Recently, at 2017 Baidu World Congress, Baidu's chairman and chief executive officer Robin Li announced that Baidu and Golden Dragon will produce massively piloted minibus vehicles by 2018. By now, it is generally believed that auto production capacity will not be achieved until 2020 Driving schedule of the car, another two years earlier.
It is reported that Golden Dragon Bus and Apollo jointly launched China's first unmanned micro-cycle car 'Apollo' planned production and trial operation in 2018, the first to achieve the scene to be underaged low-speed driverless commercial electric bus.
Chen Weiqiang, vice president of Golden Dragon Bus Engineering Research Institute, said that Apollo is a product developed in full accordance with the concept of driverless design. In the design structure, Apollo has no steering wheel, accelerator pedal, equipped with power battery, can achieve more than 100 kilometers Of the driving range, the realization of the laser radar, ultrasonic radar and camera multi-sensor fusion.In addition, the vehicle there are 20 kilometers of cruise speed and other safety measures to ensure the safety of the vehicle.Aphron has L4 autopilot ability, Can be shared, passengers can interact intelligently with the vehicle.
Aonong how to achieve commercial operation in the future? Chen Weijiang said that Aonong will take the lead in a particular scene into commercial applications, such as car town park, scenic areas, airports, etc. For example, in the factory area, employees can use the application called car by Apollo shuttle passengers. 'Appronon next year mass production, Golden Dragon will be the first group of customers.' He said.
Under the blessing of AI technology, Baidu's driverless schedule is well-placed, and the production of Aonong by Jinlong is just the beginning. Baidu plans to cooperate with Jinlong in the end of July 2018 to realize the small-scale mass production of L4 small passenger cars And trial operation, and jointly launched Class L3 unmanned vehicles with JAC, BAIC, and Chery in 2019. During that period, no other car manufacturers were allowed to join.
In addition, Baidu also partnered with Xiong An to launch the 'Apollo + Xuan'an' project, which will make use of AI to carry out a series of deployment plans in the field of intelligent transportation to create a leading intelligent travel city in the world. Perhaps in the future Xiong'an New District, there is no big city Of the congestion, self-driving bus for the passengers to provide convenient services.SF science fiction movie now appear in the scene, really no longer far away from us.