Su Zhen, the former head of Huawei's intelligent driving, left his post, and Huawei's "car-making dream" made waves again?

On January 26, according to a number of media reports, Su Zhen, former director of the intelligent driving product department of Huawei's intelligent vehicle solution division (car BU), resigned from Huawei, and his whereabouts are not clear. Huawei responded to the outside world that Su Zhen had indeed left huawei car BU and thanked Su Zhen for his contribution to the car BU.

As the former director of Huawei's intelligent driving product department and the head of the autonomous driving team, Su Zhen is regarded as a key figure in Huawei's intelligent car business. Prior to taking charge of the Intelligent Driving Products Division, Su served as the chief architect of Huawei's HiSilicon semiconductor chip, Huawei Terminal Company, and developed the well-known Da Vinci AI architecture.

During his tenure as Director of the Intelligent Driving Products Department, Su Was also the Chief Architect of Huawei's ADS Intelligent Driving System. In April last year, the auto-driving video of the Baiqi Polar Fox S Huawei HI version equipped with Huawei's intelligent driving system caused a heated discussion on the Internet, showing that Huawei's intelligent driving system may have reached a high level.

But in early July last year, Su Zhen was first rumored to join Weilai, which was denied by him in the circle of friends. Subsequently, Su Zhen made controversial remarks at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference that "Tesla's autopilot accident is comparable to killing" and "traffic accidents may be more serious after the introduction of high-end automatic driving".

Subsequently, on July 27 of the same year, Su Zhen was dismissed from the position of director of the intelligent driving product department by Huawei and entered the strategic reserve team for training and distribution, after which Su Zhen never appeared in the public eye again, and his position as director of the intelligent driving product department was taken over by Bian Honglin.

Huawei responded to the reason for Su Zhen's dismissal: "Our company's intelligent car solution BU Su Zhen made inappropriate remarks about Tesla when participating in external activities to talk about autonomous driving technology and safety, which caused adverse effects. ”，

In September last year, Huawei's intelligent vehicle solution BU was again adjusted after Su Zhen was dismissed, the position of president of the intelligent vehicle solution BU was revoked, and the former president Wang Jun was transferred to the car BU COO and concurrently served as the president of the intelligent driving product solution product line; Bian Honglin, who had previously taken over from Su Zhen, was the car BU CTO, in charge of technology and research and development, and served as the director of the car BU R&D management department.

In December last year, Huawei and Jinkang Xilis jointly launched the new brand AITO and its first model, the Q&I M5, using a full set of Huawei smart car solutions, but did not take advantage of the high-end autonomous driving technology previously unveiled in April. At the same time, the previous model Huawei Smart Select Cyrus SF5 is also close to discontinuation. After the release of the M5, it caused a number of Cyris SF5 owners to express dissatisfaction with this, claiming to defend their rights with Huawei and let Huawei's "car-making" fall into a dispute of differential treatment.

It is worth noting that the BAIC Polar Fox Alpha S Huawei HI version equipped with Huawei's high-end automatic driving technology received a lot of attention with the automatic driving video in April last year. At one point, there was news that it would be delivered in December last year, but as of now, there is no official delivery of the product.

The key figure Su Zhen left, the car BU has undergone multiple rounds of adjustment, the high-end automatic driving technology products have not yet been delivered, the products currently on sale are still caught in the controversy of "differentiating" car owners, Huawei's "car-making dream", can it continue smoothly in the future?