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How to get from autonomous vehicles to flying cars: Xpeng CEO
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Xpeng chairman and chief executive He Xiaopeng looks to make flying cars a reality.
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Synopsis: In this special episode, The Straits Times’ Lee Nian Tjoe meets Mr He Xiaopeng, the chairman and chief executive of Chinese electric vehicle brand, Xpeng.
By 2025, Xpeng cars will bring the driver from door-to-door with barely any human intervention and in 2026, it plans to deliver its first flying vehicle.
Xpeng is using automated driving technology to make driving safer and more relaxing.
The target, Mr He says, is to make the cars behave like “good drivers” on the road, adapt to local conditions and behaviours.
Concurrently, the company is taking to the skies. Its first flying vehicle will reach customers in 2026.
Highlights (click/tap above):
2:55 By 2025, Xpeng’s drivers will only need to step in to take control once or twice per 100km covered
3:45 Level 5 autonomous driving means that the vehicle can handle itself in all conditions, whether it is a typhoon or an earthquake
5:25 Automated driving technology does not mean drivers will lose their jobs
7:00 Flying cars?
8:46 How Xpeng picks its markets and goes about entering them
9:35 On why only a minority of car companies in China today will survive in the next five to 10 years
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Host: Lee Nian Tjoe (niantjoel@sph.com.sg)
Produced & edited by: Amirul Karim and Teo Tong Kai
Executive producers: Ernest Luis and Lynda Hong
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