At the just-concluded Beijing Auto Show, Weilai Automobile released the latest Navigate? Open? Pilot (NOP) navigation assistance function. Red Dot New Energy learned from the official of Weilai Automobile that Weilai Automobile is about to push NIO to users through FOTA. OS？ Version 2.7.0, when was NIO purchased? Users of the full version of Pilot will be able to use the pilot auxiliary beta (Navigate? Open? A pilot? Hereinafter referred to as NOP) function.
L3 autopilot will soon become standard.
Tesla is no longer the only one
In the past, Tesla could not be bypassed as long as autopilot was mentioned, but now, under the general trend of electrification and intelligence, autopilot is no longer synonymous with Tesla. At this year's Beijing Auto Show, most models have been equipped with L2 autopilot as standard, and tried to take the lead in carrying L3 or even L4 autopilot assistance.
Weilai is developing independently in the field of autonomous driving. The six core technologies of intelligent electric vehicles (motor, electronic control, battery pack, intelligent gateway, intelligent cockpit and automatic driving assistance) all have completely independent intellectual property rights, while only two car companies in the world have mastered these six core technologies at the same time, and the other one is Tesla.
Weilai Automobile has been investing heavily in the field of autonomous driving. Compared with Tesla, Weilai's NOP navigation assistance is more in line with the complex road conditions in China. NOP can cover expressways and urban expressways in more than 30 key cities in China, intelligently control the speed and realize full-scene human-computer interaction.
Weilai automobile launched NIO from 20 18 to 10? OS？ From version 1. 1.0 to this year's version 10? NIO？ OS？ Version 2.7.0 * * * has completed eight upgrades, and the most important upgrade of Weilai Automobile is the navigation assistance function. The NOP function allows vehicles to independently judge the ramps entering and leaving expressways and urban expressways according to the navigation planning path under certain conditions.
NOP is navigation system, high-precision map and NIO? On the basis of the cruise speed control, distance keeping, steering assistance and lane change control realized by the Pilot function, the Pilot automatic assisted driving system is deeply integrated, so that vehicles can automatically merge into the main road according to the navigation planning path, intelligently select the optimal lane when cruising on the main road, and automatically switch to the next expressway/elevated road and leave the main road according to the navigation planning.
People can see high-definition maps.
Driving assistance to see high-precision maps.
The normal operation of any autopilot system relies heavily on sensors such as cameras and millimeter-wave radars, but these are not the core of autopilot assistance. The real core of autopilot assistance is actually a high-precision map. There is a word difference between high-definition map and high-precision map, but the difference is very obvious.
Simply put, high-definition maps are for people to see, and high-precision maps are for autopilot assistance systems. High-precision map is an indispensable part of high-order automatic driving of vehicles. The accuracy of high-precision map can directly affect the level and safety of automatic driving.
With the help of high-precision maps, NOP can be activated on most expressways, urban expressways and elevated roads (due to the requirements of laws and regulations, Beijing can only be activated outside the Fifth Ring Road and the Fifth Ring Road). Compared with similar functions of other brands, it is an advantage of NOP to enable them on urban expressways and viaducts.
However, due to the limitation of the high-precision map itself, NOP can't achieve the accurate speed limit at the lane level at present, and can only refer to the maximum speed limit between different lanes on the same road section. In addition, NOP can't get the relevant information in time for the temporary speed limit caused by weather, road construction and other reasons.
In fact, apart from Weilai Automobile, GAC New Energy has done a very good job in high-definition maps and high-precision maps. Have you experienced Aion, a new energy of Guangzhou Automobile? After v, I believe this more. Guangzhou automobile new energy ADiGO? 3.0? The high-precision map automatic driving system has opened up 28 city information and 160, 68 1 road data, with a total mileage of 46,258km, realizing the real L3 automatic driving.
In addition, GAC New Energy Aion? V and AR real-life navigation system, both the driver and the automatic driving assistance system can clearly see the road conditions. In July this year, GAC New Energy Aion was equipped with L3 automatic driving? LX has been delivered in mass production. Compared with Weilai, although it needs to add money to install (39,800 yuan), it is combined with Aion. V's own price, it can be predicted that the purchase threshold of L3 autonomous driving has become lower and lower.
It will take time to completely liberate your hands.
Domestic brands have made gratifying achievements in the field of autonomous driving.
The user manual of almost all vehicles equipped with assisted driving will specifically state: "When you start automatic assisted driving, you still need to be vigilant and ready to take over the vehicle at any time. Strictly speaking, the NOP of Weilai Automobile is still an assisted driving function. If it cannot meet the working conditions, it may quit at any time.
There are thousands of roads, and safety comes first. "Autopilot" used to be synonymous with Tesla, but in the past few years, there have been many crashes involving Tesla's autopilot mode. At present, the assisted driving function can't be compared with automatic driving.
At present, NHTSA officially defines the automatic assisted driving technology, which is divided into five levels: no automatic L0 level, single-function automatic L 1 level, multi-function automatic L2 level, limited automatic assisted driving L3 level and fully automatic driving L4 level.
It is reported that Tesla is already developing the L5-class automatic driving assistance system, and will develop an automatic driving assistance system specifically for domestic road conditions in the future, but when it can be mass-produced is still a question mark. Automatic driving assistance below L4 level can only be called driving assistance, not automatic driving, and it takes time to really liberate your hands.
Domestic brand car companies have been struggling to improve the autopilot assistance system by mastering the core autopilot perception, decision-making and control technologies. This year's Beijing Auto Show is definitely one of the biggest highlights. Even technology companies such as Huawei have come up with autonomous driving solutions, and domestic brands have taken the lead in the field of autonomous driving.
This year's electrification transformation has become the future development direction of most car companies. It is inevitable that electrification and intelligence will be the general trend of the development of automobile industry in the future. At present, both the new energy field and the autonomous driving field are in the stage of breakthrough climbing, but domestic brand car companies have been at the forefront of the world in terms of electrification and intelligence.
The new navigation assistance function that Weilai Automobile is about to launch still has a long way to go, although it is still a long way from full automatic driving. But we can see the efforts and extraordinary achievements made by domestic brands in the fields of pure electric and autonomous driving.
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