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BYD’s Free Self-Driving Tech Might Not Be Such a Boon After All
Aside from unfavorable comparisons to rival advanced driver systems, calling it God’s Eye could be as misleading a moniker as Tesla’s Full Self-Driving.
Careful not to describe God’s Eye as fully autonomous, BYD’s billionaire founder and CEO Wang Chuanfu boasted during a lavish launch event at the company’s headquarters in Shenzhen last week that intelligent driving capabilities would soon become as ubiquitous as seat belts and airbags. Rival automakers XPeng, Nio, and Li Auto, aided by their early adoption of Nvidia’s Orin X tech, a system-on-a-chip (SoC) that’s used to power autonomous driving and AI applications, are also more impressive than God’s Eye, states Rainford. Rainford adds that BYD is playing catch-up: “2024 was a breakout year for urban-level autonomous driving systems in China, with the front-runners of Li Auto, XPeng, Nio, and Huawei joined by rivals such as Zeekr, Wey, and even more affordable brands like Leapmotor.”
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