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Even if the market value soared to $600 billion and became the world's highest car company by market value, Tesla's voice of being questioned never stopped.
In the eyes of many people, in addition to doing the right thing at the right time and establishing an insurmountable first-Mover advantage, Tesla's main reason for "watching Changhong" is to control the core technology of autonomous driving. After L0 "ruled" the travel life for a long time, it was indeed Tesla who brought autonomous driving into the public's field of vision, making the travel life gradually change from quantitative change to qualitative change.
However, the ghostly brakes and the "stall door" like a time bomb have ruthlessly hit every "hopeful" spectator again and again. This not only inspires consumers' confidence in the "most promising" technology, but also makes the era of autonomous driving more "distant".
In any case, the arrival of the "fourth industrial revolution" will not press the "pause button" for the automobile industry. In the digital age, the role of the car as a "manned tool" in the traditional sense has begun to weaken, and the future picture of scene algorithm and artificial intelligence replacing manpower is also destined to be printed into reality. In this imminent transition stall, Huawei, which is best at algorithms and connections, has quietly prepared for the wave.
Since Huawei's smart car solution brand "HI" and the heavy product Mate 40 were released at the same time, Huawei's every move in the automotive field has attracted attention. From the outside, Huawei's efficiency in "building cars" can be described as rapid, but from the inside of Huawei's system, this "parallel line" that cuts into the new track of smart electric vehicles is still gradual.
In Huawei's Shanghai R&D Center, the R&D team established for the new business of smart car BU, the new office space, the Suzhou Technology Center which can accommodate more people, and the engineering R&D team of more than 3,000 people are all expanding rapidly with the naked eye.
These all illustrate a new trend: Huawei's vigorous deployment of smart car solutions is well thought out and prepared. Among many fields that need to be tackled, intelligent driving involves a wider range and is also a weather vane in the field of automobile intelligence. For this high-level technology that can change the travel ecology, Huawei puts it in the highest position.
This decision not only conforms to the current development trend of "smart cars", but also caters to Huawei's decades-long expertise in communication and IT. Su Qing, president and chief architect of BU ADS intelligent driving product line, which is in charge of Huawei's autonomous driving business, said: "From the top characteristics of the industry, autonomous driving has two characteristics. First, it is the crown of computer science and the most complicated problem in computer science at present; The second is an ultra-complex embedded system, which Huawei is good at. "
From the accumulation of decades, Huawei's full-stack experience can be used for the research and development of autonomous driving. The construction of fundamental technology is advanced and solid enough, and in terms of R&D strength, the huge Huawei system can at least easily cope with the high-speed iteration of 15 years, and the complete software and hardware industry chain can also properly control the cost within the "acceptable range", which is obviously not fully invested by any automobile company.
In a sense, it should not be Huawei's cross-border participation in "building cars", but the evolution of smart cars in the future, which "broke into" Huawei's best use in an unexpected but reasonable way.
As we all know, since Huawei officially announced its entry into the automotive field, "Huawei does not build cars, but helps enterprises build good cars" is like a golden saying among all Huawei executives. From the outside world, this sentence can be used as a "reassuring" for traditional car companies in transition, but the deep meaning and various "possibilities" behind it are still difficult to detect.
However, the experience of visiting Huawei Shanghai Center tells Yi Ge that the decision not to build a car comes more from Huawei's love and persistence in the fields of communication and ICT, and can also be regarded as an IT industry giant's "persistence" in business boundaries.
Wang Jun, president of BU, Huawei's smart car solution, believes that Huawei's advantages mainly lie in software, algorithms and ecology. "doing algorithm research is a collection of many sciences, including fusion algorithms and perceptual algorithms ... it is highly technical and difficult, and it needs long-term accumulation. Only Huawei has accumulated a large number of algorithmic talents in the fields of wireless and artificial intelligence. "
On the other hand, Huawei's self-developed operating systems, including AOS and VOS, can also better reflect the corresponding capabilities in the car, so that third parties can better develop applications.
In fact, what Huawei is doing is to bring the ICT technology accumulated for more than 30 years into the intelligent networked car scene, including not only the "soft power" research and development of software and operating systems, but also the first-class hardware development process and corresponding technologies with the help of the technical strength accumulated in the communication industry and smart phones.
