ARCFOX has launched the very first vehicle integrated with Huawei‘s intelligent automotive solution during the ARCFOX Brand Night and New Product Launch event in Shanghai, China this week. The ARCFOX Alpha-S HI is the first mass-produced vehicle featuring autonomous driving for urban roads and is being billed as a new global benchmark for autonomous driving powered by the Huawei Inside (HI) model.
The HI model offers OEMs a brand-new digital architecture for high-quality intelligent vehicles with more than thirty (30) intelligent components and five (05) intelligent systems: Intelligent Driving, Intelligent Cockpit, mPower, Intelligent Connectivity, and Intelligent Vehicle Cloud.
Through partnerships such as the ARCFOX Alpha-S HI, Huawei has promised to use its 30-plus years of experience in ICT to help OEMs build better intelligent cars and drive China’s automotive industry to evolve in new cutting-edge areas such as intelligent and autonomous driving.
Thanks to Huawei’s full-stack Automated Driving System (ADS), the ARCFOX Alpha-S HI will be the world’s first commercial vehicle with autonomous driving for urban roads. The car will be able to navigate itself through busy urban terrain, high-speed roads, and parking lots.
This new car model from ARCFOX will be able to recognize and analyze a full array of road features from traffic lights to oncoming traffic. From there, the vehicle can operate without instruction in any situation from going straight, turning, and stopping for pedestrians or other objects, to navigating on- and off-ramps and unprotected turns. For example, at intersections without left-turn waiting areas, it is able to adjust its route to turn left safely based on analysis of oncoming traffic and other vehicles turning left. In addition, the ADS comes equipped with self-learning technologies to constantly self-evolve, increasing its intelligence based on actual experience to become the ideal driver.
This full-stack ADS was specifically adapted to China’s complex roads and transportation systems to provide users with a better driving experience across all scenarios.
For nearly ten (10) years, Huawei has been researching artificial intelligence applications with their current autonomous driving algorithms entering development half a decade ago. This decade of research has produced a trifecta of technologies perfect for an ADS — super full-stack algorithms, a super data lake, and supercomputing and sensing devices.
The ADS will also support continuous optimization and iteration through over-the-air (OTA) updates to provide users with new and exciting features and to keep up with quickly evolving urban use cases.
Equipped with HarmonyOS and a large HD display, the ARCFOX Alpha-S HI offers a premium interconnection between what Huawei calls “1 + 8 + N” scenarios. By bringing together smart cockpit units with users’ other devices, these technologies allow services like navigation, video, music, and voice to be seamlessly switched between the car and other devices, making driving easier and more enjoyable. These latest technological advances turn your car into your phone, enabling seamlessly connected video calls and more while driving.
Both of the ARCFOX Alpha-S HI models, priced at ¥388,900 and ¥429,900 respectively, are expected to hit the market at the end of 2021.
Huawei’s R&D investment into intelligent automotive components is forecasted to exceed US$1 billion in 2021. The company has stated it will ramp up investment in components for intelligent vehicles, especially autonomous driving software, to help automakers make vehicles that are more connected, intelligent, electric, and shared. Future integration of the automotive and ICT industries will create many new strategic opportunities both for Huawei and other industry players for years to come.