Huawei announced that its Qiankun ADS system has reached the milestone of 17.3 billion kilometers of accumulated mileage with driver assistance functionality. This was reported by IT Home on October 31st evening, citing the company's official Weibo account. Alongside this achievement, Huawei's Intelligent Automotive Solution division published a collection of video clips demonstrating the system's operation in emergency situations on real roads.
Current counters on the Huawei website show that over 17.317 billion kilometers have been driven with the driver assistance system enabled. Vehicles equipped with Qiankun ADS have collectively covered more than 48.372 billion kilometers, and the system has actively prevented over 6.918 million potential collisions. These three metrics are updated in real time.
The growth rate of the counters has been high. As of October 3rd, the website recorded slightly over 16 billion kilometers driven with driver assistance, over 45.3 billion kilometers of total mileage, and the prevention of over 6.64 million potential accidents. According to this data, Qiankun vehicles added about 1.3 billion kilometers of driver-assisted mileage in approximately four weeks. This accounts for over 40% of the roughly 3.1 billion kilometers they traveled during the same period, compared to about 36% of the total mileage since the counters started. During the same period, the system prevented an additional approximately 280,000 potential collisions.
In Huawei's September safety report, published on October 8th, it was noted that 94.6% of Qiankun ADS users were active monthly users of the driver assistance function. Furthermore, in September, the protective driving function was triggered 26,400 times when drivers were operating the vehicle manually.
The Huawei website also presents its own comparative safety statistics. According to this information, vehicles with Qiankun ADS averaged 9.987 million kilometers before a serious collision, which is 5.55 times higher than the estimated national average of 1.8 million kilometers. When people drove the same vehicles independently, this figure was 5.856 million kilometers, or 3.25 times higher than the average. Huawei emphasizes that these calculations are proprietary and have not undergone independent verification. The company also points out on the same page that Qiankun ADS in passenger cars is a driver assistance system and cannot replace the driver, who must be ready to take control.