Autonomous Car technology is the direction in which automakers around the world are sprinting in addition to vehicle electrification. With the rapid development of micro-camera and radar/light reach technology, the sensing system as the soul window of self-driving vehicles is also becoming more and more diverse, hoping to provide more comprehensive protection for self-driving cars through the high integration of different systems.
It is worth noting that Tesla, which has always been anti-bone, has cut itself off in such a trend, insisting on using micro-photographic lenses as the key soul of the self-driving system. Tesla has always believed that cameras are essentially self-driving eyes, radar or light devices are more like "crutches", when your vision is normal, and you have up to 8 cameras to monitor different directions at the same time, the safety protection between the travels is basically no problem. Boss Musk even complained that "all self-driving systems that rely only on Everbright technology will eventually fail." Today, Tesla will no longer be alone, because Toyota, the biggest player in the car industry, has also said that it will follow in Tesla's footsteps and increase its investment in micro-photography lens self-driving technology.
The biggest advantage of radar/caledial system is to calculate the distance more accurately, but the disadvantage is that the cost is too high, and the vader system will be subject to the influence of bad weather and the function cannot be played; Relatively speaking, collecting data on autonomous vehicles through cameras is reliable and accurate, and the cost is relatively low, so Toyota subsidiary Woven Planet said that it will step up the development of micro-camera self-driving systems, collect data with lenses and train its self-driving systems with neural networks, and the "breakthrough" technology will reduce costs and achieve fruitful results in self-driving technology.
Woven Planet executives said, "We need a lot of data, and that's where we have an advantage." When the autonomous driving system adopts a micro-photographic lens, it will be 90% cheaper than using a radar/heddle sensing system, and it will be easy to install, which will make the expansion of the system relatively easy." However, Woven Planet added that Toyota is still not abandoning the development of self-driving cars based on LiDAR or radar systems altogether, but is progressing in parallel in both ways.