Independent from the Intelligent Driving Prospecting Department of Great Wall Motors, after obtaining hundreds of millions of financing in the A+ round, it was announced at the recent AI DAY that it will take the lead in mass production of urban navigation assisted driving, and the more convenient name can be urban NOH.
According to Mi mochi, it is expected that in June this year, the city NOH will be installed on the Great Wall Motor's Wei brand mocha model. At that time, "HPilot 3.0 will be China's first large-scale mass production of urban assisted driving navigation system." ”
Prior to this, the company closest to mass production of assisted driving functions in urban scenarios was Xiaopeng.
According to the information revealed by He Xiaopeng at the 2021 annual financial report meeting, the intelligent driver assistance system XPilot 3.5 and its urban NGP function will complete the technology development in the second quarter of this year. After obtaining the approval of the city's high-precision map, it will be gradually pushed to the users of the approved cities in each city through OTA in batches.
Huawei, another player who can realize the mass production of assisted driving functions in urban scenes, due to the repeated ticket jumps of the Polar Fox Alpha S HI version, and the mysterious attributes of temporary futures products such as Avita 11, the mass production landing progress is still not as good as Xiaopeng.
As the development of the automotive industry enters the second half of intelligence, the competition for the layout of intelligent driving car companies and technology companies has also shifted from a relatively closed and single high-speed scene with single road conditions to a more complex and difficult urban scene.
Last July, Tesla was already pushing the FSD 9.0 Beta version with urban NOA capabilities in the United States.
On the domestic side, He Xiaopeng, who has completed the NGP expedition in high-speed scenarios, judged that the admission ticket for intelligent driving in the second half will be built by mass-produced urban scene assisted driving and full-stack closed-loop capabilities.
Zhang Kai, chairman of The Wisdom Bank, also mentioned at the AI DAY at the end of last year that "2022 is the first year of mass production of urban smart pilot auxiliary driving".
Of course, position determines judgment.
Tesla FSD is difficult to enter China, no matter how to say that "in the city NOH, our product strength is not lost to Tesla's performance in China." Then the short-lived dispute over the auxiliary driving function of the mass-produced city is more like the undercurrent of Zhixing and Xiaopeng.
From the perspective of the configuration of intelligent hardware, the difference in perception level is not large.
The Xiaopeng P5, which will be the first to realize the urban NGP function, is equipped with 2 lidars, 12 ultrasonic radars, 5 millimeter wave radars, 13 high-definition cameras, and 1 high-precision positioning unit; while the Millima Zhixing includes 2 lidars, 12 ultrasonic radars, 5 millimeter wave radars, and 12 cameras.
At the chip level, the P5 follows the P7's NVIDIA Xavier, with a computing power of 30TOPS; the urban NOH of The End Zhixing uses the Qualcomm Snapdragon Ride chip with a hashrate of 360TOPS. However, on Xiaopeng's next-generation product G9, the chip hardware will have a leap forward, two NVIDIA Orin X chips, the computing power reached 508TOPS.
Judging from the official spoilers before the mass production, both sides have some meaning of "the queen mother sells melons and sells herself and boasts".
He Xiaopeng said that from the test situation, the number of urban NGP takeovers of 100 kilometers has been close to high-speed NGP, and the actual capacity has approached the level of the domestic head Robotaxi, and even partially achieved catch-up.
Gu Weihao, CEO of Mimo Zhixing, spoke with direct data, saying that the intersection pass rate of noH in the city reached 70%, and the success rate of lane change reached 90%.
In terms of future planning, Zhixing expects to carry NOH on 34 models of the Great Wall by the end of this year, and by 2024, the loading volume of HPilot will reach 1 million vehicles.
Xiaopeng Motors expects that in 2024, when the intelligent assisted driving system is iterated to version 4.0, the penetration rate will exceed 50%.
As investors at The End of the Day have said, autonomous driving is far from the endgame. The battle for the landing of mass production is not the final victory, but the battle for the intelligent driving track for all scenarios has indeed begun.