Yu Kai, founder and CEO of Horizon, pointed out at the 2026 World Intelligent Connected Vehicle Conference on the 21st that smart driving is now available, and it will take several times to cross the “Pacific Ocean” until it is easy to use. Questions to consider in the “second half of smart driving” are: How can MPCI cross from 100 kilometers to 1,000 kilometers? Have all the technical issues been solved? When you walk 10,000 kilometers after crossing 1,000 kilometers, do you follow that extension line again? He believes that it is necessary not only to be optimistic about these issues, but also to see that the matter itself is still very difficult, and that it is also necessary to cross the Pacific several times. Every 10-fold MPCI mileage transition is a crossing of the Pacific Ocean once, and it may take several more times to truly achieve what we want. He feels that smart driving is now usable. In the next stage, MPCI is easy to use at 1,000 km or 10,000 km, then it may be in the 100,000 kilometer range to actually love it. “I hope in the next 4 to 5 years, we can surpass the past.”

Yu Kai, founder and CEO of Horizon, pointed out at the 2026 World Intelligent Connected Vehicle Conference on the 21st that smart driving is now available, and it will take several times to cross the “Pacific Ocean” until it is easy to use. Questions to consider in the “second half of smart driving” are: How can MPCI cross from 100 kilometers to 1,000 kilometers? Have all the technical issues been solved? When you walk 10,000 kilometers after crossing 1,000 kilometers, do you follow that extension line again? He believes that it is necessary not only to be optimistic about these issues, but also to see that the matter itself is still very difficult, and that it is also necessary to cross the Pacific several times. Every 10-fold MPCI mileage transition is a crossing of the Pacific Ocean once, and it may take several more times to truly achieve what we want. He feels that smart driving is now usable. In the next stage, MPCI is easy to use at 1,000 km or 10,000 km, then it may be in the 100,000 kilometer range to actually love it. “I hope in the next 4 to 5 years, we can surpass the past.”