200,000-level smart driving test: Can Huawei ADS 4+ and Shangjie H5 Outperform the Competition?

HarmonyOS intelligent driving technology is being implemented at a deeper level, and now Huawei's QianKun intelligent driving is available in the mainstream market for vehicles priced around 200,000 yuan!

Before this, the "Huawei family bucket," known for its sales appeal, was mainly equipped in vehicles priced above 250,000 yuan. However, the new member of the HarmonyOS Intelligent Driving family, the Shangjie H5, with a starting price of 169,800 yuan, has made the industry-leading Huawei intelligent experience accessible to more people.

The Shangjie H5 series comes standard with Huawei's QianKun Intelligent Driving ADS 4, with the Max and Pro versions supporting full-area navigation and high-speed navigation features, respectively.

How is the experience of Huawei Qian Kun Intelligent Driving ADS 4, which is priced for the first time in the 200,000 yuan range?

We have matched the Shangjie H5 Max version with a popular competitor in the same class: the Tesla Model Y, and conducted a comparison in three aspects: full-range navigation, active safety, and intelligent parking.

We also bring a comparison of the highway navigation performance between the Shangjie H5 Pro version and the BYD Song PLUS EV Intelligent Driving version, providing some reference for friends interested in the basic models.

The configuration of the four car versions is as follows:

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The test route this time totals 115km, including 95km of highways and elevated roads, and 20km in urban areas.

The urban section, although not long, will pass through complex scenarios such as tidal lanes and reverse construction detours, offering rich test points.

Let's first look at the driver intervention situation of the four vehicles:

On the highway section, only the drivers of Shangjie H5 Pro and Shangjie H5 Max did not intervene throughout the journey.

The intervention frequency of the Shangjie H5 Max version is lower than that of the Tesla Model Y on urban road sections, providing a more worry-free experience.

The two interventions of the Shangjie H5 Max version were both caused by efficiency issues due to stalemates with oncoming vehicles on narrow roads.

The Tesla Model Y experienced an intervention to avoid the risk of a close collision, which is an old issue that Tesla's FSD had encountered in previous tests: in crowded traffic conditions, it has some difficulty accurately gauging the distance to nearby obstacles.

Branch Road Deviation Rate

There are six ramps along the entire expressway section.

The Shangjie H5 Pro version and Max version both successfully passed, while the BYD Song and Tesla Model Y each failed once.

In urban road sections, the Shangjie H5 Max Edition's entire route planning is correct.

Tesla Model Y once changed lanes too late and failed to enter the right-turn lane in time.

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In practical tests, the variety of questions for studying traffic rules in the Shangjie H5 Max version far exceeds that of Tesla FSD.

The difficulty of independent right-turn traffic lights and special lanes lies in not only observing the dynamic signals but also understanding the corresponding rules.

Tesla FSD currently cannot handle situations where it ignores right-turn red lights and might mistakenly drive into bus lanes with restrictions.

The Shangjie H5 Max version can recognize right-turn-only lights, tidal lanes, variable lanes, and bus lanes.

Both vehicles demonstrated good path-finding abilities when passing through ETC and reverse construction detour scenarios.

The final challenge is a "parking space to parking space" test that simultaneously assesses the ability to escape, pass through turnstiles, park, and attend to detail in the experience.

Our starting point is a dead-end road, and the destination's underground parking lot is full of mechanical parking spaces.

When setting navigation at the starting point on the Shangjie H5 Max version, you can see and select the specific parking space at the destination parking lot.

After enabling the function, it activates in a dead-end parking spot, adjusts the vehicle by reversing, drives to the park entrance, recognizes and passes through the barrier, then turns right to merge into the main road.

Upon reaching the destination, the Shangjie H5 Max version descended two levels of the rotating underground garage and parked in a mechanical parking space.

The Tesla Model Y failed to make a U-turn initially, and the driver completed the turn manually. Subsequently, the car successfully passed through the gate and merged onto the main road.

Upon reaching the destination, the Tesla Model Y got stuck in place when unable to release the mechanical parking spaces on both sides, instead of continuing to search for a parking spot. After more than 5 seconds, the driver opted for manual driving.

From this segment, it can be seen that both cars have a high level of feature coverage. However, Huawei QianKun Zhijia ADS is better at optimizing specific pain points, enhancing the quality of functions in detail, and is more suitable for the physique of Chinese babies.

