11 screens, 25 radars The FF91, which took 9 years to mass-produce, has completely lagged behind?

After 9 years of suffocating for his dream, Boss Jia, who will return to China next week, finally put FF91 into mass production today, which is one step closer to the day when Boss Jia returns to China.

FF91 will be mass-produced and delivered for so many years, not a time actually landed, today FF91 is officially mass-produced, I believe that many friends are still doubtful, and an electric vehicle released 6 years ago, to today's mass production, in the current period of new energy model blowout, how competitive can it be?

When the FF91 was released in 2017, it was undoubtedly very impressive, and the concept car-like styling design and Faraday's future bumpy fate made it difficult to mass-produce. In August 2018, the FF91's first "pre-production car" officially rolled off the production line, followed by a quasi-production car, which was difficult to deliver anyway. In July 2021, the FF91 has opened for pre-order, FF91 Futurist Alliance Edition and FF91 Futurist two models temporarily only have a deposit price, 5,000 US dollars and 1,500 US dollars (about 50,000 yuan, 20,000 yuan).

Intelligent driving hardware is not lagging behind at all, but is there really money to develop software?

FF91's soft and hard power is quite competitive at that time, the length of the car is more than 5.2 meters, the power system of the three motors can burst out up to 1050 horsepower, zero hundred acceleration can do 2.27 seconds, NEDC cruising range of 700 kilometers, 11 screens are set in the car, assisted driving uses vision + lidar perception system, these hard power is still very capable today, so can its intelligent part keep up with this era?

First of all, let's look at the intelligent driving part of FF91, its front and rear of the body are installed with a total of 10 cameras, there are 12 millimeter wave radars distributed around the body, and 13 ultrasonic radars, in today's mass production version also added a Falcon series lidar from Tudatong on the roof, which is also the first time that Falcon lidar is equipped on non-NIO brand models, FF91's intelligent driving hardware is still a very full set of hardware today, today's new force models, When the number of millimeter-wave radars is reduced and reduced, the FF91 is equipped with 12, which enhances the redundancy of the entire system.

Jia Yueting in the promotion of FF91, has always regarded automatic driving as a big selling point, the previous system, did not use lidar, and on the 2020 basic model, in the middle of the vehicle hood added a liftable cylindrical lidar, this kind of lidar basically only appears in the automatic driving test verification model, because it does not meet the pedestrian collision regulations, so to the current production version of the model, Tudatong's falcon lidar was placed on the roof, The performance of this lidar is stronger than other mass-produced automotive-grade lidar on the market, with a longer wavelength, a larger field of view, and a longer detection distance, and its volume will be larger than that of Sagitar Juchuang M1 and Hesai AT128, which should be the best choice on the roof.

Forward-looking binocular vision + Falcon lidar + multiple millimeter-wave radars, FF91's forward perception may be more comprehensive, and in April 2021, Faraday Future announced that FF91 will be equipped with NVIDIA Orin chips, and the computing power of 254Tops can also provide more adequate computing power redundancy for this system.

But whether high-level assisted driving or automatic driving can be achieved today, the hardware and computing power of the vehicle is only part of it, and more importantly, the training of data, which is also a major dilemma faced by many new forces like Faraday Future and many new forces with little delivery, completely in the cloud simulation training without collecting actual road data, in the end it is still a bit of paper, so FF91 is also likely to be in a long time after delivery, intelligent driving will have no useful functions, It is necessary to wait for the continuous OTA in the later stage, and it depends on whether the company has follow-up experience to do OTA.

The intelligent driving aspect of FF91 can be said to have not stagnated in the 6 years since its release to mass production, so it can still keep up with the times, so what about its cockpit?

The cockpit is also ahead of its time, and the chip hardware may be the only slot

In terms of digital interaction, the FF 91 Futurist offers a rich screen, with 11 smart LCD screens, a 15.4-inch center display, a 17-inch front passenger screen, and a slender LCD instrument cluster and streaming mirrors.

The central control screen adopts electric axis control, supports left and right flipping, and now this technology has been seen on some domestic models, FF91 double-sided door panels, as well as electronic mirror screen display, this forward-looking design, until recently gradually allowed mass production, FF91 in the rear door door panel are installed screen, internal integration of seat control function, such design in some Chinese brand MPV models can just be seen, so it is said that the FF91 is like a concept car. The FF91 also has a large 27-inch foldable entertainment screen in the middle of the rear row, which is also just beginning to be popularized on some of the latest models.

FF91 is also equipped with a seat called "anti-gravity" in the rear, the design of this seat is inspired by the ergonomics proposed by NASA (NASA), that is, astronauts must lie in the cockpit in a unique posture when the spacecraft takes off, FF91 seats are a reference to this design method, and last year on a domestic large SUV model, we also saw a similar seat design.

FF91 interior design elements, in today's new forces or traditional brand models, we will see some familiar places, and these models have almost only begun mass production in the past two years, and the FF91 6 years ago has these designs, this car is actually very forward-looking in terms of cockpit.

To really say that there is something backward in the FF91 cockpit, the cockpit chip may be a slot, FF91 is currently using Qualcomm Snapdragon 820A chip, in today's 8155 rotten street, 8295 is coming, the old 820A chip may not be enough to see. But Qualcomm Snapdragon 820A chip was released in 2016, FF91 was released in 2017, based on the car chip on the car than the mobile phone chip generally 2-3 years later, FF91 put 820A into the car, is indeed too fast, but perhaps these factors are also the key to its difficulty in mass production.

If the mass-produced FF91 still uses 820A, a chip with 11 screens, but also to ensure fluency and support intelligent voice and other operations, it is indeed somewhat difficult, so FF91 is likely to also change the core, hardware disassembly OTA upgrade should not be difficult for the vast majority of car companies, but for Faraday Future, do they really have money for this? At the same time, FF91's vehicle system, from the current ability point of view, is indeed not a car machine level that should be sold for 2 million cars, especially for the current intelligent networked car, the mass production of the car is only the first step, and the sustainability of the vitality of the intelligent part is also the key to competition.

Summary:

Overall, FF91 The hardware strength of the car, can still keep up with the times, can not be considered backward, although it has been released for 6 years, but in the past 6 years, it is also piling some of the latest hardware to the car, and it seems that some of the design is too advanced at that time, but also to ensure the competitiveness of this car today, the problem of cockpit chips may be a key place to upgrade.

However, if this car really sells for 2 million yuan, and it has to enter the domestic market, it may really need to be reconsidered, if someone is really willing to suffocate for Boss Jia's dream and pay for the dream, 2 million is just a number.