A few days ago, the world's richest man Musk suddenly posted on Twitter in the middle of the night, angrily attacking the "unmanned" lidar technology launched by Huawei in recent years, saying that Huawei's external claim to repel Tesla within 1 year is simply a mouthful.
As we all know, Huawei and Tesla focus on completely different fields, the two "art industry has a specialty", this time Musk is mad at Huawei, which has aroused the curiosity of many viewers.
Tesla is the first car company in the world to propose the concept of automatic driving, claiming to have advanced and mature automatic driving technology. Tesla's autopilot technology has completely abandoned lidar, but adopted a pure visual scheme of "camera + millimeter wave radar", and confidently shouted "only fools use lidar". However, in recent years, Tesla's autopilot has frequently had car accidents, which shows that its technology is not as safe and reliable as the legend.
Contrary to Musk's Tesla, China went all out to choose the lidar track, including Huawei.
Judging from Huawei's research and development results, it already has the strength to challenge international suppliers. Huawei's 96-line medium- and long-range lidar products can achieve pedestrian vehicle detection coverage in urban areas and have high-speed vehicle detection capabilities, which is more in line with the scenes under China's complex road conditions.
It turned out that as early as two years ago, Huawei had laid out a photoelectric research center in Wuhan, Hubei Province, absorbing more than 20,000 top research talents. The center has demonstrated an astonishing ability to tackle key problems, and has successfully "conquered" the difficult lidar technology in only two years.
Ren and Huawei plan to reduce the cost of lidar to $200 (about 1,390 yuan) or even $100 (about 695 yuan) in the future, while the foreign price exceeds $2,000. Obviously, Huawei has touched Musk's red line, and the competition between the two sides is bound to enter a white-hot stage in the future.
Compared with the "chess move" in autonomous driving technology, Musk rarely meets opponents on the track of human life.
Just last month, the news that Neuralink, a brain-computer interface company founded by Musk, is recruiting the head of clinical trials has attracted a lot of attention, is Musk going to start experimenting on humans? The answer is non-committal. Over the past two years, Neuralink has done extensive animal experiments, implanting chips in the brains of pigs and monkeys, and showing Macaque Parger manipulating a computer with his mind to play a game of Pong, a video that has been played millions of times on Youtube.
Perhaps, Musk hopes to show the way for human eternal life through brain-computer interfaces. In fact, Musk has repeatedly proposed in public that he wants to live to 100 years old with high quality and retire on Mars, and even mentioned this goal in front of Ma Yun at the 2019 Artificial Intelligence Conference. Musk is indeed not casual nonsense, but to practice what he preaches, and brings his family to extend his life scientifically.
In the field of regenerative medicine, repairing DNA and activating cell viability are recognized anti-aging pathways. In this regard, Musk's Canadian ex-girlfriend and independent musician Grimes has already spent millions of dollars on plastic surgery, lifting surgery, and has repeatedly tried cutting-edge cell repair technology.
Another early adopter is Musk's 75-year-old mother, Meyer. As an expert familiar with high-tech anti-aging technology and nutrition, she rarely tries the traditional nutritional supplements already on the market, but is not less interested in a precursor of "ORIGEN gold" similar to the domestic Beijing-East platform. Earlier laboratories at Harvard Medical School, the University of Washington, and the University of Tokyo have found that the substance can reverse the anti-aging performance of all molecular levels in mammals.
As can be seen from the above, Musk and his family are loyal supporters of technological anti-aging. According to media reports, Meyer had imagined a healthy life for herself to live to the age of 98 and said that she was willing to spend money to enjoy all cutting-edge health and anti-aging technologies.
Speaking of Musk's AI driverless, it is clear that his ambitions do not stop there. Musk has repeatedly claimed that true self-driving is within reach, and that one day, Tesla cars can cope with all kinds of road conditions entirely on their own, and this feature will be transmitted to drivers through wireless networks with the help of software updates. And this time by Huawei "anger", may just want to brush a sense of existence in front of the Chinese and Chinese car owners.
Although Huawei has not been in the game for a long time, it has sprung up. At present, Huawei's cooperation with many domestic car companies is in a state of rapid rollout, and has cooperated with BAIC, GAC, Changan, Nezha and other automakers. Huawei's self-developed lidar and millimeter-wave radar are expected to be launched in 2021-2022 in the number of cooperative models, with the number of installations per vehicle ranging from 1 to 3.
Whether it is Tesla's pure vision solution or Huawei's lidar, there is still no conclusion about who is better for the two. But believe me, we're going to lead to the day when autonomous driving will change the future.