Baidu released the "Apollo Plan" What is the Apollo program and what is automatic driving?
China, the world's largest automotive production and sales market. With 269 auto brands worldwide, Chinese brands account for 61, more than one-fifth of the total.
The advent of the era of artificial intelligence has pushed the world's technology giants and automakers into the wave of research and development of autonomous driving technology. Baidu also had the privilege of joining the "surfing" team as a Chinese company.
No, Baidu today unveiled an autopilot platform open program called "Apollo" that will provide an "open, complete, secure" software platform for automotive and autonomous driving partners to help them combine vehicles and hardware. System, quickly build a complete self-driving system of your own.
Apollo plan:
What is the "Apollo Plan"?
We will provide an open, complete and secure software platform to partners in the automotive industry and autonomous driving to help them quickly build their own complete autonomous driving system by combining vehicle and hardware systems.
The structure of the "Apollo" platform includes a complete set of hardware, software and service systems, including vehicle platforms, hardware platforms, software platforms, and cloud data services.
We will open up code or capabilities for functions such as environment awareness, path planning, vehicle control, and automotive operating systems, and provide complete development testing tools.
At the same time, we will also select the best cooperation partners in the fields of vehicles and sensors to form a collaboration alliance and recommend it to project participants to further reduce the R&D threshold of unmanned vehicles and promote the rapid spread of technology.
Why do you want to carry out the "Apollo Plan"?
For Baidu, through the opening of technology, our technical achievements can be quickly applied in a wide range of fields, which can promote rapid iteration of the technology itself. At the same time, Baidu has opened up its strongest, most mature and safest autopilot technology to the industry, which is conducive to establishing a cooperation-centered ecosystem and leveraging Baidu's technological advantages in the field of artificial intelligence. Empowerment to promote the development and popularization of autonomous driving technology.
Lu Qi, president and chief operating officer of Baidu Group, said, “China is the world's largest automobile production and sales market, with many automobile brands and a more open cooperation environment. Baidu’s initiative to open autopilot technology will collide with the automotive industry. Innovation opportunities can more widely release the value of our technology accumulation and drive rapid changes in the industry. Looking at the more developed markets of the US and other automotive industries, the open and innovative industry ecology advocated by Baidu will also accelerate the development of autonomous driving. To promote."
What will the Apollo Program do next?
Current specific plan:
In July 2017, the automatic driving ability of the closed space was opened;
At the end of 2017, the automatic driving ability in the simple road conditions of the city is output;
It will be gradually opened to full-automatic driving on highways and ordinary urban roads by 2020.
We will gradually announce more detailed plans in the future.
In 1962, US President Kennedy once said this to the "Project Apollo":
"We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard."
Since then, the word "Apollo" has been given extraordinary meaning: it is groundbreaking, and it requires a super-engineering that brings together the power of many participants and can bring great impetus to social development. Baidu believes that autonomous driving and smart cars are also such a business.
As the world's first unmanned vehicle technology leader to announce its opening up of its own technology and platform, we decided to choose "Apollo" as the code name for this project and set off to another universe called artificial intelligence!
In 1969, the "Apollo Project" made Armstrong a big step on the moon. Today, we hope that in the future, we can free our hands so that everyone can freely look up at the stars when they drive.
Autopilot:
The concept of automatic driving was born with a golden spoon, and its degree of heat is obvious to all. Just recently, Intel, which has developed a "dead" in the PC industry, has joined the giant-selling industry and spent $15.3 billion to acquire mobile hardware supplier Mobileye.
In the end, what kind of black technology makes so many big players in the world, including Apple, Google, Baidu, LeTV, Tesla, etc., whether they are engaged in the automotive industry or the Internet giants, all invest huge amounts of money and energy in this field. .
1. Long-distance transport vehicles using automatic driving technology
As early as 2015, the autonomous driving technology was first tried on long-distance transport vehicles, and the results were satisfactory. These long-distance transport vehicles were also given special customized license plates, making them look very special and interesting, as if to tell People "Hey, there is no driver in this big guy."
It is no accident that the automatic driving technology is the first breakthrough in long-distance transportation of trucks. Due to the characteristics of long-distance transportation, drivers are prone to serious losses due to fatigue driving and operational errors. If these can be improved through advanced technology, it will not only be improved. Reducing the loss of the loss of the truck company and the goods can also alleviate the problem of traffic congestion from the side.
Imagine, on the highway, an orderly self-driving transport vehicle, which runs on the road after accurate judgment and analysis, and delivers the goods smoothly to the destination. It will be a well-ordered scene. what.
Second, analysis of the field of automatic driving applications
So in addition to the application of long-distance transport vehicles, in which areas will autonomous driving be developed? Golden Eye Jun believes that it can be analyzed from the following five areas:
First, it is a good fit to automate the driving of electric vehicles on the world's increasingly prosperous electric vehicles. Electric vehicles have high integration and fast technology, and the combination of software and hardware makes it possible to quickly realize the birth of self-driving electric vehicles. . Advances in technology have brought down costs and better solutions. Therefore, we can boldly predict that the first car of autonomous driving will not be an accident and should be an electric car;
Second, looking at the entire transportation system, whether it is a car, a taxi, a bus, a subway, a light rail or a high-speed rail, public transportation carries the most frequent and densest populations. It also has the characteristics of fixed route and time certainty. Applying the technology of autonomous driving in this field will undoubtedly optimize the traffic route, reduce the accident rate, and alleviate the morning and evening peaks. This piece will be the blue ocean for the development and application of autonomous driving technology;
Third, the data show that the scale of e-commerce in 2015 was 33% higher than that in 2014. People are increasingly demanding the speed of express delivery, and major express companies have racked their brains to meet customer requirements. The "small drone" that was once used by SF Express made the speed of the same city greatly improved, but the capacity was limited and the scale could not be expanded. For example, more subdivided courier companies, such as “Dada Expressâ€, are committed to serving in the same city. The same city express delivery not only brings convenience, speed and accuracy, but also meets the transportation of special items. People's needs, such as fresh produce.
It is not difficult to see that if the automatic driving technology is applied to the express delivery vehicle, it will greatly help the delivery of bulk goods and shorten the shipping time. It is believed that the express delivery industry and the logistics industry are also very much looking forward to the maturity of the technology;
Fourth, the development of Didi and Uber's two giants, let us see that the vast majority of people's appeals for this kind of network car is very large, now the network car company not only needs to establish cooperation with people (drivers), but also to integrate Vehicles, bilateral cooperation and demands have produced many contradictions and disputes. If these network car companies apply automatic driving technology, they no longer need to hire drivers, as long as they can do car integration, which will also make themselves from the network car industry leader to become the industry's integrator;
Fifth, the automatic driving technology will also greatly help the special population. With the arrival of the global population and the tens of thousands of disabled people in the world, these two groups of people are in urgent need of automatic driving to solve the problem of travel difficulties. In this way they can be truly free to travel.
3. Guangting Information and A-shares fully enter the auto-driving industry
Xinsanban Guangting Information (834808) is a software development and intelligent city industry solution focusing on intelligent networked vehicles. It has many years of experience in automotive electronics embedded software development and car navigation data production, and has abundant automotive manufacturers resources.
The company has also been cutting into the direction of automotive technology upgrades in the past two years. In September last year, due to the equity investment in the A-share listed company Zhong Haida (300177), the two parties are committed to cooperation in the field of driverless driving. The information on the New Third Board has always been low-key, and even a small report that is rarely seen in a research report has quickly become a hot search. Let us look forward to their research results together.
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