The 19th Shanghai International Auto Show kicks off at the Shanghai National Convention and Exhibition Center on April 19, 2021. As the world’s leading autonomous driving and intelligent vehicle platform, Baidu Apollo held a press conference with the theme of “heart control, wisdom accompanying”. At the meeting, Baidu Apollo Lego-like automotive intelligent solutions were fully unveiled, among which intelligent driving and intelligent cloud two products ushered in a major upgrade. Among them, intelligent cloud products can support automotive enterprises to quickly build intelligent capabilities, reducing the autonomous driving research and development cycle, which originally needed at least 7 years to complete, to 6 months.
Baidu Group senior vice president, intelligent driving business group general manager Li Zhenyu announced on the scene, Baidu L4 automatic driving mileage accumulated test broke through 10 million kilometers, by L4 automatic driving technology to create models in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou three cities, open the mass production of automatic driving true experience “city Reni” journey. Within this year, Baidu Apollo smart driving area will cover urban roads and expressways in 20 cities, and 100 cities will be covered by 2023. Li also revealed that in the second half of 2021, baidu Apollo autonomous driving will usher in a mass production peak, and a new car will be launched every month. This also means that Baidu Apollo will be on a new level, continue to lead the automotive intelligent track, with the top automatic driving strength to define the new standard of global intelligent vehicles.
Li Zhenyu, Senior Vice President of Baidu Group and General Manager of Intelligent Driving Business Group, delivered a speech
Apollo Intelligent Drive to create the world’s most powerful self-driving mass production engine
After eight years of research and development and practice, Baidu Apollo has become a global leader in the field of autonomous driving, and successfully released cutting-edge technology into the field of automotive intelligence. Apollo Lego-like automotive intelligent solutions include high-quality, leading, open and assemblable “intelligent driving, intelligent cabin, intelligent map, intelligent cloud” four series of products, can provide customized solutions according to the intelligent mass production needs of different levels of vehicle enterprises, McLe-assisted vehicle enterprises to create future-oriented intelligent vehicles. At the Shanghai Auto Show, Baidu Apollo exhibited One of the core products of Lego-like intelligent vehicle solutions, Apollo Intelligent Driving, based on L4 autonomous driving technology, is the world’s strongest autonomous driving mass production engine.
▲ Apollo Intelligent driving program live demonstration
Specifically, Baidu Apollo’s world’s strongest autonomous driving mass production engine has the following three advantages:
First of all, the engine has full driving freedom. The engine includes the world’s first driving domain solution ANP based on L4 autonomous driving capability and the world’s first mass production L4 autonomous parking domain solution AVP. “Double A solution” enables users to achieve driving freedom in urban road scenarios and parking scenarios.
Second, the ANP program (Apollo Navigation Pilot) is the strongest Pilot assistance product on the market. ANP adopts pure visual solution, and Baidu Apollo L4 automatic driving from the same technical architecture, data symbiosis and sharing, can maximize the guarantee of L4 technology dimensionality reduction release experience. Compared with other lidar schemes in the market, ANP has the characteristics of low cost, mass production and self-learning.
Li Zhenyu announced Apollo L4 autonomous driving road mileage data
At the media conference, according to Li Zhenyu, Apollo L4 autonomous driving road mileage has broken through 10 million kilometers, Baidu has become the world’s only one to achieve 10 million kilometers of road test accumulation of Chinese enterprises. In addition, Apollo’s autonomous driving simulation test mileage exceeded 1 billion kilometers, high-precision map minute update, 100 cities and 1 million kilometers of coverage… These top autonomous capabilities make up Apollo’s strongest pilot-assisted driving product. At present, Apollo has opened ANP+AVP mass production in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou autonomous driving real experience “City Let me” activity, with the most powerful autonomous driving technology to challenge the complex urban road scenes in China.
