Pony Zhixing reached a strategic cooperation with Meituan to speed up the landing of automatic distribution business.

CTOnews.com March 23 news, Horse Zhixing announced that it had reached a strategic cooperation with Meituan to jointly promote the commercial application of self-driving technology in the field of distribution. Under the framework of cooperation, Horse Zhixing will tailor-made autopilot domain controllers for Meituan's automatic distribution business to help Meituan's automatic distribution business land on a rapid scale.

At present, small-scale delivery of domain controllers has begun and will be expanded to 10,000 units in 2024. Data show that China's real-time delivery orders exceeded 40 billion in 2022, with a market size of about 200 billion yuan.

CTOnews.com learned from the article that Meituan automatic distribution vehicles have entered a normal trial operation stage in Beijing, Shenzhen and other places since 2020, with more than 500 operating vehicles, operating more than 16 hours a day and accounting for more than 98% of self-driving mileage. By the end of 2022, Meituan's automatic distribution vehicle had delivered more than 2.77 million orders to users.

Under the framework of cooperation between the two sides, the domain controller tailored by Ma Zhixing for Meituan is based on dual NVIDIA DRIVE Orin system-level chips. It is expected that in the next three years, Meituan will realize automatic delivery services for business scenarios such as takeout, shopping and flash shopping in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen and other regions and cities.