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Smart will release an enhanced version of its ADAS driving assistance feature in the fourth quarter of this year in an unnamed special edition model (possibly the Smart #3 25th Anniversary Edition model?).
Called Smart Pilot Assist 2.0, the enhanced ADAS now adds Navigation Smart Pilot (NSP), which Smart says “will enable gradual implementation of point-to-point automatic navigation on highways and urban trunk roads.”
Based on Smart’s description, Pilot Assist 2.0 appears to be an equivalent to Tesla’s Enhanced Auto Pilot, capable of: automatic overtaking and lane-changing based on road traffic conditions, automatic entry or exit from ramps, and traffic congestion assistance.
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An even better Smart Pilot Assist 3.0 will be released by the end of 2024, with NSP Pro. If you wondering, yes over-the-air (OTA) remote online upgrade is possible.
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The yet-to-be-launched special edition Smart model will not only be the first to feature Pilot Assist 2.0, but it will also be equipped with 12 Mobileye SuperVision – 11 for road and surrounding traffic monitoring, and 1 for driver attention monitoring.
Tesla offers three tiers of semi-autonomous driving functions – basic Auto Pilot is just regular adaptive cruise control with lane centering, Enhanced Auto Pilot adds the features mentioned above, while the Full Self Driving (FSD) can recognize Stop signs and traffic lights.
Note that all three tiers still rank at just Level 2 on the scale of SAE’s spectrum of autonomous driving capabilities, meaning that driver supervision is still always required.
This is because SAE’s criteria is more on how little driver supervision is needed, and less about how many tasks driving task the system can complete. Unless the system is legally verified to work reliably without driver intervention (which even Tesla’s FSD still can’t prove), it will remain only at Level 2. Likewise for Smart’s Pilot Assist 2.0.
Smart says the Mobileye SuperVision system runs on two Mobileye EyeQ5 chips – a custom 7-nanometer ADAS chipset by the ADAS specialist.
Proton's subsidiary Pro-Net will be launching the Smart #1 in Malaysia by the end of this year. The bigger Smart #3 will follow in 2024. Proton dealers are accepting bookings for the Smart #1, for just RM 1,000. You can explore more here.
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