Lidar will be eliminated？ Is ASD really so powerful when L4 is driving automatically？

Presumably, everyone knows the pre-sale price, 215,900 yuan, no more or less, just passing the edge of 200,000 yuan. Therefore, according to the popular "high opening and low walking" game in the pre-sale stage and the official listing stage, it is very likely that the starting price of Extreme Yue 07 will be lowered to about 190,000 yuan.

I won’t say much about the appearance configuration. Recently, it happened to be the Chengdu Auto Show. Friends who are free can go to the booth of the Extreme Vietnam to experience and consult. It just happened that this car is also here. Next, let’s go straight to the theme and discuss the core of Extreme Yue 07, which is also the core of this brand: AI Zhijia.

In fact, as early as two days before the Media Day of Chengdu Auto Show in 2024, Jiyue specially held a press conference to give a more comprehensive introduction to its current AI intelligent driving level, and I happened to participate.

At the meeting, Xia Yiping, CEO of Extreme Yue, first introduced the commonality between Extreme Yue and Radish Run. On the one hand, both of them are backed by Baidu, and on the other hand, everyone has L4 autopilot technology. But the difference is that Rapunzel is commercial, while Extreme Yue is domestic, so for Extreme Yue, this is the first time that L4 autonomous driving technology has empowered the family car market, which is of great significance to itself and the market.

So what do you think the family car equipped with L4 autonomous driving technology will look like? Is it like a radish running with a perception radar that is more in the way than the roof trunk, or is it like Weilai, with three bags at one head? Sorry, neither.

In their own words, they think that the system that mainly depends on "lidar+high-precision map+rule algorithm" is the classical intelligent driving, while "pure vision+end-to-end large model" is the new intelligent driving. Therefore, when Xia Yiping talked about the ASD link, in addition to the "APOLLP LP" marked with Baidu, he also marked the words "the only one in the world and the only one in China".

Indeed, in addition to Tesla’s FSD in the world, there are not many car companies that insist on adopting pure vision solutions, and even fewer can do it. If ASD can really run like a radish, and realize L4 automatic driving with pure vision scheme on private cars based on Apollo ADFM model, then it is indeed "the only one in the world and the only one in China", but the question is whether it can be done?

According to the function of the live demonstration at the press conference, whether it is high speed, city or obstacle stopping and avoiding, obstacle bypassing between lanes, parking in extremely narrow parking spaces, AEB ability, etc., the Extreme Yue 07 with ASD full of blood does have little difference from Huawei ADS 3.0, but it does not show its intelligent driving ability in rainy days, foggy days and other poor perception situations, which is exactly the essential difference between lidar and camera.

But I have to say that the price of ASD is really exciting and true conscience! Tesla’s FSD buyout is about 60 thousand yuan, while ASD is only about 30 thousand yuan, and the limited time period is only 4999 yuan. To tell the truth, this price can’t be installed with a laser radar, but it can directly buy out the high-order intelligent driving function of ASD’s complete set of pure vision solutions, so I don’t want to talk about it.

Generally speaking, whether ASD can completely replace the intelligent driving system under the laser radar scheme at present, with reference to the embarrassing situation of FSD abroad, I personally think it remains to be verified. However, as one of the few car companies in China that adopt the pure vision intelligent driving scheme, the more capable they are, the more they are.