Covering 100+ cities next year, Zhiji released a road map for smart driving.

On August 16th, Zhiji Automobile held an IM AD DAY Intelligent Driving Conference in Tsinghua Science Park. At the meeting, two alumni of Tsinghua University-Guo Hui, deputy CTO/ of Zhiji/Chief Scientist of Intelligent Driving of Zhiji Automobile, and Cao Xudong, CEO of Momenta, joined hands with Professor Shengbo Eben Li of Tsinghua University Institute of Vehicles and Transportation to discuss and analyze the technical route, experience standard, development trend and many other topics of autonomous driving.

Professor Shengbo Eben Li of Tsinghua University pointed out that safety is the first demand of self-driving cars, and data-driven brain-like control technology is the best way to solve the driving safety dilemma. Cao Xudong, CEO of Momenta, predicted that based on DDOD, DDLD and D.L.P artificial intelligence models, iAd intelligent driving will be fully data-driven, and most scenes will be automatically driven in the next 3-5 years.

Guo Hui, chief scientist of Zhiji automobile intelligent driving, said that Zhiji has completed the technological evolution track of head players’ intelligent driving for 9 years in 2 years, and has reached the user experience of intelligent driving products 3.2 times of human driving safety; And announced the "road map for the landing of Zhiji automobile intelligent driving products in the next 3 to 5 years". He also revealed that Zhiji cycling will officially open the "IM AD City NOA" beta in October this year, and step into the "urban NOA era" simultaneously with the global head players.

In recent years, the intelligentization vigorously promoted by the new forces of making cars has become the consensus of the future development of the automobile industry, and has made rapid progress. In this process, Zhiji Automobile has demonstrated its strong technical ability and achieved extraordinary development speed.

In just two years, Zhiji has completed the nine-year intellectual driving road for head players. From the road map:

"Go to the high-precision map NOA", IM AD will open the public beta in September;

"City NOA", which started internal testing in April this year, is progressing smoothly and will start public testing in October;

"Commuting mode" is expected to quickly cover 100+ cities nationwide in 2024;

In 2025, IM AD will enter the era of Door to Door.

In the next 3~5 years, Zhiji Automobile will start the intelligent driving products to run at an accelerated speed, and the intelligent driving products such as high-precision map NOA, urban NOA and commuting mode will be intensively launched.

Experience is better than the industry’s head level.

At the same time of rapid evolution, high-standard intelligent driving experience is the highest value appeal of Zhiji automobile. IM AD, the intelligent driving assistance system of Zhiji automobile, not only surpasses most human drivers in safety, traffic efficiency and road game ability, but also provides users with an experience obviously superior to the industry standard.

Especially the safety, at present, Zhiji Automobile has achieved intelligent driving 3.2 times the safety of human driving. The statistical results of actual driving data show that at present, the number of collision accidents per million kilometers of IM AD is 0.6, which is far lower than the number of collision accidents per million kilometers driven by human beings, which provides a solid security guarantee for the user experience of man-machine driving. IM AD’s safety class false braking frequency is less than once per million kilometers, which is 5 times better than the industry head standard.

In terms of performance experience, IM AD’s delivery standards are equally strict, whether it is "driving performance" such as lane-changing efficiency, driving center performance, driving fluency and driving comfort, or "parking performance" such as parking space recognition ability, parking success rate and parking fluency, all of which exceed the level of the industry’s top players; The success rate of IM AD lane change is as high as 98%, the uncomfortable deceleration is only 1.3 times per thousand kilometers, and the success rate of parking is 97%. It can be called a typical "hexagonal warrior".

All data-driven accelerated evolution

As a new brand, behind the distance between Zhiji Automobile and its head players for two years, it is the underlying technical advantages of joint development and two-way empowerment with Momenta-the core competence composed of more efficient architecture, rapidly evolving algorithms and higher utilization of generative data, which will continue to drive the accelerated evolution of iAd.

IM AD is the only dual-intelligent computing platform compatible with Xavier and Orin, and its architecture adaptability is more efficient, the computing power demand is reduced by 90%, and the running efficiency of the model is greatly improved by 500%. Based on this, limited computing power can also achieve global visual integration; Only the scheme of "single lidar+single Orin chip" can also cover all urban scenes and meet the needs of NOA for high-precision maps.

At the same time, IM AD algorithm has faster technical evolution ability. In 2021, OneModel, BEV and Transformer technologies have been implemented, and in 2022, the first car was equipped to achieve mass production, laying the industry-leading technology base. In April 2023, Zhiji Automobile and Momenta released the industry’s first D.L.P artificial intelligence model, which solved the bottleneck problem of cognitive intelligence. The "NOA-to-high-precision map" public beta, which will be launched in September this year, will gradually realize the switching of map technology schemes and realize the uninterrupted assisted driving experience without relying on high-precision maps. On this basis, in 2024, IM AD is expected to enter the application stage of Occupancy occupying the network and realize automatic driving in most scenarios.

Intelligent driving products land at high speed

Guo Hui said that in 2024, the commuting mode of Zhiji iAd will cover more than 100 cities in China. In 2025, it will surely enter the era of Door to Door full-scene commuting.

He also revealed that as the peak product of Zhiji Automobile’s intelligence, the third model Zhiji LS6, which will be unveiled at Chengdu Auto Show, will be the first to be equipped with the most cutting-edge intelligent driving technology, and the whole system has the NOA ability to go to high-precision maps. The delivery is equipped with the industry’s first "one-button scene driving" function, which solves the high-frequency pain points in certain scenes of users’ urban travel based on IM AD intelligent driving technology.

At present, IM AD is preparing for the technology to go to sea, and has completed the European localization adaptability training, and the planning algorithm has adapted to the local environment and driving habits. In 2024, with the launch of the first global strategic model LS6 of Zhiji Automobile, Zhiji Automobile will share China’s intelligent driving technology with the world.

Editor’s comment:

As one of the most concerned new car-making forces in China, Zhiji Automobile, backed by SAIC and Ali, has shown amazing development speed. In particular, in just two years, it has completed the development path of intelligent driving head players for 9 years. Behind this, Zhiji’s profound technical accumulation and research and development capabilities can be seen. At present, it is hard to say whose intelligent driving level is stronger, but Zhiji Automobile has already taken the lead.