As a first-tier car company in the field of self-developed assisted driving in China, Xiaopeng Motors recently gave us another surprise. On June 27, the CEO of Xiaopeng Motors and Xpeng released a video on their personal social platforms. In the video, He Xiaopeng and Xinzhou, the team responsible for the autonomous driving team, experienced the first version of the urban NGP project under development. Version.
As a well-known domestic car company, Xpeng’s urban NGP is also highly anticipated. During the test, traveled 17 kilometers, but only one manual takeover of was performed. It can be seen that Xpeng Motors' urban NGP strength is indeed extraordinary. It can achieve full scene coverage and can also identify more static obstacles, such as cardboard boxes and squatting people. This is all thanks to the blessing of lidar . In the video, Wu Xinzhou, vice president of Xpeng Autonomous Driving Technology who was test driving together, said: There is basically no pressure to let lidar identify these static obstacles, and it can even be done. Automatically move the car left or right to avoid these obstacles.
However, during the test process, He Xiaopeng admitted frankly that Xiaopeng's urban NGP still needs improvement.
- The first is that when there is a car approaching from the side, the vehicle should not brake directly to zero, because there will be a period of delay between fully braking and then speeding up, about 500-1500 milliseconds;
- The second is that there are many vehicles around the vehicle. In the case of obstacles or pedestrians, Xiaopeng NGP will not be so natural, there will be a little pressure on the body, and it will not be so relaxed, especially in front of the bus, like a child facing adults, being restrained. .
However, as CEO, He Xiaopeng must still have confidence in his own brand products. After in-depth testing, He Xiaopeng said: Xiaopeng Motors’ intelligent assisted driving surpasses all competitors . In addition, Wu Xinzhou also said: The follow-up of should Directly benchmark with L4 companies.
Interestingly, shortly after He Xiaopeng posted the video, Jidu Automobile Co., Ltd. CEO Xia Yiping also forwarded it on its social platform, with the text: will soon be able to compete with Jidu’s full-domain integrated autonomous driving. Got off.
Netizens also said, "It's not too big a deal to just watch the excitement." They started joking: Is this going to start a "fight"?
The joke is a joke, but we really want to know, Baidu or Xpeng’s autonomous driving, who is more powerful?
Baidu’s Apollo self-driving platform is indeed very famous, so its technical strength is definitely not bad. However, unlike Xpeng, most of Baidu’s self-driving fields are in the testing stage, and there is still some time before it is launched on the road. Even not long ago Jidu Automobile has released its first concept car, but it will still be some time before we can see its true strength, and its performance after landing is unknown; compared with this, Xiaopeng obviously has more "actual combat" experience , according to the plan, Xpeng Motors will complete the transition to driverless driving in 2026. Judging from Xpeng's current strength, it is not bragging. I believe that Xpeng Motors will develop better in assisted driving in the future. . To say who is good and who is better cannot be judged simply by one-sided situations.
