The author once said that with the impact of the decline of new energy subsidies, this year will be the last carnival of new car brands, and many new brands will appear this year. In January alone, we have seen that Qingjie, Avita, Andyojia have all entered the market, and China's new energy vehicles in 2022 have entered a white-hot stage.
Follow-up millet, Gree and so on may also join the ranks of car manufacturing, and Evergrande is also looking at the tiger, this year's car market is really lively. Adding another stroke to this lively scene is the domestic Internet giant - Baidu will also go down, planning to launch a car brand called JiDU next year, and at present, it is a bad goose factory to participate in the car market.
The first model, which will be named Robocar, will be unveiled at the Beijing Auto Show as soon as April this year. Since it is Baidu's car, it will naturally focus on intelligence, and Baidu also hopes that the world will know that its products will rely heavily on artificial intelligence (AI) technology, but the specifications for automatic driving have not yet been announced, and personal speculation may be L4 level autonomous driving. After all, Baidu's L4 level autonomous driving open test base in the mainland is involved.
L4 level of automatic driving means that the two cars can be completely autonomous on the road, without human accompaniment, then devices such as steering wheel, throttle, brakes and other devices can also be canceled. It does look very cattle, but still that sentence, the technical problem of automatic driving is the easiest to achieve in automatic driving, and the key is still a social problem.
The road conditions on the mainland, not to mention the first-tier cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen, even the cities around the first-tier cities, the road conditions are not optimistic. Traffic jams, traffic jams, jams, non-motorized vehicles and pedestrians who don't look at traffic lights have all built barriers to autonomous driving, which is not just solved by the technical problems of the vehicles alone.
And even highways, which are suitable for autonomous driving, collection trucks, engineering vehicles, and unsuspecting maintenance sections are all factors that affect automatic driving. In addition, the mainland road conditions are more responsible, and all kinds of troublesome road conditions such as mountain roads and trails will appear, and automatic driving is indeed difficult.
Personally believe that the realization of the so-called automatic driving, the future is in the specified time, the prescribed road section, in some places must be mandatory manual driving, just like the current aircraft, take-off and landing, in the cruise mode can be automatic, but in case of emergency must be taken over by hand, full automatic driving is basically impossible to achieve.
The situation on the ground will be more complicated than in the air, the number of cars, the types of cars and various emergencies will be more, even if the highway can not completely eliminate pedestrians now, the current automatic driving can cope with these emergencies is still unknown, so the ground autonomous driving this road still has a long way to go.
Baidu's main automatic has more than a year of technical precipitation, and the experiment of urban roads has not stopped, but the above problems also need to be considered by automatic driving research and development institutions, and we also hope that Baidu can bring an excellent car.