Baidu Apollo, together with senior executives of Weima, GAC Aeon, BAIC New Energy and Ford, built the strongest autonomous driving mass production engine
Another advantage of the world’s strongest self-driving mass production engine is that Apollo insists on an open approach to cooperation with automakers. At present, Apollo AVP products have been mass-produced and launched on W6 models, and have received enthusiastic response in the industry. In the second half of 2021, Baidu Apollo autonomous driving will usher in the peak of mass production. There will be a new car on the market every month. In the next 3-5 years, it is expected that the pre-production capacity will reach 1 million units. On the day of the auto show, baidu Apollo’s old friends weima, GAC Aeon, BAIC New Energy, Ford and other auto companies also gave great support to Apollo smart driving products.
Lego-like automotive intelligent products are favored by global automotive partners
In addition to intelligent driving, Baidu Apollo Lego-like automotive intelligent solutions another major hit product – Intelligent cloud also ushered in a heavy upgrade, open the “three clouds” mode, including autonomous driving cloud, big data cloud, car safety cloud. With its smart cloud offerings, Apollo is able to support companies in rapidly building smart capabilities. For example, the autonomous driving research and development cycle, which should take at least seven years to complete, will be shortened to six months, so that the intelligence can be transformed into products, and the autonomous driving technology will enter the high-speed channel of mass production.
Specifically, in the field of autonomous driving cloud, Apollo can help partners quickly build AI intelligent production lines and form self-learning systems, so that auto companies can quickly acquire the ability of autonomous driving technology to “build good cars”. In the field of big data cloud, Apollo will cooperate with car companies to realize intelligent cockpit self-learning closed-loop, so that OEM can better understand the car and users to “sell good cars”, providing thousands of users with driving experience; In the field of vehicle safety cloud, Apollo will use years of accumulated safety technology to help car companies have a more solid defense shield in the digital and intelligent era, “use the car well”, so that intelligent cars continue to evolve and have a high degree of security, without fear of attack.
▲ Apollo and Chery reached a new strategic cooperation
Based on the “three clouds”, Baidu Apollo and Chery Auto jointly announced a new strategic cooperation with cloud as the core. In the future, both sides will be committed to providing chery Auto users with safer intelligent vehicle services.
At present, Baidu Apollo automotive intelligent business has established the world’s most active intelligent vehicle product ecosystem, Lego-style automotive intelligent solutions have become the first choice of global automotive enterprises intelligent technology mass production. On the day of the show, Baidu Apollo also cooperated with Hyundai Motor to achieve a comprehensive upgrade of the intelligent car alliance. In the future, all models sold by Hyundai Kia in China and imported models will carry the ability of small vehicle OS. Up to now, Baidu Apollo has established cooperative relations with more than 70 global automobile brands, and more than 600 models are equipped with Apollo automotive intelligent products.
Li Zhenyu announces Apollo Intelligent automobile performance
The most powerful autonomous driving team in history has expanded its ranks and 90% of its new personnel are dedicated to technology development
April 19, the opening day of the Shanghai Auto Show, is the fourth birthday of Baidu Apollo. Four years ago, at the 2017 Shanghai Auto Show, Baidu officially announced the launch of Apollo program to provide an open, complete and secure software platform for the automotive industry and autonomous driving partners. This not only prevents partners from reinventing the wheel in the construction of autonomous driving systems, but also speeds up the implementation of autonomous driving around the world. In four years, Baidu Apollo has gone from a pioneer in autonomous driving to a innovator in the intelligent vehicle industry. In the wave of the era of automotive intelligence, Baidu Apollo won trust with action, but also more determined than ever their own line.
In the future, Apollo will continue to adhere to the long-term philosophy of technology, and continue to increase investment in the field of autonomous driving and vehicle intelligence. Apollo will continue to recruit top talent this year, and the team will expand its recruitment in a large scale within this year. 90% of the new staff will be devoted to technology research and development, which will accelerate the large-scale deployment of Baidu Robotaxi business Apollo GO. And lego-like automotive intelligent technology pre-installation mass production to better respond to the diversified needs of customers.
The era of intelligent vehicles connected with the Internet of everything has come, Baidu Apollo will use eight years of accumulation, to help global car enterprises in the tide of intelligent transformation of vehicles to get the key to customs clearance faster, for the majority of people to travel to provide more secure, efficient and convenient future travel services.