Following an exclusive interview with Wang Weibao, head of intelligent driving of Jidu Automobile, who revealed the research and development progress of Jidu SIMUCar, Jidu once again aroused everyone's strong interest: Jidu's first automotive robot design manuscript was exposed on Jidu official micro, which also attracted a lot of media interpretation. So from the design manuscript, is the carrier of Jidu's first car robot a sports car, a sports SUV or something else?
After enlarging and rotating the design manuscript, you will find that Jidu's first car robot line is very smooth and stylish. In addition, you can also see the characteristics of the long car tail, high body, slip back shape and so on. At the top of the rear of the car, there seems to be a device, but what it is, can not be confirmed.
According to the above characteristics, Xiaobian speculates that the first automotive robot in Jidu is most likely a sports SUV. Of course, the above is pure speculation, and the specific official release shall prevail.
At the end of August this year, Xia Yiping, CEO of Jidu Automobile, announced on Weibo that the first product of Jidu Automobile completed the full-size sludge model wind tunnel experiment, and the wind resistance coefficient was very good! Then, in late September, Xia Yiping once again brought the progress of the new car, revealing that the software team of the quarterly car has collaborated with the Baidu Apollo team on the development of intelligent cockpits and intelligent driving functions based on SIMU Car (analog prototype car), which is in the early stage of development of Jidu in the process of realizing software-defined cars. Through the adjustment of the electronic and electrical architecture of the basic vehicle, Jidu will put the development of intelligent cockpit functions and intelligent driving in front of the development to improve the efficiency of research and development.
From the few pieces of information officially released by Jidu, we can see the progress of Jidu's car manufacturing and the concept of Jidu's car-making. Regarding the progress of Jidu car manufacturing, in fact, the media, the industry, and the society have their own comments, but there is no doubt that everyone's evaluation has one thing in common: fast. From the successive actions of Jidu, the progress of its car construction can be seen, and it can even be said that the progress of Jidu car manufacturing has created an industry record.
For the concept of jidu's car building, I believe many people are not clear. From Wang Weibao's interview, it can be seen that Jidu is committed to building an automotive robot with the ability to move freely, communicate naturally, and evolve itself.
Many people may not know much about car robots, and even think that Jidu is playing with the concept of marketing, but in fact, Jidu's car-making concept is not just to build a car with L4 level automatic driving capabilities, and automatic driving capabilities are only one of the basic capabilities of Jidu automobile robots.
Automotive robots need to have human emotions and be able to communicate naturally with people. For example, the use of sensors to strengthen people's cognition, and even can understand the state of people in real time, and actively provide services such as weather, schedule and so on, not limited to voice interaction.
Jidu auto robot with L4 level automatic driving capabilities is only its basic ability, and it may even achieve autonomous driving in the future, that is, whether there is anyone in the car, the car can move freely. Even when the owner does not use the car, the car can go out on its own to pull people to make money and achieve a part-time income.
Of course, the car robot is not only with the above two capabilities, follow-up other capabilities please pay attention to the follow-up official interpretation. Or you can leave a message in the comment area and tell me what capabilities you expect the car robot to have?
Figure: Official, online