NIO Banyan 1.3.0 software has started pushing upgrades this Friday in China

NIO Banyan 1.3.0 software has started pushing upgrades this Friday in china.

According to reports, this update brings more than sixty new features and optimizations, covering NOMI, driving experience, intelligent driving, intelligent cabin and mileage worry-free and other areas. The highlights of this upgrade include:

• NOMI basic performance upgrade;
• NOMI intelligent child scene dialogue online;
• ES7 and ET7 suspension experience upgrade;
• NOP+ enhanced navigation assistance Beta experience optimization;
• ELK emergency lane keeping function online;
• NBS vehicle summoning function now covers all NT2 platform models.

The NIO Intelligent System “Banyan” is the intelligent vehicle system used in NIO’s latest generation of vehicles. Here’s a brief overview of the differences between NIO’s three generations of systems and the corresponding vehicle models:

• Aspen: Chinese name of the system: Baiyang. Vehicle models equipped with it: ES8, ES6, EC6
• Alder: Chinese name of the system: Chiyang. Vehicle models equipped with it: 2022 ES8, ES6, EC6
• Banyan: Chinese name of the system: Rong. Vehicle models equipped with it: ET7, ES7, ET5

Below are the update details:

NOMI Artificial Intelligence Emotional Partner

NOMI Vehicle Control Upgrade

Added voice control for opening and closing the charging port cover. With voice control, you can avoid reaching out in cold weather or getting your hands dirty in the rain and snow. In addition, there is no need to repeatedly try to find the location of the cover, and the voice-controlled operation is more convenient with fewer steps.

Added voice control to switch between Sport+ mode.

Added voice reminders for passengers to fasten their seat belts. NOMI reminds family and friends to fasten their seat belts in a more friendly and accurate way, ensuring safe travels.

Added safety voice reminders for side door opening. This helps to avoid accidental collisions and protects the safety of others as well as yourself and your car.

Added voice control for ET5’s unique ambient lighting. New voice controls have been added for the themes “Infinite Sky,” “Dream Universe,” and “Electric Nebula.”

Optimized search quality and effectiveness for QQ Music and NetEase Cloud Music.

Optimized interaction experience for commonly used vehicle control skills such as air conditioning temperature, window control, seat adjustment, and vehicle driving mode adjustment. The interaction process is simpler and supports more detailed and rich voice control.

Optimized NOMI’s interaction experience in driving assistance, parking assistance, and fatigue and distraction scenarios. NOMI can better understand the scene risks and urgency, with clearer and more concise semantics and more accurate emotional expression. For example, when driving assistance is downgraded, NOMI reminds you to “Please control the direction!” and when fatigue and distraction is detected, NOMI reminds you to “Please pay attention to driving safety!” The tone is more formal and rigorous, accurately conveying the danger of the scene. In low-risk scenarios such as launching the NOP function “Navigation started” or successful parking, the tone is more cheerful and bright.

Driving experience

ES7 Special Driving Experience Upgrade: More Confident Handling and Comfortable Riding

Improved roll control and optimized lateral support increase the vehicle’s body follow-up during turning and lane changing, providing more confidence;

Improved pitch control and reduced body oscillation rate provide a more comfortable riding experience during acceleration/braking or through bumpy roads;

Reduced body oscillation rate improves the absorption of road bumps and enhances the comfort of rear passengers.

ET7 Fine-tuning of Driving Scenes: Creating a Higher Level of Comfort

Comfort optimization for scenes with uneven road surfaces such as bridges, joints, and speed bumps reduces body oscillation rate, enhances body support, reduces body sag, and provides a relaxed driving experience while maintaining road adhesion.

Smart Driving

NOP+ Enhanced Navigation Assistance Beta Experience Upgrade

Improved the overall experience of NOP+ Enhanced Navigation Assistance Beta (hereinafter referred to as NOP+ Beta), including:

