Following VPA, high-speed NGP, urban NGP (small-scale experience), intelligent cockpit voice uninterrupted dialogue, etc., Xiaopeng Motors has come to show muscle again!
As before, as long as it is a show, it must be the "first" in the industry, this time it is the industry's first cross-floor memory parking, and the experience model is the Xiaopeng P5.
The Xiaopeng P5 is testing memory parking in the parking lot
Not long ago, Xiaopeng Automobile took the lead in realizing VPA unmanned parking, but this function is only applicable to single-storey parking space.
So, is pengyou with a negative second floor parking space worth having a technology experience? After the update on March 16th, Xiaopeng Automobile finally brought cross-floor memory parking (beta version) - VPA-L.
Why is it called VPA-L, because the implementation of this function is inseparable from the suffix "L", which represents Lidar (lidar).
The P5 front fender of Xiaopeng Automobile is equipped with two lidars with a 120° fan-shaped emission angle and a sensing distance of 150m.
It can perform environmental scanning, 3D modeling, and this lidar is not affected by ambient light, has higher spatial resolution, and can detect obstacles even with black low-reflectance targets, ensuring cross-floor safety.
For example, when going uphill or downhill or passing through the speed bump, the vehicle is in a pitching state, at which time the lidar can carry out more accurate blindness repair, and can more accurately detect pedestrians, static obstacles, and small objects.
P5 sensor summary
With the help of lidar, Xiaopeng Automobile can steadily solve the problem of cross-floor memory parking.
Part 1: Participate in the functional explanation
Before participating in the experience, Xiaopeng Automobile introduced the 7 technical difficulties of this function:
1. Ramp obstacle recognition: Millimeter wave radar can not be used in the basement with too much interference information, coupled with the inaccurate identification of obstacle location & distance under the ramp, the centimeter-level ranging, all-weather scene coverage, and high spatial resolution of lidar greatly improve the safety and redundancy of ramp driving.
2. The difficulty of ramp motion control is high: it is necessary to compensate according to the slope, comprehensively consider the problems and scenarios of ramp skating and experience, and optimize the user experience under the premise of ensuring safety.
3. Longer memory route mileage: Expanded from 1km to 2km, the increase in mileage means that more data needs to be processed, which poses a challenge to cloud processing power and optimizes mapping performance.
4. Expand the parking function of parking spaces along the way: During the use of the memory parking function, you can choose to park other non-memory parking spaces along the way, breaking the "fixed parking space" restriction and making the function more convenient.
5. Shareable routes: Users can share memory routes to other users, or scan the code through mobile phones to obtain the memory routes shared by others and download them to the car machine end and then use them, and you can also directly use the official recommended routes (more than 1100 near xiaopeng charging piles (including cooperation) + the memory route of the elevator entrance has been added to the "luxury package"), which greatly expands the use scenarios of the memory parking function.
6. SR interface, can display a variety of elements in the parking lot: SR simulation display interface, can display including parking spaces, columns, speed bumps and other static elements, as well as vehicles, pedestrians and other dynamic elements. Through voice, visual reminder and other interactions, users can intuitively understand the system status and usage boundaries.
Part 2: Actual Experience
The test drive was decided to be conducted in the parking lot of a Wanda commercial center, because the cross-floor ramp is narrow, the slope is large, the curvature is large, and there is no physical separation between the two-way single lane, which can better deal with the problem of ramp turning on the oncoming car.
Wanda Plaza
The use method is very simple, when you arrive at the parking lot, the screen will pop up the memory parking available area, click OK - start memory parking, you can start.
Just after entering the suspension site, the central control screen popped up the route officially shared by Xiaopeng (to the elevator entrance)
If the parking lot does not have a memory parking route, you can click Record Memory Parking - Drive to the End Point - Save the route, and then you can use it.
The sheep chose to establish a new route and the vehicle is being recorded
The parking lot is curved and curvature, and you may encounter oncoming cars at any time
Encountered oncoming traffic in the downhill
Behind the extremely difficult test is to probe the boundaries of the Xiaopeng P5 cross-floor memory parking function and determine the reliability of the function.
From the actual experience, the vehicle has a long-distance light alternating action during each turn, which plays a certain warning role for pedestrians and vehicles outside the car.
In a right angle bend of nearly 90 degrees before turning into the break, Xiaopeng P5 is very sophisticated, and the steering wheel is quickly adjusted.
On the left is the entrance to the basement, Xiaopeng P5 waits for the uphill car to pass, and then turns in
In addition, voice interaction is also very frequent throughout the parking process, such as turning, objects coming to the car, paying attention to pedestrians, etc.
In the Xiaopeng P5 that performs memory parking, there are light prompts
Secondly, the record of the memory parking route is also more detailed, such as the speed bumps on the lane.
