In one year, three butterfly changes: what is the efficiency code that supports the HPilot?

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The driving mileage of intelligent auxiliary driving exceeded 6 million kilometers, landed on six passenger cars with a total of tens of thousands of mass production vehicles, and completed three changes from HWA highway auxiliary driving to full-stack self-developed NOH intelligent pilot auxiliary driving and then to the berth integration, becoming the largest autonomous driving AI company in China.

This is the extraordinary achievement in the field of intelligent assisted driving in the field of intelligent driving in the one-year cycle since it demonstrated HWA's high-speed assisted driving at the first brand open day event on March 3 last year.

Behind the extraordinary achievements in the past year's cycle, it can be found that the strong hard strength of scientific research, the advantages of forward-looking layout and mass production landing, and sufficient financial support are the supporting forces for its rapid development, and the reality of the dual characteristics of intensive funds and landing elements of automatic driving technology highlights the reality, which has laid a solid foundation for Zhixing to continue to maintain its leading edge in the follow-up market competition.

In one year, three butterflies change

Looking at the timeline, it can be seen that in the past one-year period, the HPilot Intelligent Driver Assistance System has achieved three butterfly changes.

Specifically:

On March 3, 2021, during the Brand Open Day, the function of HPilot 1.0 (HWA Expressway Assisted Driving) was demonstrated on the spot, and on May 21, 2021, it was first installed on the Weipai Mocha model, realizing the landing of the Millima Assisted Driving System in mass-produced passenger models, providing users with more than 30 L2-L2+ level auxiliary driving experiences such as autonomous lane change, intelligent cornering, intelligent dodging, and automatic emergency braking.

On September 28, 2021, at the "Millima Zhixing Brand Open Day" with the theme of "Millima Zhixing, Embracing the Future", The Zhixing released the Intelligent Pilot Assist Driving System NOH, under the reality of deep integration of the car navigation system, high-precision map and HWA high-speed driving assistance function, the NoH Intelligent Pilot AssistEd Driving System can realize the intelligent pilot assistance driving from point A to point B within the coverage of high-speed and urban expressway high-precision maps, based on the navigation route set by the user.

At the functional level, it can realize the vehicle to automatically get on and off the ramp in the high-speed and urban expressway, automatically follow the navigation route throughout the whole process, and intelligently control the speed and distance in front of the vehicle according to the road speed limit and road shape. With the launch of the Weipai Mocha NOH Smart Pilot Edition on November 19, 2021, The Wisdom Tour has also become the third manufacturer in the world and the second in China to officially mass-produce and land a full-stack self-developed smart pilot assistance system NOH.

The first two changes have allowed the intelligent auxiliary driving of Millima Chi Heng to open up the high-speed, urban expressway and ramp scenes, and with the first model equipped with the Mide HPilot 2.0 version, the Tank 500 was officially launched on March 18, 2022, the Min Mo Zhixing also opened up the parking area scene.

Specifically, compared with HPilot 1.0, the terminal HPilot 2 mounted on the tank 500 enhances the side perception ability, recognizes traffic lights and small obstacles, and the lane line recognition ability, and newly adds the "traffic and parking integration" driving and parking intelligent scene integration solution.

These are the three butterfly changes achieved by Zhixing in a one-year period.

With the launch of the "Urban NOH" function in mid-2022, the full-scenario NOH will be delivered in the second half of the year, and the HSD for automatic driving will be launched in 2023. At that time, Zhixing will also open up an intelligent assisted driving experience for users in the whole scenario of closed + open roads.

Judging from the current information, the "City NOH" function has been test-driven by some guests in Shunyi a few days ago, and it has also performed well in the night road test of complex roads and urban expressways in the city, and with the announcement of the millima ai DAY event to be held on April 19, there is a big move officially released, and this big move is not the official delivery of the "city NOH" function of the moe, we wait and see.

From the timeline, this landing time also makes noH stand on the same running line with Tesla FSD and Xiaopeng NGP.

What is the efficiency code that supports Zhixing to achieve three times the level of the industry?

In fact, this also makes The Wisdom Of the End almost complete the road of others in two years - after all, from the perspective of time, the Founded Wisdom Walk at the end of 2019 is still just a company that has just passed two years old, and it is comparable that Tesla, Xiaopeng, Weilai and other companies have launched the intelligent auxiliary driving function for six years or more from the time of their company's establishment.

Here, I can't help but wonder, what is the efficiency code that supports Zhixing to achieve three times the level of the industry?

Looking at the cocoon, it can be found that a strong reserve of scientific research talents, a leading technology mass production landing model and sufficient financial support are the supporting forces for Zhixing to achieve extraordinary results in a short period of time.

This is not bragging, specifically:

The importance of talent to technology is unquestionable, especially in the automotive industry for autonomous driving. This is also the reason why Apple, which is rumored to make cars, has vigorously poached the research and development personnel of major car companies.

Back to millima Chi Heng, it can be found that in the talent reserve, it has gathered the industry's top batch of "auto + technology" talents - in its current team of more than 600 people, the proportion of master's and doctoral degrees is nearly 50%, of which dozens have more than 10 years of manufacturing and IT company research and development background - such as Zhang Kai, chairman of Mo Mo Zhi Xing, has more than 20 years of experience in the automotive industry; CEO Gu Weihao once led the team to create China's first generation of autonomous driving maps, The first to develop low-cost high-speed assisted autonomous driving solutions and low-cost autonomous parking solutions in China, it is a pioneering innovator in the field of autonomous driving in China.