• Added recognition of merging lanes for NOP+ Beta, allowing for early departure from merging areas to avoid competing with incoming vehicles;
• Added a self-correction strategy for overtaking and lane changing in NOP+ Beta. In the process of overtaking, if the new lane becomes slower or riskier, the vehicle will return early to reduce ineffective overtaking and loss of traffic efficiency;
• Added Nomi voice reminders when Pilot exits and voice prompts when NOP+ Beta approaches toll booths;
• Improved the following comfort of NOP+ Beta in congested traffic. Using data-driven simulations to mimic “experienced drivers,” it can more accurately predict the movements of the preceding vehicle, respond 20% faster, reduce the probability and magnitude of excessive braking by 80%, optimize braking sensitivity, and reduce jolting when following other vehicles;
• Improved the responsiveness and comfort of NOP+ Beta to merging vehicles. By optimizing the recognition and tracking capabilities of nearby vehicles and the algorithmic interactive game model, it can predict the movements of merging vehicles earlier, respond and avoid more promptly, and achieve more predictable and comfortable deceleration;
• Improved NOP+ Beta’s ability to change lanes in heavy traffic. It can more accurately detect lane-changing space and predict the risks involved, making it easier to change lanes in small and dynamic spaces;
• Improved NOP+ Beta’s ability to enter merging lanes from the main road. By optimizing the ability to autonomously accelerate and decelerate and find space for lane changes, it improves the success rate of entering merging lanes and reduces the probability of downgrading or exiting before merging, making travel from main roads to merging lanes more continuous;
• Improved the continuity experience of NOP+ Beta. Updates to high-precision maps have reduced the frequency of downgrading to NP;
• Optimized the logic for activating the intelligent driving activation key. When the steering wheel turns more than 90 degrees, pressing the button will not activate intelligent driving functions such as i-ACC/LCC/NOP+, avoiding accidental activation while turning.

ELK Emergency Lane Keeping Function Online

Added the ELK Emergency Lane Keeping function, which can help drivers reduce the risk of side collisions when driving. When the vehicle speed is between 65km/h and 130km/h, the ELK Emergency Lane Keeping function can assist the driver in correcting the direction of travel and returning the vehicle to the lane in the following three situations:

• The vehicle is about to collide with or deviate from the edge of the road, such as curbs or barriers;
• Oncoming traffic is approaching on the adjacent lane, and the vehicle has deviated significantly;
• The vehicle is attempting to overtake on the left but there is another vehicle in the left lane, or a vehicle is approaching rapidly.

Function activation: Click on “Lane Safety Assistance” and select “Emergency Lane Keeping” in the “Assisted Driving” section of “Settings” to activate the function.

During daily driving, if there are reckless overtaking habits without using turn signals, the ELK function will still actively correct the driving direction if the usage scenario and activation conditions are met. However, the correction force on the steering wheel will be relatively gentle, and the manual override of the system’s correction force is possible. In order to drive more safely, please develop the habit of using turn signals when changing lanes and observing the surrounding environment.

The emergency lane keeping function is only a safety and driving assistance function and cannot completely replace the driver’s control. It cannot cope with all possible situations that may arise from traffic, weather, and road conditions. Drivers must always maintain necessary attention obligations and intervene or take over in a timely manner according to the surrounding environment.

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Vehicle Summoning Functionality Now Fully Covers ET7, ES7, and ET5. This helps users better navigate narrow parking spaces and scenarios where they need to move their vehicle in tight quarters. Users can control their vehicle to move forward and backward in a straight line along the length of the car through the NIO app.

Improved Visuals and Functionality of Vehicle Summoning Feature. This enhances the communication efficiency between the NIO app and the vehicle, making it more responsive when the feature is paused and enabling quicker stopping of the vehicle. Note: The NIO app must be updated to version 5.13.0.

How to Enable the Functionality: After updating, when the phone is connected to the vehicle’s Bluetooth, there is no one in the car, the car is in “P” parking mode, and the car is unlocked, the user can turn on the feature through the NIO app by going to the “My Car” page, selecting “All Features and Services,” and then selecting “Vehicle Summoning.”

As the vehicle’s sensors may not be able to detect certain suspended, small, or sharp obstacles, users should ensure that there are no pedestrians or obstacles on the vehicle’s path and be aware of their surroundings at all times. Use of the NBS feature should be exercised with caution on slopes.

Enhancement of ADMS Driver Perception System

This upgrade improves the performance and overall experience of the ADMS driver perception system, including the following:

• Added high-speed scenario driver intention prediction to prevent missing exits on highways. The system predicts if the driver has the intention to exit the highway based on their attention and reminds them before the exit. This feature requires the “Driver Distraction Alert” switch to be turned on in the car’s “Settings” menu.
• Improved attention detection performance by upgrading the detection of the driver’s attention direction to 3D spatial modeling, which is more precise than 2D plane detection and adapts better to the driver’s height, sitting habits, and environmental lighting, improving performance by 53% in complex scenarios.
• Optimized fatigue detection capabilities by improving the algorithm model to detect eye opening and closing and making targeted optimizations for users with small eyes and backlit scenarios, improving performance by 47% in complex scenarios.
• Optimized the sensitivity management strategy of the ADMS driver attention reminder, strengthening the sensitivity of attention detection in high-risk scenarios such as unclear lane lines, construction, and close vehicles to improve driving safety. At the same time, the detection sensitivity in low-risk scenarios has been optimized to avoid excessive disturbance.

