Tengshi waved the banner of BYD smart driving, ushering in the first year of popularizing smart driving

On September 23, Denza D9 ushered in the 100,000th mass-produced vehicle off the production line, setting an industry record for the fastest new energy luxury model to reach 100,000 mass-produced vehicles. On September 26, Denza N7 Intelligent Communication Conference officially kicked off. It was officially announced that all models of the series can be equipped with the new generation NVIDIA DRIVE Orin platform for the first time, and empowers Denza N7’s intelligent driving capabilities to realize intelligent driving on high-speed roads. Advancement and implementation.

Denza N7 blows the clarion call for intelligent driving, which also indicates that BYD Automobile has begun to wave the banner of intelligent driving. As the biggest beneficiary of the electrification of Chinese automobile brands, BYD was once not optimistic about intelligent driving in people's eyes, or was not optimistic about intelligent driving. Driving is relatively slow, but the release of the Denza N7 with the new generation NVIDIA DRIVE Orin platform high-speed smart driving package confirms that Chinese cars are becoming smarter after electrification, ushering in the first year of the popularization of smart driving.

Therefore, this article combines relevant information to summarize Denza intelligent driving hardware and functions, BYD intelligent driving layout and planning, hoping to bring you some information and opinions.

Denza intelligent driving hardware and functions

Combined with the information about the optional high-speed intelligent driving package equipped with the NVIDIA Orin platform in the release of DENZA N7, BYD DENZA now has three levels of intelligent driving functions:

Basic configuration - Denza Intelligent Driving Standard Edition, using Horizon single J3 chip platform 5V5R, standard LCC function.

Intermediate configuration - Denza high-speed smart driving package, using NVIDIA's single Orin N platform 11V5R, supporting high-speed and fast NOA.

High-end configuration - Denza has full access to high-end smart driving, using NVIDIA's single Orin X platform 2L11V5R, which uses Sagitar Jutron M1 lidar to support high-speed NOA and urban NOA.

The mid-range Orin-N high-speed smart driving upgrade package is priced at 15,000 yuan, and the limited-time discount price is 12,000 yuan. The original high-end optional Orin X high-end smart driving price is 28,000 yuan, and the limited-time discount is 23,000 yuan. What is also interesting is that old users who have already purchased Horizon J3 can also pay another 10,000 yuan to modify the Orin-N high-speed smart driving upgrade package. This and old NIO customers can upgrade their car chips to Qualcomm 820 to 8155. similar.

Denza Pilot high-end intelligent driving planning functions:

Driving functions, lane centering, adaptive battery life, lever lane changing, high-speed NOA, city NOA;

Parking function, automatic parking, mobile phone remote parking;

Safety assist, lane departure warning, rear collision warning, active braking, traffic sign recognition, blind spot safety assist;

Driving functions, lane centering, adaptive battery life, lever lane changing, high-speed NOA;

Parking function, automatic parking, mobile phone remote parking;

Safety assist, lane departure warning, rear collision warning, active braking, traffic sign recognition, blind spot safety assist.

It is reported that Denza will launch high-speed NOA in the fourth quarter of this year, which can avoid obstacles, emergency braking at 120km/h, and go up and down ramps with large curvatures. In the first quarter of next year, Denza will deliver urban NOA to achieve cross-floor performance. Automatic parking, traffic light U-turn, valet parking, summoning and other functions.

In terms of BYD's smart driving hardware, its domain control integration is developed and produced by itself. Of course, this is a small case for BYD Electronics, which can OEM mobile phones. According to the media information at the press conference, all those using NVIDIA's Orin platform should be a domain control platform. Supports installation of single and double Orin.

As for the software part, BYD said that the "Eye of God" high-end intelligent driving assistance system adopted by its Denza will be equipped with the BOS operating system independently developed by BYD. In fact, if you are familiar with our previous article "Car Operating System 102", you can know what is inside the intelligent driving system. There is a Hypervisor virtual machine running two systems:

Intelligent driving AI- related Linux/QNX and other systems are mainly used to run currently popular visual AI-related algorithms.

RTOS with stronger real-time performance is mainly used for running safety-related vehicle control algorithms.

It may be difficult for BYD to conduct all independent research and development, and it may be more based on the redevelopment of the original system.

The intelligent driving program running on the system, the high-end intelligent driving program on the NVIDIA chip Orin chip should come from Momenta.

BYD’s intelligent driving layout and planning

In fact, in 2018, BYD reached a cooperation in autonomous driving with Baidu Apollo, which started early. In 2022, it was reported that Baidu would provide BYD with the ANP smart driving product that integrates parking and parking. However, there was little news later. Recently, there was news that BYD Cooperation with Baidu has been suspended.

In March 2021, BYD and Horizon signed a strategic cooperation agreement. Currently, many BYD vehicles are equipped with Horizon chips.

In December 2021, BYD reached a strategic investment agreement and strategic cooperation framework agreement with the radar sensor start-up Sagitar Juchuang, and established a joint venture company Dipai Zhixing with the autonomous driving company Momenta, in which BYD holds 60% of the shares.

In 2022, BYD announced a strategic cooperation agreement with NVIDIA to put into production intelligent driving products based on NVIDIA's Orin chip by 2023.

Therefore, BYD has actually already laid out smart driving in terms of capital and business cooperation. Generally, the development cycle of smart driving is 1-2 years, so starting from 2023, whether it is BYD Dynasty Network and Haiyang Network models, or Denza, Yangwang, F Brands will usher in a comprehensive evolution of their products in assisted driving.

Chip platform solutions include Horizon J3, J5, NVIDIA Orin X, Orin N, and Texas Instruments TDA4.

In terms of software application function integration, we cooperate with domestic Neusoft Reach, Freetech, NavInfo, Momenta, DJI Automotive, Heduo and SenseTime, etc.

Currently, BYD's smart driving team is working intensively to deliver the following smart driving products:

Based on the Horizon Single Journey 5 plan, it will be mass-produced on the 200,000-yuan Han and other models;

Based on the single OrinX and dual lidar solution, mass production is carried out on the 300,000-yuan Denza N7;

Based on the dual OrinX and triple lidar solution, it is installed on the 1.1 million looking-up model.

Summarize

In terms of smart driving in 2023, BYD, which sells 3 million units annually, is all in. Can smart driving be far behind in Chinese cars?