Huawei City L2 Rollover! Three lidars, 400,000 on sale

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Yu Chengdong said harshly: The autopilot hardware of the Polar Fox Alpha S HI version is the strongest in the global mass production car, and there is no one.

Just now, the pure tram of the deep cooperation between Pole Fox and Huawei, the Polar Fox Alpha S HI version, was listed, with the advanced version priced at 397,900 and the high-end version priced at 429,900.

▲Polar Fox Alpha S HI Edition price

Yu Chengdong said at the scene that the car has 34 automatic driving sensors and has 400 TOPS AI computing power. But he also admitted that when consumers get this car, it is only the starting point of the car's capabilities, and it will take a certain amount of time to continuously iterate on autonomous driving technology.

▲ Yu Chengdong at the scene of the press conference

Compared with the Polar Fox Alpha S HI version model with a starting price of 250,000 yuan, there is a considerable improvement in automatic driving and smart cockpit.

It is equipped with 3 lidar, 13 cameras, 6 millimeter wave radars, and 12 ultrasonic radars, which can realize advanced functions in the field of mass production autonomous driving such as urban L2 automatic driving, high-speed NOA, and memory parking.

At the same time, the car's smart cockpit uses Huawei's Hongmeng OS system, which can realize functions such as seamless circulation, screen projection, and smooth video calls, as well as intelligent voice functions such as visible speaking and multi-tone area speech recognition.

Last April, the Polar Fox Alpha S HI edition was released. At that time, Huawei debuted the urban L2 level autonomous driving function in China. However, the HI version of the model has not been able to really be mass-produced.

After a year of polishing, Pole Fox and Huawei re-produced the Alpha S HI version of the model, and also fired the first shot of the mass-produced city L2 in 2022.

First, 100 km/h acceleration of 3.5 seconds NEDC range of 500 km/ H

Polar Fox Alpha S HI edition is divided into two models, namely the advanced version and the advanced version, the two models are exactly the same in configuration and performance, the difference is only in the function of automatic driving. Its length, width and height are 4980mm/1960mm/1599mm, and the wheelbase reaches 2915mm.

▲ Polar Fox Alpha S HI Edition

In terms of performance, the Polar Fox Alpha S HI Edition has an acceleration time of 3.5 seconds per 100 kilometers, which can achieve 20 consecutive accelerations without attenuation, and the elk test speed can reach 80km/h, and the speed can reach up to 200km/h. The car is equipped with a power battery with a capacity of 74.5 kWh and a NEDC range of 500 km.

▲ Polar Fox Alpha S HI Edition

Polar Fox Alpha S HI Edition supports 750V HVDC fast charging, charging 10 minutes can increase the endurance by 197km, 15 minutes can be charged from 30% to 80%. In addition, this car also supports wireless charging up to 7kW, which is considered to be a "crab-eating" model in the field of pure electric vehicles.

In terms of electric performance, the Polar Fox Alpha S HI version is quite strong. However, the endurance of 500km under the NEDC standard is slightly insufficient for a pure electric model in 2022.

Second, equipped with three lidar to support the city L2

In fact, the biggest highlight of the Polar Fox Alpha S HI version of this car is not how fast it accelerates and how strong the performance is, but its intelligent performance.

The car is equipped with a large number of automatic driving perception hardware, including 3 96-line lidar, the maximum detection distance can reach 200m, distributed on the front and sides of the front, can achieve high-precision perception of 270 degrees ahead.

There are also 6 millimeter-wave radars with a maximum detection range of up to 250 meters, and 13 5-megapixel high-definition cameras that can cover the front and back of the car.

▲Polar Fox Alpha S HI version of lidar

In addition, there are 12 ultrasonic sensors and 4 surround view cameras for parking assistance functions.

All data of the perception device is calculated by Huawei's MDC 810 computing platform, and its AI computing power is 400TOPS, which is the head level in the mass production car.

Although various car companies are rushing to mass-produce lidar, there are very few models that can really allow consumers to buy lidar, and the more typical models are the Xiaopeng P5 and Weilai ET7. In comparison, the polar fox alpha S HI version of the automatic driving hardware is also very strong.

▲Comparison of autonomous driving hardware of mass-produced LiDAR models

In terms of function, the three mass-produced lidar models have more L2 automatic driving functions, especially the urban point-to-point L2 level automatic driving capabilities.

Wang Jun, President of Huawei's Smart Vehicle Solution BU COO and Smart Driving Solution Product Line, also introduced the vehicle's intelligent cockpit and autonomous driving functions in detail at the press conference.

▲Wang Jun introduced the smart cockpit and automatic driving functions at the press conference

In the highway scene, the Polar Fox Alpha S HI Edition can realize automatic up and down ramps according to the navigation route, through etc. toll booths, etc., to achieve stronger point-to-point navigation assistance driving functions. In the current mass production car, it is not unusual to automatically get on and off the ramp, but it is the first time in the industry that it can pass through the ETC toll station.

