On February 8th, 65438, at the 2nd Baidu Apollo Eco-conference, Apollo released a brand-new intelligent solution for Lego cars, announcing the opening of a new model of digital transportation operators in Guangzhou.
Li Zhenyu, vice president of Baidu Group and general manager of Intelligent Driving Group, said: "The transportation industry and the automobile industry are undergoing once-in-a-century changes. Apollo focuses on' intelligence', helping car companies build good cars and helping the government build roads through intelligence. Apollo insists on' openness' and hopes to work with partners to create a bright future for' unmanned' travel. "
This smart car solution launched by Apollo includes four product series: smart driving, smart cabin, smart map and intelligent cloud.
This is the product reorganization of Baidu Apollo based on automobile intelligence, which helps China automobile enterprises to build top-notch smart cars through the combination of soft and hard automobile intelligence solutions.
Apollo Lego solutions, like Lego bricks, hope to show high quality on the one hand, and be assembled and more open on the other. This means that each part of the package can be provided separately. This is also the successful model of Apollo.
Apollo Intelligent Company? Common goal: 3 years 1 100 million vehicles.
Smart house is Baidu's dominant product. These products include: intelligent cockpit, intelligent trunk, front OS, CarLife+, light vehicle and intelligent rearview mirror.
In Li Zhenyu's view, intelligent interactive system has become the mainstream standard of automobile products. "Cars without intelligent interactive systems will be difficult to sell." This means that the field of smart cabin is pregnant with a bigger market.
Previously, Apollo worked quietly in this field and never publicized his achievements too much. But this year, with the reorganization of Zebra by Ali, the momentum of Tencent Car Federation and Huawei's covet for it, Apollo also has a certain sense of crisis.
Su Tan, general manager of Baidu's car networking business unit, was also the first high-profile announcement of the mass production of Apollo smart cars.
The Apollo intelligent cabin has cooperated with more than 70 car companies and 600 models, achieving over 654.38+100,000 small car OS pre-installation, ranking first in the smart new car market in 2020. At the same time, through a variety of after-loading products, small-scale vehicles have covered more than 65.438+0.5 million smart owners, and the cumulative driving distance in 2020 is 65.438+0.56 billion kilometers.
Not only that, Apollo Smart Cabin released two major products: "Little Assistant" and "Baidu Map Auto Edition 202 1". And announced a more ambitious goal, which is expected to carry Apollo intelligence by 2023? Is Ai Lian all right? what's up Will exceed 1 100 million vehicles. Compared with Ali's goal of 6,543,800+zebra vehicles in three years and Huawei HiCar's goal of 5 million vehicles next year, Baidu's goal is obviously several orders of magnitude higher.
In addition, Apollo Zhitu also announced in a high profile that Apollo's high-precision map is the most self-driving map, ranking first in the market share for many years, and becoming the head car companies such as Honda, Guangzhou Automobile, Great Wall, Beiqi, Weilai and Weimar. choose Apollo smart map, also known as "a red map", includes car navigation map for people, high-precision map for cars and dynamic twin map for urban governance.
Pure vision autopilot scheme: dimension reduction strike
At this conference, Apollo Smart Drive also showed a big move, and announced Apollo, the only L4 pure visual autonomous driving technology in China. Simplified version. This is a 360-degree perception autopilot scheme based on 12 cameras, 12 millimeter-wave radars and 4 angle radars.
In Li Zhenyu's view, autonomous driving ability will become the decisive point of smart cars.
When lidar is being accepted and adopted by more car companies, Baidu suddenly demonstrated pure vision autonomous driving technology. This is very surprising, and the automatic driving ability that this pure vision technology can achieve is quite high.
According to Baidu insiders, this is a dimensionality reduction blow to the assisted driving field after Baidu has accumulated a large amount of data and actual road verification in L4 autonomous driving.
Based on this pure vision technology, Apollo Smart Home further released the advanced intelligent driving solution ANP (Apollo? Navigation? Pilot), which is often referred to as pilot-assisted driving in the industry.
Unlike Tesla NOA, Weilai NOP and Tucki NGP, which only support high-speed and urban loop lines, ANP can also be used on urban roads, bringing a leading user experience.
Combined with AVP (parking service technology), it has started mass production and cooperated with brands such as Guangzhou Automobile, Weimar and Great Wall. From AVP to ANP, from parking field to driving field, Apollo intelligent driving products have realized full-scene automatic driving mass production solutions for complex urban roads.
This will be the only full-scene end-to-end autopilot solution in China that claims to cover complex roads in cities.
For most car companies, this scheme is very attractive, the cost of pure vision scheme is lower, and it can cover more scenes, so it is a cost-effective scheme.
Baidu hopes that the mass production of Apollo smart driving products is expected to reach 1 10,000 units in the next 3-5 years.
Turn to urban digital traffic operators
Apollo had bigger ambitions. Starting from intelligent driving, Apollo is moving towards a larger field of intelligent transportation and urban digital transportation operation.
