In 2023, as the first year of urban NOA, Xpeng Motors has launched urban XNGP on its P5/P7i/G9 and other models in Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Shanghai. Urban NOA is a high-level embodiment of point-to-point/end-to-end intelligent driving, and an example of enterprise intelligent driving technology. However, urban NOA is different from high-speed NOA. Urban NOA faces more complex scenarios. First, there are more targets. There are various construction areas, uneven road rocks, and even unnamed obstacles in the middle of the road. Compared with high-speed NOA, the complexity of urban NOA is multiplied. Therefore, urban NOA has higher requirements for the comprehensive capabilities of software and hardware.
5G technology features faster connections, lower latency, higher reliability, greater capacity and wider coverage. Relying on these technologies to achieve vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication can not only improve road safety, but also improve vehicle safety and intelligent driving performance, saving energy and cost. The integration of vehicle communication systems and 5G is the subject of research by universities, research institutes and enterprises at home and abroad: including autonomous driving and intelligent networks, cloud and edge data processing, network management, virtualization, security, privacy and finally interoperability.
How to ensure that the implementation of urban NOA is not just a gimmick, but can bring real use to drivers is what each of our developers thinks about. However, it is not realistic to realize high-level intelligent driving solely by car-side perception. How to use multiple sensors to realize high-level intelligent driving is a question that every intelligent driving engineer is constantly thinking about.
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