Traditional car companies are currently in the innovation cycle, and everyone's attention is on the field of intelligent driving. Although, globally, no country has allowed drivers to use autonomous driving technology in any situation, as an auxiliary function, it has become an indispensable and important configuration in contemporary cars. However, the problems faced by traditional car companies are still difficult, and more and more car companies realize that if they independently develop intelligent driving technology from scratch, they are likely to fall into the mud in this competition, and they have to seek to deepen cooperation with the outside world and learn from each other's strengths.
In such an environment, BYD chose Baidu as its intelligent driving supplier. Baidu provides BYD with an INTEGRATED ANP intelligent driving product and man-machine co-driving map. BYD models equipped with this technology will also be mass-produced in the near future.
What is ANP Smart Driving?
It is Baidu's urban pilot assistance product ANP, full name: Apollo Navigation Pilot.
The most discussed highlight of this technology is that it can achieve the sense of intelligent driving experience of L4 level, and it is emphasized here that it does not just support entering intelligent driving mode in high-speed cruising state. On the contrary, it can bring out the higher efficiency of technology in cities, and I must emphasize here again that this is just a discussion of technology, and I do not recommend that anyone currently use autonomous driving in cities!!!
We get back to the point, why it is more eye-catching in the city, from its functionality we can see some interesting technologies, such as autonomous summoning, traffic light recognition + intersection communication, autonomous lane change, autonomous U-turn, automatic necessity of obstacle cars, autonomous side stops, unprotected left turn at intersections, roundabout traffic, autonomous ramps, autonomous access to ETC, queuing with cars, main and auxiliary road switching.
To achieve these functions, there are 12 cameras, 5 millimeter-wave radars, and 12 ultrasonic radars in terms of hardware, and then combined with the computing platform, intelligent driving can be realized. More importantly, the technology currently relies on visual perception routes, but it can also be used as a sensor by lidar in software algorithms.
That is to say, once the BYD product equipped with Baidu ANP intelligent driving technology is released, it will be the world's most advanced intelligent driving mass production car. This is not a casual definition by editors, but even in the global ranking, Baidu's self-driving technology is among the best. Although there are still some companies that focus on the development of intelligent driving above its rankings, there is no one that can be installed on a production car.
Of course, Tesla is even further behind, the world's leading public and commercial consulting company Guidehouse, has previously said that Tesla is exaggerated in technology and marketing, and the driving assistance of its products has also been fatally crashed many times. "Unless Tesla is more honest, it is unlikely to improve," such an assessment is to the point. That's right, Tesla, which has been bragging about itself with self-driving technology, only has L2+ level driving assistance. It is not up to the task of driving on more complex roads.
All in all, at present, traditional car companies and intelligent technology companies holding hands to participate in the automotive industry competition, is a wonderful route, each doing what they are good at, in the market competition will be more favorable. I believe that this way of cooperation will also be used by other companies to learn, the only question we have is, at the marketing level, whether the two have the strength to oppose Tesla? You know, not every consumer will go deep into the technical background behind the product, which is also something that BYD and Baidu should think about.