Nowadays, most of the new models, most of the intelligent configuration is very complete, especially a large number of new forces to build cars will be intelligent driving system as the highlight of their products, but also become a chip to attract consumers, most of the new forces of car manufacturing will be intelligent driving as a standard function, there are a small number of this part of the separate charge. Coincidentally, Mercedes-Benz recently announced in Germany that some of its models have the price of optional L3 automatic driving system, and then we will take a look at the difference between the functions achieved by these car companies and mercedes-Benz L3, compared with the optional price is not expensive?
Opening a Mercedes-Benz L3 costs so much money, will it be more expensive to enter the country?
Mercedes-Benz announced that starting from May 17, 2022, Mercedes-Benz S-Class and Mercedes-Benz EQS models sold in germany will optionally be equipped with the Drive Pilot system (L3 level automatic driving system), with optional costs of 5,000 euros (about 35,155 yuan) and 7,430 euros (about 52,241 yuan) respectively. Mercedes-Benz officials said that Drive Pilot allows drivers to hand over the steering wheel to the system on eligible highways in Germany, that is, when traffic jams and the speed of the vehicle is below 60km/h.
At this point, the driver can choose to rest or work. In the event of an accident during this period, the responsibility will be borne by Mercedes-Benz. Of course, the premise is that Drive Pilot is launched under the premise of compliance. While Driver Pilot is enabled to allow drivers to leave the steering wheel with both hands and engage in appropriate recreational activities, drivers are still required to remain awake and cannot continuously look backwards or leave their seats, nor sleep in order to take over the vehicle at any time. When Drive Pilot is activated, the system controls the speed and follow distance to guide the vehicle in the lane. It should be pointed out here that although it is an L3 level autonomous driving function, the Drive Pilot has not yet been able to achieve active lane change. (L3 level automatic driving is conditional automatic driving, so Mercedes-Benz has carried out many restrictions)
Drive Pilot is equipped with several safety redundancies, including sensors, braking systems, steering systems and power supplies. Both the configuration of the sensor and the algorithm of each system are designed for safety redundancy.
In terms of perception hardware, the Mercedes-Benz S-Class model equipped with Drive Pilot and EQS are equipped with lidar, cameras, ultrasonic radar, millimeter wave radar, and wheel humidity sensors, etc., through different physical concepts, such as optics, ultrasonic waves, radio waves, etc., to detect all the environment around the vehicle from multiple dimensions and ensure safety. When the system fails, Drive Pilot can return control to the driver. If the driver does not comply with the takeover request within 10 seconds, Drive Pilot will immediately take action to stop urgently.
It doesn't look as good as the new domestic forces... What's the difference?
Mercedes-Benz's set of L3 level automatic driving, it seems that the L2+ level auxiliary driving of the new domestic forces is even better than Mercedes-Benz's L3 in some functions. In terms of automatic driving hardware, the hardware configuration of the new forces is much more than a heap, basically the number is beyond Mercedes-Benz, while Mercedes-Benz L3 can not achieve active lane change on the highway, at present, in the domestic Xiaopeng high-speed NGP, ideal NOA and Teslai FSD can be realized in the high-speed lane change, beyond the slow car and other functions, Mercedes-Benz L3 can only achieve control speed and car distance, and the intelligent driving assistance of the new forces can be opened at full speed on the high speed, not limited by 60km/h.
However, no matter how advanced L2+ level automatic driving is, it is still assisted driving. The lateral and longitudinal motion control of the vehicle is completed by the system, the detection and response of objects and events is completed by the driver and the system together, and the dynamic driving task takeover is completely completely completed by the driver. L2 level clearly stipulates that when using the function of assisted driving, the driver needs to observe the surrounding environment and be ready to take over. If in the case of assisted driving activation, a traffic accident occurs, the car company does not bear the responsibility for the accident, by the owner alone, because the driver is still the master of the vehicle, the auxiliary driving is still the auxiliary, so even if the auxiliary driver does not identify or mistakenly identify the road conditions ahead, the driver does not intervene in time, but the driver can only eat dumb losses, in fact, this aspect is actually somewhat unfair, especially a large number of new forces flaunting their own automatic driving ability at the moment, should be given corresponding constraints.
In L3 automatic driving, target and event detection and response are completed independently by the system, and the dynamic driving task is taken over by the system first, followed by the driver. After the Mercedes activates the Drive Pilot, the driver can release the steering wheel, go to rest or do something else, the eyes do not need to keep staring ahead, but the attention can not be completely relaxed, but also need to be ready to take over the vehicle at all times. Drive Pilot's mission is to keep the vehicle in the lane and avoid collisions with other road users and objects on the road. Mercedes-Benz also announced that it took the initiative to take responsibility for the accident that occurred in the activation of The Drive Pilot, which also made consumers more assured of what they bought.
