Shanghai-based EV maker NIO marked a major milestone this week with its Navigate on Pilot (NOP+) superior driver help software program now stay in Beijing. NIO says its NOP+ ADAS was launched on expressways and concrete expressways inside Beijing’s fifth ring street.

NIO’s NOP+ ADAS goes stay in Beijing

To this point, NIO’s ADAS has achieved full protection on city ring roads (main roads that encircle the central a part of town) and expressways such because the second, third, fourth, and fifth ring roads in Beijing.

NIO is the second EV maker to perform the feat after XPeng revealed its Metropolis NPG Superior Driver Help System went stay lower than a month in the past in Beijing.

NOP+ is a Tesla FSD-like superior driver help software program based mostly on NIO’s next-generation NT 2.0 platform. All NT 2.0 fashions are constructed on the NIO Adam supercomputer, which is powered by 4 Nvidia DRIVE Orin system-on-chips (SoCs).

In accordance with CnEVPost, NIO started recruiting the primary beta testers simply earlier than the tip of the 12 months (December 27, 2022), providing options like coming into and exiting ramps, optimum lane altering, and energetic passing, increasing it to all NT 2.0 fashions in March.

By the tip of June, NIO’s beta driver help software program collected over 26.6 million miles (42.86 million kilometers). The corporate stated on the time it was including over 1.3 million miles (2.1 million kilometers) per week.

NIO introduced on July 1 that NOP+ was popping out of beta testing with plans to introduce an official launch of the ADAS.

The official driver help software program includes a new 3D Birds Eye View (BEV) characteristic and different visualization options to higher perceive the place individuals and objects are.

NIO says the BEV characteristic can spotlight extra info like street parts, car taillights, flip alerts, and dynamic fashions.

Within the second half of the 12 months, NIO plans to increase the NOP+ system to incorporate battery swaps in freeway service areas, ultimately extending the service throughout the nation.

NIO launched a number of fashions lately, together with what’s touted as its most vital but within the second-gen ES6. The EV maker additionally launched its first electrical station wagon, the ET5 Touring, designed to tackle the European markets.