Nowadays, in the field of new energy vehicles, various new forces have sprung up. Not to be outdone, traditional car companies and brands have launched new brands to cope with the impact of new forces. Among them, AVATAR, a tripartite joint venture brand of Huawei, Changan and CATL, is undoubtedly the much-anticipated "national team" brand. As a new generation of intelligent electric vehicles, AVATR 11, its first medium and large SUV, has been jointly empowered by Changan Automobile, Huawei and CATL, which is a "far ahead" technology and strength of AVATR 11. I happened to have the opportunity to test drive the 22 AVATR 11 four-seater version in person recently, and actually experience Huawei's intelligent driving assistance and Hongmeng system, which everyone is most concerned about.
Although this test drive is not the latest AVATR 11 Hongmeng Edition, the Hongmeng version is only a facelift, and the old models can actually experience all the functions through OTA remote upgrade to the latest system. Let's start from my actual experience and share with you how powerful AVATR 11 is!
Intelligent driving experience part
The AVATR 11 is equipped with 34 high-performance intelligent driving sensors (including 3 lidars, 6 millimeter-wave radars, 12 ultrasonic radars, and 13 high cameras) and Huawei's self-developed MDC810 computing unit, with more than 400 TOPS computing power. It can be said that the level of intelligent driving hardware of AVATR 11 is quite high, and the algorithm of intelligent driving assistance is also ADS2.0 provided by Huawei.
High-speed intelligent navigation assistance
In the upcoming Spring Festival, I believe that many readers who choose to travel by car have more or less encountered the problem of high-speed traffic jams. The right foot is tired by stop-and-go following for a long time, and some vehicles that lack driving quality change lanes and forcibly add traffic jams from time to time, making it difficult to save energy even when using one-pedal mode. In addition, even when there is no traffic jam, the frequent change of speed limit photography on highways and the ramp crossings that are easy to miss if you are not careful cause a lot of trouble for motorists.
In response to these pain points in the driving process, AVATR 11 High-speed Pilot Assist can independently identify the speed limit sign and automatically adjust the speed to easily respond to the speed limit change. At the same time, it can automatically follow the vehicle in front of it, without the need for frequent operation by the driver, which greatly reduces the driving pressure. When stopping and starting, AVATR 11 can also be done automatically, without additional manual intervention. The automatic lane change function selects the best lane and path according to the route set by the navigation. This means that it can automatically determine the timing of on/off ramps and smoothly switch between highways and urban expressways, avoiding the hassle caused by unfamiliar road conditions. The application of these functions undoubtedly reduces the fatigue of long-distance driving to a minimum, greatly liberates the energy that needs to be consumed in advance on the road, and has a fuller spirit after arriving at the destination.
Intelligent driving and navigation assistance in urban areas
Of course, highways and urban expressways are relatively closed sections, and there are basically no too many interferences, and basically all intelligent driving assistance can be realized. In urban areas, the situation is completely different from highways, and you will encounter all kinds of non-motorized vehicles and pedestrians who drive unruly. In this case, the intelligent driving test of AVATR 11 is undoubtedly greater. Because there are more uncertainties in urban areas, the ability to respond in a timely manner is particularly crucial.
First of all, when facing traffic lights, AVATR 11 can accurately identify the color of the signal light, and even when the countdown occurs, it can be displayed on the dashboard in time. Even if there is a large truck or bus in front of you that obstructs the view of the traffic light, it will wait for the vehicle in front to leave until the signal light is visible again, and then determine whether to pass according to the color of the current traffic light. Running a red light is avoided as much as possible, and when the light is green, it will wait until pedestrians have fully passed before starting, so it is very easy to deal with it. Secondly, in the face of electric bicycles occupying part of the lane, AVATR 11 will not follow the slow electric bicycle. Instead, it will take the initiative to change lanes to the left, and when it is safe to do so, it will accelerate and overtake without the slightest hesitation, which is similar to the driving technique of a real person.
