When it comes to the Xiaopeng P5, everyone's impression of it is the first Xiaopeng car equipped with lidar, and it is also a technology product that "creates a 23-hour intelligent third space". The smart hardware reinforces the "tool" attribute of the Xiaopeng P5 and gives it an upper limit on how to use outside of the tool. In a word, Xiaopeng P5 is a car, and it is more than a car!
Some time ago, Xiaopeng P5 ushered in the first major version of the OTA upgrade, and the upgraded Xmart OS 3.1.0 added a total of 10 new functions and optimized 38 experiences. This includes the VPA-L cross-level parking lot we talked about today with memory parking and high-speed NGP features.
This time, he was invited by Xiaopeng Automobile to participate in the Xiaopeng P5 Intelligent Experience Camp, focusing on the experience of VPA-L cross-floor parking lot memory parking and high-speed NGP function. After surpassing the adaptive cruise function, before the realization of full automatic driving, Xiaopeng Automobile, which is in the leading position of intelligent driving assistance camp, what kind of experience can be brought to consumers through the Xiaopeng P5?
In fact, the premise that Xiaopeng P5 can realize the cross-floor parking lot memory parking function is because the car is equipped with excellent driver assistance perception hardware, including 2 lidar, 12 ultrasonic sensors, 5 millimeter wave radar, 13 high-perception cameras, 1 set of sub-meter-level high-precision positioning units, etc. The total number of sensors is 33, and the whole system gives the car the perception ability of decimeter-level.
VPA-L cross-floor parking lot memory parking function the longest memory distance of 2 kilometers, before experiencing the function, the first thing to get the recorded parking route, in layman's terms, is to complete the driver to complete the first drive into the underground garage, and complete parking, let the system record the driving trajectory.
When the next time you enter the parking lot, the vehicle only needs to drive to the recorded parking route, the system voice will automatically prompt, whether to use the memory parking function, when you confirm the automatic parking of the vehicle, the vehicle will follow the previous memory route "re-walk", and finally the vehicle will automatically reach the parking location to complete the parking.
Of course, during our experience with the memory parking function of the VPA-L cross-floor parking lot, some "accidents" occurred, which gave us a deeper understanding of this intelligent system. First of all, during the parking process, the speed of the vehicle will remain within 15km/h; secondly, when the vehicle detects that there are pedestrians passing next to it, the vehicle will immediately suspend parking, and the voice prompts the driver to continue to park after the pedestrians are away.
The last point needs to be warmly reminded, if the driver does not drive in the middle for the first time, the route is very "extreme", the route is deviated when turning through a large corner, or it is driven close to the wall. Automatic parking may result in the vehicle not being able to pass smoothly, in which case the vehicle will advise you to take over the vehicle. However, it is very friendly that when driving through this obstacle, it is possible to continue to hand over the vehicle to automatically drive.
Obviously, in the process of memory parking in the VPA-L cross-floor parking lot, the system obeys an underlying logic, that is, safety logic, and everything is based on driver/vehicle safety in advance. As mentioned above, pedestrians pass, or when passing through large corners, vehicles will pause and have safety reminders, for such a design, Xiaopeng P5 is very in line with the habits of human use of cars, which is commendable.
In addition to experiencing cross-floor memory parking, the test drive also experienced the high-speed NGP intelligent navigation assistance function. Among the current driving assistance functions, the author believes that the high-speed NGP intelligent navigation assistance function of the Xiaopeng P5 has high reliability and practicality. According to the data of Xiaopeng Automobile, by 2021, the cumulative mileage of high-speed NGP will reach 17.97 million kilometers, and the utilization rate of high-speed NGP in January-December 2021 will be as high as 85.59%, and the use rate of this function is so high, indicating that the user's recognition of it is high enough.
High-speed NGP intelligent navigation auxiliary function is very simple to use, with the high-precision map covering more and more driving routes, the larger the range of routes that high-speed NGP can use, this time we can open the high-speed NGP function on the Guangzhou Ring Expressway.
The operation process of opening the high-speed NGP function is very simple, if it is the first time for a newcomer to use, you need to scan the two-dimensional code through the Xiaopeng Automobile APP to complete the "safety test", and then call up the NGP function in the central control screen and activate it, and then you can use the function in the designated high-speed, directly dial the paddle "twice" at the right rear of the steering wheel with your hand to start the high-speed NGP function, when a blue circular icon appears in the display screen, the high-speed NGP is already in use.
During our test drive experience, we found that Xiaopeng Automobile's high-speed NGP function can achieve very advanced semi-automatic driving on the highway. The high-speed NGP function can basically complete a series of operations such as following the car, changing lanes, and overtaking, which is equivalent to taking over part of the operation of the manual. Of course, for safety reasons, the vehicle voice will remind the driver to put his hand on the steering wheel and be ready to take over the vehicle.
In high-speed driving, it can be found that the driving dynamics of high-speed NGP are very flexible, and do not give people a very dull impression, and to a large extent, we feel like a real "driver" controlling the vehicle. Of course, then again, high-speed NGP is only a driver assistance function, not an autonomous driving function, so everyone should not be distracted when experiencing this function, and be ready to take over the vehicle at any time.
At the level of intelligent technology, Xiaopeng P5 is a very competitive new energy vehicle, such core competitiveness is based on intelligent hardware, and can be upgraded and evolved through OTA, and constantly approaching higher level intelligent driving.
In terms of power and endurance, the performance of Xiaopeng P5 is not bad, in order to balance both power and endurance, the new car is equipped with a permanent magnet / synchronous motor with a power of 155kW and a peak torque of 310N·m, zero hundred acceleration of 7.5 seconds, pure electric endurance to provide 450-600 km optional, Xiaopeng P5 horizontal comparison of competitors, which has achieved offensive and defensive in terms of basic mechanical hardware.
At the end of the writing, from the test driving experience, it can be seen that the construction of Xiaopeng P5 in high-speed NGP intelligent driving assistance and cross-floor memory parking is far ahead of the competitors at the same level, so the attempt of "daring to be the first in the world" is worthy of recognition, after all, from the perspective of consumers, the use of new technologies is one step ahead to get the opportunity to taste new.