In the traffic of Shenzhen aboard M9, the new autonomous Chinese -driving electric. Radar sensors and cameras capable of detecting obstacles 250 meters away, and up to 1400 km of autonomy
There is also Huawei in the race for intelligent car. We tried the latest version of the M9 produced by Aitothe brand born from the collaboration between the giant of technology e Sereshistoric Chinese house. Fifteen minutes on the streets of Bantian, the Shenzhen district which also houses the headquarters of Huaweiaboard an autonomous driving SUV which is a sort of traveling living room, mixed with comfort and advanced safety systems. THE’Aito M9 2025marketed in China since the end of March, is somehow a paradigm model and summarizes in itself the two choices that characterize the presence of Huawei in theautomotive.
the alliance
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The first choice consists in the adaptability of the developed driving system, the Huawei Intangent Drivingwhich gives way to opt between complete autonomous driving and manual car control with the intervention of “intelligent” assistance only when necessary. The other choice is more than ecosystem: Huawei It does not produce vehicles on its own, but has made an alliance with partners to which it provides all the technological and development part, up to after-sales services. The alliance is called Hima (acronym for Harmony, Intelligence, Mobility, Awareness) and the models made are sold only in the Huawei stores scattered for China or in the official Hima stores. At the same time, the Shenzhen company has brought agreements with BMW, Byd and Dongfengwhile from February Chinese Audi A5 buyers can choose an autonomous guided version based on the Huawei Lidar system.
The six lidar
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It is precisely the massive use of Lidar sensors (Light Detection and Ranging) that exploit Radar remoteeling to make the M9 an advanced example of autonomous guidealthough we cannot speak of a real automatic driver, but of a third generation assistance system that requires the presence of man on the driver’s seat. The SUV of Aito It has five or six seats and two versions, Full Electric (Vev) or hybrid (Hev). The rapid 800W recharge system allows you to recover up to 200 km of range In just 5 minuteswhile in the hybrid version with Range Extender The SUV is also equipped with an internal generator that gives way to reach anautonomy of 1,474 km with a single recharge and a full of petrol. Some of the electrical traction solutions adopted were already present in the Luxeed r7Hima model developed with Chery and until less than three years ago in Flagship Store From which our test started we could have found only the ATITO M5, to which the M7, the R7 (and its S7 sedan variant) and now the 2025 M9 for autonomous driving with the latest version, in fact, of the Lidar sensor, added. Traditional cameras have a scope of 150 metersthe M9 laser radar instead come to detect obstacles up to 250 meterswith a scan frequency of 20 times per second, data provided in real time thanks to 35 million kilometers processed daily in the cloud and software updates every five days. The system includes a Lidar On the upper part of the vehicle and five other millimeter wave radars: three fronts and two in the back. To these are added 11 cameras, 16 ultrasound radars and several other sensors. The Lidar operates at the best in dark environments where the cameras are less effective, but needs the intervention of millimeter wave radar in adverse weather conditions.
Use with smartphone
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Not only so much hi-tech, but also high-level performance and comfort. The M9 measures 5,230 mm In length, with a step of 3.110 mm and is available in seven variants, with an acceleration from 0 to 100 km/h from 4.5 to 5.7 seconds, based on the types of mounted electric motors. Smart LED headlights can change direction based on the width of the curves, the bodywork is 80% in aluminum alloy and adopts the larger die -cast monobloc in the worldwhile those who have an Huawei smartphone will be able to open the front compartment by fixing the screen, as is already doing for many apps with facial recognition.
panoramic screen
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The passenger compartment is characterized by the triple dashboard screen, with the instrument panel from 12.3 “the main display from 15.6 inches And the one for the front passenger of 16 32 -inch retractable panel Accommodated in the roof that allow the rear passengers to distract themselves with films and TV, even quite reclining the seats. The M9 led us (in the true sense of the word) in the trafficking of a city of 17 million inhabitants: in the meantime we have looked at a piece of transformers 4, an interlocation with the digital assistant and dodged without too much difficulty a little disciplined cyclist. In China, the SUV costs only between 60 and 70 thousand euros, but we will wait a long time before a similar experience is possible in Europe.
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