On April 24, Xiaoma Zhixing announced that it won the bid for the 2022 taxi capacity index in Nansha District, Guangzhou, which is the first taxi business license issued to an autonomous driving enterprise in China. The winning bid notice clearly allows autonomous vehicles that meet the safety technical requirements of the demonstration operation of intelligent networked vehicles in Guangzhou to provide taxi operation services, which means that autonomous vehicles are officially included in the scope of transportation operation and management of general vehicles, and the use of national unified taxi standardized management is a major breakthrough in the process of promoting the commercialization of technology in the autonomous driving industry. At the same time, Xiaoma Zhixing is also the first company to be approved to commercialize Robotaxi services in both Beijing and Guangzhou.
Pony Chi Heng was allowed to invest 100 self-driving vehicles in Nansha, Guangzhou, to provide taxi services. It is expected that from May onwards, Xiaoma Zhixing will start charging operations in the entire area of Nansha in 800 square kilometers, and benefit more Guangzhou citizens as the business gradually expands its services to other parts of Guangzhou. Passengers can use the service and complete the payment through the PonyPilot+ App, the service period is from 8:30 to 22:30, and the charging standard is according to the unified pricing standard of Guangzhou Taxi.
Since last year, Xiaoma Zhixing has simultaneously promoted the commercialization process of passenger car and truck business from multiple dimensions such as research and development, cooperation and service - product research and development level, Xiaoma Zhixing released the sixth generation of mass-produced automatic driving software and hardware system solutions at the beginning of this year; at the business cooperation level, Xiaoma Zhixing actively expanded the upstream and downstream industry chain cooperation ecosystem and reached a number of important strategic cooperation; at the application service level, Xiaoma Zhixing successfully became the first batch of demonstration enterprises after the breakthrough of autonomous driving commercialization policies in various places.
"Being able to obtain a taxi operation license as the first autonomous driving company in China is a strong proof of the technical strength of Xiaoma Zhixing and the ability to operate travel services, and it is also an effective result of close consultation between Xiaoma Zhixing and relevant departments." We are confident of providing the public with a high-quality, leading-edge service experience and providing benchmark commercial applications for autonomous driving for the entire industry." Peng Jun, co-founder and CEO of Xiaoma Zhixing, said.
The license proposes a new technical standard for autonomous driving demonstration operation vehicles, and after the whole vehicle and parts testing carried out by the national inspection and testing agency, Xiaoma Zhixing's autonomous vehicle has become the first model to pass the guangzhou intelligent network vehicle safety technical standard test.
"The inclusion of autonomous vehicles in the unified standardized management of taxis once again proves that policies and the public have adopted autonomous driving as a way of daily travel, and is also a recognition of the robotaxi riding experience and technical stability of Pony Zhixing." What we want to create is a product and service that is truly based on autonomous driving technology, and in the next step, we will further optimize the experience, reduce costs, and quickly promote the productization process of autonomous driving technology. Xiaoma Zhixing co-founder and CTO Lou Tiancheng said.
The passenger car business of Xiaoma Zhixing entered the commercialization model verification stage last year, and obtained the guangzhou Nansha taxi capacity index, which is a key step for Xiaoma Zhixing to promote large-scale commercial applications. On November 25, 2021, Xiaoma Zhixing was allowed to pilot commercialized autonomous driving services to the public in Beijing, accumulating rich experience in product operation and user services, and being able to quickly replicate to Guangzhou and other subsequent cities. In the next step, Xiaoma Zhixing plans to implement autonomous driving travel commercialization services in other first-tier cities before next year, and expand its successful experience to more cities by 2025.
From the launch of the taxi mini program in December 2018 to the present, Xiaoma Zhixing has provided a large number of public with normalized autonomous driving travel services, and has continuously iteratively upgraded the research and development of automatic driving systems and all aspects of travel services. As of mid-April this year, the PonyPilot+ service has served more than 700,000 orders, with nearly 80% of "repeat customers", 99% of passengers giving positive reviews after completing their trips, and a service satisfaction rating of 4.9 (on a 5-point scale).
At present, the number of autonomous driving test licenses obtained by Xiaoma Zhixing in Guangzhou has reached the first place in the city, covering all test levels. According to the statistics of the three-party real-time data supervision of intelligent and connected vehicles in Guangzhou, by the end of 2021, xiaoma Zhixing has carried out the first test mileage in Guangzhou, contributing more than half of the test mileage of automatic driving in Guangzhou. Among them, the automatic driving mode accounted for 98% of the test mileage accumulated by Xiaoma Zhixing, exceeding the industry average by 70.6%. These data reflect the industry's leading technical strength and R&D efficiency, and become a technical moat for Xiaoma Zhixing to land commercial services in Guangzhou.
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