At the Baidu Create2021 (Baidu AI Developer Conference) held last year, Robin Li said that in the first half of 2022, Jidu will announce the first concept car, and in 2023, the first automotive robot will be mass-produced and delivered. Now, Robin Li really did not jump tickets.
On April 18, Jidu officially released the design details of the front part of the first automotive robot concept car, and the design of the laser radar at the headlights and the front cover of the car was clearly visible. So far, Jidu's first front cover and forward dual lidar autonomous driving technology scheme has been exposed for the first time.
At the beginning of this year, in the promotional video released by Jidu Automobile, it can be found that in addition to the dual lidar in the front part of the Jidu concept car, there is also a scissor door design.
Although the current vehicle is still a concept car, Jidu officials have also said that the mass production car will maintain 90% consistency in appearance with the concept version. It is expected that the scissor door of the vehicle will most likely be retained.
In fact, in the research and development of unmanned driving, Baidu's Apollo has always been at the forefront of the world, and Jidu Automobile will also deeply integrate Apollo's driverless solutions.
It is reported that at present, the world's highest computing power car chips Nvidia Orin and Hesai AT128 semi-solid-state lidar have been put on the car to participate in road testing.
In addition, the official said that the "dual lidar" design scheme of Jidu Automobile is very innovative, and the location of the lidar is not only distinctive, the appearance is very plus, and the configuration of its dual lidar also shows safety advantages.
First of all, the point cloud field of view of dual lidar is wider and safer, compared with the 120-degree FOV design of single radar, the frontal dual radar can achieve horizontal 180-degree FOV coverage, and in the driving scenes such as "ghost probes" and left and right obstructions, the recognition ability of left and right traversing pedestrians or obstacles is stronger.
Secondly, the identification of the key area of the vehicle is more accurate, in the area of 60 degrees FOV directly in front of the vehicle, the dual lidar can be doubled and overlapped, and the point cloud data on the target is more, and the recognition accuracy is higher.
Third, in terms of the redundancy safety of high-level automatic driving, dual lidar can be mutually safe and redundant, which is more reliable than the single lidar solution.
It is foreseeable that with the deep blessing of Apollo, the automatic driving ability of Jidu Automobile will exceed many models currently on the market.
In addition, roboday, the first large-scale brand launch conference originally scheduled for April, will be postponed due to the epidemic. Previously, Jidu has announced that it will release the first automotive robot concept car in 2022 and unveiled it at this year's Beijing Auto Show. Now, with the postponement of the Beijing Auto Show, when Jidu Automobile will be unveiled, it is still necessary to wait for official news.