The ideal L9 intelligent driving system finally paid the surface, named ideal AD Max, the class representative summarized, four important information:
Perception, decision-making, planning and control of the full stack self-research, the whole set of AD Max series standard. On the hardware, there are 6 8-megapixel cameras, including a medium and long distance (up to 550 meters) and a 120-degree wide angle under the front windshield in front of the front, and a 120-degree wide angle, as well as the left and right side front and rear, the camera is the main sensor, and there is a Hesai AT128 lidar overhead to play assist, and the calculation uses two Orin-X, and the final force is 508Tops. Functionally, "navigation assistance for all scenarios" can be realized. With a capacitive steering wheel to reverse offhand, DMS and electric preload safety belts prevent the driver from wandering or not taking over.
After reading this, there may be a few pieces of information that can be talked about together, who is the strongest auxiliary driver of the new wave of weilai, ideal, and xiaopeng? Will it go to the legendary autonomous driving?
Preempt the Door assisted driving time window
2022 is the year of Wei Xiaoli's intelligent driving" hard, THE ET7, ES7, ET5 of the NIO NT2.0 platform, the ideal L9 equipped with AD Max, and the G9 of Xiaopeng XPILOT 4.0.
All are based on Orin-X chips, all are "full-stack self-research", all are 8 million cameras, all are equipped with lidar, and functionally can achieve assisted driving with full scene coverage.
The three car companies have taken advantage of the time difference between Tesla's FSD and the introduction of the Chinese market to launch their own full-scene door to door assisted driving in 2022.
Door to Door assisted driving is that you go out to set up the navigation, the vehicle can follow the navigation route, the whole process through the auxiliary driving to the destination.
During the system activation process, the vehicle can independently choose the correct lane, comply with traffic rules red and stop green, turn left and right, give way to pedestrians, get on and off ramps, overtake slow cars, and park.
In short, it is the things you have to do in your daily driving, and the system is all-inclusive. In addition to the lack of reliability of the system, which requires the driver to always pay attention to the road ahead and prepare for takeover, it is similar to the automatic driving we understand.
In addition to Wei Xiaoli's new car, the Zhiji L7 and IM AD systems, the new HI version of the Jihu Alpha S and the Huawei ADS system of Avita 11, and the Great Wall WEY brand equipped with a variety of models of Zhixing, can also achieve this function.
In terms of push time, the XPILOT3.5 equipped with Xiaopeng P5 can already achieve Door to Door assisted driving, and the push time is the end of the second quarter. The Xiaopeng G9 is the first model of the XPILOT 4.0, and the push time is set for 2023.
Xiaopeng said in a call in the 2021 financial report: "The number of takeovers per 100 kilometers of P5 city NGP has begun to approach the high-speed NGP, and the comprehensive experience is benchmarking against the domestic head of Robotaxi Company, and in considerable aspects has achieved catch-up." ”。
For the upcoming XPILOT 4.0, Xiaopeng directly said that "compared with other mass-produced intelligent driver assistance systems in the industry, XPILOT4.0 will have a significant technical difference."
Xiaopeng is the car company with the most investment in smart driving self-research, the personnel scale of the intelligent driving team has reached 1500 people, and the R&D investment in fiscal 2021 is more than 4 billion. This is actually a very big risk, if the intelligent driving experience compared to the ideal Xiaopeng does not have a crushing advantage, the opportunity cost is very high.
After all, with this time window and R&D funds, WEILAI has built a moat for the entire service system to replenish the energy system, and the product manager attribute of the ideal car has also been widely recognized. Even zooming in to the entire automotive industry, the Huawei ADS and the H Pilot are very strong.
Recently, it has been rumored that Xiaopeng is shrinking strategically, and the intelligent driving team has begun to lay off employees, for Xiaopeng, 2022 will be a year of great pressure.
The Door to Door assisted driving push time of the NIO NT2.0 model is also about between June and September, and the ideal L9 city Pilot puzzle has not yet been announced.
But given that the ideal car's high-speed Pilot experience is still in the grinding period, the progress of the City Pilot may be the last OTA of the three families.
In terms of sensor layout and selection, the three companies have their own differences, although they are mainly visual, but Xiaopeng XPILOT 4.0 installs 2 lidars on the bumper, and chooses the Sagitar Juchuang M1 that can dynamically adjust the scanning frequency and detect the near field more quickly.
Both NIO and Ideal adopt a lookout structure, with a lidar at the top that has a greater advantage in long-range detection. Previously, there was news that the ideal L9 would be equipped with a 4D millimeter wave radar, and there was also information that the ideal L9 would cancel the millimeter wave radar, and I personally believed that the credibility was not high.
Regarding the visual algorithm model level, the ideal Weilai Xiaopeng is not high-profile, will not engage in hard-core AI Day like Tesla, and does not go to the top publications such as CVPR to brush the list. Even Xiaopeng's 1024, the information released to the outside world is only the product layer.
Talk about the "figure" discoloration era, huge uncertainties
Since the Didi incident, "high-precision maps" have appeared less and less in the promotional materials of car companies. Even as far as the HD map quotient is concerned, the "map" discoloration is also discussed, and even a certain map dealer clearly states that the article involving the information of the HD map should not involve their name.
This is somewhat magical. For intelligent driving at this stage, the importance of high-precision maps is self-evident, and even whether the auxiliary driving system of Wei Xiaoli's three families can work depends on whether the map dealers can still do it.
The Huawei ADS system of the new HI version of Polar Fox Alpha S has repeatedly jumped tickets, and the reason may also be related to the limitation of high-definition maps.
Even if the pilot driving assistance system is on the line at the city level as scheduled, it can be used in which cities and which roads, which is also based on the progress of high-precision map collection.
At present, from 2022 to 2023, the cities that can use the city Pilot function will probably have Shanghai, Shenzhen, Suzhou, parts of Beijing, and parts of Guangzhou.
The progress of other cities is not clear, if it is an inland third- and fourth-tier city, if the policy is not loosened, basically buy a car, do not consider the comparison of assisted driving.
When announcing the push time, Weilai Xiaopeng's ideal driver assistance system added a sentence "after obtaining relevant administrative approvals". Although there are some throwing pot policies, but there is no high-precision map, it is indeed difficult to move, even if several car companies have layout crowdsourced maps and SLAM positioning, but this kind of "self-help" faces higher policy risks.
Regarding the impact of high-precision maps on intelligent driving, you can review this article written last year: Didi network security review, what is the impact of the autonomous driving industry?
As for moving from assisted driving to automatic driving, Weilai Ideal Xiaopeng has the strength to do an L3 automatic driving with a small ODD, such as a highway traffic jam scenario, which can but is not necessary (the experience upgrade is not obvious), and the domestic regulations on L3 automatic driving have not been opened.
On the whole, if there is a demand for car purchase, or have to return to the vehicle itself to think, intelligent driving at this stage is basically not recommended as a reference factor for car purchase, one is that the difference in experience will not be too large, and the second is affected by the map, and the uncertainty factor is larger.
Fortunately, the new cars of the three brands are still very different in positioning, and the advantages are obvious, and there is basically nothing to tangle. At least in the short term, Wei Xiaoli is still a brother in the trenches.