If the car doesn't need a steering wheel and can change its spatial form, is it a car, or is it a new species?
Smart cars are evolving at a rapid pace! From the redesigned cockpit design inside the car, to the exquisite equipment such as radar and cameras outside the car, human-computer interaction, automatic parking, dynamic warrants... The prototype of the future "Autobot" has emerged.
In September this year, Xiao Yaqing, minister of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, revealed that the market penetration rate of L2 passenger cars reached 20%. From the perspective of assisted driving alone, the penetration rate of smart cars is not lost to new energy vehicles.
Just like the imagination of science fiction works, smart cars are also a new device concept, another important intelligent terminal after smart phones, and the pursuit direction of the automotive industry. Traditional car companies, new car manufacturers, Internet technology giants... Cutting-edge technologies from all walks of life are dancing here, and the golden age of smart cars is coming.
Negative "out of the circle" is a blessing in disguise
Looking back on the development process in the past year, there have been two "out of the circle" events, which have brought a non-negligible impact on the intelligent process. Tesla "brake doors" and the Weilai incident, which pulled up the alarm lights for free-growing smart cars.
On August 12, the NIO ES8 car was involved in a traffic accident on the highway, and the driver unfortunately passed away. A heated discussion ensued. From the attribution of responsibility for accidents in autonomous vehicles, to the distinction between autonomous driving and assisted driving, to the excessive pursuit and trust of car companies and consumers in assisted driving systems...
Is autonomous driving safe or not? Have car companies over-publicized it?
In the L0-L2 level of automated driving, the driver completely controls the driving of the car, and the "automatic driving system" only plays an auxiliary role in driving. As far as the Weilai incident is concerned, it is precisely because the owners have over-trusted the L2 level automatic driving technology on the car.
It is not that the autonomous driving technology has reached the time for reflection, but that the over-hype of the capital market and even the whole society has exaggerated the technological maturity of autonomous driving.
Automatic driving is blown to the gods, if you dig deeper, how many car companies can get rid of a false propaganda "big hat"? In this incident, there are also more and more car companies learning to put away the feathers of the drum, expecting and afraid of automatic driving people get an answer: technology is progressing, but L2 is L2, L2+ is only L2, before moving to L3, L4, L5, the hands are still not free.
Earlier, Tesla's "brake door" also left a haze, but this hot discussion eventually pointed to a "loophole" - data security. The outbreak of autonomous driving technology, the acceleration of industrial processes, and the failure of brakes have become catalysts for accelerating the supervision of data safety in smart vehicles.
In August this year, the "Opinions on Strengthening the Management of Intelligent and Connected Vehicle Manufacturers and Product Access" was officially issued, drawing a red line for car companies. Once the car company cannot meet the requirements, it will not be able to apply for the announcement of the product, the license plate and the sale. At the same time, the "Several Provisions on the Security Management of Automobile Data (Trial)" was issued to clarify the obligations of data processors and formulate cross-border data transmission rules.
Recently, the "14th Five-Year Plan for Transportation" also proposed to explore and study the establishment of legal systems related to the application of cutting-edge technologies such as intelligent transportation such as automatic driving and intelligent shipping, and explore and study the establishment of unmanned carrier management systems in relevant legislative projects.
It is undeniable that the intelligent networked vehicle industry is still in the growth stage, there are still many development problems that need to be solved urgently, the formulation of standards and regulations still needs to be improved, and the data security management system has not yet been improved. This is a process of joint efforts of industry, education and research, industry and society, the safety wall of technology is accelerating construction, and the wave of intelligence is irreversible.
Four months after the fatal incident, NIO once again launched a new model, the ET5, declaring that it was "born for autonomous driving."
A new blue ocean is erupting
"The golden age of smart cars is coming."
The person who said this was Yu Chengdong, managing director of Huawei, CEO of consumer BG, and CEO of Huawei's smart car solution BU. Although Hongmeng OS is about to get on the car, Huawei still said that it does not build cars and will be an important smart car enabler. "Long-sleeved good dance", it has joined hands with BAIC, GAC, Changan and other vehicle companies, and like Huawei, it firmly believes that smart cars are a blue ocean, and Baidu, Tencent, Ali, 360, Xiaomi...
In March this year, Xiaomi announced that it would enter the field of smart cars, a bit of recruitment, as of the end of September this year, Xiaomi's smart car team exceeded 500 people, intelligent driving investment 17 companies, intelligent electric 13 companies, smart cockpit 6 companies. Xiaomi's action is not slow, planning to launch the first new car in 2024, playing the abacus of harvesting the market, but looking around, how many opponents want to eat "cake"?
In China, the new forces of car-making have played the label of intelligent cars, and independent brands have also achieved "curve overtaking" in the intelligent track. Technology giant Baidu not only rides the dust at the forefront of autonomous driving, but also prepares a car-making plan; Didi has a unique data advantage, but also played the big game of smart cars; no matter how the global competition, Tesla has made small achievements, Apple's Apple Car or will come out next year, Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Hyundai and other car groups are waiting to make efforts.
Intelligence is empowering the automotive industry and boosting the transformation of the industry. A consensus is that smart cars are important smart terminals after smart phones, and the market development space is huge. Therefore, not only traditional car companies and new car-making forces have increased their all-round layout in the field of intelligent electric vehicles, but many Internet technology giants have also invested or directly participated in the competition of the vehicle or parts industry.
According to the "Intelligent Connected Vehicle Technology Roadmap 2.0", by 2025. China's intelligent networked vehicle market sales accounted for more than 50%, by 2035, intelligent networked vehicle technology and industrial system in an all-round way. International management consultancy Roland Berger predicts that by 2025, the proportion of high-end autonomous vehicles in L4 and L3 will exceed 20%.
Relevant agencies expect that the scale of the intelligent and connected vehicle industry will exceed 350 billion yuan in 2021 and reach 585.9 billion yuan by 2026. As an emerging industry ecology deeply integrated in automotive, electronics, information and communications, intelligent networked vehicles are exploding.
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[Reporter] Wei Hongquan
【Coordinator】 Guo Xiaoge Shao Yumei
【Author】 Wei Hongquan
【Source】 Southern Press Media Group South + client