XPENG Demos AI Driving for UN
Automaker XPENG showcased its AI-driven advanced driver-assistance system to global delegates from a UN working group on automated driving. The company hosted live road demonstrations in Shanghai for the UN/WP.29 Informal Working Group on Automated Driving Systems.
- The UN's World Forum for Harmonization of Vehicle Regulations (WP.29) aims to create globally harmonized rules for automated driving systems to ensure their safe introduction on public roads. XPENG was the only emerging Chinese automaker to provide live demonstrations at the group's first offline session in China. - Officials and experts from Canada, the European Union, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States were among the delegates who experienced the system firsthand in Shanghai's real-world urban and highway traffic. - The demonstrated system, called XNGP (Navigation Guided Pilot), is XPENG's full-stack advanced driver-assistance system, developed in-house. It is designed to handle a wide range of complex driving scenarios without relying on high-definition maps. - The company's newer vehicles, like the P7i sedan, run the XNGP system using two NVIDIA DRIVE Orin SoCs (System on a Chip), which provide a combined 508 TOPS of computing power for AI processing. Future models will incorporate the more advanced NVIDIA DRIVE Thor platform. - XPENG has been rolling out "Infinite XNGP" to experienced users, making the feature available in all Chinese cities and on all routes that support navigation. - The company has stated its goal is to achieve L4-level autonomous driving in China by 2025 and is developing a global version of XNGP. - Beyond passenger cars, XPENG plans to launch three mass-produced L4 autonomous Robotaxi models in 2026, which will share the same core intelligent driving technology as its consumer vehicles.