Xpeng brought Mashable reporter Amanda Yeo to China to experience the new VLA 2.0 autonomous driving model inside its P7 electric vehicle.
0:00 The Car the US Government Doesn’t Want You to Buy
0:18 Meet XPENG: China’s High-Tech Tesla Rival
0:39 How VLA 2.0 Autonomous Driving Works
1:43 Stress Testing Self-Driving in Hectic Traffic
2:21 The Challenge of “Corner Cases” in Autonomy
2:43 Hands-Free Self-Parking Demo
3:00 Heads-Up Display and Interior Tech
3:24 XPENG’s Personal Flying Machines
4:22 Why Chinese EVs are Banned in the US
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@Parametricism0
June 14, 2026 at 10:30 am
Buddy, check out what FSD is capable now😂.
@CiroMorra
June 14, 2026 at 10:57 am
Heads-Up display??? 🤔
@feizheng-r7p
June 14, 2026 at 11:04 am
As a Chinese. I will not buy a Chinese car if possible
@theolich4384
June 14, 2026 at 12:03 pm
加价去买你的丰田呗
@Arutemu
June 14, 2026 at 1:26 pm
😂
@wel2myworld
June 14, 2026 at 11:08 am
That’s why “Tesla” are scared 😂
@subree_keller
June 14, 2026 at 12:41 pm
With all the money Elon Musk now has he can easily just buy that company. We know that he really wants to make self – driving a thing in America allow people to buy cars as small business ’employees’ and he doesn’t care where all the mapping data goes…
@testaccount1563
June 14, 2026 at 11:12 am
A reminder, Xpeng hired a ex-Tesla employee and stole Tesla’s self driving code. Chinese EVs are indeed best in the world, however chinese stealing stuff like software and code indicates they still rely on others to do the hard stuff
@dman7310
June 14, 2026 at 1:36 pm
This is untrue. Tesla sued their ex-employee personally as an individual, Xpeng was never implicated. Despite that, Xpeng immediately offered to have their source code compared by third-party but Tesla initially refused, they wanted to drag out the case and tarnish Xpeng reputation. Eventually the source code was shown to have no Tesla code at all. The engineer in question was let go from Xpeng while the trial was going on and eventually settled with Tesla for uploading data to his personal cloud, while maintaining it was never transferred to Xpeng.
@thealmightyz73
June 14, 2026 at 11:18 am
Not a fan of EV’s, but I got to admit that this car looks quite good. Nice job xpeng.
@undeadkitty334
June 14, 2026 at 11:22 am
its only a matter of time those tariffs will go away.
@Goodboy38581
June 14, 2026 at 1:13 pm
Yep when he is out of office
@undeadkitty334
June 14, 2026 at 1:24 pm
@Goodboy38581 who says he wont be out of office sooner 🙂
@youtubeisdeadd
June 14, 2026 at 11:53 am
Wall st. will make sure you NEVER get this. I’ll trade my 2025 Ioniq5 for any Chinese car right now!! The only way out of this mess, is healthy competition.
C’mon USA, we can get all sorts of new factories for ICE to raid.
@Jeo-What
June 14, 2026 at 11:56 am
It’s an interesting and cool idea for a vehicle to take over at times when needed. That being said, our cerebellum requires challenges daily by solving problems by stay healthy and not shrinking down as we age. By allowing a vehicle to take over the driving, we are also decreasing our brain exercising (yes I know some drivers seeing to have none already!! 🤣) which decreases our own longevity at the same time. Why buy an expansive self-drive car and pay for insurance and maintance while one can call for taxi or just use public transportation at this point?
@linux1123
June 14, 2026 at 11:57 am
I just bought a XPeng P7+ in Europe to replace my model 3, great car 😉
@JAD73567
June 14, 2026 at 12:22 pm
Yes, yes and yes!
@flyentity
June 14, 2026 at 12:39 pm
Sorry CNET, I’d be very interested to know more about this car but this report was childish and lacking any depth at all. To be honest the most lacking CNET video I’ve ever seen. Hopefully you can revisit this with a better informed reporter in the future.
@Rob-p2c
June 14, 2026 at 2:17 pm
What did you want to see in this report?
@elfuturomio
June 14, 2026 at 1:30 pm
Ev period then they can say they did something 🤣👍
@showersB4bed
June 14, 2026 at 1:30 pm
America – The land of the Dinosaurs.
@Rob-p2c
June 14, 2026 at 2:19 pm
I would give Chinese cars at least a look because the Chinese people in general have a great work ethic and are very smart
@PigRipperLAW
June 14, 2026 at 2:21 pm
No spy cars: neither foreign nor domestic
@Skaterpunkkid
June 14, 2026 at 2:27 pm
Way better than what they have out here
@amanimaniac
June 14, 2026 at 2:44 pm
I want nothing to do with autonomous driving. If that can be turned off, I like the look of the car.
@fatcole1152
June 14, 2026 at 2:50 pm
The US government doesn’t want the public buying most cars.
Only 10-11 million cars are produced annually for the US market. Nearly 93 million cars are produced worldwide each year
@Check_This-e4b
June 14, 2026 at 3:42 pm
I saw one in my country days ago. I has to turn again and watch it when i passed by it.
@siddharthminz6367
June 14, 2026 at 5:08 pm
Makes my boring long distance trans canada highway journey becomes easy
@Dubov1933
June 14, 2026 at 5:36 pm
What’s the point of “autonomous” driving if you have to grip the steering wheel with both hands at all times, just drive atp.
@clever4ever603
June 14, 2026 at 7:17 pm
I need a Xiami SU 7 ultra plz
@alukic1
June 14, 2026 at 7:44 pm
Baby sitting the autonomous vehicle
@GamesplayChris42
June 14, 2026 at 8:13 pm
Requiring blue light outside the car to signal that the car is self-driving is such a good idea!