A strong talent system is the supporting force for Zhixing to achieve remarkable results in a short period of time. The qualification of "National High-tech Enterprise" obtained only two years after its establishment is a strong proof of zhixing's scientific research strength in the field of automatic driving. It should be known that the qualification standards of "national high-tech enterprises" are strict - according to the "Administrative Measures for the Identification of High-tech Enterprises" promulgated by the Ministry of Science and Technology, the qualification of national high-tech enterprises must meet many indicators such as the core technology has independent intellectual property rights, the product or service belongs to the scope of high-tech fields, and the proportion of scientific and technological talents in enterprises.

The advantage of technical strength brought by the talent advantage also makes the wisdom of the company more than comfortable in the capital market.

Public data shows that in 2021, Zhixing will receive three financings with a cumulative total of more than one billion yuan, achieving an overall valuation of more than 1 billion US dollars, ranking among the autonomous driving unicorns. Hillhouse Venture Capital, one of the investors in the financing of Miller Wisdom Bank, said: "I am particularly optimistic about the experience and advantages of the current team in production research and mass production delivery."

Sufficient financial support also provides sufficient grain and grass guarantee for its "forward-looking technology research and development, talent expansion, and promotion of technology landing" in the field of capital-intensive autonomous driving - Gu Weihao, CEO of Miller Zhixing, previously said: "In 2022, the terminal unmanned logistics vehicle project will be expanded by 7 times, and the terminal unmanned logistics vehicle project will be expanded by 3 times." At the same time, in order to promote the rapid development of the millima data intelligence system, the millipede supercomputing center is also in preparation. ”

This is the advantage of Millima Wisdom in talent and capital, but the advantages of Millima Wisdom are far more than this, and it also has the advantages of many autonomous driving start-ups that many autonomous driving start-ups do not have - the millipede model of "car company + technology" that it successfully created has laid a solid foundation for the mass production of its intelligent driver assistance system and the construction of long-term competitive advantages.

As we all know, the progress of autonomous driving requires the feeding of high-quality, real data, and the acquisition of high-quality and real data requires large-scale landing of products.

Here, Gu Weihao, CEO of Zhixing, said at the third phase of the brand open day with a generalization - "Scale is the inevitable basis for winning the automatic driving campaign." If there are only 10,000 cars or only 100,000 cars to do automatic driving, it will not be stronger than the automatic driving ability of 1 million cars, that is, the algorithm can not replace the data no matter how strong. ”

However, the "car company + technology" model has laid a solid foundation for achieving scale advantages and winning automatic driving - as we all know: millima Chi Heng was born from the intelligent driving forward-looking department of Great Wall Motors, which is both a major shareholder and a large customer.

This unique relationship makes Millima Zhixing worry-free on the landing of technical mass production - public data shows that as of March 2022, the Terminal HPilot assisted driving system has landed on six models of Weipai Mocha, Tank 300 City Edition, Weipai Machido DHT, Weipai Latte DHT, Haval Divine Beast, and Tank 500, and the user's driving range has exceeded 6 million kilometers. And in 2022, as many as 34 Great Wall models will be equipped with millima intelligent driving assistance functions, of which 30% are standard; and in the next two years, the number of Great Wall passenger cars equipped with millima intelligent driving assistance products will exceed 1 million units.

The huge amount, real and high-quality data brought by the huge landing scale provides sufficient "nourishment" for the continuous progress and iteration of the intelligent driving technology of Zhixing.

And such a landing scale is also the bottom line of The End Zhixing can be said to be the largest autonomous driving AI company in China' mass production, after all, such a landing scale is unparalleled in the current domestic market.

In summary: It can be said that in the industry of autonomous driving, which is characterized by multiple characteristics such as technology-intensive, capital-intensive, and strong demand for large-scale landing, many industry companies may be able to meet one or two of these needs, but Zhixing is an all-round player.

Under the accelerated trend of autonomous driving penetration, Zhixing took the lead in seizing the industry dividend

There is no doubt that intelligent assisted driving has become the keyword of the current automobile market, which is not only an important selling point for the products advertised by manufacturers to the outside world, but also an important indicator affecting their final car purchase decisions for consumers.

Volvo's CEO even declared that "in the near future... It no longer matters how much horsepower the car is bought, what matters is whether the car you buy is smart enough, whether it can be upgraded autonomously after purchase, whether it can intelligently interconnect with the world around it, and how much intuitive perception it has. ”

Reflected in the market, the market penetration of L2-L2+ intelligent driving assistance systems is showing an accelerating trend - the data shows that 22.2% of passenger cars have been installed with L2 and below autonomous driving systems in 2021, and the overall penetration rate of L2+ and above may exceed 50% in the next five years.

This accelerated penetration trend of advanced assisted driving in the market will bring players to the industry will be the double day of ice and fire - for players with strong production and landing capabilities such as Millima Zhixing, this naturally means taking the lead, having the opportunity to seize the industry dividend and further achieve technological leadership and build a "technology-sales positive cycle"; but for those players who encounter difficulties at the level of mass production landing, it means missing dividends and even being driven off the table.

This is also the inevitable second half of the automatic driving technology that has gone through the technical reserves and begun to enter the second half of the competition with mass production landing and commercialization as the core.

Write at the end:

The fiery self-driving track, stimulated by the potential opportunities of trillions of scales, has attracted hundreds of companies to join it. Here, with the advantages of talent technology, landing mode and capital support trinity superposition, Zhixing is the first to arrive, and has taken the lead in blowing the clarion call to seize the industry dividend of the advanced assistant driver landing acceleration period.