WeRide’s WRD 3.0 wins fourth Chinese ADAS title

WeRide has taken a fourth consecutive win at the China Urban Intelligent Driving Competition, with its WRD 3.0 advanced driver assistance system (ADAS) securing first place at the Wuhu round. The solution, co-developed with Bosch and fitted to the Chery Exeed Sterra ET, finished more than 10 points ahead of second-placed Horizon Robotics and third-placed Xpeng.

The competition, hosted by Chinese media platform D1EV, assesses ADAS performance in complex urban scenarios. WRD 3.0 combines a single-stage end-to-end architecture trained on WeRide’s GENESIS simulation model and real-world data from its L4 driverless operations, aimed at handling long-tail scenarios such as dense traffic, street markets, and mixed pedestrian-vehicle roads.

WeRide said WRD 3.0 is built for mass production, with software-hardware decoupling allowing it to run across pure-vision or multi-sensor fusion configurations, with or without HD maps, and across different onboard compute tiers.

The system is now in series production across several vehicle models, including the Chery Exeed Sterra ES and ET and the GAC Aion N60. The new Chery Exeed EX7, also fitted with WRD 3.0, launched on 19 April.

WeRide said it will continue to supply pre-installed WRD 3.0 with ongoing over-the-air updates for Chinese brands including GAC Aion, GAC Trumpchi, Hyptec, and Chery Exeed. Internationally, the company is working with Tiggo, Lepas, Omoda, and JAECOO to extend the system to additional markets.

Source: WeRide