Although Huawei's 5G siege in the west has been slightly hindered, Huawei has now come up with a highly competitive high-tech product-lidar. This is another weapon that can attack the city slightly in the western market, and there is basically not much capital in the west to deal with it. Musk, who is as arrogant as a rocket, is helpless.
1.0 ? What is lidar? What's the use? Want to explain why Huawei's lidar makes the west? Meng circle? You must tell us what lidar is. Lidar is a high-tech product combining laser technology and radar technology. It is widely used in obstacle avoidance, three-dimensional mapping, missile guidance, ocean exploration and other fields. However, today we don't discuss these high-tech fields, but only discuss the autonomous driving fields that ordinary people have the opportunity to use.
In the autonomous driving industry, there is a knowledge that lidar is the product with the strongest comprehensive advantages in the field of vehicle sensors. Compared with other sensing technologies such as cameras, lidar can overcome adverse conditions such as cloudy days, dense fog and rain, and better detect surrounding objects. It has excellent performance in accuracy, breadth and sensitivity.
However, although lidar is awesome, it has two major shortcomings, one is high technical difficulty, and the other is high production cost. It is reported that at present, only one company in the world can mass-produce vehicle-mounted lidar, and the lowest price is several thousand yuan. At present, only luxury car brands will use lidar. Relevant data show that cars under 800,000 can't see the real lidar.
Based on the high efficiency of lidar, western society has invested heavily in this field, hoping to monopolize it. Because the future is definitely the world of autonomous driving, the market space is extremely huge, absolutely no less than the market space of mobile phones and 5 G, but people who are stronger than Tesla can't do it. In the field of autonomous driving, Tesla said second, and it is estimated that no one dares to say first. But they can't handle lidar, so they have to give up lidar and switch to camera +AI algorithm.
2.0 ? Huawei's lidar, why let the west? Meng circle?
At present, Huawei's lidar can achieve the price level of no one has me, no one has me, and no one has me. Faced with such a situation, western society has to? Meng circle? . Because they found that, like the 5G competition, they had no choice but to win Huawei again and were in a passive state. They don't even have the strength to protect themselves. Perhaps the government will eventually have to use some inferior means to suppress it.
Huawei's lidar has solved the two major problems mentioned above, which is technically difficult and costly. In the case that the technical performance is not inferior to that of western products, Huawei directly reduced the cost of western enterprises from several thousand dollars to about 200 dollars, and the future cost is likely to be further reduced to 100 yuan. Such ultra-low cost will inevitably attract many car companies to adopt Huawei's lidar and give up the products of western companies.
After the release of Huawei lidar, Musk, who paid little attention to Huawei, had to pay attention to Huawei. Huawei's lidar put him under great pressure, and he even spoke about Huawei. Musk's Tesla is most proud of the autopilot system. In the early years, due to technical and cost reasons, Musk gave up the lidar and adopted the camera +AI algorithm.
Among all the schemes of camera +AI algorithm, Tesla's scheme is undoubtedly the most successful. If no new technology is born, Tesla's scheme can be far ahead and stand out from the crowd. But Huawei's lidar can destroy the advantages that Tesla has accumulated over the years. Huawei's lidar, to a certain extent, makes many car companies in the field of autonomous driving, at least not as backward as it is now.
Previously, Tucki, Weilai and other car companies announced that they would engage in laser radar models, but Westerners (including Musk) thought it was impossible and disagreed. After Huawei's lidar came out, they had to attach great importance to it. However, no matter how much they pay attention to it, they can't change the fact that domestic lidar is booming. So-called? If you lose money, you make money? Domestic companies such as Huawei try to avoid western patent barriers in research and development. For example, Huawei's 96-line semi-solid laser radar has avoided the patent barriers in the West.