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“We strive to become the world’s top autonomous driving hardware and software provider, and our strategy and R&D capabilities place us well in achieving this goal.” The results demonstrate that it is not only the strongest, but also the easiest to use autonomous driving function for production vehicles available in the market,” said He Xiaopeng, Chairman & CEO of XPeng Inc. “The expedition has fully challenged the robustness and reliability of the NGP function. The P7 is also China’s only mass production car with a 360-degree dual camera and radar fusion perception system for added safety. It has 14 cameras, 5 millimetre-wave radars, 12 ultrasonic sensors, centimetre-level high-definition positioning, decimetre-level high-definition mapping, NVIDIA Xavier system-on-the-chip computing platform, and a Bosch iBooster brake system. The system is enabled by the P7’s strong underlying autonomous driving architecture, claimed to be the most powerful system in production vehicles in China. Its full-scenario high-definition positioning capability solves HD-map positioning challenges for China’s highly complex road conditions, including areas with no GPS signals.

The NGP highway solution provides navigation assisted autonomous driving from point A to B, based on the navigation route set by the driver, and is available on highways covered by high-precision maps in China. XPeng reported that the NGP delivered stable performance in rainstorm conditions, passing through tunnels, and on highways in mountain areas, demonstrating its high robustness and reliability even in difficult driving scenarios. The route was chosen to cover some of the most complex yet representative road conditions and driving scenarios in China so as to fully test the NGP’s responses and effectiveness. The fleet numbered 12 to 15 cars and passed through 10 cities in 6 provinces along China’s eastern costal corridor. The drive was done in the public eye with 228 auto journalists, EV enthusiasts and industry experts participating along the way.

The average highway ramp entering and exiting success rate was 92.76% and average tunnel pass-through success rate was 94.95% during the same period. The average success rate for lane changing and overtaking was 94.41% during the 8-day expedition.

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Its fleet of P7 sedans travelled over 3,600 kms from Guangzhou to Beijing, of which 2,930 kms of highway driving were done under the control of the NGP (Navigation Guided Pilot) that enabled autonomous motoring.ĭuring the time when NGP was active, the human driver interventions per 100 kms was an average of 0.71. Similar to steer-by-wire (SbW), BbW requires a fail-safe or fail-operational mode to ensure a fallback mechanism.Ģ.XPeng Inc., a Chinese manufacturer of electric vehicles, has set a record for China’s longest real highway autonomous driving by a mass-produced vehicle. While brake-by-wire (BbW) is expected to cater to a handful of vehicles in the premium segment, potential for vacuum-less brake technology lies across all segments.īraking is a safety-critical function, and the requirements laid out by UN ECE R-13 are likely to reinforce the need for several layers of redundancy in brake systems. Though low mass brake parts already exist in the market, their application range has been thus far restricted to premium and sports vehicles. Bosch leads the market with higher market penetration of advanced braking technologies, whereas TRW and Continental have their own success stories.

With the consolidation of supplier base, a majority of the suppliers have identical product portfolios with subtle variations. VW and Audi are expected to spearhead the adoption of vacuum-less braking technology. German OEMs are the expected front-runners in adopting new braking innovations such as low mass brake parts and low drag brake in passenger vehicles.

This study investigates current and future technologies for the brake system domain in the passenger vehicle market including adoption challenges. Simultaneously, technologies such as low brake drag and low mass brake parts further allow OEMs to reduce emissions. Functions currently under development, such as brake-by-wire and vacuum-less boosters, offer OEMs the opportunity to do away with the bulky hydraulic systems. Since braking systems have had no drastic concept or design changes in over a decade, OEMs are now reconsidering the whole brake architecture to reduce CO2 emissions. OEMs are looking for various means to reduce the CO2 emissions required by 2020 standards. Research and Markets ( ) has announced the addition of the 'Strategic Analysis of Passenger Car Braking Technology and Innovations in North America and Europe' report to their offering.

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