At the Baidu World Congress in September this year, Li Yanhong, chairman of Baidu, made it clear that with the construction of AI technology and vehicle-road collaborative infrastructure, the intelligent transportation system will be gradually improved. What about the future? 5? During the year, China's first tier cities will no longer need to restrict purchases and restrictions, and within ten years, the traffic congestion problem can be basically solved.
To improve the urban travel experience, only smart cars are not enough, but also smart roads, and the cooperation between cars and roads can achieve efficient travel.
Intelligent transportation reform is the key to improve the urban management system, and it is also an important direction of new infrastructure. The digital transportation operator model has changed the format of traditional intelligent transportation construction in the past, from a one-time integrator model to a continuous operator model. By constantly upgrading the intelligent algorithm of vehicle and road that fits the actual scene, the efficiency of the whole city can be improved and the problems that cannot be solved by manpower and traditional infrastructure in the past can be solved.
This is a brand-new scheme brought by Apollo.
Apollo, together with Guangzhou, opened the first digital transportation operator mode and automatic driving demonstration operation mode in China, and took the lead in landing in Huangpu District.
Guangzhou Huangpu officially launched the world's largest self-driving MaaS platform, and deployed four major fleets, including self-driving taxis, self-driving buses, self-driving patrols and self-driving work vehicles.
From Huangpu District? The AI roadside perception system and cloud engine have also started to operate, which can not only provide high-precision real-time traffic information and other networking services for ordinary car users through in-car service contacts such as small mirrors and Baidu maps, but also realize the supervision and upgrading of commercial vehicles such as dump trucks through the linkage of scene-based car-end, road-end and cloud algorithms, and open the first automatic networking supervision of cars+roads+clouds in China.
Guangzhou mode is the most abundant intelligent networking application in China, including digital twin cloud control platform, unmanned vehicle MaaS service management, intelligent networking operation vehicle management, V2X refined intelligent intersection, collaborative intelligent vehicle association, urban CIM, brain management and responsiveness. It is the first system-level application of Baidu ACE Intelligent Transportation Engine.
This system can be continuously extended to the fields of intelligent high-speed, intelligent traffic control, etc., and at the same time, more existing business applications can be improved while satisfying the autopilot+intelligent network connection business.
In April this year, Apollo launched the world's only next-generation intelligent transportation solution "ACE Intelligent Transportation Engine", which is self-controllable, "future-oriented and compatible with the present".
It integrates Baidu's years of accumulation in the fields of artificial intelligence, big data, autonomous driving and vehicle-road coordination, among which ACE stands for autonomy? Driving, automatic driving, connection? Road vehicles are coordinated and efficient? Mobile travel is very efficient.
At present, Baidu is practicing in nearly 20 cities based on ACE intelligent transportation engine, helping local traffic management to enter a new stage of intelligence and integration.
On February 7th, 65438, Apollo also obtained the exclusive license for unmanned test in Beijing. The mileage of unmanned test in Beijing and Changsha has exceeded 52,000 kilometers.
Apollo? Go has also become the only travel service in the world that operates Robotaxi and Robobus in multiple cities, receiving more than 265,438+00,000 passengers.
Recently, Baidu will jointly release the car with the first car about the car, which will become the first online car platform in China to open automatic driving service. Without an appointment, anyone can experience the automatic driving service through the first car, and the two sides will jointly explore a new model of Robotaxi business cooperation.
Apollo? Go's service scale will accelerate to 30 cities in the next three years.
In addition, Apollo also announced Apollo? Plan X will cultivate unicorns that subdivide the track from the aspects of talents, technology, capital and scenes, and comprehensively promote the development of China autonomous driving industry with the power of ecological alliance. Apollo? The first partner of Plan X is Lion Bridge, the head company in the freight field. The two sides will jointly launch "DeepWay", a technology platform company in the field of self-driving freight, and deepen the trillion-dollar market opportunities of self-driving freight tracks.
Che Yun's summary:
The transportation industry and the automobile industry are experiencing great changes once in a century.
At the moment, all car companies are developing in the direction of intelligence, but for most car companies and traditional transportation industries, they need the support of technology companies too much, which will greatly improve the progress of intelligence in the whole industry and gain an advantage in the contest of foreign brands.
For foreign automobile brands, the challenge brought by intelligent networking is enormous. The difference of Internet environment at home and abroad makes the China market special and sensitive. As the largest automobile market in China, if we can't provide better Internet services that meet the local demand, the help of brand premium on sales will drop rapidly.
Internet companies in China, including Baidu, are obviously the key to this wave. They know more about China and users, they have huge ecological applications, they have more diligent programmers, they keep innovating, and they know the way forward.
Since the establishment of Apollo, the goal has been firm and clear, using technology to make transportation easier and better.
In the context of the country's vigorous promotion of new infrastructure, intelligent transportation and the strategy of strengthening the country by transportation, and great progress has been made, Baidu's technological long-term doctrine is welcoming.
This article comes from car home, the author of the car manufacturer, and does not represent car home's position.