In busy workplace areas, it's common to only find parking spots at dead ends. Enhancing the ability to get out of tight spots can save tired drivers from the tedious task of repeatedly maneuvering their cars.

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In addition to the above scenarios, there may also be some dangerous situations when using the car, such as encountering construction and "unreasonable" drivers, which we have simulated on-site. Only the Shangjie H5 Max version and Tesla Model Y can activate the navigation function on the site, and both vehicles demonstrated strong obstacle avoidance capabilities.

We set up a reverse construction detour with a very large encroachment area, then pushed the vehicle speed to 120 km/h and activated the navigation function. Both vehicles were able to slow down and accurately find the new intersection to pass through.

The suddenly opened car door on the roadside can be bypassed by both the Shangjie H5 Max version and the Tesla Model Y.

When faced with a car suddenly merging from a blind spot, both the Shangjie H5 Max version and the Tesla Model Y can recognize it, but they handle it differently.

The Shangjie H5 Max version will decisively slow down and detour.

Tesla Model Y will slow down and stop in place, and will only start moving after a long wait if there is no response from the other party.

Which approach do you think is better?

Another dangerous situation is when our driver feels unwell, loses consciousness, and can no longer control the vehicle.

A few domestic manufacturers have introduced "incapacity assistance" for such scenarios, where the assisted driving system will slow down and pull over after detecting the driver has fainted. It will also honk the horn and dial an emergency call. Among the tested models this time, only the Shangjie H5 Max version offered this feature.

Active safety

In the case of manual driving, only active safety can play a supporting role in an emergency. Here, we attempted three scenarios.

The construction instruction sign and the lead vehicle cutting out to encounter cones represent two different construction scenarios that may appear in urban areas, so we set the test speed to 35 km/h.

The reverse two-wheeled vehicle recreated the scenario of an electric vehicle mistakenly entering a highway and driving in the wrong direction, with an initial test speed of 60 km/h.

It is clear that Tesla is currently not focusing on developing its active safety system, and the above scenarios cannot be resolved.

The Shangjie H5 Max version can respond quickly, and in dangerous situations where even braking might result in a collision with oncoming two-wheeled vehicles, the vehicle will activate eAES to avoid the obstacle.

As Huawei stated, the baseline for security redundancy is hardware, and the Huawei 192-line LiDAR and 4D millimeter wave on the body of the Shangjie H5 Max version can be described as "extra health bars."

However, it is important to inform everyone that active safety features cannot handle all scenarios. There are various dangerous situations, and they may not necessarily be the same as our test environment today. Therefore, if the driver notices a dangerous situation, they should prioritize taking control of the steering wheel to avoid it.

Smart Parking

In terms of commonality and headache level, "extremely narrow parking spaces" are a very suitable scenario for intelligent parking to showcase its skills.

If you find that the parking space is partially occupied by the neighboring car when you return home, how narrow a space can each of these four cars park in with their parking function?

Extremely narrow parking spaces often come with the problem of difficulty exiting the vehicle, so we prioritize enabling the remote parking feature, where the driver exits the vehicle first after selecting a parking space, and then the vehicle parks itself.

The Pro and Max versions of Shangjie H5 perform similarly in parking; they can park in a space 0.4 meters wider than the car, and can recognize a parking space 0.3 meters wider than the car, although the front of the car cannot fully enter.

BYD's self-parking feature, officially called Valet Parking, essentially functions the same way. Once activated, it can park into a space that is 0.8 meters wider than the car itself. If the space is only 0.7 meters wider, it will not be recognized.

Tesla Model Y does not have the feature to park while the driver is away from the vehicle; it only offers automatic parking, which requires the driver to be mindful after getting out of the car. Its automatic parking can help the driver park in a space that is 0.6 meters wider than the car at most.

This year, Huawei launched the WEWA architecture, elevating Huawei's QianKun Intelligent Driving to a new level using a world model.

Shangjie H5, known as the "200,000-level volume car," has now entered the mass consumer market with the WEWA architecture, becoming the benchmark for intelligent experience in the 200,000-level market.

After reading this test, if you have a budget of 200,000, would you choose to get the "Huawei QianKun Intelligent Driving ADS 4" ticket?