Autonomous driving should not be far away, let’s talk about our personal experience of test driving BEIJING-X7

If you want to make a more intuitive evaluation of new things, the most objective thing is to experience it yourself.

In the early years, when autonomous driving was mentioned, everyone would think it was a very distant thing. However, with the rapid development of automobile technology, especially the rapid improvement of artificial intelligence technology, when more and more artificial intelligence technologies begin to intervene in our lives, we will find that autonomous driving technology, which was once very far away, has now become a step closer. approach our lives step by step.

Because L2 level autonomous driving technology is now very mature and gradually becoming popular in many cars, many vehicles are also beginning to be equipped with L3 level autonomous driving technology. In other words, the feasibility of driverless technology has been initially verified, and purer driverless technology has become a possibility for life.

I have test driven BAIC Motor’s new BEIJING-X7, which is equipped with the currently relatively mature L2 level driverless technology. Here, I would like to share with you some of my personal experiences with L2 autonomous driving technology.

BAIC Motor’s new BEIJING-X7 is a new SUV model launched by BAIC Motor this year. It is equipped with L2 level autonomous driving technology, which is said to be the most mature autonomous driving technology in the current automobile market. Including adaptive cruise, vehicle lane deviation warning, vehicle personnel driving fatigue monitoring, automatic parking, vehicle remote control and other functions.

The use of technologies such as automatic parking and remote control in cars has become relatively common. The ones most closely related to driverless driving should be adaptive cruise and vehicle lane departure warning technologies, including in-car driving Fatigue monitoring of personnel.

So, when testing the new BEIJING-X7’s L2 level autonomous driving, the main experience is actually the two functions of adaptive cruise and lane departure technology.

Although BAIC Motor’s sales consultant told me that adaptive cruise technology is very mature, I still dare not experience it on a road with many vehicles. Therefore, I drove the car to a small area with almost no vehicles. On the road, followed by another Beijing Auto test car, I dared to slowly try adaptive cruise.

The operation is very simple. After adjusting the vehicle to adaptive cruise, you can really take off the pedal with both feet. It is easy to release the accelerator pedal, but releasing the brake pedal, especially when following a vehicle in front, really challenges one's courage.

However, the adaptive cruise technology is really easy to use. It frees your feet. It was really hard to get used to it at first. However, after following the vehicle a few times, I found that the vehicle in front slowed down or stopped, and it automatically stopped. Adaptive cruise technology can really sensitively sense the status of the car in front, and make adjustments to the driving speed and even brakes.

However, when the driving of the vehicle is completely handed over to the car computer, we still need a process of adaptation.

The lane departure warning technology is also very useful. After setting, the steering wheel will have a stable resistance. When the vehicle deviates, the stable resistance of the steering wheel will ensure that the vehicle keeps driving in a straight line. state. Coupled with adaptive cruise technology, it is basically equivalent to driverless driving.

After several experiences in places with few vehicles, I found that this adaptive cruise and lane departure technology is actually very useful. Therefore, after moving to a place with relatively more traffic, it is also very convenient to drive. .

It’s just that from the perspective of current national regulations, when driving a vehicle, your hands cannot leave the steering wheel. Therefore, although your feet are free and your hands can be used without exerting force, the current state should still be considered The state of human driving.

Looking at the difference between vehicles equipped with L2 driverless technology and ordinary vehicles, they actually have several more cameras and radars, and then the on-board computer collects information from several cameras and radars to make predictions about the road conditions. Make a judgment and issue instructions to speed up, slow down or brake.

After understanding this, we can find that if the artificial intelligence technology is quite developed, it does not seem to be a very complicated matter to achieve fully unmanned driving. It just needs to ensure the stability of the on-board computer. sex.

But let’s think about the elevator we take now. When the elevator first appeared, wasn’t it operated manually? But after the technology improves, we only need to input commands, and the elevator can automatically run up and down. This should actually have the same meaning as the driverless car.

So, after test driving BAIC Motor’s new BEIJING-X7, I feel that autonomous driving technology is not far away, because many applications are already right in front of us.

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