On May 15, Baidu Apollo held Apollo Day 2024 in Wuhan Baidu Radish Express Car Robot Zhixing Valley, comprehensively demonstrating Baidu's major progress in ten years of autonomous driving, based on the large model to bring a technological leap, a new definition of passenger safety for unmanned vehicles and the world's largest unmanned vehicle automatic operation network, Baidu has achieved autonomous driving is safer than human driving. Thanks to this, a safer, more comfortable, green and low-carbon travel mode is becoming a reality from an ideal.
Wang Yunpeng, vice president of Baidu Group and president of the intelligent driving business group, said on the spot: "Our original intention of making unmanned vehicles is to meet the people's growing yearning for better travel, and the satisfaction of the people is the driving force for our progress. Because it is safe and beautiful, we are pleased to see that our original intention of investing in autonomous driving - making cars smarter and travel easier is becoming a reality. ”
Wang Yunpeng, Vice President of Baidu Group and President of Intelligent Driving Business Group
After ten years of deep cultivation, Baidu's autonomous driving is safer than human driving
Based on ten years of experience, safety is the core value that leads Baidu Apollo through the unmanned area of autonomous driving and welcomes the "dawn moment" of large-scale application at the city level. Ten years of deep cultivation have allowed Baidu Apollo to have safer technology and safer products. At the event, Baidu Apollo released the world's first large model that supports L4 autonomous driving, Apollo ADFM (Autonomous Driving Foundation Model), and at the same time, it launched a new sixth-generation unmanned car equipped with Baidu's sixth-generation intelligent system solution and priced at only 200,000 yuan.
Baidu Apollo ADFM reconstructs autonomous driving based on large model technology, which can take into account the safety and generalization of technology, achieve more than 10 times the safety of human drivers, and achieve city-level global complex scene coverage. Relying on the application of 践️ the autonomous driving model, Baidu Radish Express has overcome the complex road scene in Wuhan, realized the coverage of the whole area and all time and space scenes in Wuhan, and provided convenient unmanned travel services for nearly half of Wuhan citizens. At the same time, in the field of L2+ intelligent driving, ANP3, the only pure visual city pilot assisted driving product in China, will also fully apply the autonomous driving model Apollo ADFM, and upgrade it to ASD (Apollo Self-Driving), which will be mass-produced and launched in all models of Jiyue, taking the lead in realizing that intelligent driving can be opened nationwide and everywhere there is a Baidu map.
Xu Baoqiang, General Manager of Baidu's Autonomous Driving Technology Department, said: "Based on the autonomous driving model, we have fully equipped the technical capabilities required for city-level autonomous driving mobility services. In the face of a new city, it only takes half a year to complete the preparation of the fully autonomous driving service in the whole domain. In the future, this verification time will be further shortened, and the vision of changing the way of travel is already within reach. ”
Xu Baoqiang, general manager of Baidu's autonomous driving technology department
Yin Ying, general manager of Baidu's automotive robot department, released an unmanned vehicle equipped with Baidu Apollo sixth-generation automatic driving system solution at the meeting, and the sixth-generation unmanned car of Radish Express fully applied the "Baidu Apollo ADFM large model + hardware product + safety architecture" scheme, which ensures the stability and reliability of the vehicle through 10 safety redundancy solutions and 6 MRC safety strategies, and the safety level is close to that of the domestic large aircraft C919. The sixth-generation unmanned vehicle is also a newly defined unmanned vehicle product based on Baidu's user needs for unmanned travel and focusing on "passenger safety". Baidu believes that the ultimate safety of unmanned vehicles should be "never down, never inaccurate, and always online".
Yin Ying, general manager of Baidu's automotive robotics department
As of April, Baidu's Apollo has more than 100 million kilometers of autonomous driving, but there has never been a major casualty. At the same time, Baidu Apollo has purchased 5 million insurance for each unmanned vehicle and passengers, but data from the past two years shows that the actual vehicle accident rate is only 1/14 of that of human drivers.
