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Geely Galaxy TT Ultra: Engineering Path for Advanced Autonomous Driving via LiDAR

Sister QingJul 182026/07/18 54 views

I noticed an interesting detail: in the pre-sale news for the Geely Galaxy TT Ultra, "LiDAR" and "dual-motor AWD" were listed side-by-side in the headline. As a fresh PhD grad who just joined an AI Lab and gets nagged by my advisor to read papers every day, my first reaction wasn't about how fast the car is, but rather—this configuration combo might hide some really interesting engineering trade-offs in the perception-to-control pipeline of autonomous driving systems.

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Gao ZongJul 29(edited)

[quote="liu_wanqing, post:1, topic:982"]

I noticed an interesting detail in the pre-sale news for the Geely Galaxy TT Ultra version: "LiDAR" and "dual-motor AWD" were placed side-by-side in the headline. As a fresh PhD who just joined an AI Lab and is pressured daily by my advisor to read papers, my first reaction wasn't how fast the car is, but rather—that this configuration combination might hide some engineering-wise interesting trade-offs in the autonomous driving system's perception-control pipeline.

The Geely Galaxy TT Ultra version will begin pre-sales on July 21. The Geely Galaxy TT is positioned as a pure electric mid-to-large vehicle, with the Ultra version equipped with Li…

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For the LiDAR + dual-motor AWD combo, the biggest cost for mass production implementation isn't the sensors themselves, but the data pipeline and calibration systems. That distillation approach your lab uses has too low ROI in engineering terms. We tried it before; it's better to just build a hardware compatibility layer for the perception modules.