Baidu cars have no steering wheel

Wen | Xu Chengxin

Baidu's world conference this year's world conference opened from a slightly "weird" episode -Tencent's video number cut off Baidu's live broadcast.

Just when everyone doubted whether it was because of a large number of words such as "driving" in the live broadcast, when the system was determined to "involve yellow", Tencent's public relations general Zhang Jun responded in the circle of friends:

Because there is no report.

Well, in the future, Baidu's annual "World Conference", the first step must be reported to Shenzhen Malaysia, remember.

After finally waiting for the "greasy man" Xiao Sa, the audience presided over the audience. I wanted to sit on the headlines of the screen full of screens in the afternoon. What kind of white shirt is wearing — white.

In the future, remember to report to "China".

It is also about the large satellite that Baidu's large satellite this time.

Good guy, jumped to the 6th generation. This 6th -generation car, summarize a few selling points:

1. Cheap, cost 250,000.

2. Mass production, autonomous.

3. No steering wheel. Next year will be applied in the "radish fast", and tens of thousands of vehicles will be deployed in the future.

Let's talk about this cost. The previous generation, the fifth -generation car Apollo Moo, cost 480,000 yuan. In fact, it was a "modified" mass -produced car. Earlier, Baidu publicly displayed the three models of the polar fox version, Weima version and Ean version.

At that time, the overall cost of the Apollo Moon, which was announced at the time, was 480,000 yuan, "one -third of the industry average", which means that the industry cost is about 1.44 million yuan.

Baidu fifth -generation car unmanned car Apollo Moo

By this year's Apollo RT6 cost, 250,000 yuan, Baidu's news release said "Apollo RT6 cost is reduced to 1/10 of the industry".

What? One year has passed, and the cost of the industry has become 2.5 million yuan. Dare to dare to reduce the cost of Baidu in your house. Others have increased their costs suddenly. Is this unscientific?

The second is autonomous and mass production.

Autonomy is autonomous, because this time Baidu did not disclose which car manufacturer is.

After all, he is working with Geely. Earlier, Xia Yiping, CEO, said that the first mass -produced car would "carry or land on the core technology of the entire Baidu Apollo's core technology" through the Geely SEA architecture.

It is not appropriate to disclose other cooperative manufacturers at this time.

But in fact, because the mass production of the set is currently only a timetable, according to common sense, Baidu unmanned vehicles want to achieve the "mass production" that they say, obviously there is only one way:

That is to find a car that has been mass -produced on the market for transformation.

So, when I saw Apollo RT6 at first glance, I was soaked in the automotive industry for many years, and "it" emerged in my mind. As for how much similarity is, let's see it yourself.

Ask a friend at hand:

His answer is

Well, this is what Baidu refers to "from manufacturing plan to quality standards, which are controlled by Baidu."

Baidu redefined "autonomy". Bleak

However, Baidu will definitely not recognize. They say that "the current industry is modified based on a mass production vehicle and installed autonomous driving kit, which is far from these levels and requirements."

What do you mean? That is to say, the current production car is too garbage, and I can't meet my request at all.

What is the request of Apollo RT6? We pull the most critical configuration related to autonomous driving:

The computing power is 1200TOPS. The whole car is equipped with 38 external sensors, including 8 lidar, 6 millimeter wave radar, 12 ultrasonic wave radar, and 12 cameras.

It is really hard. In fact, in the field of autonomous driving, the Drive Agx Orin platform launched by Nvidia in 2019 is the strongest computing chip. It has been sold in March this year.

Among the autonomous driving manufacturers of the inner volume today, eight lidar is also luxurious.

"Fools only use laser radar." This was not what I said, it was Musk said.

At present, with mass production, lidar single machine has decreased from the beginning of thousands of dollars to $ 400 or five hundred. Baidu 8 lidar, the cost of the entire vehicle is controlled at 250,000, it is really powerful!

The third is actually the level of commercialization. There is no steering wheel, cool, everyone likes early adopters, and then Baidu can get in the car through "radish fast" again. In the second half of next year, everyone can get in the car.

I was obedient, and I was a little excited to think that I could take the driverless vehicle without steering wheel. I felt itchy and downloaded "Radish Run" to see what happened, but there was no car, oh, I did not operate in the city in my city.

Just next week I will go to Wuzhen to play. There is a town in the pilot city in the pilot city of radish, so I called the customer service.

After a long wait, the customer service told us that he did not know where Wuzhen could move the "radish running" car. I asked him how many cars in the local area? He said with a smile that this was commercial secret.

According to Baidu, the order volume of "radish fast running" has exceeded 1 million, which is the largest autonomous driving service provider in the world.

Don't ask how many cars are, as soon as you ask "commercial secrets".

Your news also said:

At present, 83%of people in China have accepted unmanned driving, and a guy in Beijing has hit more than 600 unmanned cars a year. It has become the person with the most unmanned cars worldwide in a year. This 83%number is "unknown". The Beijing guy is even more mysterious, and the top of "the world's best", I do n’t know what the background is. It ’s more than 600 times a year. The average is 1.6 times a day?

It's lucky, and you can use radish to run into an unmanned car every day.

If you think about it, you know that this "Mysterious Beijing guy" is a tester. Is it possible to be Li Yanhong? impossible.

Baidu's driverless handle stretched out to the simple online car driver, Li Yanhong said:

In the future, unmanned cars are half cheaper than now taking a taxi.

The public relations are still serious:

The operating cost of about 8,000 yuan per month will be reduced to about 4,100 yuan, which will bring about 8,000 yuan per month, which will greatly reduce the operating cost of the online car.

The drivers are all laid off. Do you go to Baidu to work?

Baidu has worked hard to plan a business route for unmanned cars, but it seems to tell a joke.

The commercialization of autonomous driving is much more difficult than expected.

Every year, the California Transportation Administration DMV will issue a California road test report, which is relatively speaking to provide a window to compare the situation of global autonomous driving companies.

According to the 2021 data released earlier this year, the indicator of whether the autonomous driving technology is mature and stable, the average takeover mileage (MPI). The data submitted by Baidu Apollo is 1468 miles, but the number of mileage tests is 1468 miles.

Picture source: Cheyun.com

Compared to the 2325843 miles provided by Waymo, Baidu is less than zero. Even the outside world feels that it is not Didi in the autonomous track, and it has tested 40745 miles.

This is what Baidu claimed to the outside world as "Baidu has stabilized the world's largest self -driving travel service provider"?

If we ask ordinary people, what is the most important for car travel? It is estimated that many people will watch. How to come from safe and reliable? We undoubtedly hope that this company is doing things downright, instead of putting satellites when opening their mouths, and even a little chicken thief.

Baidu cars can no steering wheel, but do not lose the stars.

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