【Smart Car Pie News】The era of real people building cars has arrived! In 2022, after Sony, Canon also officially entered the automotive market, and it was reported that recently, Canon signed a memorandum of cooperation with the autonomous driving company Tier IV, and the two sides will jointly develop L4 level autonomous driving technology and produce special in-vehicle cameras for Tier IV. Canon will also be involved in the development of a driving monitoring system (DMS), which can use cameras to monitor driver behavior in real time, monitor driver fatigue and multiple driver assistance functions.
Canon officially enters the automotive market
Judging from the current information, Canon should not build cars for the time being, but will develop auto parts products and systems. However, it is not certain that Canon will also build the whole car later, after all, a little earlier, another major digital product manufacturer Sony has announced the construction of the car, and has already shown two concept models: the Vision S concept electric car and the new Vision-SUV prototype. At the same time, Sony also announced that it will set up an operating company, Sony Mobility Inc., through which Sony plans to explore the market for electric vehicles in the spring of 2022
Sony concept car
In the past ten days in 2022, there have been continuous announcements of car manufacturing. In addition to Canon, the recent announcement of the group car network to build a car has also made a lot of noise on the Internet. Tuanche.com said that its first car is "priced in the range of 100,000 yuan to 200,000 yuan, and it will be pre-sold in 2022." It is possible that the models will be developed completely new, and two models will be produced in the next three years.