Preface
Autonomous driving technology is very popular in 2019, and even Wang Chuanfu is optimistic about the technological development in this field, but only 3 years have passed, Wang Chuanfu's attitude has undergone a 180-degree reversal, and he is no longer optimistic about the technological development of autonomous driving.
Sure enough, a new energy vehicle company spent nearly 12 billion yuan to cultivate autonomous driving technology, but in 2023, it announced that it would voluntarily withdraw from the market.
burned 12 billion but was tragically delisted
TuSimple is a company specializing in the study of new energy vehicles, the chairman is Chen Mo, the technical director is Hou Xiaodi, TuSimple has smelled the breath of autonomous driving for a long time, and believes that the future of cars is likely to free their hands, and the future development of autonomous driving is the general trend.
Therefore, TuSimple began to get involved in the field of autonomous driving in 2019, investing nearly $12 billion for this, and encountered many difficulties in the research and development stage.
One of the biggest difficulties is nothing more than the problem of research and development of chips, China's chip technology has not yet been able to meet the use of autonomous driving technology, in desperation, Hou Xiaodi can only choose to seek help from relevant technology companies in the United States.
Hoping to embed American chips into new energy vehicles produced by TuSimple, this also allows foreign companies to catch pigtails, and even lions open their mouths and ask for sky-high prices.
Hou Xiaodi plans to develop and produce new energy vehicles as soon as possible, and sell them to the market to occupy the market share as quickly as possible.
As a result, in 2023, something happened to new energy vehicles in the United States that shocked everyone, and autonomous driving technology became a hot potato overnight.
In 2023, according to a U.S. news reporter, a new self-driving car developed by a new energy vehicle company in the United States crashed into a large truck on the road, and the scene was extremely tragic.
As a result, after the police arrived at the scene, the autonomous driving mode of the new energy vehicle continued to be turned on, and it continued to drive in front of everyone.
It was a hit-and-run case, the difference was that it was the car that escaped and not the person, and the police finally took a lot of effort to catch the self-driving car.
After this news spread on the Internet, autonomous driving technology became the focus for a while, and everyone seemed to be not optimistic about autonomous driving technology.
I even feel that even the autonomous driving technology developed by developed countries such as the United States has encountered a bottleneck, and the technology has not yet reached a fully mature stage, and there will be a risk of traffic accidents at any time.
When the car enters autonomous driving mode, it recognizes the road conditions based entirely on the connection between the chips and satellites inside the car, although this is an improvement in human technology.
But there is a big hidden danger behind this, who can guarantee that satellites and GPS can always maintain high-precision, high-density navigation? In the end, it's not as real as the human eye.
In addition, many residents in the United States have always believed that autonomous driving technology is too dangerous and are not optimistic, and the 18 companies behind TuSimple are not optimistic about this technology.
Until 2022, TuSimple's capital chain had serious problems, and the company's turnover was greatly reduced due to various reasons, and it was not even half of what it used to be.
By 2023, because the company has invested $12 billion in the early research and development of autonomous driving technology, and now the technology has not been successfully developed, the money has been completely wasted.
The desperate Tucson company can only choose to take the initiative to delist in 2023 and return to China for development, and a large number of netizens saw its behavior and bluntly said that it was all a bunch of IQ taxes.
Now that TuSimple's delisting has become a foregone conclusion, people have lost confidence in autonomous driving technology.
Wang Chuanfu's evaluation of autonomous driving technology
Autonomous driving technology is the goal pursued by every domestic automobile company, and in 2019, autonomous driving technology has become an important technology for research, but since TuSimple decided to delist in 2023, domestic automobile companies have begun to change their research and development direction.
Wang Chuanfu, CEO of BYD, said that autonomous driving technology is nonsense and fooling people, but the people were overheated at that time and did not tell him, and now it seems that it will take many years to thoroughly develop this technology.
When Wang Chuanfu said these words, TuSimple had not yet happened to the current company, and there were no car accidents with self-driving technology in the United States.
Everyone thought that Wang Chuanfu was talking nonsense at the time, but now it seems that people have anticipated everything now, and Sina Finance's article in April 2023 also expressed this information.
Wang Chuanfu is not the only one who complains about autonomous driving technology, and the founder of the autonomous driving company Waymo said that although we have overcome most of the technical difficulties now.
However, unpredictability in real life is still unavoidable, and it is difficult to make the most correct decisions when the car encounters unexpected situations in the early days.
As for when autonomous driving technology will be fully mature and put into use in the future, no one can say, according to an official report in the United States.
If autonomous driving technology is to be free of danger and full safety, it will take at least 10 years to develop, and at this stage can only be stopped at the research and development level.
Anyone who has ever driven a car knows that you must pay attention when driving, after all, there will be many unforeseen problems on the road, and those who have been driving for many years can hardly avoid disasters in a very short time.
Could it be avoided with a car that relies on satellites and GPS? This issue was reported by Phoenix.com in November 2009.
What's more, after the self-driving car accident in the United States, consumers have lost confidence in self-driving technology, and people will not joke with their lives and money.
Whether the autonomous driving technology of new energy vehicles can be realized in the future, no one dares to pack a ticket, but the world's automobile companies have not stopped their pace of continuous exploration and research and development, after all, this technology is a very large profit behind it, as long as it is successfully developed, it can become the industry leader.
As consumers, let's keep our eyes open, maybe in the near future, we can really realize the dream of free access without having to drive our own cars.
Primary sources
CCTV 2016-07-02 - Follow | The world's first fatal car accident caused by self-driving in the United States Tesla may have defects!
Sina Finance2024-02-23 - The world's first to take the initiative to delist! Why is it difficult to commercialize high-level autonomous driving?
Phoenix.com 2023.4.11 - It is said that BYD does not understand autonomous driving, but this is where Wang Chuanfu's ambition lies
Observer.com - the first stock of hunting unmanned trucks, Chinese scientists have fallen into the trap of the United States?