WM Motor hosted a WeLab open day on Jan 25, introducing the first AVP car that can independently park, the W6. It introduces the Apollo platform from Baidu to the automotive market.      

AVP, also called autonomous valet parking, is an advanced autopilot system that drives a car safely to a parking space and parks it there on behalf of the driver. Also, the system drives the car to where the driver can board it. 

Users can control the car by clicking on their cellphones.

The Apollo Park of Baidu settled down in the Beijing E-town Economic and Technology Area in 2020, and the Apollo project has been tested on 322 km of open autonomous driving testing roads in the BDA. It has also been used to construct BDA senior autonomous driving demonstration areas.

The WM W6 uses the autonomous valet parking solutions with 5 cameras, 12 ultrasonic radars and an ACU (Apollo Computing Unit), which is the first self-developed mass produced computing unit. It fares well in comparison to existing overseas AVP products, which are based more on parking lot location and hardware deployment, making the design and construction of parking lot difficult and expensive.

WM and Baidu have been long-time partners. Together they focus on producing advanced intelligent vehicles and speeding up the intelligent travel industry in China.