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China’s Best Self-Driving Car Platforms, Tested and Compared
Tesla and General Motors may be struggling with self-driving tech, but the opposite is true in Asia. WIRED tested China's top three autopilot systems to see just how far ahead they are.
There are other China-based companies with lidar-equipped cars—for instance, Huawei is cooperating with a number of brands such as Avatr to bring a solution—but here we're going to focus on Xpeng, Nio, and Li Auto, as all are listed on US stock exchanges. Li Auto’s urban-based Commute NOA, introduced in June 2023, supposedly covers more than 95 percent of “common mobility scenarios” and by December was usable in 100 cities across China, including Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen. Like with Nio, the Li system has a tendency to cut out due to the lack of high-definition mapping on the highway and on elevated roads within Shanghai (more about what happens in those situations later), but the experience is far more refined.
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