How does Xpeng’s autonomous tech handle one of the world’s biggest cities? Will_Rimell finds out from the comfort of the Autocar office
Sitting in a London office is not how Xpeng execs would have thought we’d be trying out its all-new CNGP autonomous driving tech for the first time. But with China still in the middle of a Covid lockdown, this was the only way for a Europe-based journalist to do so.
Driving through the centre of Xpeng's home city of Guangzhou at just after 4pm with the rumblings of Friday rush hour approaching, half a dozen journalists were virtually ‘packed’ into the five-seat Xpeng P5. Fixed and handheld cameras, operated from within the car, streamed an all-encompassing view of the road ahead to screens internationally - a road thronged with a mix of cars, motorbikes, cyclists and pedestrians all vying to get home before the true traffic descended.
The chaos ahead had the look of something that would make even the most seasoned London driver wince. But not the CNGP. Built on Xpeng’s Tesla Autopilot-rivalling Xpilot 3.5 driver assistance platform, the system was previously designed just for motorways under the guise of NGP, but now Xpeng is rolling out its tech to include city driving too.
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