Pony.ai partners with Serteng to develop L4 technology based on M1 LiDAR.

Today, Suteng Juchuang announced a partnership with Xiaoma Zhixing to deepen cross-business cooperation in the field of autonomous driving and intelligent transportation based on Suteng Juchuang’s lidar products.

Earlier this year, Xiaoma Zhixing unveiled the appearance of its sixth-generation autonomous driving hardware system, which is designed for L4 vehicle regulations. The first model equipped with this system is the Toyota S-AM (SIENNA Autono-MaaS), a hybrid electric platform based on the 7-seater Sena, which will begin road testing in China this year and start daily operations for autonomous driving transportation services in the first half of 2023.

The sensor scheme includes four solid-state lidars on the roof, three blind-spot lidars distributed on the left, right, and rear, four millimeter-wave corner radars on the roof, one long-range millimeter-wave radar in the front, and eleven cameras, seven of which are on the roof and four around the body. Xiaoma Zhixing has also created a vehicle-grade L4 computing unit based on NVIDIA Orin chips.

Suteng Juchuang’s second-generation lidar M1 has already won many orders from L4 autonomous driving fields and OEMs, including Xiaoma Zhixing, Wenyuan Zhixing, Yuanrong Qixing, Kuwa Robot, TuSimple, Yinchekete, Zhitu Technology, BYD, FAW Hongqi, GAC Aion, Great Wall Motors, XPeng Motors, WM Motor, Zeekr ZhiNeng Technology, Lotus Technology, Zhitu Technology, and Yinchekete.

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