Huawei's Qiankun intelligent driving system reached 10.47 billion km (6.5 billion miles) of cumulative assisted driving mileage through April 30, 2026, according to the system's April Safety Travel Report — with the 10 billion km threshold first crossed on April 19, 2026.

In April alone, Qiankun ADS users covered 910 million km (565 million miles) of assisted driving, accounting for 39.7% of total distance driven by equipped vehicles.

Of the 1.43 million monthly active users, 94.8% engaged the Qiankun ADS function at least once during the month, with each user averaging 637 km (396 miles) of assisted driving — a figure that points to deep integration into daily routines rather than occasional highway use.

Feature utilization spanned a broad range of scenarios in April. Parking-to-parking door-to-door trips reached 9.56 million, supported by 65.48 million assisted parking maneuvers. Traffic cut-in responses and efficiency lane changes each logged 500 million activations, while on- and off-ramp navigation recorded 20.34 million uses. Smooth U-turns and toll plaza passages were completed 3.22 million and 3.19 million times, respectively.

Vehicles in ADS-assisted mode travel an average of 7.87 million km (4.89 million miles) before a serious collision — 4.37 times the estimated Chinese national average of 1.80 million km (1.12 million miles).

Vehicles equipped with Qiankun ADS but driven manually averaged 5.28 million km (3.28 million miles) between serious collisions, or 2.93 times the national average, a gap Huawei attributes to the system's influence on overall driver attentiveness.

Underlying the safety data is CAS 4.0, Huawei's Comprehensive Anti-Collision System, which targets five safety dimensions: all speeds, all scenarios, all directions, all weather conditions, and all target types. The system provides continuous monitoring and millisecond-level emergency response, designed to compensate for physiological and attentional limitations of human drivers.

The April figures follow Huawei's launch of ADS 5 — its first system explicitly targeting L3 conditional autonomy — at the Qiankun Technology Conference in 2026. ADS 5 is backed by 60 EFLOPS of cloud computing power, a 21-fold increase in 29 months, and an annual R&D budget of 18 billion CNY (c. $2.5 billion). Huawei has set a target of equipping more than 80 vehicle models by end of 2026, with cumulative installations approaching 3 million units.

Partner expansion is tracking alongside scale. At Auto China 2026 on April 24, SAIC-GM-Wuling (SEHK: 305) signed a deepened strategic agreement with Huawei Qiankun, extending collaboration beyond intelligent driving into manufacturing and cockpit systems, with OTA delivery of ADS 5 Pro committed. The Qiankun ecosystem now spans partners including BYD (HKG: 1211), Dongfeng, FAW, Changan, GAC, and BAIC.

Whether the 10 billion km data pool — and the safety delta it has built against the national average — proves sufficient to accelerate regulatory approval for true L3 operation on Chinese public roads remains the central question for Huawei and its growing roster of automaker partners.

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