Many car companies claim that their intelligent driving capabilities are in the "first tier," so what standards are used to evaluate this?
Obviously, the manifestation of intelligent driving strength, in addition to software and hardware levels and intelligent driving solutions, depends even more on user experience. After all, cases of using good ingredients to make a bad dish are everywhere. Next, let's take a look at the evaluation criteria for the "first tier of intelligent driving"!
Refreshing the standards for the first tier of intelligent driving
As everyone knows, the previous evaluation of intelligent driving strength usually referred to the degree of completion from point A to point B, takeover rate, and so on in normal road scenarios. However, with the rapid development of technology, this is now outdated. The latest standard is now "parking spot to parking spot," that is, from a more difficult enclosed parking lot to another parking lot and then also completing automatic parking, only then can it be rated as the "first tier of intelligent driving."
That's right, at the "Zeekr Qianli Haohan Intelligent Driving Press Conference" held in Hangzhou on March 18, Zeekr Technology Group CEO An Conghui and new Zeekr 009 owner Tong Liya demonstrated through a live broadcast the "industry's first full-blooded parking spot to parking spot." You should know that during evening rush hour, the two departed from the underground garage of Zeekr Tower in a Zeekr 009, not only successfully crossing downtown Hangzhou to reach the press conference site, but also completing automatic parking in the parking spot closest to the elevator entrance in the underground garage of Hangzhou International Expo Center, achieving zero takeovers throughout the entire journey.
Outstanding intelligent driving strength naturally cannot be separated from strong hardware support. As a car company that has always adhered to the product development philosophy of "pre-installing top-tier intelligent driving hardware across the entire lineup," Zeekr has always believed that no matter how high the cost, safety equality must be achieved. Therefore, we can see that all on-sale models of Zeekr Qianli Haohan Intelligent Driving not only come standard across the entire lineup with the top-tier dual Orin-X intelligent driving chips, maintaining the industry's highest standard with computing power as high as 508TOPS, but also come standard with an intelligent driving solution featuring lidar. This undoubtedly forms a sharp contrast with other car companies' lidar solutions that require extra payment or a high price for optional configuration. After all, technology is meant to change life, not to increase the burden on consumers. This also proves that Zeekr is truly practicing "technology equality."
As the saying goes, a fine horse deserves a fine saddle. Compared with other companies' less cost-effective "parking spot to parking spot," the more sincere Zeekr Qianli Haohan Intelligent Driving is still the industry's first full-blooded parking spot to parking spot. It can not only comprehensively improve passage capability in key scenarios such as roundabouts, U-turns, variable lanes, highway ETC, and intersection waiting and turning areas through the accelerated evolution of core technical capabilities such as one-stage end-to-end Plus and MLM multimodal large language models, but it is also currently the only parking spot to parking spot in the industry that supports parking in all mechanical parking spaces nationwide. This is also the confidence behind its bold claim of being "full-blooded"!
You should know that in China, on average, one out of every twenty parking spaces is a mechanical parking space that is narrow and extremely difficult. At this time, models equipped with Zeekr Qianli Haohan Intelligent Driving can complete automatic parking in narrow mechanical parking spaces through 360° surround-view cameras around the vehicle body, the industry's original multimodal reasoning positioning technology, and more. At the same time, the vehicle can also use the "nearest parking spot search" function in parking lots without network and GPS signals to achieve precise positioning regardless of floor and find the nearest available parking spot.
It is worth mentioning that in order to further consolidate the reputation of "road tank Zeekr," Zeekr, which performs extremely well in body materials and intelligent driving safety, has also achieved a major breakthrough in intelligent safety in its 720-degree active and passive safety system, namely the industry-first and world-first G-AES generalized obstacle continuous automatic avoidance function. It can identify all irregular obstacles 40 cm wide x 60 cm high at speeds as high as 130 km/h and continuously complete emergency avoidance and detouring. Compared with other intelligent driving solutions at the same level that detour once or use AEB and AES to brake to a stop, it not only highlights the excellence of G-AES, but will also once again refresh the evaluation criteria for the "first tier of intelligent driving"!
L3-level intelligent driving technology architecture
Whether it is standard lidar, dual Orin-X intelligent driving chips, full-blooded parking spot to parking spot, or the industry-first and world-first G-AES function, these technologies that can already be delivered to users, when placed in the second half of the even more astonishing "Zeekr Qianli Haohan Intelligent Driving Press Conference," can actually be considered "outdated." After all, what appeared later was "L3-level intelligent driving"!
As everyone knows, talking about intelligent driving without big data is nonsense. After all, without enough driving data to provide training support for the intelligent driving large model, this large model is just an empty shell. For Zeekr Qianli Haohan, which has 7.5 million vehicles equipped with L2 and above assisted driving through the integration and sharing of all Geely data, it not only has the advantage of the largest vehicle volume in the entire industry, providing training samples based on real working conditions for the Zeekr intelligent driving large model with a data volume of more than 200 million kilometers per day on average, but also has the highest callable computing power among all Chinese car companies (23.5 EFLOPS). This allows its intelligent driving large model to learn nearly 100,000 additional scenario data points in each iteration cycle, thereby helping high-level intelligent driving functions achieve faster iteration.
With strong data and computing power as the foundation, plus strong financial strength and technical strength, Zeekr Qianli Haohan Intelligent Driving also has the confidence and ability to achieve advance layout of L3-level intelligent driving. For example, at the press conference site, the perception hardware configuration of Zeekr's L3-level intelligent driving technology architecture was revealed, such as achieving four 360-degree full perception, namely ultrasonic radar 360 degrees, millimeter-wave radar 360 degrees, visual perception 360 degrees, and lidar 360 degrees. Among them, in order to achieve 360-degree lidar, Zeekr's L3-level intelligent driving technology architecture will adopt a layout scheme of 5 lidars, including 1 long-range lidar and 4 Dtof blind-spot-filling lidars. This can not only achieve L3-level intelligent driving on highways and urban expressways, but also prepare for L3-level intelligent driving in urban areas and parking spot to parking spot.
In terms of chip computing power, Zeekr even displayed at the scene the world's first "Zeekr Qianli Haohan self-developed intelligent driving domain controller" built on dual NVIDIA DRIVE AGX Thor chips. It will debut with two Thor chips, with computing power reaching 1400 TOPS. Compared with the current industry's top-tier dual NVIDIA DRIVE AGX Orin-X chips, the AI computing power of the entire system has increased by 175%, thereby providing sufficient iterative redundancy space in hardware for the implementation of L3-level intelligent driving.
Daxia Car Talk: Undoubtedly, every technology mentioned at the "Zeekr Qianli Haohan Intelligent Driving Press Conference" not only verifies Zeekr's strength as a "first-tier intelligent driving" company, but also announces to the global automotive industry the arrival of the L3-level intelligent driving era. And at the upcoming Shanghai Auto Show, the new global ultra-luxury SUV flagship built with full effort by Zeekr, the Zeekr 9X Guanghui, will also appear with the most advanced L3-level intelligent driving technology architecture, shocking the world!
