In this driverless-driven industrial transformation, China has great opportunities. Whoever can take the lead in commercialization will occupy the top of the industry. In recent years, China's big data technology and artificial intelligence technology are increasingly leading in the world. At the same time, relevant departments are also actively promoting the popularization of driverless technology. Baidu Apollo platform has become a national key project and received a lot of favorable support.
In recent years, domestic technology companies have increased their research and development efforts in the field of driverless driving, and have emerged in core areas such as algorithms and lidar. Backed by China's abundant capital market, they strive to reach L4 level in the field of unmanned driving and achieve overtaking in corners. At present, in the field of driverless driving, there are more than 45,000 patent applications worldwide, of which 32,000 have been filed in the past decade. Among them, China market has become the main market for unmanned vehicle enterprises to carry out patent layout. In the field of unmanned vehicles, China's patent applications account for 37% of the global patent applications, surpassing Japan, the United States, Germany and South Korea. Driverless technology has gradually become a new generation of transportation developed by countries all over the world, and the popularization and application of electric vehicles will also become an inevitable trend in the future.
With the continuous maturity of autonomous driving technology, the cost of mass production autonomous driving is gradually reduced, and the commercial application prospect and development route of autonomous driving are gradually clear. Not only that,? New energy vehicles? 、? Smart city? Popularization will also increase the demand for driverless cars. Automatic driving is the future and development trend of the automobile industry.