Shulou(Shulou.com)11/24 Report--

CTOnews.com, November 1, according to Xiaopeng Automobile, on October 31, after the examination and approval of the Industry and Information Bureau, the Public Security Bureau, and the Transportation Bureau, the Xiaopeng G9 successfully obtained the Guangzhou Intelligent Network Union vehicle road test license, which means that the Xiaopeng G9 has created a technical route and business model for urban self-driving using pre-loaded production vehicles. The Xiaopeng G9 will conduct a road test on the urban test road in Guangzhou and eventually move forward to the commercial operation of Robotaxi passenger transportation.

Xiaopeng said that the Xiaopeng G9, which won the road test license this time, completely uses the production car in the sale as the carrier and has only been upgraded at the software level. this is also the first known zero-modified car to be qualified for self-driving road test within the scope of Chinese roads.

According to Xiaopeng, the Robotaxi will wear a "big hat" on the roof, which is specially used to install sensing elements such as lidar. This kind of rear-loaded version of the vehicle needs to overcome more uncertainty in matching the fluency of the original vehicle hardware, and greatly increases the production cost. The Xiaopeng G9 is qualified for self-driving road test with lower-cost production cars and self-driving software, subverting the traditional Robotaxi model in terms of technology and cost.

Xiaopeng said that in the future, it will also make full use of the capabilities of the system to promote two-way mutual feeding between auxiliary driving and self-driving, and to realize the closed-loop mutual feeding of data and technical capabilities: in the field of self-driving, zero-modified vehicles will be adopted. all the perception, computing, control and other hardware are completely universal, which can greatly reduce the comprehensive cost. Not only mass-produced vehicles and Robotaxi can join the training system together to achieve common iteration, the advanced technology applied on Robotaxi can also realize the auxiliary driving experience empowerment of mass-produced vehicles.

CTOnews.com learned that at the end of September this year, the General Office of the Ministry of Transport announced 18 pilot projects for the first batch of intelligent transportation pilot applications (autopilot and intelligent shipping). Guangzhou urban travel service autopilot pilot application pilot project was selected, and 260 self-driving cars will be put into operation this year and next. According to the announcement, the pilot project put 50 self-driving buses into Guangzhou Tower Ring Road and Biological Island Ring Line from August 2022 to December 2023, serving a total of not less than 1 million people.

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