By Chang Yan

This may be one of the most nervous hours for Wu Xinzhou, the Vice President of autonomous driving at Xpeng.

In the past 49 minutes, he sat in the passenger seat next to Xpeng’s CEO He XPeng, but the car wasn’t driven by He, it was driven by the self-driving system CNGP.

This is a rare scene in the field of intelligent cars, not only because the boss personally checked the autonomous driving operation, but also because navigation-assisted driving in cities without relying on specific routes has not been done by anyone in China, especially during the daytime in the core area of Guangzhou, where the traffic is heavy and roads are complex.

During the 17-kilometer journey, Wu Xinzhou had to ensure that the latest version of the CNGP system installed on Xpeng P5 runs smoothly, to ensure the safety of his boss and all other traffic participants on the road, and to ensure the dignity of Xpeng’s autonomous driving development capabilities.

So, let’s see what happened.

Curtain down. Let’s talk about our feelings.

Clearly, these complex and erratic road conditions cannot be predicted or arranged. He XPeng’s evaluation and expectations are not blind praises because Xpeng has relatively completely demonstrated the current technological status of CNGP.

That is He XPeng’s words: “I can’t stand it anymore.”

Oops, just kidding. That is:

1. Compared to the previous video and the appearance at 1024 last year, CNGP has been optimized in more scenes and strategies. The perception capability of LIDAR has been fully tapped, and more considerations have been made for Chinese road conditions in decision-making and planning. Of course, large vehicles are still the absolute kings, and after seeing them, they would still automatically reduce intelligence.

2. Xpeng’s autonomous driving team’s algorithmic efficiency is also leading in the industry. This depends on the possibility of achieving so many effects based on the calculation power of the Xpeng P5 20-30T, but it should also be objectively noted that the current computing power of P5 is one of the limitations of releasing the capabilities of CNGP, and it is believed that the hardware platform of G9 will lead to a qualitative improvement in the experience.### Three: XPeng CNGP’s current goal is to be an intermediate-level driver, which is a very mature concept. On the one hand, it can avoid taking risks and ensure safe driving, on the other hand, it can also minimize the workload of the driver in many scenarios.

We hope that the next time He XPeng checks the homework, Wu Xinzhou will not be nervous enough to pull the armrest every time.

Hope that next time it will be us who inspect the homework.

This article is a translation by ChatGPT of a Chinese report from 42HOW. If you have any questions about it, please email bd@42how.com.