Valet parking assistance
In addition to complex road conditions and frequent traffic jams, parking is also another major problem that novice drivers are prone to encounter. Complex multi-storey underground garages and cars parked in the aisles at will without parking spaces, especially in large cities, in order to maximize space utilization, the reserved space on the left and right is very small. For AVATR 11, a medium and large SUV, it is simply a "nightmare" difficulty to park a car in a small urban parking lot. Therefore, the valet parking assistance function of AVATR 11 can start recording and modeling the environment when entering the complex basement or multi-storey parking lot for the first time, and when you enter again the next time, it can automatically find the available parking space according to the previous driving route and automatically complete the parking process. For parking spaces that are too narrow to get on and off the car, you can also get off the car first and use the mobile phone to remotely control the parking, which greatly increases the daily practicality of AVATR 11.
After talking about Huawei's high-end intelligent driving, let's talk about the HarmonyOS intelligent cockpit experience part
Smart Storytelling
AVATR 11 has a unique HALO screen on the front windshield, which can be customized to display content. When unlocking a vehicle or giving way to pedestrians, you can display the content you have prepared in advance.
Seamless circulation, multiple application ecosystems
After successfully connecting the mobile phone and the car machine, the application tasks in the mobile phone can be seamlessly transferred to the central control screen of the car machine. It can also realize two-way control of mobile phone and car machine. There is also a new privacy mode, which can display the mobile phone screen separately on the central control screen, and the mobile phone can use other functions normally. On the other hand, the computer mode can use the center console as an extended display, and the phone or tablet as a mouse and keyboard. Such an application mode can maximize the use and give full play to the performance advantages of mobile phones, after all, the central control screen car machine is not like a mobile phone, which can be renewed every year. There will be a time when the performance is not enough, and the car machine upgrade chip is also very troublesome and needed.
Intelligent voice assistant
Hongmeng's voice assistant recognition ability is also more powerful, not only supporting multiple commands in one sentence, but also walking with the screen according to the voice image of the main and co-pilot divisions. In addition, after the recent OTA upgrade, it supports custom wake words, multi-dialect recognition, and more importantly, it can recognize Mandarin with dialect accents.
Static
The front windshield is multi-layered acoustic glass, and the enclosed trunk with Active Road Noise Cancellation (RNC) technology all bring better quietness. It is worth noting that active noise cancellation technology is actually nothing new, its basic principle is introduced in an easy-to-understand way, that is, by actively emitting anti-"directional" sound waves to cancel out noise, many luxury models and even hundreds of headphones are equipped with this technology. However, the active noise reduction (ANC) on AVATR 11 is different from that of traditional fuel vehicles, which is mainly aimed at engine noise and vibration, because AVATR 11 is a pure electric vehicle without an engine, so the self-developed active noise reduction technology RNC is more aimed at reducing road noise based on wind noise and tire noise.
It is necessary to know that road noise is not like the noise of the engine, which can be collected in advance according to the different speed of the engine to make full preparations, but it is necessary to collect the noise of the current road surface in real time and respond in time to counteract, and the difficulty of achieving it is not the same as that of traditional fuel vehicles. As for the actual effect of AVATR 11's active noise cancellation RNC technology, if you believe that you have experienced the same use of active noise cancellation technology, readers may find that the effect of active noise cancellation of headphones is to wait a few seconds to adapt to the ambient sound before achieving the best effect. So the most obvious effect is not when you just put it on, but when you take off the headphones and a lot of noise rushes back into your ears.
In the same way, the moment the AVATR 11 lowers the window or opens the door, you can clearly feel that the inside and outside of the car are like two worlds. In the process of driving, thanks to Huawei's DriveONE 3-in-1 high-voltage electric drive system, intelligence is brought into the electric drive system, and the high-frequency noise of the motor is better controlled, bringing a better driving experience.
Write at the end
The overall performance of AVATR 11 is quite good with the blessing of Huawei technology, and I am deeply impressed by both intelligent driving assistance and Hongmeng intelligent cockpit. Personally, I feel that in the price range of more than 300,000 yuan, if you want to experience a pure electric SUV with personality and technology, then AVATR 11 may be an object worth considering. If you have any different views on this, please discuss in the comment area.