fully automatic parking inside and outside the car, all-round smart exit, automatic lane change with lever, intelligent speed adjustment on curves, and response to traffic jams at close range... It is hard to imagine that these are quite rare intelligences on a model worth 300,000 yuan. The driving functions all come from a 100,000 yuan model - the new KiWi EV.
The arrival of the new KiWi EV can be said to break our impression of A0-class micro electric vehicles with reduced configuration, low-end, and cheapness. Especially the "Lingxi Intelligent Driving System" equipped with the new car has also further refreshed our understanding of intelligent driving. Some time ago, Brother Zhulu came to Liuzhou, the base camp of the A0-class minicar , and had an in-depth experience of the new KiWi EV's Lingxi intelligent driving system.
Radical and reliable urban road driving assistance
As we all know, Liuzhou is famous throughout the country for its snail noodles , but you may not know that another major feature of Liuzhou is the micro electric vehicles everywhere. Micro electric vehicles can enjoy great convenience in Liuzhou. Specially set parking spaces for micro vehicles can be found everywhere on the roadside. Roadside charging piles can also be charged at any time, creating a unique "Liuzhou model".
However, the "Liuzhou Model" has also made Liuzhou's urban roads more complicated. In addition to mini-cars taking advantage of every opportunity, we also have to be wary of crossing battery cars at any time, so Brother Xunglu was quite wary when he first came here.
However, this test drive of the new KiWi EV gave me a new experience. Relying on the DJI vehicle-mounted stereo binocular camera technology and algorithm advantages, it has urban road driving assistance functions.
I believe everyone is familiar with ACC adaptive cruise and lane keeping, and the new KiWi EV’s urban new car assistance provides more accurate and reliable functions on this basis. In terms of operation, the left side of the steering wheel integrates one-button start and speed adjustment. button.
For example, when dealing with traffic jams at close range, there is usually a problem when turning on ACC automatic car following, that is, it is difficult to react immediately and slow down when being jammed by other cars. The new KiWi EV can easily cope with very close traffic jams and intelligently slow down, with the official data being 1.5m.
The other is intelligent speed regulation on curves. Many times when taking curves with excessive curvature, users will choose to exit ACC and lane keeping and manually take over the vehicle. However, during the test drive, Brother Zulu found that the new KiWi EV can not only maintain lane recognition when cornering on some ramps, but also intelligently decelerate, which can better ensure driving safety and comfort.
What impressed me the most was the lane-changing function of the lever. The entire lane-changing action is decisive and smooth, and the restrictions are not high. For example, when the car behind is relatively close, the system can quickly calculate the distance of the car behind it. If the car behind you is approaching quickly, it will wait for the car behind it to pass before changing lanes. Overall, the success rate of the new KiWi EV's lever for lane changing is still very high, and it is not a useless function. However, the driving assistance system of the new KiWi EV is also more difficult to identify when entering a ramp or suddenly changing lane lines.
Smart parking with visible parking
Nowadays, automatic parking is no longer a new feature, from semi-automatic parking at lower levels where you need to step on the accelerator and brake yourself, to automatic parking in limited parking spaces. Brother Zhulu has also experienced many models with automatic parking functions.
However, the automatic parking functions of these models basically have several common problems. First, the parking space recognition rate is low. Sometimes it even requires that there are no vehicles parked on both sides of the parking space in order to identify the parking space, and the parking spaces need to be marked clearly enough. But often those automatic parking systems can identify parking spaces, which are actually parking spaces that car owners can easily park into. The mission of automatic parking to solve people's problems is of urban significance.
Another common problem is that automatic parking takes too long. The scenarios where car owners use automatic parking are often in parking spaces that are in short supply and difficult to operate by themselves. If parking is too slow, it will cause the vehicles behind to rush, thus increasing the anxiety of the car owners. Feeling.
The new KiWi EV's Lingxi intelligent driving system can be said to be very targeted in optimizing users' pain points in various parking scenarios.
For example, the new KiWi EV supports 360° recognition of parking spaces at any angle and accurate parking. As long as the vehicle is driven in front of an empty parking space, it can basically recognize and start automatic parking regardless of the angle between the car body and the parking space.
In actual experience, the parking space recognition rate is also very high, including the most difficult parking spaces on dead ends. The new KiWi EV can also recognize and park accurately.
In addition, the smart parking of this car also has 30-second efficient parking, and the average parking time is within 30 seconds. It is undeniable that the advantages of the new KiWi EV, such as its compact body and light weight, greatly reduce the difficulty of smart parking. However, judging from actual experience, Brother Zhulu believes that the key to this car's efficient parking lies in the detection accuracy of the sensing hardware and the accuracy of the algorithm.
Compared with other new models, you can feel that the tone of the new KiWi EV's smart parking system is more radical, which means that it controls the relative position closer to obstacles, thereby reducing repeated unnecessary movements. This is why the new KiWi EV can also park into a narrow parking space that is 15cm beyond the rearview mirror on one side.
In addition, this system also supports off-car automatic parking. For off-car automatic parking, after the vehicle completes parking space identification and selection, the driver can get out of the car and use the car key/mobile phone APP to perform parking control. After the vehicle automatically parks, It will also turn off the ignition and automatically lock, which is very practical in some parking spaces where it is difficult to get out of the vehicle.
Intelligent identification of parking space obstacles and all-round intelligent exit are also relatively practical functions. The former can identify floor locks, ice cream cones, parking space limiters, etc., while the latter is not a simple straight-line exit. If there are Obstacles can be intelligently turned and parked to a position where the driver can smoothly open the door and get in the car.
Brother Zhulu has something to say
In today's era when smart cars are becoming more and more popular, the penetration rate of and of smart driving is also constantly increasing, and the prices of models equipped with high-end smart driving are also constantly falling. The Lingxi intelligent driving system jointly created by , SAIC-GM-Wuling and DJI Automotive can be said to have brought a very cost-effective solution to the pre-installed market. As the first model equipped with this system, the overall performance of the new KiWi EV has given us enough surprises. It is reported that in future OTA upgrades, functions such as traffic light recognition and cross-layer memory parking will be added, which is worth looking forward to.
