Since NV announced the full deployment of AAD across its entire lineup last Friday, on April 28, the company unveiled the SuperDrive AAD system. In terms of functionality, SuperDrive AAD goes beyond AAD standard with additional features such as NOA on highways, NOA on urban roads, and automatic parking in more scenarios. With these functions, it can greatly assist drivers in going from point A to B.
According to the introduction from NV, users can upgrade their SuperDrive AAD system at local service centers from the third quarter of 2023 at an additional cost.
To achieve advanced assisted driving, there are significant hardware differences between AAD standard and SuperDrive AAD.
AAD hardware:
- Horizon 2 chip (single 4 TOPS);
- Forward-facing monocular camera;
- 5 millimeter-wave radars.
SuperDrive AAD Hardware:
- Horizon Journey 5 Chip (single chip with 128 TOPS);
- 2 8 million pixel front cameras;
- 4 side cameras;
- 1 rear camera;
- 1 driver perception camera;
- 5 millimeter wave radars.
Compared with the AAD, SuperDrive AAD has been upgraded comprehensively in chips and perception hardware, which also shows that the entire range of NV vehicles are capable of supporting hardware upgrades for assisted driving systems, not only by reserving controller interfaces for the chip but also reserving sufficient gigabit Ethernet interfaces for communication with perception cameras.
Currently, the standard-equipped AAD that can be used upon delivery can already achieve 24 ADAS functions, including AEB (Automatic Emergency Braking), ACC (Full-Speed Domain Adaptive Cruise Control), LCC (Lane Centering Control), LCA (Lane Change Assistance), BSD (Blind Spot Detection), APA (Automatic Parking), and more.
Therefore, under the premise of already having a relatively rich ADAS function in the standard configuration, we are also looking forward to the specific price of the SuperDrive AAD upgrade plan for the NV and the actual urban ADAS performance of the NV in 2023Q3. Currently, BYD and other automakers have confirmed that they will use Horizon Journey 5 chips, and more and more automakers are also accelerating the development of their own urban ADAS system. It is believed that next year’s urban ADAS competition will become extremely fierce.
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