In April this year, DJI, the head of the drone, announced that it had entered autonomous driving and said that it would "join hands" with Volkswagen Group and SAIC-GM-Wuling to provide them with autonomous driving solutions. Today, there are media reports that DJI's self-driving engineering vehicles have been tested on the ground.
Judging from the sensor layout announced by DJI, the hidden nature of the components is relatively good, and the integration is higher than that of the huge work department hanging on the roof, and the impact on the appearance of the car is smaller. It is worth mentioning that DJI's automatic driving solution can be installed on different car machines and adjusted according to the needs of car companies, which means that compatibility and versatility have no small advantages.
Xiao Lei learned that DJI has three sets of autonomous driving solutions, namely intelligent driving D80D80+, intelligent driving D130D130+ and intelligent parking system. The main difference between the first two schemes is the maximum driving speed, the former can reach 80 km / h, and the latter is 130 km / h, which is suitable for urban expressways or highways. After entering driving mode, the vehicle can autonomously change lanes, overtake, enter and exit ramps, and other actions.
At present, DJI's autonomous driving level is in the L2 stage, and the focus of research and development is on how to achieve a safe and reliable experience at a lower cost. Including Tesla FSD, now the mainstream automatic driving technology is basically maintained at the L2 level, in order to improve the judgment accuracy of automatic driving, some manufacturers will build millimeter wave radar, lidar and other auxiliary sensors, and only Tesla in order to save costs, only use pure vision solutions.
In fact, as early as 2016, DJI incubated Livox into the field of lidar, and the HAP lidar on the Xiaopeng P5 came from the company. DJI believes that self-driving cars and drones have similarities in technology. DJI, which has achieved great success in the field of drones, may be smoother than other car companies that start from scratch to translate the technology of automatic drone driving to cars.
DJI said that the goal is to do a good job in the L2 autonomous driving experience, drivers only need to check the road conditions, the rest to automatic driving, and improve the adaptability of related technologies, so that they can easily switch driving modes in different road environments. Of course, as Musk said, although the performance of automatic driving is better than that of real people, it cannot guarantee 100% safety, and the driver still has to pay attention to the road conditions at all times, hold the steering wheel, and take over the car when it finds something wrong.
It is reported that the model equipped with DJI's autonomous driving solution may be launched in the spring of 2022. Similar to Huawei, DJI has also chosen the route of providing intelligent driving solutions to car companies, the advantage is that it can provide car companies with lower costs and more reliable options, and car companies do not have to spend a lot of money on self-research related technologies, expecting DJI to use the level of drones to self-driving cars.