Xiaomi Auto will launch an OTA to SU7 owners on June 6. One of the biggest upgrades will be the introduction of City NOA to eligible drivers. Other upgrades in the OTA will largely focus on the cabin experience for occupants. The news comes at a time when Xiaomi also recently announced that the cooling down period from putting in an order for a SU7 car will reduce from 7 to 3 days.
City NOA will only be available for Xiaomi SU7 cars equipped with the Xiaomi Pilot Max intelligent driving operating system, so meaning the SU7 Pro and SU7 Max. Also to be eligible drivers initially need to have accumulated 1,000 kilometers of safe intelligent driving by the end of May 31, 2024.
At first the system will work in ten cities namely: Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Hangzhou, Wuhan, Chengdu, Xi’an, Nanjing and Suzhou. The system will work on the main roads in the central areas within these cities. Included is a road sensing system to optimize the route.
Some of the upgrades to intelligent driving seem to be open to all cars and include optimizing the acceleration and deceleration comfort on ramps and improvements to the body feel when changing lanes at high speed. There are also improvement to the smart parking feature.
Xiaomi SU7 cars with the Pilot Max system are powered by 2 Nvidia Drive Orin chips with 508 TOPS computing power and use Lidar as part of a suite of sensors. Xiaomi aims to have a system equivalent in capability to the industry front runners this year.
The Xiaomi HyperOS 1.2.0 upgrade will go further than just driving assistance upgrades. One of the key features being promoted is a new nap mode which creates a relaxing atmosphere to allow the occupants to rest. There are also various other upgrades to the smart cockpit to make the experience better for users.
From June 5 Xiaomi is cutting the cooling down period after placing order from 7 days to 3 days, although this may only apply to large orders. This month also sees the implementation of the second shift at the Xiaomi plant and the company aims to deliver over 10,000 cars this month for the first time – May deliveries were 8,630, the highest yet.
Sources: Fast Technology, Autohome
