Didi: Want to fully attack, enter the field of automatic driving
Cheng Wei said that 2018 will be a year of comprehensive attack.
This statement is not empty. At the beginning of the year of 2018, Didi is in constant motion in the field of automatic driving.
Didi said that he was conducting autonomous vehicle testing in three cities in the United States and China, with the aim of launching a completely autonomous fleet service early next year.
Didi also revealed that Didi designed the software part for the test drive car, and the hardware part cooperated with the car manufacturer and supplier, and refused to disclose more details.
As early as January 26 this year, Didi dripped at the Beijing company headquarters, announced the establishment of AI Labs (artificial intelligence laboratory), increased the forward-looking basic research of artificial intelligence, and accelerated the development of global intelligent transportation frontier technology. Professor Ye Jieping, the vice president of Didi, personally led the team. According to Lei Feng.com, the team has more than 200 scientists and engineers engaged in AI cutting-edge technology research and development. It is expected that the scale will be further improved this year.
After about 10 days, that is, on February 6, Didi quietly posted a recruitment information on the hook: recruiting the intelligent driving system to test the driving operator at the Suzhou Industrial Zone. This recruitment information also confirmed previous rumors: Didi has a small team in Suzhou to study autonomous driving.
It is learned that: At the annual meeting in 2018, Didi announced a video of intelligent driving technology. In this video, the CTO Zhang Bo on the front passenger seat and the staff on the driver's seat take the vehicle intelligently. During driving, the intelligently driven vehicle uses map positioning and body sensing to successfully complete projects such as turning, avoiding obstacles, and avoiding car behavior.
This can be said to be a big step in the automatic driving of Drip.
AI for TransportaTIonThe reason why Didi has stepped out of this step is reasonable. At present, Uber and Lyft are competing to develop autonomous driving technology to reduce driver costs and increase profits. On October 28, 2017, Li Kaifu said at the roundtable meeting of the Future Forum Smart Transportation 2.0 that Uber and Didi need to be driven by L4 and L5, and the cost of the driver can be reduced to achieve profitability. Therefore, such companies have great economic power to do autonomous driving, which can be said to be "backwaters."
As Li Kaifu's analysis is the same.
DDT CTO Zhang Bo also said: "Autopilot technology will greatly improve the efficiency of transportation, and will become an effective way to fill the gap in the supply of transportation services." Show this car (autopilot test car in the road test) is a drop A key step forward, because of the technological breakthroughs in drip autopilot, will likely reshape the economy of the entire shared car.
Although Drip is a "latecomer" in the field of autonomous driving, Drip has put a lot of effort into autonomous driving. Looking at the layout of last year, I know how hard it is in autonomous driving:
On January 26, 2017, Didi announced the establishment of AI Labs (Artificial Intelligence Lab) in Mountain View, Calif., to increase the forward-looking basic research of artificial intelligence and attract scientific talents.
In March 2017, Didi Travel announced the official establishment of its American Research Institute DiDi Labs.
In August 2017, Didi and Udacity hosted an autopilot test car challenge.
In November 2017, Didi chose to open a new campus in Mountain View, and announced that its main job is to conduct research and development in big data, smart transportation, and smart travel.
In the same month (November 2017), Didi established a map company, Ditu Technology, with a registered capital of 5 million yuan. The company's legal representative is the co-founder of CTO and CTO Zhang Bo. High-precision maps are very significant for autonomous driving. The high-precision map can extend the sensing range of the sensor, provide road condition information support for the positioning, sensing and decision-making of the auto-driving test vehicle at high speed; provide security, and ensure self-driving by positioning and high-precision map under the assumption of the risk of short-term failure of the sensor Keep going.
Previously, Cheng Wei said in a financial interview that Didi’s judgment on this market is that there are only one or two autopilots, no third, like Windows and Communix, Android and iOS. At present, Google is the first place, and hope that Didi will become another one who will eventually survive.
Not only do it, but also one of the "double champions" in the most automatic driving field.
On December 21, 2017, after completing the latest round of $4 billion financing, Didi announced that the huge amount will be used to launch 1 million new energy vehicles and build charging piles. Increase the investment in AI transportation technology.
In addition to working hard to invest, Didi also tried to buy and buy. At the beginning of last year, the reporter heard that Drip hopes to deploy autopilot by acquiring Silicon Valley startups, but there has been no real action.
According to the quantum bit broke the news: Drip once wanted to put Nuro in the pocket of the former Google Autopilot Engineer Zhu Jiajun, and even opened a sky-high purchase order for this, but did not dream of coming true.
In addition, there are rumors that Drip wants to acquire the Aurora InnovaTIons autonomous driving company founded by former Google unmanned vehicle CTO Chris Urmson. However, due to differences in opinions between the two sides, the acquisition was not successful.
In addition, Didi has spared no effort in the talent reserve of the unmanned car. Even at the same time, Baidu Guangsha has recruited people, and Didi has been digging in various places in Silicon Valley, especially targeting the technology of the automatic driving field. . Former Waymo engineer Jia Zhaojun, one of the cattle who drove a lot of money, is now the head of the technology of Didi.
The speed of such money has also enabled Drip to achieve certain results in autonomous driving.
On January 26, Ye Jieping publicly said: Didi through AI and big data technology, it is now possible to predict demand changes 15 minutes ahead of time and accuracy of up to 85%.
On January 9th, Didi was the only Chinese company to join the auto-driving test car alliance formed by Toyota. According to the cooperation statement, as the only Chinese company to join the Toyota Alliance, Didi will travel globally with Toyota.
It is understood that in the first half of this year, Lyft will test unmanned taxis in the Bay Area, and will cooperate with GM, Waymo, Drive.ai, Didi and other partners to try to complete the "car factory + travel platform + automatic driving system" "The ecological puzzle."
There is also the beginning of the article, the mention of the smart driving technology video published in 2018, in which the drip automatic driving test car demonstrates the efficient identification of pedestrians, static obstacles, dynamic vehicles, smooth Smoothly completed the right turn, left turn, and road planning at the intersection.
Drip challengeAlthough Uber China merged with Didi on August 1, 2016, Uber also withdrew from the Chinese market in a combined manner. But on a global scale, Uber is still a strong opponent.
On November 20, 2017 Uber reached a non-binding framework agreement with Volvo. From 2019 to 2021, Volvo will supply Uber with 24,000 XC90 SUVs. Uber will then install its own sensors and software systems for these cars to achieve automatic driving.
Moreover, this Friday, Uber reached a settlement with Waymo at the expense of 245 million shares, after the case caused a great obstacle to Uber's autopilot test car project process and affected its long-term profit margin. Now that this ridiculous lawsuit is close to the knot, I believe Uber will be able to bring order out of chaos and push forward the autopilot project.
In addition to external challenges, Didi itself is also losing talent. Before the high-profile tribute to Di Di, the president of the Institute of Distillation, He Xiaofei has left the drop, the CV big cow's departure, for the drop, it also has a certain impact.
Yang Qingxiong, former senior director of Drip Drones, also left in 2017 to join the unmanned car startup company Jingchi. According to the reporter, Jingchi also intends to take the unmanned taxi for automatic driving.
In addition, Charlie Miller, a security expert who joined Diber in March 2017, also left in July of the same year and moved to Cruise, a GM car company.
Conclusion:However, in the future, Didi is still very confident.
The commercialization of Didi and the large amount of data in hand are unparalleled advantages. As for these unparalleled advantages, whether it can be transformed into the biggest weapon in the big battle of autonomous driving, it will take time to verify. But Didi has already conveyed to the outside world the determination to enter the autopilot.
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