The Memory Parking map shows the speed bumps on the way
The first test was successful, which was a parking route drawn by the sheep, across floors, with multiple turns
The screen shows the memory parking success
The second test, followed by multiple cross-floors, was successful for different routes, during which the number of obstacle avoidance and distance were recorded
The automatic parking was successful, the parking was very positive, and it was not as good as sighing
Part 3: Experience Summary
VPA-L memory parking belongs to the kind of point-to-point, fixed route repetition function.
For example, if you put an obstacle on the original route, you will not take a detour, such as taking a long detour in the parking lot and then returning to a near parking space, it will not cut a short path like a human driver. Inflexible.
In addition, after turning, the vehicle may drive a certain distance in a pressed line, which shows that the positioning accuracy and speed need to be improved.
In memory parking, the vehicle presses the line
Yang Jia believes that its most practical scene may be in its own underground garage, of course, the premise is that the owner needs to have his own fixed parking space, or choose a parking space that can be parked for a long time.
The accuracy of this experience is extremely high, but Yang Mi is still more willing to drive it himself, because the speed of the whole process is almost controlled below 14km/h, and my efficiency will be more than double that of it (people drive more flexibly and faster).
The favorite feature is the official launch of the memory parking sharing, imagine if you go to an unfamiliar parking lot, receive a push push display: whether to go to the elevator entrance, whether to go to the charging pile, which can save a lot of time.
It is more of a technical possibility, from this experience, we see that the last 2 kilometers of unmanned parking function of xiaopeng P5 is slowly coming.
Part 4: High-speed NGP experience
High-speed NGP is a high-speed navigation assistance driving from point A to point B.
The currently applicable models are the Xiaopeng P5 E/P series models with XPILOT 3.0/3.5 system.
Xiaopeng Automobile introduced that this upgrade improves the driving experience and safety in bad and extreme weather, and can achieve "safe driving skills" that are closer to humans.
Due to the short test drive mileage on the day and the relatively few vehicles on the test drive route, the sheep can only share 3 feelings.
1. Voice lane change is really good to use, first wake up the little P, and then say "help me change lanes to the left", "please overtake the car in front" instructions.
From the actual experience, if the car performs your operation, there will be an inexplicable sense of accomplishment, very top (comply with the regulations, do not change lanes frequently).
Use voice to complete a super brother
2. Optimized the speed limit logic under NGP state, when the user manually sets the cruise speed lower than the road speed limit, the system will not automatically increase the cruise speed.
3. The system is more supple, even if it is parallel to the big truck in the turn, the speed and motion control are also very smooth.
In the ramp encountered a rear car forced to overtake, Xiaopeng P5 did not launch, but slowly slowed down, the handling is very flexible
In addition, there are a series of upgrades such as voice system/cockpit UI design, which interested users can feel for themselves.
On March 16, xiaopeng P5 opened full push for the first major version of OTA after its listing, and the corresponding version number of Xmart OS was 3.1.0, with a total of 10 new functions
Part 5: What do you think of the developing Xiaopeng?
Every time you test drive Xiaopeng Car, there will always be a feeling that the more you use it, the newer and newer, and the technology creates surprises.
After each upgrade, Xiaopeng Car will bring some fun things to users, the owner of Xiaopeng P5 is more like playing a cultivation game, but this game has a substance.
However, from the user's point of view, Yang Ba Ba recommends that you should be optimistic and cautious about using these features.
Why optimism and caution? From the actual experience, they have a very high success rate, but it is not excluded that they cannot be handled in some special scenarios, and we must avoid such accidents from happening to individuals.
In addition, everyone is seeing the technological potential of Xiaopeng Automobile, and a huge commercial map is brewing behind the functional layout.
Judging from this test driving experience, if you can park across floors, you can realize unmanned parking from the last ground to the parking space, and you can also realize automatic driving from automatic parking to the ground. Between reality and theory is the division of responsibilities and the interaction of parking lots, such as insensible payment ETC.
In fact, these are not very difficult things, but Xiaopeng still chooses a cautious landing route, which is an attitude towards the development of science and technology (bold investment, careful landing).
By analogy, Xiaopeng's existing functions: high-speed NGP + low-speed NGP + last 2 km memory parking VPA-L, splicing + upgrade, is accurate to the parking level of point-to-point unmanned driving.
But the reality is that Xiaopeng gradually releases this huge system performance in the form of a single function, and the fragmented system function weakens the product experience.
Many friends around me have such a feeling, we will talk about Xiaopeng NGP, memory parking, everyone calls np directly, but order it? I choose to wait.
Of course, there are many people around me who have also sold Xiaopeng cars, perhaps out of love for the value of the P7, love for the G3i smart cockpit, recognition of P5 energy consumption, etc., which is a gratifying thing, because Xiaopeng is still a good car after taking off the aura, but it is also an unfortunate thing, and intelligence may not have been able to create a premium for it.
Therefore, after participating in the technology show again and again, I tacitly agreed that Xiaopeng can do all (last time I also participated in the NGP expedition, very unforgettable) technology research and development, and now I just hope that Xiaopeng can make these fragmented functions and create a better user experience, so that users can hold the tickets, from the present to the future.