BYD's New TENZA N7 Shows off Unmapped Urban Navigation
TapTechNews June 13th news, BYD Auto showed its muscle today. The brand-new TENZA N7 car 'raided the urban village at night'. The first actual test of the unmapped urban navigation was launched, with 0 takeovers throughout the whole journey and successfully crossing the complex urban village at night.
As can be seen from the video, BYD's unmapped urban navigation autonomous driving includes negotiating passage with illegally parked and U-turning vehicles, bypassing illegally parked non-motor vehicles, avoiding and passing when encountering vehicles in the right-turn blind area, passing after recognizing people and vehicle mixtures, recognizing and braking for 'ghost probe' pedestrians, yielding and passing when meeting oncoming cars in backlight, independently choosing the path in a narrow road without lane lines, and yielding and passing when encountering non-motor vehicles in a narrow road.
TENZA Sales Division General Manager Zhao Changjiang said that recently, the call for unmapped urban navigation has been very high, and during this time, the engineers have been working hard to catch up the progress, and both research and development and testing have gone smoothly.
BYD's brand-new TENZA N7 was launched in April this year, and it is fully equipped with high-speed/urban navigation as standard. High-speed navigation will cover the whole country in the fourth quarter of this year; urban navigation is also expected to cover the whole country by the end of the year, and both new and old car owners can be upgraded via OTA.
At the end of May this year, the TENZA N7 car OTA supported the urban navigation function, which is applicable to the 2023 model TENZA N7 and the new TENZA N7 with the advanced intelligent driving all-access package.
Zhao Changjiang disclosed in an exclusive interview with TapTechNews in March this year that it is expected to launch the light-map mode successively in the second half of this year, that is, the unmapped mode as other manufacturers call it.