The Xiaomi YU7 GT has completed a full autonomous Nürburgring Nordschleife lap

Xiaomi has completed what it describes as a world-first autonomous driving run at the Nürburgring Nordschleife. A Xiaomi YU7 GT fitted with the Track Package completed the full 20.8-kilometer circuit 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 the run, the Nürburgring added a new official category, Autonomous Driving, under its Electric Vehicles classification.

During the run, the YU7 GT autonomously handled all driving tasks across the Nordschleife’s 73 corners and approximately 300 meters of elevation change, along with varying road surface conditions. The Nordschleife is known for combining high-speed sections, consecutive technical corners, changing grip levels, and limited margin for error, and has long been used as a benchmark for vehicle engineering and performance testing.

Xiaomi said the result reflects the capabilities of its autonomous driving system under extreme dynamic conditions and the integration of artificial intelligence with vehicle control technology.

Since introducing Xiaomi HAD in 2024, the company has continued developing its autonomous driving technology. In March 2026, Xiaomi introduced a new vehicle platform built on its next-generation Xiaomi XLA architecture and the MiMo-Embodied foundation model. The company said the system has improved understanding and reasoning capabilities that allow it to better interpret complex environments, dynamic traffic participants, and vehicle states, moving its autonomous driving approach from behavior imitation toward environmental understanding and autonomous decision-making.

Xiaomi’s autonomous driving system uses an end-to-end architecture combined with a vehicle dynamics model, allowing 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 coordinates steering, braking, and power delivery to maintain vehicle stability.

Through the Nürburgring project, Xiaomi said it continues to gather data and system feedback under extreme operating conditions to support further development of vehicle dynamics modeling, control strategy optimization, and safety redundancy mechanisms.