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The first car of Xiaomi will use Wesai lidar, with a price ceiling of more than 300000 yuan, according to a media report late on AUTO. It is understood that the specific lidar configuration of the vehicle is to use a Wesai hybrid solid-state radar AT128 as the main radar and several Wesai all-solid-state radars as blind radars. Some professionals said that all-solid-state lidar has a larger viewing angle and smaller blind area than hybrid solid-state radar, so it is suitable to be used as a blind supplement. Xiaomi's configuration is better than some current hybrid solid-state radar schemes. Relevant data show that lidar, known as the "eye" of autopilot, is a device that measures the distance between an object and a sensor by emitting a laser. Compared with other radars, lidar has a wider detection angle and stronger ability to identify obstacles. Therefore, lidar is also known as the key sensor to achieve high-level autopilot.

It is worth noting that with regard to the price of Xiaomi's first car, Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun earlier launched a vote on the price of Xiaomi's car on his personal Weibo. According to voting data, 17000 voters voted, nearly 70% wanted Xiaomi's first car to be no more than 150000 yuan, and nearly 10% wanted it to be more than 300000 yuan. As for the shape selection of Xiaomi's first car, Lei Jun said in a live broadcast that 45% of users wanted a car, 40% said that SUV,7%-8% wanted a sports car, and 5% wanted an RV.

"so it's either a car or an SUV, but this needs to be discussed," Lei Jun said at the time. " After voting on the millet car initiated by Lei Jun, many media reported based on Lei Jun's news in the live broadcast that "Xiaomi's first car may be priced at 10-300000 yuan." Wang Hua, public relations department of Xiaomi Group, said it was "misread by the media". Lei Jun only quoted the voting data of the majority of netizens in the live broadcast, expounded the netizens' expectations, and did not express the conclusion of the first product definition of Xiaomi car.

Since Xiaomi announced the construction of a car on March 30, 2021, its every move has also attracted attention both inside and outside the industry. Once Xiaomi entered the mobile phone market and greatly reduced the price by selling it directly online and removing the intermediate channel. Xiaomi 1, which was released in 2011 with a price of 1999 yuan, is cheaper than all the mainstream smartphones available at that time. Xiaomi 1's high performance-to-price ratio has also given the Xiaomi brand a "cost-effective" label. Now Xiaomi car-making people also say that they are looking forward to it, or hope that Xiaomi car can continue to follow the route of being close to the people in terms of price, just like Xiaomi mobile phone.

It has been more than a year and a half since Xiaomi Group announced its foray into the car-building field, and the latest developments about Xiaomi car-building have also attracted a lot of attention. On Aug. 28, Xiaomi founder and CEO Lei Jun posted on Weibo: have you seen our self-driving test car on the road? And attach myself and a millet self-driving test car. From the picture, the roof of the test car is equipped with lidar and other hardware systems, using the current BMW 5-Series (G38) car body before the modification. In general, in order to develop and test the accuracy of autopilot, the size of the pre-applied model is similar to that of the final developed model. In addition, the Xiaomi test car has also applied the BYD EV body, while the Han EV and BMW 5-Series are positioning medium and large cars, and the first model of the Xiaomi car may be similar in size to both. In addition, Lei Jun also posted a video of Xiaomi's self-driving test car on his Weibo. From the video, the vehicle has been able to achieve almost full scene self-driving.

Xiaomi is expected to be in production in the first half of 2024, Lei Jun has said: "as long as Xiaomi joins the car-building industry, the industry will certainly become much more lively." This is because Xiaomi has a lot of enthusiasts, every day thinking about which products have what pain points, how to deal with these pain points, Xiaomi will first listen to the views of users.

However, for cross-border players, cross-border car construction success is not easy, in addition to the need for sufficient funds, production qualifications, R & D capabilities, product mass production and follow-up delivery and services will face many tests. At present, Xiaomi does not choose to cooperate with mature car companies or contract manufacturing, or choose to build their own factories. But it will take longer for Xiaomi to build its own car. However, judging from Xiaomi's resources and capabilities, it is possible to extend success from the field of smart hardware to the field of smart cars. What the future development prospect of Xiaomi car is, we still have to wait for the product to come out to know. After all, the product strength will tell us everything.

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