Extreme safety helps a better trip, and user needs become the driving force for progress
In 2021, Baidu Radish Express began to explore the market, and established the world's largest unmanned vehicle automatic operation network in practice, which can realize the global monitoring of the whole process, including automatic maintenance, risk warning, automatic OTA, remote control windows and more than 30 fully automatic management units. In order to ensure safety, each unmanned vehicle will go through more than 1,000 rigorous safety professional tests such as software and hardware testing, human-computer interaction testing, and regulatory compliance testing before hitting the road to ensure that every unmanned vehicle hit by users is safe and compliant; The remote automatic diagnosis system will regularly detect the condition of the unmanned vehicle to ensure that it works normally and is in good condition; In order to deal with the emergency situation of passengers, the car provides SOS service, if passengers suddenly feel unwell, after pressing the SOS help button, the remote cloud cabin will respond in real time, which can not only help the vehicle stop safely, but also dial 120 to send passengers to seek medical treatment in time.
Chen Zhuo, general manager of Baidu's autonomous driving business department
Chen Zhuo, general manager of Baidu's autonomous driving business department, said: "Since the launch of Carrot Run, we have received real feedback from 1.76 million users, and the needs of users are the source of power for Carrot Run, and we will go wherever users need us." According to the data, the Radish Express has completed more than 6 million travel services across the country. In Wuhan, the service area of Radish Express has exceeded 3,000 square kilometers, covering a population of 7.7 million. Baidu Carrot Run's ultimate pursuit of safety and travel experience has been fully verified and recognized by users in large-scale demonstration operations, and Carrot Express continues to grow with the help of users. With more and more calls from all over the country for opening the city, expanding the regional scope, adding pick-up and drop-off points, and extending service hours, the radish run will land in more cities, so that safe and convenient new travel methods can come to everyone faster.
Everyone enjoys it, and the commercialization of autonomous driving is a matter of course
After crossing the safety threshold of autonomous driving, a beautiful travel era for everyone to enjoy their travel is just around the corner. With the continuous growth of the safe operation mileage of unmanned vehicles and the continuous emergence of user needs, the commercialization of Baidu Radish Express has come naturally and entered a new stage of healthier and sustainable business development.
Equipped with Baidu's Apollo sixth-generation intelligent system solution, the sixth-generation unmanned car of Radish Express has a direct 60% lower vehicle cost than the fifth-generation car, and the price is only 200,000 yuan, which once again refreshes the industry record. The first batch of deliveries of the sixth generation of unmanned vehicles will be put into use in Wuhan from now on, and the deployment of 1,000 unmanned vehicles will be completed in Wuhan within this year, so that more users can enjoy green and safe travel.
The sixth-generation unmanned vehicle of Radish Express was officially unveiled
At the same time, with the completion of the construction of the automatic operation network of the carrot express unmanned vehicle, the operating cost will be reduced by 30%, and the service cost will be reduced by 80% through the continuous optimization of autonomous driving technology and the efficiency of the human cabin. Refined cost control makes the cost of radish run continue to decrease; The expansion of time and space coverage and the full satisfaction of more user needs have made the revenue of Radish Express grow steadily. "At the beginning of 2023, our operation scale is still relatively small, and we lose a lot of money every day of driving. By the beginning of this year, with the significant improvement of time and space coverage and operational efficiency, the revenue of Carrot Express increased by 9 times, and the loss was reduced by more than half. With the 1,000 sixth-generation unmanned vehicles put into use one after another, the revenue growth rate of Carrot Express will be faster, and it is very close to the critical point of breakeven. Our goal is that by the end of 2024, Carrot Express will break even in Wuhan and fully enter the profitable period in 2025. Carrot Express will become the world's first commercially profitable autonomous driving service platform. Chen Zhuo said.
Baidu Radish Express sixth-generation unmanned vehicle road test
Profitability is an important milestone, but for Carrot Run, making autonomous driving travel services that are truly valuable to users is the foundation of sustainable development. With the advent of the dawn of commercialization, Baidu Radish Express has the ability to devote more resources to the safety and experience upgrade of unmanned vehicles, and is committed to creating a more convenient, safer and accessible travel future.
Wang Yunpeng said that Baidu and its car company partners will continue to think about and define unmanned vehicles, with the goal of halving the cost of each generation of products and increasing the capacity by 10 times. In the future, Carrot Express will quickly replicate the successful experience of Wuhan and continue to land in more cities, so that beautiful travel can truly reach every user.