Car stuff (public number: chedongxi)
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On the afternoon of March 23, the Chief Intellectual Officer Conference and the Annual Conference of Machine Heart AI Technology were opened, and the organizers of the conference invited more than ten industry insiders in the fields of vehicles, chips, automatic driving, and unmanned logistics to participate in the interview.
The conference focused on the themes of intelligent car 3.0 era, intelligent driving data, bicycle intelligence, cloud-edge end collaboration, and commercialization of Robotaxi in China.
At today's event, AutoX founder and CEO Jianxiong Xiao also attended the conference as a representative of the Robotaxi field and delivered a speech on the issue of Robotaxi commercialization.
▲AutoX founder and CEO Xiao Jianxiong
The following is a distillation of the core ideas of Xiao Jianxiong's speech:
1, the team is quite important, the number of cars can collect data.
First of all, Robotaxi's fleet is quite important, and if there are not enough fleets, it is impossible to collect sufficient and effective data.
Xiao Jianxiong said that some assisted driving cars are equipped with many sensors, such as lidar, high-definition lidar, high-definition cameras and other sensors, but there is not enough storage space. In this case, the data collected by the sensor cannot be effectively stored, and the quality of the data is worrying.
▲AutoX self-driving fleet
In addition to the sensors of the car, the number of autonomous vehicles should also be sufficient, and the quality and quantity of data should be improved at the same time. AutoX has built an autonomous vehicle fleet of more than 1,000 L4-class vehicles with high-definition sensors, sufficient storage resources, and data processing capabilities.
▲AutoX fifth-generation sensor system
2. To achieve the commercialization of Robotaxi, the coverage area should be large.
Having a large fleet of vehicles and collecting enough data is not enough to achieve commercialization. To truly commercialize Robotaxi, it is important that the area covered by Robotaxi must be large enough.
A very important prerequisite for the commercialization of Robotaxi is to be able to serve a sufficiently large area. If it is only tested in a certain area, it is only a pure technical improvement and has no commercial value.
So, Robotaxi wants to really enter the daily life of consumers, which means that the area needs to be large enough. For example, ordinary consumers can pull out their mobile phones in scenarios such as going to school, going to work or buying vegetables, and they can call an unmanned car, regardless of time and space factors.
AutoX is constantly expanding the ODD (Design and Operation Area for Autonomous Driving), and the total area of ODD currently exceeds 1,000 square kilometers.
▲AutoX autonomous driving fleet, region, team situation
3, the commercialization of automatic driving, we must take away the complete staff, to achieve complete unmanned driving.
Another important factor in the commercialization of Robotaxi was the removal of the security officer. If there is a safety officer in the car, then the Robotaxi cannot be called a driverless car, and at the same time, the company also has to pay the safety officer salary, which is essentially no different from the traditional taxi.
Therefore, robotaxi is gradually removed from the security officer during the commercialization process. AutoX is also gradually moving towards this goal, and has cooperated with the Government of Pingshan District of Shenzhen to build the largest completely unmanned autonomous driving domain in China and even in the world, with a total area of 168 square kilometers.
In all sections of the pingshan district of Shenzhen, AutoX's completely unmanned self-driving model Chrysler Grand Jaylon can achieve automatic driving in a variety of weather conditions.
4. The commercialization of autonomous driving is inseparable from excellent teams.
AutoX's technical team numbers more than 1,000 people, which is currently the largest unmanned technical team in China. At the same time, AutoX has five major R&D centers around the world, located in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Silicon Valley.
In terms of operations, AutoX has ten major operations centers around the world.
▲Distribution of AutoX R&D and operation centers