22/03/31
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"In fact, I joined last year, not to the VP level."
Author 丨 Cui Liwen
Responsible editor 丨 Xu Jinkai
Edit 丨 Chic
Recently, according to relevant media reports, Huang Xin, former director of Xiaopeng Automobile's autonomous driving products, joined Weilai as vice president and will report directly to Li Bin. Up to now, Weilai and Xiaopeng officials have not responded.
After understanding, it was learned that as early as last July, Huang Xin issued six words in his personal circle of friends - "thanks, goodbye, blessing", suspected of announcing his departure from Xiaopeng Automobile.
During his tenure as the product director of Xiaopeng Autonomous Driving, he successfully promoted the landing of the NGP high-speed pilot assistance system and memory parking project, and won unanimous praise from the industry. Regarding the report on Huang Xin's new position, after consulting Weilai insiders, I learned that the information may be biased.
"Actually, I joined last year, not to the VP level." At this point, it is considered to be a denial, but Huang Xin's joining Weilai is indeed a matter.
Judging from the current organizational structure of the autonomous driving department inside the new force car, in August 2020, Ren Shaoqing, director of research and development at the startup Momenta, joined WEILAI as an assistant vice president.
In December of the same year, NIO announced the resumption of self-research work on autonomous driving L4 and promoted Zhang Jianyong, director of autonomous driving, from within as assistant vice president. As a senior employee of the company, he was in charge of the pre-development of autonomous driving at SAIC Motor From 2013 to 2014.
The addition of Huang Xin once again enhanced the comprehensive strength and combat effectiveness of the entire team. Just a few days ago, Weilai officially released its Q4 and 2021 annual financial reports.
Later, at the conference call, Li Bin also said to the outside world: "When we deliver THE ET7 now, we first open the function of assisted driving, full-stack technology, from perception to all the technology is developed by our own team, which is the first stage." It is hoped that the NAD subscription service can be opened within this year, and the NAD subscription service can be opened for some users in some regions in Q4 this year, which is the current plan. ”
In other words, NAD (NIO Autonomous Driving), which has been unveiled as early as 2020 NIO Day, is officially defined as: from map positioning to perception algorithm, from the underlying system to control strategy, with full-stack autonomous driving technology capabilities; gradually achieve full coverage of high-speed, urban areas, parking and power exchange scenarios, liberate time, reduce accidents, and bring safe and relaxing point-to-point automatic driving experience.
The system is getting closer to being tested by end users.
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