SAPA Visual Fusion Parking Assistance Function Experience Upgrade

This upgrade has optimized the comprehensive experience of SAPA visual fusion parking assistance function, which includes:

• Added SAPA’s active perception ability to parking scenarios. When the assisted driving system detects a parking space, a button to call SAPA will be displayed on the left side of the central control screen navigation interface, making it more convenient to use the function;
• Added SAPA’s ability to park in non-marked diagonal parking spaces;
• Added SAPA’s recognition and display of accessible parking spaces;
• Improved SAPA’s visual perception ability, expanding the search range for parking spaces by about 1 time and increasing the maximum number of selectable parking spaces by 2 times;
• Improved SAPA’s ability to park in narrow parking spaces, reducing the width requirements for vertically marked parking spaces by about 15cm and for non-marked vertical parking spaces by about 40cm;
• Improved SAPA’s ability to recognize no-parking signs in marked parking spaces;
• Improved SAPA’s performance in centering the vehicle’s parking position when parking in a side position.
• Optimized PSAP battery swapping station parking assistance function
• This upgrade has optimized the comprehensive experience of PSAP battery swapping station parking assistance function, which includes:
• Added PSAP’s ability to detect the vehicle’s position after parking in the battery swapping station. When the vehicle is not parked in the correct position, the system will automatically correct the position, further improving the success rate of battery swapping;
• Improved PSAP’s perception ability in battery swapping station scenarios. When the driving vehicle enters the positioning box of the battery swapping station, the battery swapping station parking assistance interface will be automatically activated without manual clicking.

Smart Cockpit

Added one-click sending function of mobile Gaode addresses to the car system. After binding the mobile Gaode App to the car system, users can directly share the address to the car system navigation by clicking the “Send to car” icon on the left side of the mobile Gaode map or the “Share” icon under the relevant address and selecting “Car system”.

Added idle time appointment installation function for in-car system updates. After downloading the software update package for version 1.3.0 and later, users can schedule the installation time of the update package in the system update on the in-car device, with a time range of 20 minutes after the download to the whole day of the next day.

Added memory function for rear screen lock switch. If the rear screen lock is turned on or off by the central control, the rear screen will remain in the on or off state in subsequent driving cycles.

Added automatic retraction function for ES7 door handles. You can enable the “automatic retraction of door handles” function in “Settings”-“Doors and Windows”. After the vehicle is unlocked, the door handle will automatically retract after 20 seconds.

Optimized the night vision effect of the Guard Mode and Remote Outside View. In dim scenes, the Guard Mode’s ability to perceive people and vehicles approaching has been enhanced, and the accuracy of face and license plate blurring in the Remote Outside View has been improved. At the same time, the video brightness of recording and live streaming has been significantly increased.

Optimized the logic for opening the electronic door handle in the car. When the vehicle speed is 0 km / h, the seat belt must be released or the entire vehicle must be unlocked before the door can be opened.

Worry-free mileage

Added manual battery charging preheating function. When the temperature is low, the user can turn on the function in advance on the way to the charging station to increase the battery temperature, save time for heating the battery during subsequent charging, and improve fast charging efficiency. It can be activated in the “Settings” – “My Vehicle” – “Battery” page. Please note that this function can only be turned on when the battery temperature is below 20℃ and the remaining mileage is greater than 10km.

Added display of remaining battery percentage on the dashboard screen. The information on remaining battery is now clearer and more intuitive, and when combined with information on vehicle range, users can better plan their trip and charging schedule.

Optimized the energy consumption of the air conditioning system, reducing the overall energy consumption of the air conditioning system by about 10-20%, improving the vehicle’s endurance performance, including:

• Optimized the stability of selecting cooling and heating modes, reducing the frequency of switching between hot and cold modes during transitional seasons, and reducing energy consumption;
• Optimized the fresh air damper opening and air volume in AUTO mode, reducing unnecessary external circulation and improving comfort;
• Optimized the sensitivity of automatic defrosting to ensure driving safety;
• Optimized the cabin temperature control logic in clear weather conditions at low temperatures for a more comfortable experience.

Note: The overall performance improvement of air conditioning energy consumption will vary depending on the user’s driving environment.