The high-level intelligent driving track set off a "war of words".
"Huawei Smart Drive is indeed very leading in China. After our evaluation,Just a little ahead of it. Recently, Wang Yunpeng, vice president of the group and president of the intelligent driving business group, said at the committee of 100 Forum on Electric Vehicles in China (2024) that the trend of electrification in the automobile industry has been set, but intelligence has just begun. In the field of high-end intelligent driving, Apollo hopes to cooperate with more car companies.
As a high-level intelligent driving solution provider, ANP(Apollo Navigation Pilot) under Baidu Apollo and Huawei ADS compete with each other. However, unlike Huawei’s cooperation with AITO, Aouita, Polar Fox and other brands, Baidu Apollo used to show people as a platform operator, and the end consumers were not very aware of it.
"Many people ridicule Baidu’s automatic driving as’ getting up early and catching a late episode’." Wang Yunpeng said that the first half of the sentence is correct. Baidu started with the earliest investment in autonomous driving, which not only opened the source code, but also trained talents for the industry. But the second half of the sentence is wrong, because after so many years of hard work, autonomous driving has just seen the dawn, and the real "big set" has not yet begun.
In fact, since Baidu began to lay out the field of autonomous driving in 2013, it has been accelerating the promotion of autonomous driving technology and commercialization. According to Wang Yunpeng, Baidu Apollo’s high-level self-driving safety test mileage has accumulated over 90 million kilometers, and it has more than 5,000 self-driving patents, and its radish fast-running self-driving car has a total service volume of over 5 million.
"Chairman Wang Chuanfu once said,It’s a’ bluff’, that’s because he hasn’t been in a real one yet. It is not surprising that people who have never been in an unmanned vehicle say that unmanned vehicles are’ fooling’. I still remember that people who didn’t drive electric cars a few years ago still said that electric cars were’ mobile bombs’. Wang Yunpeng said that nowadays, the rapid development of electric vehicles makes "electric vehicles are mobile bombs" a joke. I believe that before long, it will become a pride in the history of scientific and technological innovation in China, just like today’s electric vehicles.
It is worth mentioning that Wang Yunpeng’s "gunpowder smell" is not the strongest in the discussion about autonomous driving technology. inAfter He Xiaopeng, chairman and CEO, said that "intelligence will be the magic weapon to stand out from the knockout", Yu Chengdong, managing director of Huawei, consumer BG CEO and chairman of BU, a smart car solution, directly said in his subsequent speech that Huawei would change its dominant position in the field of smart driving.
"In the past, Tucki was the best in the domestic market in terms of smart parking and smart driving, but today Huawei has come, and this situation has to be rewritten." Yu Chengdong said that Huawei ADS is recognized as the best advanced intelligent driving experience.
However, Yu Chengdong admits that the cost of Huawei’s intelligent driving system is still high due to the trapped supply chain. "It is still a bit challenging to use Huawei’s intelligent driving system for models with a price below 300,000. Only cars with a price of more than 300,000 can afford it and be profitable." Yu Chengdong said that thanks to the hot sales of high-end models, in the first three months of this year, Huawei’s smart car selection business has turned losses into profits; Huawei’s BU business is close to the edge of breakeven.
"It is expected that from April onwards, Huawei BU should be able to turn losses into profits and achieve benign and positive development." Yu Chengdong said.
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