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The landing of robotaxi is not only the verification of business model, but also the test of comprehensive capabilities such as technology, product and operation. Wenyuan Zhixing has officially launched the operation level visualization product, weride viz. With simple and fluent visualization language, it provides a safe ride experience, serves robotaxi passengers, and constructs a new human-computer interaction mode in the era of automatic driving. Relying on the powerful AI algorithm and technical engine, weride viz transmits the information of robotaxi and its surrounding road conditions to the passengers in real time with high-performance rendering picture of 60 frames per second, and builds the bridge between the automatic driving vehicle and the passengers through the perfect interaction function. Autopilot needs to carry out extremely complex calculation and generate massive data. Robotaxi visualization products need to extract information that is really useful to users on the premise of "full communication" with passengers. In addition to replacing human drivers to communicate with passengers, the more important function of weride viz is to rebuild people's sense of safety in the autonomous driving space. "We don't do weride viz according to VR. We don't need to perfectly present the outside world on the screen. More importantly, we do subtraction." Tan Weihua, director of the infrastructure group of Wenyuan Zhixing platform, said that weride viz screened 5% of the key information from the massive data, and presented the most useful information for passengers, such as traffic lights, vehicle speed, driving route, perspective conversion, navigation and emergency call, on the interactive interface. At the same time, when the vehicle changes lanes or evades pedestrians, weride viz gently reminds the passengers in the form of changing the view angle, highlighting the relevant vehicles around, etc., so that the passengers can know that all changes in the driving process are seen in robotaxi's "eyes" and mastered in its algorithm. Highlights of weride viz product: with high performance, weride viz can achieve a rendering speed of 60 frames per second, which is more delicate and smooth than ordinary movie pictures. It can even render scenes and details such as rain, horse road corners, people with umbrellas, etc., bringing a very good user experience. Weride viz has a high degree of scalability. With the same architecture and code, it can be applied to multiple scenarios with only a few modifications and adaptations, including the passenger side visual interface, the safety officer visual interface and the interface developed and used by engineers. Among them, simulation is the place where engineers use the most visualization. The high-performance features of weride viz support the presentation of city level large-scale simulation of Wenyuan Zhixing. Weride viz has fully considered people's taxi riding habits, and the product design is in line with people's cognition and habits as far as possible. On the basis of information transmission, it brings a safer and more technological experience for robotaxi. In the near future, robotaxi will become the "third space" outside people's work and life, bringing more deep interaction between technology and people. Wenyuan Zhixing will also further innovate the human-computer interaction of robotaxi through operation level products such as weride viz, so as to bring passengers a safe, humanized and warm ride experience of robotaxi and better meet the commercial landing of automatic driving.