Wang Jun said that in the process of going up and down the ramp, the vehicle can change lanes in advance, and at the same time, in the process of inbound and outbound, the vehicle can accelerate and decelerate more intelligently. At the same time, for the construction section of the highway and the special-shaped truck, the pole fox can also intelligently identify and intelligently avoid.

In urban roads, unprotected left turn, close gasser and non-motorized vehicles are the three typical danger scenarios. In the scene of unprotected left turn at an intersection, Huawei can successfully pass through through the perception and prediction of vehicles, pedestrians, and non-motorized vehicles with the help of high-precision maps.

▲ Polar fox unprotected left turn scene (filmed in 2021)

In close-range Gasser scenes, lidar and fusion perception algorithms can judge Gasser's behavior, detect dangers early, and balance safety and comfort.

When driving on urban roads, Polar Fox can also identify non-motorized vehicles on the road and actively avoid them.

▲Polar Fox Alpha S HI version of the automatic driving test

In the parking scenario, Jihu can realize a variety of advanced functions such as APA automatic parking, RPA remote control parking, and AVP autonomous valet parking. Wang Jun said that the parking space recognition rate and parking success rate of Jihu can reach more than 90%.

It should be noted that the AVP function that Jihu can achieve at this stage also requires the driver to sit on the car and pay attention to the driving behavior of the vehicle, which is essentially L2 automatic driving, and the use method is similar to the "memory parking" function that Xiaopeng and other car companies have mass-produced.

▲Polar Fox Alpha S HI Edition memory parking function

At the press conference, Jihu showed a previously tested parking lot memory parking video, showing that after learning, the vehicle can realize the memory parking function in the cross-floor parking lot. And Polar Fox also supports a variety of parking lot scenarios including underground and open air, and does not require parking lots to be transformed.

If the previous memory parking space has been parked by other vehicles, or occupied by the cone barrel, the polar fox can use voice to prompt the driver that the target parking space is occupied, and begin to look for other parking spaces nearby, after finding the free parking space, the vehicle can automatically park into the garage.

Fourth, Hongmeng system on the car to build a multi-application ecology

In terms of smart cockpit, The Hi version of Jihu Alpha S is also equipped with Huawei Hongmeng OS system, so that the smart cockpit has functions such as screen projection, seamless circulation, and smooth video calls, as well as intelligent voice functions such as visible speaking and multi-tone area speech recognition.

▲Polar Fox Alpha S HI Edition Smart Cockpit Interior

Polar Fox Alpha S HI Edition adopts a three-screen design, with a 21.7-inch central control screen (resolution 3840 * 720), LCD instrument size of 8 inches, and the car is also equipped with an 8-inch head-up display (HUD).

▲ Polar Fox Alpha S HI version Of Hongmeng car machine

In the previous experience, Che Dong found four major features of the Extreme Fox Alpha S HI Version of Hongmeng OS:

1, Hongmeng car machine OS running speed is very fast, not only can easily multi-task operation, and even can divide the screen into two, so that the main driver and co-driver at the same time touch without interfering with each other.

▲After the co-driver closes the door, the Hongmeng car machine automatically splits the screen

2. Based on Hongmeng's distributed capabilities, Huawei's equipment and the car can flow seamlessly, such as getting on the car when making a phone call/video call or playing music, and the process of the mobile device will be paused and circulated to the car machine to continue, and then it will be transmitted to the mobile device again after getting off the car.

▲Hongmeng cockpit supports seamless circulation function

3. Based on Huawei's screen projection technology, the mobile phone screen can be put onto the car machine screen and the application can be operated on the car machine. In this way, almost all applications on the mobile phone can be completed on the car machine, such as playing a large mobile game, or even cutting a video.

▲After casting the screen, you can use the car machine to play the large mobile game Yuanshen

4. In terms of speech recognition capability, Hongmeng cockpit uses the cloud and the car-side speech model to realize the feedback on the voice requests of the occupants in the car within 1 second, and can also realize the wake-free word wake-up, continuous dialogue, sound area locking and global visible speaking function.

Conclusion: Huawei started the battle for urban L2

It is understood that Pole Fox and Huawei established a cooperation as early as 2017, and the Pole Fox Alpha S HI version was not officially launched until today. However, the 34 intelligent hardware (including 3 lidars) of the Polar Fox Alpha S HI Edition, the urban L2 level intelligent auxiliary driving function and the full-ecological Huawei Hongmeng intelligent cockpit are still eye-catching, which is in response to the proverb "good food is not afraid of late".

More importantly, the official listing of the Polar Fox Alpha S HI edition will not only allow more people to enjoy the hardware-sufficient urban L2 level intelligent auxiliary driving, but also start the urban L2 scramble.