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China’s Auto Industry Accelerates ADAS Rollout With New Models and Surging Supplier Shipments

Companies pivot to volume in scenario‑focused driving features, leaving the timeline for full autonomy contested.

Overview

  • Chery’s Jetour Traveler G700 launched at 329,900–414,900 yuan, with the top trim using Huawei’s ADS 4 driver‑assist system that fuses vision, lidar and radar.
  • Zeekr opened preorders for the refreshed 7X, upgrading to a full 900V architecture and standardizing Nvidia Drive Thor‑U compute, with the sales launch set for October 28.
  • DeepRoute.ai said vehicles using its combined driver‑assistance stack topped 30,000 deliveries in September and surpassed 130,000 cumulatively, with more than 200,000 targeted by year‑end.
  • NavInfo CEO Cheng Peng predicted production vehicles without a steering wheel or brake pedal could arrive in three to five years for specific use cases such as ride‑hailing or logistics.
  • OpenAI cofounder Andrej Karpathy cautioned that dependable autonomous agents remain roughly a decade away, citing current gaps in reasoning, multimodality and continual learning.