While all cars are still focusing on driving on the ground, BYD has already flown into the sky with the Lingyuan system.

When the DJI drone slowly rose from the roof of the Formula Leopard 8, the two benchmark companies of China's intelligent manufacturing completed a highly symbolic handshake under the starry sky.

This cross-border cooperation not only enables cars to acquire vertical perception capabilities for the first time, but also opens up a crack leading to the future in the field of smart travel, heralding the dawn of the "three-dimensional travel era".

The cooperation between the two parties not only refreshed the level of in-vehicle technology integration, but also reconstructed the competitive logic of the automotive industry with the disruptive model of "car-machine-air connection". Behind this cross-border integration is the strategic leap of China's manufacturing industry from single product innovation to the competition for ecological discourse power, and it is also the beginning of the qualitative change of human travel mode from two-dimensional movement to three-dimensional intelligence.

The traditional automobile industry has evolved over a century, but has never been able to break through the shackles of "flat vision". BYD and DJI's joint innovation has broken through this physical limit with drone systems: when the aircraft flies to a height of 100 meters at a speed of 15 meters per second, the scenery of several kilometers in radius can be seen, and the real-time images are directly transmitted back to the on-board intelligent driving system, giving the century-old car a "God's perspective" for the first time.

This cross-border integration is triggering a butterfly effect in the industrial chain.

The miniaturized design of the vehicle-mounted drone dock has promoted technological breakthroughs in high-density batteries and silent motors; the deep coupling of the flight control system and the vehicle-mounted domain controller has spawned new application scenarios.

What is more worthy of attention is the collaborative evolution at the data level: the centimeter-level elevation data collected by drones is feeding back into the real-time update of the city’s high-precision maps, forming a dynamic data closed loop.

While Musk's Starlink project attempts to build a space-based network with near-Earth satellites, Chinese technology companies have chosen a more practical path. The "low-altitude perception layer" created by the BYD-DJI alliance essentially builds a new strategic location in the 100-300-meter airspace. This once-neglected vertical space is becoming a new dimension of smart travel competition.

Standing at the critical point of industrial transformation, this "sky + ground" collaborative innovation not only redefines the product form of automobiles, but also deeply reconstructs the value chain of smart travel.

While other automakers are still struggling with the dispute over the number of laser radar lines, BYD has quietly opened up its strategic depth in the third dimension.

From two-dimensional to three-dimensional, from tools to ecology, from travel to smart travel, the handshake between BYD and DJI is like the "Wright moment" in the evolution of smart cars - when the first drone took off from the roof of the car, the sky of human travel civilization is no longer lonely. In this three-dimensional game, China's smart manufacturing is taking the lead in the second half of the smart travel revolution with its unique ecological integration advantages.

At the industrial level, the two sides worked together to successfully achieve cross-industry complementarity. Traditional auto parts companies began to extend to the fields of drone sensors and lightweight materials, while drone suppliers reversely entered the vehicle communication module market, forming cross-industry technology feedback.

The 120,000-square-meter "Vehicle-Machine Collaborative Intelligent Manufacturing Base" jointly built by the two parties will integrate the drone production line with the automobile production line, realize the universal production of core components such as motors, batteries, and chips, and reduce mass production costs by 30%, clearing the way for large-scale commercialization. A three-dimensional travel network covering "ground-low altitude" has begun to take shape.

For off-road enthusiasts, the Lingyuan system does not bring functional superposition, but outdoor travel Paradigm A complete innovation.

During actual tests in the Taklamakan Desert, the drone scouted the terrain 2 kilometers in advance and generated a three-dimensional map through lidar, which increased the vehicle's passing efficiency by 40% and reduced the risk of getting stuck by 75%, allowing off-road driving to evolve from an experience-based adventurous behavior to data-driven intelligent exploration.

Lingyuan’s pioneering “air airbag” concept can launch a drone 0.3 seconds before a vehicle collides to track the accident scene, analyze the damage through a multi-spectral camera and automatically call for help.

Industry data shows that vehicle-mounted drone systems have reduced traffic accident rates by 40% and increased path planning efficiency by 35%. In an autonomous driving test conducted in Pingshan, Shenzhen, the vehicle's response speed to emergencies with an aerial perspective was shortened to 0.3 seconds. Behind these data is the dimensionality reduction attack of the three-dimensional travel ecosystem on the traditional transportation paradigm.

In terms of convenience of use, DJI has injected its famous imaging algorithm into the system, realizing automatic recognition of terrain features and optimization of shooting parameters. Through the "one-click blockbuster" function, users can instantly generate professional blockbusters in the car, and completely bid farewell to the heavy post-editing. This "mobile film crew" experience will undoubtedly become a creative tool for many outdoor bloggers.

BYD Chairman Wang Chuanfu asserted at the press conference: "The future car should be an intelligent terminal that connects heaven and earth." In fact, the birth of the Lingyuan system marks the shift of China's auto industry from the electrification competition to the competition of ecological capabilities. In this transformation, the core of corporate competition is no longer a single technological advantage, but the ability to integrate multiple technologies such as drones, 5G communications, and AI algorithms to build a three-dimensional travel ecosystem, which has injected more imagination into the global low-altitude economy.