According to CNOA, on December 24th, BYD announced that its advanced intelligent driving assistance system "Eye of the God" officially opened the function of CNOA nationwide, and pushed it through OTA one after another to realize intelligent navigation of all kinds of roads nationwide. The main models involved include Wangwang U8 (Deluxe Edition), Tengshi Z9GT and Tengshi N7, which will receive updates in batches this month.
Specifically, BYD’s "Eye of God" can be opened all over the country, and all roads are easy to open. Whether it is urban roads or country roads, it can bring users a safer and more convenient intelligent driving experience. The nationwide opening of the map-free city navigation function is a big step for BYD in the field of high-level intelligent driving, which indicates that BYD’s "Eye of God" high-level intelligent driving ability ranks first in the industry.
Affected by this, BYD closed up 2.75%.
"Smart car" in the first half
As the leader of China’s new energy automobile industry, BYD has the responsibility to push China’s smart driving forward, continuously strengthen investment in technological innovation and R&D, and promote industrial synergy under cross-border integration, expand the "circle of friends" of smart driving, form a more efficient innovation ecology, and enhance China’s competitiveness in the world.
What are the advantages of BYD’s "Eye of God"?
In July 2023, BYD released a high-level intelligent driving assistance system-Eye of God. With safety as the original design intention, and relying on BYD’s advanced electronic and electrical architecture and full-stack self-research capability, the vehicle system-level solution proposed for Zhijia can achieve vehicle fusion perception, precise control and coordinated execution.
First of all, the technology of urban navigation without map.
The core of "Eye of the God" comes from a revolutionary innovation "NOA without Map". Whether facing complicated intersections, flickering traffic lights or sudden obstacles, "Eye of the God" can calmly deal with it. It can not only independently complete routine operations such as overtaking and avoiding, but also easily control difficult tasks such as passing around the island and automatically entering the waiting area.
Secondly, the end-to-end big model architecture.
In the traditional sense, autonomous driving relies on detailed map data, but BYD has boldly broken through this limitation. Through the combination of end-to-end large model architecture and multi-sensor fusion sensing technology, the information of surrounding environment can be captured and processed in real time, and the change of road conditions can be accurately judged, so as to achieve the goal of safe driving without maps.
Earlier, Wang Chuanfu, chairman of BYD, repeatedly mentioned the theory of "technical fish pond". "BYD has accumulated hundreds of billions of research and development, and has built its own technical fish pond with technological innovation. There are various technologies in it, and it will be fished out when the market needs it. We have been doing a proof that BYD can and new energy can. "
Up to now, BYD has 11 research institutes and more than 100,000 engineers. It should spend 1/5 of its time on smart driving. The smart driving team has 4,000 people, covering software, algorithms, chips, smart driving solutions, etc. It is five times the number of Tesla, and the size of Huawei’s smart driving team is equivalent.
In this context, BYD’s "Eye of God" system has been iterated to BAS 3.0+ superhuman driving assistance, and the number of smart driving models has exceeded 4 million, ranking first in China and having the largest Che Yun database in China. At the same time, BYD’s "Eye of the God" gives full play to its exclusive advantages of intelligent and electric integration, creating the world’s first functions such as easy four-way parking and easy three-way parking, with over 300 parking scenes.
With the "white edge" of the automobile market, high-order intelligent driving has become a place where many automobile manufacturers fight for bayonets. The nationwide opening of BYD’s map-free city navigation function is not only another breakthrough of BYD in the field of intelligent driving, but also reflects the technical strength of BYD’s first echelon in the field of intelligent driving.
The "wisdom road" in the second half
In recent years, human beings have been imagining the driving patterns of vehicles in the future, and the answers given by previous science fiction films are efficient and intelligent automatic driving intelligent scenes. Now, we are infinitely approaching that future.
In terms of policies, documents such as Innovative Development Strategy for Smart Cars, Guiding Opinions on Promoting the Development and Application of Road Traffic Autopilot Technology, and Guide to Transportation Safety Services for Autopilot Cars (Trial) have been issued successively to promote the smart driving market.
In terms of technology, China’s first holographic sensing smart highway meeting the level of vehicle-road cooperative automatic driving was put into use, and the test base and demonstration area of automatic driving closed site were successively identified, and the pilot units actively carried out technical verification, which greatly promoted the fusion of multi-source sensing data.
In terms of enterprises, traditional independent and joint-venture brands represented by BYD, Geely, Great Wall, Volkswagen and Toyota, along with the initial achievements of electrification transformation in the first half, are also scrambling to accelerate the intelligent upgrade, on the one hand, expanding the overall penetration rate of brands horizontally, on the other hand, promoting the iterative upgrade of high-level intelligent driving vertically.
What kind of answer sheet did BYD hand over in the second half?
In January this year, 2024 BYD Dream Day was officially held. On the standardized intelligent driving platform, BYD’s full-stack self-developed high-level intelligent driving "Eye of the God" got on the bus, which was carried in Tengshi, Dynasty, Ocean and other models; On the vehicle intelligent innovation platform, BYD has created a unique and leading new experience in the industry, which is easy for four-way parking, easy for three-way parking and stable control of high-speed tire puncture.
In June this year, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, and the Ministry of Transport jointly announced that nine automobile brands had been identified to enter the intelligent networking pilot consortium after preliminary examination and merit-based evaluation by relevant departments and experts. Among them, BYD, Changan Automobile, GAC, SAIC and Weilai are on the list.
In August this year, the cooperation between BYD’s Equation Leopard and Huawei was finally "settled". The two sides signed an intelligent driving cooperation agreement in Shenzhen to carry out in-depth joint research and development of intelligent driving for Equation Leopard. The first product focuses on the upcoming Equation Leopard 8 model, equipped with Huawei Gankun Intelligent Driving ADS 3.0.
In September this year, BYD put forward at an internal meeting: I hope that next year, the high-end intelligent driving (high-speed NOA class) will be put down to the 100,000-yuan (100,000-200,000 yuan) model. This will be a milestone in BYD’s research and development, which means that its strategic strength and speed should not be underestimated.
In Wang Chuanfu’s view, the intelligence of new energy vehicles is not only autonomous driving, but also making a fuss about the larger automobile ecology. Compared with the intelligentization of mobile phones, the intelligentization of automobiles can be realized in multiple scenes, which can bring greater convenience to people. The demand of Xinneng automobile in the construction of interconnected ecology is more urgent and critical, and the industry should pay close attention to application and development, so that the automobile can become the "third space" of personal life.