In the field of intelligent networking and unmanned driving, both at home and abroad are trying to capture the high ground, we must do a good job as soon as possible to encourage innovative top-level design and Chinese standards.
June 7, Asian electronic consumer show opened in Shanghai, auto driving again became a hot topic.
"BMW plans this year in China, including the global market, put 40 BMW 7 Series prototype car for the fourth level of automatic driving research and development." BMW China Automotive Trade Co., Ltd. President Liu Zhi said at Shanghai CES.
BMW Group is one of the car manufacturers who have made a clear timetable for automating the driver's license, and combined with Intel and Mobileye to build an autopilot platform. May 16, Delphi also joined the alliance.
On the same day, BMWi future concept cockpit China starting, BMW in China's automatic driving test models BMW 3 Series GT simultaneously debut. "The future of the car once the realization of the automatic driving, will be released for the passengers more disposable car time and space, car interior design will be redefined." Liu stressed.
Internationally, automatic driving into the early stage of alliance, the international giants have tried the water. Domestic, to Baidu as the representative of the IT companies are also accelerating the layout of the field of automatic driving, after the Shanghai auto show during the "Apollo program" is trying to build an automatic driving the ecosystem.
BMW, Intel camp
How to do it?
Automatic driving technology after the rise of Intel, NVIDIA, Qualcomm and other chip giants have invested heavily into this area. And for Intel, NVIDIA and other chip companies, it can not get their own driving technology research and development, need to pull the OEM and auto parts business together, so the field of automatic driving vertical and horizontal start.
In the field of automatic driving, BMW, Intel's biggest competitor is the British Weida camp. Ying Weida camp, including Bosch, ZF and other auto parts suppliers, Tesla, Toyota, Audi and other OEMs, Baidu, TomTom and other map providers.
From the composition of the composition of the camp members and the number of view, the structure of the British Weida camp is relatively perfect, more involved in the manufacturers, in the competitive situation slightly ahead. However, after joining Delphi, the BMW Intel camp also formed a vehicle factory, supplier, chip factory portfolio structure, enhanced the strength of the camp, but as for the last who can be the first to launch a mass production on the road automatic driving system, full of variables.
BMW is responsible for the control and manufacture of vehicles, and Mobile is responsible for providing camera-based environment-aware technology with the EyeQ chip. Intel is responsible for providing computing and communication modules, and as for the most important driving decision-making part, Cooperation is completed.
Delphi's franchise strengthens the strength of the league. In the field of automatic driving, Delphi has two major killer - sensor and MDC multi-domain controller, and launched a set of close to the production of automatic driving platform - CSLP central sensor positioning and planning platform.
"With the further advance of BMW's first strategy, we will be in the future to further expand the cooperation ecosystem, so that more suppliers, digital and new technology experts to become members of the ecosystem." BMW Brilliance Automotive Co., Ltd. senior vice president of marketing Music told reporters.
BMW built the ecosystem has three levels: the first to ensure that the core technology is owned by BMW itself. Through their own engineers to develop automatic driving algorithm, which is the company's internal research capabilities. The second is the HD map with Mercedes-Benz, Audi together to acquire the HERE HD map business. The third is to build an ecosystem with suppliers, such as Intel to BMW to provide the necessary parts of the product. These different levels of different modules of the ecosystem together form a cooperative ecosystem.
Who will lead the industry chain?
In the global layout at the same time, BMW is also accelerating the localization of automatic driving technology in China. In the first camp of luxury cars, BMW has been to rapid decision-making, flexible mechanism, action quickly and win. BMW early layout of pure electric vehicles, and in China and local battery companies Ningde era early to achieve strategic cooperation is a more typical case.
Up to now, the BMW automatic driving in China's cumulative test mileage, has more than 16,000 km. In the automatic driving technology production, the upcoming new generation of BMW 5 Series in China has been in the second level of automatic driving the leading level. BMW future concept car iNext will also be mass production in 2021, to meet the requirements of the third level of automatic driving, and technically compatible with the fourth level.
For the automotive industry, automatic driving can be said that the development of the automotive industry is now the most complex challenges, so automatic driving technology to achieve, and now the industry which many participants, all kinds of ideas are not unified, which highlights the automatic driving technology standardization How hard it is.
For how to truly achieve standardization, BMW China Internet Driving Research Institute and autopilot co-vice president Luo Minghui said that when doing automatic driving technology to focus on the establishment of the entire ecosystem. "We need to have such a center, so that each participant can be coordinated together, the most important is the interface between the various technologies, can be interoperable between different technologies, which is very critical."
"We need to make this interface or interface to a certain degree of unity, which is the standard is very important. Now BMW and Mobileye, Intel cooperation platform, is to achieve this." Luo stressed.
At this point, in the field of intelligent network and automatic driving, different enterprises should play what role; different roles of the enterprise where the border, how to partner with the industry chain and even opponents; vehicle business or IT companies dominate the automatic driving ecology Systems, etc., are very core issues.
Will be launched in July Baidu "Apollo Plan" to try to create an ecological, in this ecology will vehicle companies, parts suppliers, map data providers, chip companies, and so the role of participants designed, of course, Baidu Will open part of the technology to share with you.
As for, Internet companies will be in the intelligent network industry chain to play an absolute dominant position, first of all depends on their grasp of the core technology to what extent, the other is their platform to create the openness and symbiosis.
Internationally, automatic driving has begun alliance and differentiation, and with the intelligent network has risen to national strategy, production and sales in China, Internet companies will comply with Chinese standards, and local suppliers in China. In the field of intelligent networking and unmanned driving, both at home and abroad are trying to capture the high ground, we must do a good job as soon as possible to encourage innovative top-level design and Chinese standards.