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Larry Evans, journalist at CleanTechnica, wrote an article about my testdrives with XPENG VLA 2.0 (which he did too) and FSD of Tesla. A good analysis and a clear story. Funny are the reactions of mainly American readers in the comments of the article😀.
BTW Larry picked the picture…
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Once again, I mainly looked at how FSD Supervised actually behaves on Dutch roads — including roads without a center line!

The Netherlands was the first country in Europe where Tesla received approval. I wanted to compare FSD with XPENG’s VLA, which I tested in China.

And there were a few interesting surprises — not all of them in the way I expected beforehand.

Curious to hear what you think!

This is an interesting article of Larry Evans of CleanTechnica. A serious journalist. No nonsense.

I tested Tesla FSD (Supervised) in the Netherlands and compared it with VLA 2.0, which I previously tested in China.
The Netherlands was at the forefront of the European approval of FSD. But how good is the system really?
There was one thing I was particularly curious about: safety. And perhaps even more importantly: how safe does it feel? Especially compared with what I experienced during my drive with VLA 2.0 in China.
FSD is actually pretty good in many ways. But…
Come along with me on this special test drive!

I made a challenging test drive in the south of France. Testing the new functionality of the ADAS 5.9.5.
Now you can switch to off the deacceleration in curves. Normally I use this on the highway. On the roads in France it was very challenging.
I hope you like it, but don’t try this at home😁.
And if you like my videos subscribe to the channel. And you also can let me know what I should test or show next.
And remind that I am not a pro. I’m just an owner of an XPENG too. Just like you.

In deze video stel ik je voor aan Pieter, lid van het XPENG User Committee. Ik bezocht hem in zijn vakantiehuis in de Pyreneeën.
Hij laat zijn favoriete X-Combo zien.
Wat is jouw favoriet? Plaats de code hieronder. Ik wil graag een mooie compilatie maken. Je kunt me ook een video van jouw favoriete X-Combo sturen.
Pieter, bedankt voor je gastvrijheid!

In fact this is the fun part. Most of the combos I use are from others. But I modify them mostly.
What do you do?

I got a lot of questions about X-Combos. So I decided to make a few short videos about using, editing, copying and sharing them.
This is the first one. Hope you enjoy it.

Sometimes you have to test the system in almost impossible situations. The APA performed quite well, although you do need a bit of patience at times.
I’ll also be running some tests in more typical, everyday situations.
If there’s anything you’d like me to test, just let me know.
Feel free to record your own experiences on video and send them to me. I can put together a nice compilation.

Lijkt me een interessante auto. Ben erg benieuwd naar de specificaties (laadsnelheid, range etc.). En natuurlijk naar de prijs voor Europa. Want XPENG lijkt weer te mikken op hoge kwaliteit en afwerking. Maar de concurrentie is ook groot. In Europa is een grote markt voor goedkopere EV’s. Maar denken jullie dat deze een kans heeft? Ik hoop wel dat deze de Turing chips heeft zodat VLA 2.0 (ook in Europa) mogelijk is. Ik heb wel begrepen dat XPENG de goedkeuring voor heel Europa wil aanvragen. Maar ik weet niet voor welke modellen. De modellen die nu geleverd worden hebben 1 Orin-X chip. Die kunnen best meer, maar dan moet XPENG bijvoorbeeld wel HNGP doorontwikkelen.

This is my review of OTA 5.9.5. Like all the betatesters I've tested it quite some time.
Enjoy.

I have tested LCC (and ACC) on roads where the max speed is 60-80 kmh

5.9.5. is officially released this afternoon. Watch in this short video what is new.

I’ve made a video of my testdrive with the P7+ in the narrow streets of Utrecht. Since Hugo Sousa already made a review of the P7+ on bigger roads I was curious how it would drive in the city. I drove in the old Dutch city Utrecht. How practical is a car that is over 5m in these narrow streets? How is parking? What is good? What is less good IMO?
Was fun to do. Hope you share your opinion in the comments.

Hugo Sousa made a nice video about our experiences in China. He shows quite a lot of the presentations we attended. So this way you get a good impression what we heard over there. And also can see how cautious the people of XPENG where when we asked questions about for example the chips in our current models. And what we can expect in the future. I think that the answer on my question on 9:10 about the Orion-X and Turing chips and a little bit later on the question of Hugo about the speed of the developments shows how difficult it was to get concrete answers. It was one of the most asked question from our user community on Discord.

But I really hope you enjoy this video.

There are a lot of questions about the beta of 5.9.5. that we are testing right as this moment.