WeRide’s WRD 3.0 has made history by becoming the only solution to secure four consecutive wins at the China Urban Intelligent Driving Competition. At the Wuhu round of the second edition of the competition, hosted by D1EV — a leading media platform focused on electric and intelligent vehicles — the Chery Exeed Sterra ET, equipped with the one-stage end-to-end ADAS (Advanced Driver Assistance System) jointly developed by WeRide and Bosch, claimed first place with a margin of more than 10 points. Horizon Robotics and XPeng secured the second and third positions, respectively.
With this latest victory, WeRide Driving (WRD 3.0) has become the first and only solution in the competition’s history to achieve four consecutive championships, further strengthening its position as a leader in complex urban intelligent driving technology.
Beginning with its first win in Taizhou and continuing with an undefeated performance across subsequent rounds, the consistent success of WRD 3.0 highlights WeRide’s long-term technological development, strong engineering capabilities, and growing expertise in handling challenging urban driving environments.
Rapid technological iteration sits at the core of WRD 3.0. Leveraging its proprietary GENESIS general‑purpose simulation world model together with large‑scale L4 fully driverless real‑world road data, WeRide can systematically reproduce rare and challenging long‑tail scenarios at scale. Through continuous training, validation, and optimization, this approach creates a high‑efficiency closed loop that connects real‑world driving and simulation. As a result, WRD 3.0 delivers strong scenario generalization and a self‑optimizing learning capability that continuously improves performance as mileage accumulates.
Refined through extensive real‑world validation, WRD 3.0 achieves holistic perception and planning in dense, highly complex traffic environments, while maintaining stable, efficient, and safe driving behavior in unpredictable scenarios, including urban roads, street markets, and mixed pedestrian‑vehicle roads.
WRD 3.0 goes beyond algorithmic capability to deliver a mass-production-ready engineering system. Designed around safety, stability, and consistency, WeRide has implemented deep engineering optimizations across computing platform adaptation, system architecture design, and system redundancy. Through robust software‑hardware decoupling, WRD 3.0 delivers consistent production‑level functionality and user experience across diverse configurations, including pure‑vision or multi‑sensor fusion, HD‑map‑based or map‑free solutions, and different onboard computing power tiers.
WRD 3.0 is now in mass production across multiple vehicle models, including the Chery Exeed Sterra ES and ET, as well as the GAC Aion N60. The all‑new Chery Exeed EX7, also equipped with WRD 3.0, officially launched on April 19.
Looking ahead, WeRide will continue to serve users in China through pre‑installation of WRD 3.0 and ongoing OTA upgrades, supporting brands including GAC Aion, GAC Trumpchi, Hyptec, and Chery Exeed. In parallel, WeRide will steadily expand internationally with brands such as Tiggo, Lepas, Omoda, and JAECOO, bringing its proven intelligent driving solutions to a broader global market.