At present, Mercedes-Benz has only launched this feature in Germany, and said that it is striving to get approval in California and Nevada this year, and will seek certification in China in the future. If it really opened up in China, at a price of almost 35,000-50,000 yuan, would you consider giving your million-level car a true self-driving system?
Domestic current auxiliary driving options, who is really expensive?
In fact, the optional price of 35,000-50,000 yuan is not high compared to the current domestic L2+ optional price, compared to Tesla's FSD: According to Tesla's official website, the enhanced version of the automatic assisted driving function is priced at 32,000, and the functions include automatic assisted navigation driving, automatic assist lane change, automatic parking and intelligent summoning. This price is similar to mercedes-Benz L3, but it has two more words.
The higher-level FSD fully autonomous driving capability is priced at 64,000 yuan. The official website describes the FSD as: including the basic version of assisted driving and the enhanced version of the full function of automatic assisted driving, and later will be introduced to identify traffic lights and stop signs and react to automatic assist driving in the city streets. In fact, Tesla's complete FSD is a futures function, is a long-term planning of the 32,000 yuan function, and full automatic driving refers to not L2 or L3, is a direct sword to the L5 level of the function, it is expected that the owner until the car change, the vehicle L5 level has not been able to achieve, so this price is too expensive, 32,000 yuan of the function is more practical, 64,000 yuan of full automatic driving function is too strong.
This also leads to a low overall function selection, FSD global opening rate of about 11%, only about 1%-2% in China, and domestic users are not very willing to spend another price to select advanced intelligent driving functions, so domestic new forces have begun to want to use other methods to let users buy functions.
The complete function of NAD automatic driving of Weilai adopts the subscription model of "opening by month, paying by month", the price is 680 yuan / month, this price looks very attractive, but we come to calculate the account, such as the car cycle is 3 to 5 years, if it has been opened, that is, the continuous monthly subscription is almost 36-60 months, the price is almost 25,000-40,000 yuan, so the price is indeed not cheap. And Weilai has not yet released a sales policy about similar buyouts, so the monthly price of 680 yuan may not seem expensive, but it will be very unfriendly to users with long car cycles.
In the context of soft and hard decoupling, in most models, when you buy a vehicle, you have actually paid for the hardware part. Even if you don't use these functions, your car purchase price has included the price of lidar, large computing chip, a lot of high-definition cameras, if you don't use it, you will feel more lost, so you also need to calculate carefully, for some users with low usage of these functions, it is really not cost-effective to open.
Xiaopeng's intelligent auxiliary driving price is 20,000 yuan, however, it is now free, do not need you to spend extra money, which is also a hand with Weilai, because it is indeed known that Chinese users do not want to pay extra for these functions, in fact, under the premise of the realization of the same function, it is indeed more cost-effective, Xiaopeng may also know that its users do not have faith as Weilai car owners.
The ideal NOA is that there is no money in the beginning, and Li wants to think that projects about safety are standard. Indeed, the ideal current product is to optimize the main scene of family behavior, system safety must continue to be placed in the first place, after all, the ultimate purpose of studying assisted driving is to protect road safety, in the case of human error, the car can be saved, not charging is indeed an attitude, Xiaopeng may also be taught.
The recently announced price of the Zhiji L7 will also charge car owners outside the Angel Wheel and A Wheel users for its IM AD Intelligent Driver Assistance System. If A-round users still need to use the system after three years, they can buy out at a price of 8800 yuan or exchange it for digital rights. It should be said that this is also an attempt by domestic car companies to the "software payment" model.
In addition to the new forces, mercedes-benz, BMW, Volkswagen and other traditional manufacturers have followed up and made efforts in software. Even if the current domestic selection rate is not high, we still believe that with the maturity of the market, "software payment" will become a future trend. In the face of car owners who are unwilling to pay money, most car companies have actually compromised, such as free lifetime traffic, functional standards, etc., but in fact, cultivating consumer habits is also what car companies have to work hard, of course, the price is still quite critical. Mercedes-Benz took the lead in releasing the price this time, and it is expected that it may rise by about 10,000 after entering the country, in fact, for the owners of S-class models, there may be no impact, but this is the pricing strategy of the new forces, it will be considered again. NIO may announce the price of the buyout, and the price will definitely be lower than the S-class. At that point, the price of the Tesla FSD will be somewhat embarrassing...