Xiaomi says it has achieved a world first in autonomous driving at the Nürburgring Nordschleife racetrack.
A Xiaomi YU7 GT, fitted with the Track Package, completed the full 20.8 km circuit entirely without a human driver, recording a lap time of 10:29.483. The test was conducted and certified in accordance with the Nürburgring’s official timing procedures. Following this achievement, the Nürburgring has added a new official category — AUTONOMOUS DRIVING (under ELECTRIC VEHICLES).
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During the challenge, Xiaomi YU7 GT autonomously completed all driving tasks across the Nordschleife’s 73 corners, approximately 300 metres of elevation change, and a wide range of complex, continuously changing road surface conditions. Widely recognised as one of the world’s most demanding automotive proving grounds, the Nürburgring Nordschleife combines high-speed sections, consecutive technical corners, constantly varying grip levels, and extremely limited margins for error. It has long served as a benchmark for vehicle engineering, development, and performance validation.
Xiaomi says the achievement not only validates the comprehensive capabilities of Xiaomi’s autonomous driving system under extreme dynamic conditions, but also demonstrates the potential unlocked through the deep integration of artificial intelligence and advanced vehicle control technologies.
Since the launch of Xiaomi HAD in 2024, Xiaomi says it has continued to advance its autonomous driving technology. In March 2026, Xiaomi introduced a new vehicle platform powered by the next-generation Xiaomi XLA architecture and the MiMo-Embodied foundation model. It is claimed that with enhanced understanding and reasoning capabilities, the new system further improves its ability to interpret complex environments, dynamic traffic participants, and vehicle states, driving the evolution of autonomous driving from behaviour imitation toward deeper environmental understanding and autonomous decision-making.
Xiaomi says its autonomous driving system is built on an end-to-end architecture and a vehicle dynamics model, enabling real-time perception of vehicle states and road conditions while making control decisions through dynamic prediction. Under high-speed and high-load conditions, the system continuously coordinates steering, braking, and power delivery to maintain vehicle stability.
Through the Nürburgring autonomous driving project, Xiaomi continues to gather valuable data and system feedback under extreme operating conditions, supporting ongoing improvements in vehicle dynamics modelling, control strategy optimisation, and safety redundancy mechanisms.
