BYD to equip all its cars with ‘God’s Eye’ advanced driver aid for free

China’s most significant EV carmaker, BYD, has launched its newest advanced driver system, ‘God’s Eye’. It will be available in all its models in China, top-down, from the luxury Yangwang U9 supercar to the modest cars under 100,000 yuan (€13,278) like Dolphin or Seagull.

It comes in three flavors, À-B-C, with or without LiDAR, to be sure, but for free in cars like the entry-level BYD Seagull, which costs as little as 69,800 yuan or under 10,000 euros. Even for those, the system allows Navigate-on-Autopilot (NOA) on highways, automatically overtaking, making turns and exits, a feature that would cost you at least $99 monthly in a Tesla.

NOA on city streets

NOA on the city street level will be reserved for the high-end models first. Still, according to BYD’s CEO Wang Chuanfu, “good technology should be available to everyone,” meaning the carmaker intends to make that available without raising prices to the low-end, too, in the future with an over-the-air update.

‘God’s Eye’ is the popular name for BYD’s DiPilot ADAS system. God’s Eye A is reserved for top models, like the Yangwang U9 supercar. BYD’s premium brand Denza and Fang Cheng Bao cars and some top models of the BYD brand will get God’s Eye B.

The highest flavor, A, uses three LiDARs powered by the DiPilot 600 system, which has the computing power of 600 TOPS. In contrast, the God’s Eye B (DiPilot 300) variant only uses one LiDAR unit.

To give an idea of the capabilities of those systems, BYD showed a video of the Yangwang U9 supercar doing superfast laps around a racing circuit at night without a driver in the car.

The basic version, God’s Eye C or DiPilot 100, uses no expensive LiDAR but a camera and radar system instead—like Tesla. That system consists of 12 cameras (three front-view cameras, five panoramic cameras, and four surround-view cameras), five mm-wave radars that provide 360-degree non-dead-angle views, and 12 ultrasonic radars.

Those radars can detect and identify objects at a distance of 300 meters, and the ultrasonic radar sensors’ accuracy is 1 cm, with 2 cm parking accuracy.

Differentiation factor

The company says every BYD car with the new God’s Eye system will have Xuanji architecture with a central processor, cloud AI, vehicle-side AI, Internet of Vehicles, 5G network, satellite network, sensors chain, control chain, data chain, and mechanical chain. It will be connected to DeepSeek AI, the popular Chinese counterpart of Chat GTP and others.

That’s quite a lot of hardware and software power that BYD intends to offer for free in China. Its CEO believes this driving intelligence will become indispensable in every car and a differentiating factor in the next two to three years, adding more pressure on the competition in the ongoing price war.

BYD, which employs nearly one million people worldwide, claims it has the largest base of automotive engineers, with 110,000 working for it and over 5,000 specialized in driving intelligence.