The fierce development of the world’s major car companies in the unmanned field

At the Hangzhou Yunqi Conference held recently, a laboratory-grade autonomous driving minibus built by the Suzhou Automotive Research Institute of Tsinghua University has become a “star” of the public experience area. The CMB installed laser radar, millimeter-wave radar, and cameras to detect road conditions. In order to achieve accurate positioning in response to a variety of adverse weather, this minibus also features a centimeter-class high-precision positioning system provided by Chihiro Positioning Corporation, which is equivalent to laying an “invisible track” to guide CMB to always be in proper operation. On the road track. Similar driverless cars have become the "standard" for high-tech exhibitions or top auto shows around the world. The unmanned concept, which was still just a science fiction theme decades ago, is gradually entering the everyday life of ordinary people. A report quoted the president of the German Bosch Group's board of directors, Volkmar Denne, as saying: "Unmanned times will be faster than expected." Some studies have pointed out that if full-scale implementation of driverless driving, the capacity of general roads will be increased by more than 30% on the basis of the current, and the capacity of expressways will be increased by more than five times on the basis of the current situation. This will result in investments including investment. The subversive changes in the economic and social sectors including infrastructure, automobile market, and insurance. At present, the world's major car companies have raised the driverless technology to a new strategic height and launched a fierce game around this area. GM recently announced that it will acquire Strobe, a high-tech sensor company. This move is seen by Silicon Valley as an important counterattack for the traditional automotive industry in the unmanned area, launched by technology giants such as Google’s parent companies Alphabet and Tesla. General Motors and its domestic rival Ford have announced that they will start selling fully-autonomously-driving cars in 2021. According to the medium-term plan announced by the Renault-Nissan Alliance last month, the Renault-Nissan Alliance is expected to develop fully self-driving cars by 2022. Chairman Ghosn said that it will also be involved in taxi service using driverless vehicles. It has also been reported that, in driverless technology, Waymo, a subsidiary of Alphabet, has integrated three lidar sensors responsible for near, mid, and long range detection, as well as 360-degree radar and several dedicated camera-based sensors. The effective range reaches 3 football stadiums. In China, major car companies and Internet giants have reached cooperation agreements, such as SAIC and Alibaba developing Internet vehicles; Guangzhou Automobile Group and Tencent have joined hands to force the field of automotive intelligence; Baidu has cooperated with car companies such as JAC and Chery; Huawei has taken over Dongfeng Automobile. Create "smart cars" and so on. The boom in research and development of driverless technology has made the related industries see great business opportunities. Since driverless vehicles rely mainly on sensors, cameras, radars and other devices to detect the surrounding environment, some auto parts suppliers have begun to use their own technological advantages to actively explore the market. According to reports, German Continental Group demonstrated its unmanned R&D platform at this year's Frankfurt Motor Show. NXP Semiconductors, the world's largest automotive semiconductor supplier, has also released a new control and computing platform for Internet cars, electric vehicles and self-driving cars. The new platform, named S32, enables car manufacturers through a large number of architectural innovations. Get rich in-vehicle experience and auto-driving capabilities to market faster. In addition, only based on high-precision positioning, self-driving cars can obtain accurate map environment perception capabilities, so as to accurately identify lanes to avoid route deviation, and achieve accurate route positioning and accurate docking. Using this as an entry point, Chihiro’s location will be ready to provide Internet broadcast, all-weather, continuous centimeter-level location data support for autonomous vehicles in 31 provinces and cities across the country. In China, the driverless market is equally optimistic. According to the driverless technology roadmap published by the China Association of Automotive Engineers, China will strive to have highly-autonomous or fully-autonomous vehicles available from 2021 to 2025; from 2026 to 2030, each vehicle should use unmanned or assisted driving. system. The Ping An Securities Research report also shows that by 2020, China's smart car market size is close to 60 billion yuan. Some organizations also stated that, driven by policy support and breakthroughs in automotive technology, the pace of unmanned industrialization will increase, and the market for vehicle connectivity including hardware terminals, sensors, and operational services will increase, potentially reaching 100 billion yuan. Meta level. Looking to the future, in the driverless field, Intel proposed the concept of “passenger economy”—the economic and social value that is driven by fully automatic driverless cars. From the “driver” as the center to the “passenger” as the center, automatic driving is not only the evolution of technology, but also a revolution of travel. It will bring about a new “passenger economy”. This is the reason why modern society has abandoned horses and carriages. The biggest change in the way people travel. According to estimates by Intel and research firm StrategyAnalytics, by 2050, the “passenger economy” scale inspired by the unmanned industry will reach an astonishing $7 trillion, and these economic values ​​will be mainly reflected in “travel as a service”. Source: China News