Once refused to cooperate with Huawei, now SAIC has finally held the "soul" in its own hands

What happened to SAIC, which once refused to cooperate with Huawei to build cars?

SAIC, which was originally ridiculed by everyone for its inadequacy, has now punched many people in the face with its strength. Chen Hong, CEO of SAIC, fulfilled his promise and created his own "soul" that belonged to SAIC.

SAIC wants to create its own "soul"

In the past two years, the domestic unmanned storm has rolled up, and countless driverless car manufacturers have risen from the ground. As far as the current situation is concerned, new energy vehicles are an unstoppable development trend of future automobiles, and because of this, many traditional energy vehicles have begun to transform into new energy vehicles, and SAIC Motor, as a representative of domestic traditional automobiles, is naturally no exception. In order to keep up with the pace of the development of the times, SAIC decided to start the layout of new energy, but SAIC motor can be said to have no experience in the manufacture of new energy vehicles, and many technologies are still blank.

At this time, some people suggested that SAIC and Huawei cooperate to build cars together, but SAIC refused. CHEN Hong, CEO of SAIC, said in an interview that SAIC's refusal to cooperate with Huawei is not that Huawei's technology is not good, on the contrary, Huawei's drone technology is almost the top in China, and it is precisely because Huawei's technology is too good, if SAIC cooperates with Huawei, it will be "spoiled".

If this is the case, SAIC will gradually abandon the spirit of struggle, and it will gradually stagnate in the field of technology research and development. SAIC does not want this, SAIC does not allow the "soul" in its car to be someone else's, SAIC wants to create its own "soul". Chen Hong's words can be described as impassioned, but many people did not buy his words, they thought that Chen Hong was just saying beautiful things.

They believe that without cooperation with Huawei, it will be difficult for SAIC to keep up with other competitors in a short period of time. There are only two ways left for SAIC, either because of its technical disadvantages and being eliminated by the driverless market, or it is to switch to foreign technology. But what everyone did not expect was that SAIC really began to develop its own driverless technology, and it was surprising that SAIC did not take too long to catch up with the pace of the large troops.

At present, SAIC has not only developed its own driverless system "Enjoy", but also officially launched its own driverless car.

"Boomaxi" has opened up a new field

This year, SAIC launched its own new business in the field of driverless driving, that is, Xiangdao Robotaxi, which is a taxi operation platform based on the Xiangdao autonomous driving system. Simply put, this platform operates self-driving taxis. Through this platform, customers can make their own taxis, and after receiving the order, the self-driving taxi will automatically plan the route, then depart from the parking lot to pick up the customers, and then send the customers to the destination according to the pre-designed route, and then return to the parking lot by themselves.

At present, this business has been officially landed in Jiading District and Suzhou in Shanghai, and this business has begun to take shape. At present, the fleet of driverless taxis in Shanghai has exceeded 40, while Suzhou has exceeded 20. At present, SAIC is still actively laying out this business, and in the future, driverless taxis will also land in Shenzhen, Hangzhou, Wuxi and other places. Chen Hong said that next year, SAIC's driverless taxis will exceed 200 in the country.

There is no doubt that SAIC has made great strides in the field of autonomous driving, and SAIC is now doing some things that no one in China has done, which is very exciting. There is no doubt that we need more such enterprises, only if we continue to innovate and create, our autonomous driving industry will have better development prospects and development space.

The hidden dangers remain

Although SAIC's efforts in autonomous driving, as well as the achievements achieved, everyone is in the eyes. In addition to praise, there are some problems that are still worth thinking about.

Will SAIC be in too much of a hurry?

At present, no one in China has done the self-driving taxi business, and I think many companies are not not technically enough, but because the current autonomous driving technology is not mature enough. The development of this business is too risky, after all, there are unexpected situations at any time on the rapidly changing highway. At this time, can self-driving taxis really shoulder their mission?

Can we really entrust our lives to self-driving cars? If there is a malfunction or accident in the process of taxi driving, how should the responsibility for the traffic accident be divided? These are all questions worth thinking about, and before these problems are solved, is it a little irresponsible to rush to commercialize self-driving cars?

I think these problems SAIC should consider more, after all, autonomous driving technology is different from many unmanned technologies, it is directly linked to people's life safety, so it must not be a child's play, once there is an accident, it will be difficult to recover, it is difficult to make up. Therefore, on the issue of safety, I hope that domestic automatic driving manufacturers can pay attention to it, not blindly spell speed, but fight for quality.

Once refused to cooperate with Huawei, now SAIC has finally held the "soul" in its own hands

UNWILLING to "sell" its soul to Huawei, SAIC finally punched many people in the face with its strength