
Of course, this also has a premise, the car must bid farewell to the early "but all the orders must first say hello" embarrassment. The WM W6 is able to talk naturally and freely multiple times in 15 seconds. Such a performance can also be regarded as the middle and upper level of the current level of vehicles.
Write at the end
In terms of big experience, WM has the advantage that traditional car companies are difficult to catch up in a short period of time. For example, the 225/55 R18 specification Michelin Haoyue 4 silent tire is enough to be willing to pay the next cost (the wetland control performance and mute of this tire are good), and the richness of its configuration is also the level of the joint venture of 300,000 yuan, and the rational level is easy to impress.
However, for the automobile industry that emphasizes the manufacturing background and manufacturing experience, there are still room for improvement in some small details. For example, the interior materials, storage space, and the damping of the knob and the wheel are slightly blurred, as well as the participation of people and cars when turning, etc., all need to spend more time on the production end of the WM to improve.
In fact, as long as WM is in place in the details, objectively speaking, WM still has a great opportunity. In the 6 years since the birth of the brand, 3 models have been launched, of which more than 50,000 owners of the WM EX5 have been born. The model has also been ranked first in the sales of a single model of the new car-making force for 17 consecutive months.
Although there is still a slight gap compared with the achievements of 100,000 vehicles off the production line of Weilai, it is also born in the same time node as the other three new car-making forces, and who does not need time to continue to polish it. The good thing about Weima is that it never sells "futures", and the real three products are placed in front of consumers, and soon, they will add another car product.
No matter what you say, as long as WM can continue to tell the story well, like such a real new car brand, in the end, I have to say: Good horses are not afraid of the road is not afraid of the road.