As the saying goes, you get what you pay for. The same is true for automobiles, where there is an insurmountable gap between tens of thousands of yuan and hundreds of thousands of dollars or millions of dollars. In addition to the difference in brand premium, the price has a great impact on the model configuration, design, etc.
For example, tens of thousands of yuan models are often difficult to provide a sense of luxury, and some high-end configurations will not be devolved to cheap models. However, with the influence of technological progress, scale effect and other factors, some configurations that only exist in hundreds of thousands of yuan models have appeared on civilian models.
Recently, SAIC-GM-Wuling launched a new car Baojun Yueye PLUS, claiming to have hit the high-end intelligent driving to a 100,000-level model. You must know that other brands generally have high-end models of more than 250,000 yuan to be equipped with high-end intelligent driving. Is what Wuling said true? Let's find out!
What is the origin of Baojun Yueye PLUS's high-end intelligent driving?
According to Brother Yuluo, Baojun Yue Plus is equipped with the "Lingxi Intelligent Driving System" created by the deep integration of Wuling and DJI vehicles, and adopts a strong vision BEV technology solution, which can realize functions such as mapless city memory navigation assistance, high-speed intelligent navigation assistance, as well as AEB and full-scene intelligent parking.
One of the most interesting features is the mapless city memory navigation assistance. According to Brother Yuluo, the system can memorize according to the high-frequency road sections you drive and continue to learn, so as to realize the navigation assistance of no-map memory. To put it simply, the commuting section and the daily city shopping and playing sections can basically free your hands.
In addition, at this price point, the Baojun Yue Plus is also equipped with a smart/memory parking function. Although the body length of the Baojun Yueye Plus is less than 4 meters, it is equipped with intelligent parking that can recognize more than 1,000 types of parking spaces, and the average parking time is only 30s, which is quite practical for some novice users.
That is to say, there is still a certain gap between the high-end intelligent driving of Baojun Yue Plus and the Huawei models that have achieved urban NOA, as well as the models of Xiaopeng, Zeekr, Ideal and other brands, and cannot fully realize automatic assisted navigation driving on urban roads.
However, considering that the price range of the model is 93,800-103,800 yuan, and Baojun Yue Plus can also be operated with one button to open intelligent driving, chaotic lane line response, lever lane change, intelligent speed regulation in corners, obstacle recognition and response, close-range congestion response and man-machine co-driving Seven driving scene functions, it does have obvious advantages at the level of intelligent driving.
However, what is the actual experience of this "Lingxi Intelligent Driving System"? Is it really easy to use? There will be more feedback after enough sample data is released. It is worth mentioning that among the high-end intelligent driving assistance without drawings that are currently mass-produced and delivered within 200,000, Baojun Yue Plus is indeed the only one.
Competing to be the first to enter the high-end intelligent driving, car companies are rushing to break through
The two distinctive characteristics of new energy vehicles are electrification and intelligence. In the early stage, most new energy vehicles are rolling up the mileage and acceleration performance, trying to widen the gap with the use of oil vehicles, and at the same time highlight the practicability of new energy vehicles. However, as the cruising range of pure electric vehicles generally enters the range of 600 kilometers to 800 kilometers, and the 000 acceleration remains at the level of 3 seconds, the freshness brought by new energy vehicles is becoming less and less.
Because of this, car companies have found new tracks to compete. For example, the 800V platform has become an important information point for the release of new cars, and the landing of urban NOA has also become a new vane of intelligent driving.
In particular, the implementation of urban NOA means that car companies have entered a new stage at the level of high-end intelligent driving, and it has also laid a good foundation for the realization of L3 and L4 intelligent driving. In the eyes of consumers, a model has achieved urban NOA, indicating that complex urban road conditions have been able to cope with it. The next thing we can do is to achieve complete unmanned driving, completely freeing up both hands and feet.
However, in the process of moving towards high-end intelligent driving, there are also different fork options among car companies. Because high-end intelligent driving often requires the cooperation of lidar and high-precision maps, the cost of car manufacturing remains high, which raises the entry threshold for consumers. However, the price war in the auto market is intensifying, and consumers are becoming more and more price-sensitive.
Considering the cost of car manufacturing, many car companies are also very hesitant to choose the route of high-end intelligent driving. LiDAR, pure vision solutions, mapless intelligent driving, etc., different models of the same brand may have different choices.
And as a consumer, we must also maintain rational consumption. After all, the necessity of high-end intelligent driving also varies from person to person, some people think that the use of high-end intelligent driving is not frequent and cost-effective, and some people think that models equipped with high-end driving are safer. At the same price, high-end intelligent driving has safety advantages, but under the premise of different prices, high-end intelligent driving is not necessarily the best choice.
The 100,000-level model is also equipped with high-end intelligent driving, which has a strong attraction for some consumers who like to try it first. The lower entry threshold has achieved equal rights in science and technology, and driving safety is also more guaranteed. Therefore, after the launch of Baojun Yueye PLUS, it will stimulate some manufacturers to further decentralize high-end intelligent driving, and it is expected that more new energy vehicles within 200,000 will become more intelligent. However, the real high-end intelligent driving has not been able to bring the cost down, and the real unmanned driving era has to wait.