Zhijie RX is road-testing an L3 system

On September 28, IT Home reported that Huawei executive director Richard Yu, at that day's Zhijie RX launch, said the car was meeting the L3 era of automated driving early. The report states two checkable points: the RX carries an L3 architecture, and it has received an L3 road-test license. It is being tested on public urban expressways and other complex roads.

A second article the same day records his explanation. He said L3 is not a pile of hardware. It is redundancy along the whole chain. If the primary system fails, the backup keeps running.

He split that redundancy into eight nodes: perception, compute, braking, steering, power, communication, positioning, and interaction. His line was that redundancy is the ticket into the L3 era, and a second layer of insurance for automated driving.

The steering-wheel control comes from an earlier IT Home account of a blogger's video, not from an official manual in the launch story. In the video, the test car has an "A" key on the wheel. Pressing it gives off a faint blue light and activates L3. Xiaoyi then announces the current driver-assistance status, and the center screen shows the words for L3 automated driving in progress. The blogger said this public-road test focuses on urban expressways: merging, weaving traffic, cut-ins, and a wide span of speeds.

Neither article gives test miles, a count of takeovers, or the name of the body that issued the license. They do not say a buyer can turn L3 on for public-road driving now. The blue light and the on-screen words come from the retelling of a blogger's video. Yu also named a collision system, CAS 5.0, and a list of "all-domain" safety claims. The articles give no test results for that list, so this piece does not treat the list as a demonstrated capability.