China's Xpeng Launches City Navigation Guided Pilot for P5 Customers

XPeng Inc. has launched the pilot program of City Navigation Guided Pilot ('City NGP'), its high-level Advanced Driver Assistance System (ADAS) dsigned for complex urban driving scenarios. XPeng P5 customers can access City NGP through over-the-air (OTA) updates.

City NGP features a multi-modality sensor fusion framework with cameras, LiDAR units, millimeter-wave radars, high-precision positioning units and other sensor hardware to offer a 360-degree fusion perception.

When it is activated with a set destination, the vehicle can perform the full range of driving tasks such as cruising with a safe distance from leading vehicles, changing lanes due to navigation or vehicle overtaking decisions, handling merging/splitting roads, getting around stationary vehicles or obstacles, and maintaining an appropriate speed throughout the driving route.

It can also automatically detect and react to traffic lights, make lane change decisions and inform drivers, take left or right turn and navigate through intersections, roundabouts, viaducts and tunnels, as well as avoid obstructions like construction, pedestrians, and cyclists.

City NGP will be first made available on the premium version of XPeng P5.

To ensure sufficient knowledge of safety procedures, it requires a seven-day familiarisation period - and 100 km of driving - before its functions can be used on all available roads.

The company also introduced an enhanced Surrounding Reality (SR) display, capable of visualising a vehicle's surrounding objects and projecting them in 3D.

XPeng will deliver the full-scenario ADAS on its new flagship G9 SUV, the fourth production model to be officially launched in China on September 21.

Mr. He Xiaopeng, Chairman and CEO of XPeng, says: “With the rollout of City NGP, XPeng is spearheading a strategic roadmap to complete our ADAS coverage from highways and parking lots to much more complex city driving scenarios, offering our customers enhanced safety and an optimized driving experience. We believe the continuous evolvement of City NGP and the expansion of its coverage will accelerate the transformation of the driving experiences of our customers.” 

XPeng is headquartered in Guangzhou, China, with main offices in Beijing, Shanghai, Silicon Valley, San Diego and Amsterdam.

Its smart EVs are mainly manufactured at its plant in Zhaoqing, Guangdong province.