As early as 20 15, the "Vehicle Networking Lab" was established to study key technologies such as vehicle interaction, intelligent driving and electric components, and to extend the ICT capabilities of "end, tube and cloud" such as 5G, AI, IoT, cloud computing and photoelectric technology.
Such as lidar. Although this technical barrier is high and the cost remains high for a long time, which leads to the furious Musk's crazy denial of its "advanced nature", this key core component that has been verified in other fields has always been in Huawei's laboratory. It has considerable technical competitiveness and mature cost control scheme.
The standard high-order autopilot adopts three laser radars, which can solve the application problem of the autopilot in the whole scene. Once this technology is really applied to mass production projects, it will become an indispensable part of high-end smart cars, and it is even very likely to overcome the insurmountable "blind spot of autonomous driving technology" of Tesla FSD.
On the way forward of smart cars, car manufacturers know more about cars and users, while Huawei is clearly aiming at the ICT technology that it is better at, and will seriously and wholeheartedly invest in the "radical change" of the automobile industry.
With exquisite and rigorous solutions and the "innate advantages" of a strong R&D team, Huawei's progress in the field of high-end autonomous driving is bound to exceed industry expectations. As a leading infrastructure supplier in the ICT field, Huawei plays an increasingly important role-becoming a key booster for the automotive industry to move towards the intelligent era.
Undoubtedly, the continuous iteration of intelligent experience, coupled with the beautiful vision of future autonomous driving, has become a long-term and great goal of every automobile company.
In addition to Internet car companies such as Tesla and Weilai, which were born in the smart car revolution, both traditional car companies such as Volkswagen Toyota and BMW Mercedes-Benz are overweight the layout of intelligent software and hardware, hoping that the core technology will be in their own hands. However, no matter which camp you belong to, you need to disperse most of your experience into the operation of manufacturing, traditional machinery and vehicle supply chain, so you can't concentrate on core segments such as system development, software calibration and computing platform.
Who can take the lead in meeting users' demand for smarter, more efficient and safer travel experience? Huawei gave the answer at this time.
Wang Jun introduced: "HI Advanced Autopilot ADS is the best' Advanced Autopilot System' in the road scene of China. This full-stack solution design has passed the functional safety assessment of the highest level ASIL D, adopting the design idea of starting from the end and based on the L4 autopilot architecture, providing a full-stack solution for L4-L2+ autopilot. Sensors, central supercomputers and algorithms are all leading. "
Especially in the application environment and scene of autonomous driving, Huawei's full-stack solution not only covers the whole scene of high-speed, urban loop and automatic parking, but also solves the use situation in complex urban areas. Among them, AVP parking helps to improve the value of the last mile, breaking the bad experience of the current system on the market like an "island". Through the intelligent learning mode of "self-evolution", we can strengthen the working logic of complex urban road conditions and complete daily high-frequency application scenarios from home to office and office to home.
This advanced automatic driving system can cover all the driving conditions of private car owners in China. Compared with the "local level" of Tesla Expressway, which is difficult to move on urban roads, who is more in line with the trend of changing from "commuting tool" to "intelligent mobile terminal", and judge the results.
Realistically speaking, the ADS, which will be mass-produced in Q 1 in 2022, marks the beginning of the mass production process of high-order autonomous driving. By then, it will be a real high-order automatic driving system that users can buy in the market and cover the biggest driving scenes in daily life.
At the 2020 Beijing Auto Show, the slogan of Huawei booth was clear and clear-bringing the digital world to every car. In real life, Huawei has reached strategic cooperation in the field of intelligent electric vehicles with many domestic mainstream vehicle companies such as SAIC, Changan, GAC and BAIC. The landing of mass production works has entered the final sprint stage.
In the process of automobile evolution from manned vehicle to "intelligent terminal on wheels", this well-known communication company has wholeheartedly become a booster in the era of "intelligent terminal on wheels". With the centennial reform of the automobile industry, the real "overtaking in corners" of China automobile enterprises is about to present the most wonderful scene in the "fourth industrial revolution".