Recently, Su Jing, former director of Huawei's intelligent driving product department, resigned from Huawei. In July 2021, he was dismissed by Huawei from the position of director of the intelligent driving product department of the smart car solution BU for making inappropriate remarks against Tesla, and went to the strategic reserve team for training and assignment. After half a year, he chose to leave Huawei. Huawei responded that Su Zhen had indeed left huawei car BU and thanked Su Zhen for his contribution to car BU.
According to public information, Su Zhen previously served as the chief architect of Huawei Terminal Company, and also developed chips at Huawei HiSilicon Semiconductor, and later served as the director of Huawei's intelligent driving product department. During his tenure at Huawei, Su Zhen became famous for launching the autopilot system solution ADS and installing a road test on the BEIC Polar Fox Alpha S. At the Shanghai Auto Show, the Arctic Polar Fox Alpha S Huawei HI Version model equipped with Huawei's ADS solution was unveiled in Shanghai, and the mass-produced software and hardware solutions to achieve urban automatic driving capabilities attracted the attention of many people.
But he has repeatedly sparked controversy over his public statements. For example, he once said: "The traditional car factory view is first of all my base is the car, and now there are some computer points, then I am using the car as a foundation, trying to embed the computer into it, which is the view of the traditional car factory." Our view is different, the basis is a computer, the car is a computer-controlled peripheral, a big computer is done, hang the car up. This is the difference in essential views, which leads to different views on all things. ”
At the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in July 2021, when talking about Tesla's accident, he said: "When the machine enters human society and human symbiosis, the machine will definitely cause the accident rate, and the ugly point is 'killing', but we want to reduce its accident probability to the lowest possible." Probabilistically, this is something that can happen. The remark sparked controversy.
Subsequently, Su Jing was removed from her position by the company. Huawei said that the company's intelligent car solution BU Su Zhen made inappropriate remarks against Tesla when participating in external activities to talk about autonomous driving technology and safety, Su Zhen has conducted a deep review of his personal inappropriate remarks, but in view of the adverse impact caused by his remarks, Huawei decided to dismiss Su Zhen intelligent car solution BU intelligent driving products department director. Su Zhen will go to the strategic reserve to receive training and assignment. Huawei also deliberately reiterated that Huawei respects the efforts and contributions of every participant in the industry in the field of autonomous driving, and hopes to work with the industry to promote the development of autonomous driving technology.
In January 2022, there was news that Su Jing had left Huawei, and Huawei responded that Su Zhen had indeed left the Huawei car BU and thanked Su Zhen for his contribution to the car BU.
Text/Beijing Youth Daily reporter Wen Jing
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