Nio owner says NOP ‘saved his life’ by avoiding highway crash [video]

Nio’s proprietor shared a video from his dashcam, exhibiting the emergency steering of Nio’s NOP (Navigate on Pilot) system, which saved the automobile from a crash. “Nio saved my life,” he posted on WeChat.

NOP is Nio’s various to Tesla’s Autopilot. It’s an ADAS (superior driver-assistance system) expertise that assists drivers with safely working a automobile utilizing sensors and cameras.

Within the video, Nio’s proprietor drives on the freeway at 80 km/h, following one other automobile. All of a sudden, the automobile in entrance of him adjustments lanes at excessive velocity, making an attempt to keep away from congestion on the freeway. The maneuver is partly profitable; nonetheless, we will see the motive force barely crash into the stationary automobile, inflicting a part of the automobile to fly excessive into the air, probably the rearview mirror.

Nio’s AES instantly reacted and adjusted the lane to the left whereas braking, efficiently avoiding the automobile driving parallel to it. AES (Lively Emergency Steering) is a part of NOP ADAS. It’s a complicated security system that applies braking and assists with steering to assist keep away from a collision. When braking alone is inadequate, it could work alongside AEB (Automated Emergency Braking) to maneuver the automobile away from obstacles.

In January, Nio up to date all its automobiles with Banyan 3.1.0, which reportedly included the superior AES perform.

The NOP driving system was launched in September 2020 in Beijing. In December 2022, an up to date model of NOP+, which helps lidar, adopted. In early 2024, Nio began updating all its automobiles with the superior model of assisted driving software program. In June final 12 months, the corporate claimed that NOP+ noticed whole consumer mileage cross 1 billion km.