Tucki city NGP VS Tesla FSD, who will be the first to realize full automatic driving？

In recent years, the development of new energy vehicles is fierce, and it is not difficult to find that they are developing in the direction of high intelligence. He Xiaopeng, the founder of Xpeng Motors, even said: I believe that in 2025, the word "assist" in automatic assisted driving will be removed, and the era of real automatic driving will be entered. Are we really going to usher in the era of fully automatic driving? To answer this question, we might as well take two brands, Tesla Model 3 and Tucki P5, as examples.

Tesla: FSD

Tesla’s intelligent assisted driving ability is leading in the industry, and its pure visual route is also the object that many car companies follow.

In North America, FSD will release the version of FSD Beta V11 in August. It can also be seen from the evaluation of Big V that the effect is quite good. The new version is more mature and sophisticated, and it can flexibly avoid at intersections without signal lights, and can also continuously change lanes and overtake. Unfortunately, there is no plan to introduce FSD into China at present. Why? Quite simply, the road conditions in China are far more complicated than those in North America, and there are many people and cars. Therefore, Tesla FSD, which works in North America, which is sparsely populated, may not work in China.

Moreover, although the cost of pure vision scheme is low, it is a camera after all, and it is impossible to switch the focal length and depth of field at any time like the human eye, so it is difficult to ensure that the details in the field of vision are clear. Even the human eye will misjudge the driving route and distance in complex road conditions, light or environment. Therefore, the pure vision scheme relying on the camera has environmental limitations.

Xpeng Motors: city NGP

Xpeng Motors has been focusing on technology research and development in recent years, and has achieved good results.

For example, high-speed NGP, cross-floor memory parking, and just after OTA upgrade, the updated enhanced ACC-L/LCC-L (only applicable to Xiaopeng P5), which can assist driving in difficult urban road conditions such as unmarked road sections and large curvature curves, etc.

Different from Tesla, Xpeng Motors adopts the multi-sensor fusion route. Besides 12 ultrasonic sensors, 5 millimeter-wave radars, 13 high-sensor cameras and a group of high-precision positioning units, there are also two laser radars, which greatly improves the sensing accuracy and distance of Tucki P5 and avoids environmental interference as much as possible. Therefore, compared with the pure visual route, multi-sensor fusion will be more stable and accurate.

It is reported that the city NGP function of Tucki P5 will be launched soon, which is also the first city navigation assisted driving function in China. So, what about the city NGP? What is the solution in the face of complex domestic road conditions? These can be seen from the city NGP test video released by Xpeng Motors not long ago.

In the video, Tucki P5 traveled a total of 26 kilometers in the urban area of Guangzhou, crossing the three central urban areas of Guangzhou. During this period, it showed a very high level of coping with complicated situations such as traffic lights, left-right turns, tunnels, bends, U-turns, roundabout, bridges, switching between main and auxiliary roads, confluence, misaligned lane openings, and road conditions in the construction area.

Whether He Xiaopeng’s predicted entry into the era of full-scale autonomous driving in 2025 can really be realized is unknown. However, judging from the current level and development trend of intelligent assisted driving in Xpeng Motors, I believe that Tucki will bring us more surprises, and we can still expect a wave.