Why Huawei's ADS 5 Is Back in the Top Three

At the August Guiyang round, Huawei's Qiankun driving system posted its best result of the season — though campus-waypoint downgrades are still costing it points.

After six straight rounds of underperformance, Huawei's Qiankun intelligent-driving system finally turned things around at the August stop of a recurring smart-driving competition in Guiyang. Running ADS 5, it recorded the second-fewest driver takeovers in the field and earned the second-highest completion bonus — its best finish of the entire season.

The points it dropped came mainly from two areas: scenario coverage and efficiency. On the course's park-waypoint sections, ADS 5 still degrades out of full operation, since not every campus environment permits unrestricted NCA navigation. That gap persists despite Huawei's messaging that WEWA2.0 delivers sweeping upgrades across urban, highway and park driving — notably, the Guiyang entry ran the very first release of ADS (Max) 5.

Whether later versions can fully close the campus-waypoint gap is still unknown, but the author expects an update to fix that breakpoint soon. Once it is solved, the argument goes, ADS 5 has a strong chance of holding onto a top-three position in the competition.