On March 25, Jidu CEO Xia Yiping attended the China Electric Vehicle 100 Forum (2022) Council And Industry Situation Closed-door Seminar to share industry views and discuss industry prospects with other 100 council members. At the "Global Intelligent Car Frontier Summit" held on the 27th, Xia Yiping gave a keynote speech on "Automotive Robots, Opening the Era of Intelligent Cars 3.0", fully explaining his product concept on the era of intelligent cars 3.0, Xia Yiping said, "The era of intelligent cars 3.0 is an era that pays more attention to software security. ”
Xia Yiping believes that in the era of fuel vehicles and electric vehicles, the innovation of the automobile industry is driven by energy. Now, electric vehicles are ushering in a comprehensive digital upgrade, AI intelligence has become a new trend, "AI has brought technological innovation, efficiency improvement, experience subversion." We believe that 2023 will be the first year of intelligent competition in automobiles, and the era of intelligent car 3.0 has arrived. ”
In the era of intelligent car 3.0, "free movement, natural communication, and self-growth" is the basic concept that automotive products should have, which requires a set of complex software and algorithms, as well as hardware to meet the corresponding computing power needs. To this end, Jidu has developed its own electrical and electronic architecture and domain controllers, from the perspective of combining software and hardware, to fully ensure the security of the overall architecture. Software research and development, software capability verification, and software operation security and stability are the most concerned issues in Jidu.
Xia Yiping believes that the safety and stability of smart driving and smart cabin software operation, in addition to relying on the guarantee of high-level hardware, but also to work the ability of software algorithms, and through the accumulation of safe driving mileage data, make car robots smarter.
Jidu is the industry's first full-stack intelligent car brand to apply Baidu Apollo's high-end automatic driving capabilities, and is committed to bringing the high-end autonomous driving experience to ordinary home users after the integrated development and re-verification of the self-driving technology verified by Apollo Robotaxi. Thanks to the accumulation of road test data of tens of millions of kilometers and zero safety accidents in Apollo Robotaxi, the software development process of Jidu Automotive Robot can always be maintained efficiently.
In addition, Jidu has developed a set of research and development processes exclusive to the "brain" of Jidu automotive robots - SIMUCar (software integration simulation model car), which realizes the decoupling of the research and development of the vehicle's software and hardware, without interfering with each other, dual-track parallel, and pre-positioning the development of high-level automatic driving capabilities, so as to exchange more time for the "safety and stability verification" of the software. At the end of 2021, the development of high-level autonomous driving functions in Jidu has realized the dual-domain integration of high-speed and urban domains.
Xia Yiping said: "I hope that through the joint efforts of the whole industry, as well as the pursuit and polishing of high-end automatic driving technology, on the day when autonomous vehicles become official participants in domestic transportation, Jidu can bring users high-end autonomous driving products with complete experience, stable operation, safety and reliability." ”
Jidu will release its first concept car for automotive robots in 2022 and showcase them at the Beijing Auto Show, and its first mass-produced automotive robots will be delivered in 2023, when it will have high-end autonomous driving capabilities. In addition, Xia Yiping also said that Jidu has begun to carry out research and development and pre-research work on follow-up models, and the follow-up models will be expected to be exhibited for the first time at the Guangzhou Auto Show at the end of this year.