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Xpeng puts into production what Elon Musk calls ‘fool’s errand’
Xpeng, Tesla’s Chinese rival, fuels the competition of autonomous driving to a new level with its newly-launched P5 sedan becoming the world’s first mass-produced vehicle with LiDAR technology.
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- Xpeng’s new P5 sedan becomes the world’s first mass-produced vehicle equipped with LiDAR technology, taking the competition for autonomous driving to a new level
- Chinese carmakers are overtaking other players in the autonomous driving segment, analyst says
Xpeng Motors has launched the world’s first mass-produced electric car with LiDAR technology, upping the ante against competitors including Tesla by making the self-driving technology a standard feature in its P5 sedan.
The four-door car will be equipped with 32 perception sensors to augment its laser-based radar to detect its surroundings, including pedestrians, cyclists, static objects and road works – crucial in making autonomous driving possible. The car maker, which
completed a weeklong, 3,675km autonomous test drive
last month from Guangzhou to Beijing on its P7 sedans, will offer drivers what it calls navigation-assisted autonomous driving on highways and enhanced memory parking.
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Incredible stuff - from China. They might eat our lunches.