We want to break the stereotype that high-end intelligent driving is exclusive to electric cars. 』
The engineer was full of enthusiasm on the spot, explaining to us why this machine is less than 200,000 (15580,000 and 16The two models of 980,000 yuan can be selected for 12,000 yuan) to give high-end intelligent driving assistance such as NGP, because they want to break the routine and break through themselves.
High-speed point-to-point, one-click direct
We have experienced a lot of similar pilot assistance functions in new energy vehicles in the past, but it is the first time to experience it in fuel vehicles within 200,000 yuan.
After two days of in-depth experience, we did not hesitate to give the title of the 200,000-level fuel intelligent driving benchmark to this NGP navigation assistance system of MG7.
The section of this experience is about 40km, and after we turn on the navigation, click on NGP in the map indication bar to put it in an available state.
When driving on high-speed roads, we can press the intelligent driving button on the left side of the steering wheel to enter the NGP intelligent navigation assistance mode with one key. When this function is activated, the vehicle will automatically set the speed of the vehicle according to the speed limit of the HD map, without any action from the driver.
At this time, the dashboard interface will also switch to the SR interface, the page is relatively simple, the key information can be obtained at a glance, and the scene perception and environment modeling are also very accurate. What is very detailed is that in the case of identifying the speed limit of 100km/h, NGP will run against the speed limit very intelligently, and at the same time it will be stable, but also fast.
Soon after turning on NGP, we encountered our first test scenario - a large vehicle, if we were driving human, we would definitely actively avoid it, and this is also the case with NGP.
In response to this, MG7 makes specific avoidance actions, and we can also intuitively see the intelligent driving behavior in the left intelligent avoidance from the dashboard, which is very detailed.
When encountering a slow car in front of the same lane, the vehicle will take the initiative to change lanes to overtake, and the whole set of actions is clean and neat, without delay. Of course, you can also initiate a manual lane change, just flick the steering stick and the car will change lanes.
In the process of NGP, we also encountered an emergency construction section, because it was not a non-schematic route, so we carried out manual intervention at this time, which is slightly inferior to the higher-cost non-schematic scheme, but considering the ** and hardware configuration of the whole vehicle, this performance is acceptable.
Of course, if in the future, this NGP system can access road information, that is, V2X vehicle-road coordination, so that the intelligent driving system can make decisions in advance, then such a corner case will also be solved.
If you want to experience the excitement of a rational and smooth NGP, you can always press the X-Mode button on the bottom right of the steering wheel.
At this point, the instrument panel will be replaced with a more personalized writing wheel eye **, which will also activate the car's surging power output and exhilarating sound (although it is analog, it is indeed more acceptable than putting it on a tram).
However, it should be noted that the NGP and intelligent driving systems can be activated normally in ECO, standard and Sport modes, but cannot be enabled in X-mode mode.
The positioning of this set of NGP relies on the Chinese navigation satellite Beidou-3 to complete, which can achieve 10 cm level positioning accuracy, so this MG7 can also achieve automatic on-ramp and off-ramp.
1-2km before entering the ramp, the vehicle will actively move closer to the right lane for a smoother ramp pass. NGP also does not exit when entering and exiting the ramp.
And in the next corner, the vehicle will automatically match the appropriate cornering speed according to the curvature of the corner. After arriving at the toll booth, NGP exited, and we completed the high-speed point-to-point one-click direct experience.
When passing through a toll booth, the MG7's 360 image will automatically trigger because the side is too close, which is very good. However, we can see that the scale of this 360 image modeling is a little distorted, and the car is almost as low as the road next to it, and it feels like it can go directly through the barrier without any effort, which needs to be optimized.
After getting off the highway, the NGP will exit, but the vehicle still retains basic intelligent driving functions such as full-speed adaptive cruise control, lane centering, and lever lane change.
It is worth mentioning that during the whole experience, we deeply experienced the "zero game" concept proposed by MG7 for the intelligent driving function, that is, in the process of intelligent driving, personnel can intervene at any time and ensure that the steering wheel will not confront the driver's intentions. To put it simply, it is to avoid grabbing the steering wheel as much as possible.
After the test drive, we also learned from the communication with the engineer that the MG7 will be further upgraded for the NGP function in the near future, the specific content is not yet known, but he is very eager to say that the update content is more worth looking forward to.
We guess that we may first fix the problem we mentioned above that the pile barrel is not recognized and avoided in the NGP state, and it is likely that some urban loops adapted to NGP will be opened in the future, and even begin to get involved in urban navigation assistance, after all, backed by the big tree of SAIC, MG wants to bring these capabilities into the 200,000-level market, it is just a matter of whether or not to think about it.
Finally, we give a summary of this test drive experience:
The biggest advantage of MG7 with NGP function is undoubtedly **, the only high-speed navigation assistance within 200,000 in the B-class fuel vehicle.
MG7's intelligent driving execution strategy is human-like enough, whether it is a large car avoidance strategy, or decisive overtaking in the face of slow cars on the same road, or automatic on-ramp and on-ramp, it gives people a more mature intelligent driving texture.
At a time when electrification and intelligence are becoming more and more bound, MG7 has given the market more diversified choices and played a certain role in market education, so that more car companies can pay attention to the intelligent driving needs of fuel vehicle users, which is really the industry leader.
MG7's Equal Rights
In the past 8 months, MG7 has achieved good results in the B-class fuel vehicle market within 200,000 yuan by virtue of its extreme stacking of materials that have rolled to the horizon, and has also won the sales championship in this segment several times. The launch of NGP's OTA makes MG7 the only high-end intelligent driving vehicle in this market. As a result, MG7 has indeed broken the stereotype that high-end intelligent driving is exclusive to electric vehicles, and has brought the safety and convenience of high-end intelligent driving to more fuel vehicle users.