Xpeng has started a cross-country "FSD" drive in China:
"A fleet of Xpeng P7s is currently driving from Guangzhou, China, to Beijing, on a navigation-assisted autonomous driving expedition. The journey began on March 19th, will conclude on the 26th, and is covering a total distance of 2,284 miles (3,675 km) across six provinces in China.
Xpeng's goal is to demonstrate the performance of its newly released autonomous driving assistance function called Navigation Guided Pilot (NGP). The system will certainly be fully tested as the plan is to have the vehicles, driven by members of the media and other 3rd parties, use NGP for 1,954 miles (3,145 km) of highway driving. That represents more than 85% of the entire trip from Guangzhou to Beijing."
Results so far:
Day 1:
On the first day, the vehicles traveled from Guangzhou to Shantou and covered 236 miles (380 km). The fleet was able to drive the 236-mile route with an average of only 1.05 human driver intervention per every 100 miles driven (.65 times every 100 km).
More stats from day one:
Day 2:
On the second day, the convoy traveled from Shantou to Quanzhou and covered 173 miles (279 km). The fleet was able to drive the route with an average of only 1.37 human driver intervention per every 100 miles driven (.85 times every 100 km).
More stats from day two:
"Xpeng's XPILOT 3.0's NGP provides navigation-assisted autonomous driving is a sophisticated suite of advanced driver's assist systems and can navigate from point A to B, based on the navigation route set by the driver. The system is only available on highways covered by high-precision maps in China, which are actually plentiful. NGP cannot navigate on secondary and tertiary streets that have not been mapped with high-precision.
Xpeng’s XPILOT 3.0 hardware is also very impressive, and integrates 12 ultrasonic sensors, 5 high-precision Bosch 5th generation millimeter-wave radars, 13 autonomous driving cameras, and uses NVIDIA Drive Xavier, which is NVIDIA’s most advanced autonomous vehicle chip, as well as QUALCOMM’s top-line in-vehicle processor, the Snapdragon 820A."
insideevs.com
It sounds to me like NGP is Xpeng's version of Tesla's Navigate on Autopilot.
"A fleet of Xpeng P7s is currently driving from Guangzhou, China, to Beijing, on a navigation-assisted autonomous driving expedition. The journey began on March 19th, will conclude on the 26th, and is covering a total distance of 2,284 miles (3,675 km) across six provinces in China.
Xpeng's goal is to demonstrate the performance of its newly released autonomous driving assistance function called Navigation Guided Pilot (NGP). The system will certainly be fully tested as the plan is to have the vehicles, driven by members of the media and other 3rd parties, use NGP for 1,954 miles (3,145 km) of highway driving. That represents more than 85% of the entire trip from Guangzhou to Beijing."
Results so far:
Day 1:
On the first day, the vehicles traveled from Guangzhou to Shantou and covered 236 miles (380 km). The fleet was able to drive the 236-mile route with an average of only 1.05 human driver intervention per every 100 miles driven (.65 times every 100 km).
More stats from day one:
- Lane Changing & Overtaking Success Rate: 93.45%
- Highway Ramp Entering & Exiting Success Rate: 83.76%
- Tunnel Passing Through Success Rate: 99.65%
Day 2:
On the second day, the convoy traveled from Shantou to Quanzhou and covered 173 miles (279 km). The fleet was able to drive the route with an average of only 1.37 human driver intervention per every 100 miles driven (.85 times every 100 km).
More stats from day two:
- Lane Changing & Overtaking Success Rate: 86.05%
- Highway Ramp Entering & Exiting Success Rate: 85.00%
- Tunnel Passing Through Success Rate: 91.23%
"Xpeng's XPILOT 3.0's NGP provides navigation-assisted autonomous driving is a sophisticated suite of advanced driver's assist systems and can navigate from point A to B, based on the navigation route set by the driver. The system is only available on highways covered by high-precision maps in China, which are actually plentiful. NGP cannot navigate on secondary and tertiary streets that have not been mapped with high-precision.
Xpeng’s XPILOT 3.0 hardware is also very impressive, and integrates 12 ultrasonic sensors, 5 high-precision Bosch 5th generation millimeter-wave radars, 13 autonomous driving cameras, and uses NVIDIA Drive Xavier, which is NVIDIA’s most advanced autonomous vehicle chip, as well as QUALCOMM’s top-line in-vehicle processor, the Snapdragon 820A."
Xpeng Begins Ambitious 2,284-mile Cross-Country Autonomous Media Drive
We examine Xpeng Motors' long-distance navigation-assisted autonomous driving expedition from Guangzhou to Beijing, China.
insideevs.com
It sounds to me like NGP is Xpeng's version of Tesla's Navigate on Autopilot.
