January 18, 2021
YOUR NEXT CAR WILL BE A VOLT:
In challenge to Tesla, Chinese electric carmaker Xpeng releases autonomous features for highway driving (Arjun Kharpal, 1/18/21, CNBC)
Chinese electric carmaker Xpeng Motors has announced a new autonomous driving feature designed to work on highways, as it ramps up its challenge to domestic rivals as well as Tesla.The feature -- called Navigation Guided Pilot or NGP -- will allow the company's flagship P7 sedan to automatically change lanes, speed up or slow down, or overtake cars and enter and exit highways.It is part of the next generation of Xpeng's XPILOT 3.0 so-called advanced driver-assistance system (ADAS) which the company expects to launch in the first quarter of this year. ADAS refers to a system with some autonomous features but where a driver is still required.
Posted by Orrin Judd at January 18, 2021 8:45 AM