Zhangyaqin and Wang Chuanfu announced that Baidu will join forces with BYD to achieve self-driving vehicle production within three years

The integration of the Internet and the automotive industry has become a development trend, and the dialogue between the two industries has been deepening.

On July 4, at the Baidu AI Developer Conference, Baidu President Dr. Zhangyaqin and BYD Chairman and President Wang Chuanfu launched a cross-border dialogue between the "Internet and the Car" and opened the two most open platforms of Baidu and BYD. Comprehensive cooperation. On September 5th, at the Global Developers Conference held by BYD, Zhangyaqin and Wang Chuanfu "renewed the preface" to conduct in-depth dialogues on topics such as open ecology, safety, and smart urban transportation, and announced that Baidu will join forces with BYD in three years. Achieve self-driving vehicle production within three years.

"Baidu and BYD are the two most open platforms in the world and have the most comprehensive opening. "Zhangyaqin introduced Baidu's full cooperation with BYD at the BYD Global Developers Conference. In April, BYD joined Baidu's Apollo Open Platform and became the 100th ecological partner.

At the Baidu AI Developers Conference two months ago, Baidu announced that it would jointly build an open vehicle certification platform with BYD. This cooperation was also evaluated by the industry as the "Wintel" open alliance in the automotive industry. Just two months later, Baidu and BYD announced a new cooperation and collision: In terms of maps, Baidu Map Automobile Edition will cover BYD's full-range models; In terms of autopilot, Baidu will provide a complete solution for BYD L3 intelligent driving. Both sides plan to achieve mass production of autopilot vehicles within three years.

Qin Pro, which was released on the day of the conference, is currently the only pre-installed Apollo certified reference vehicle. The first open version of Qin Pro has been scheduled by Baidu as a test vehicle of Baidu Apollo for demonstration road testing. At the same time, Baidu Apollo will also join BYD's open ecology.

Zhangyaqin said: "Today, when I had breakfast with Chuan Fu, I talked about cooperation in speech recognition, face recognition, and image recognition. I hope that more car networking technologies will be able to be carried to BYD's cars in the future. "

For the in-depth cooperation between Baidu and BYD, Wang Chuanfu said that "open" determines that the cooperation between Baidu and BYD can advance so quickly, and the ecological energy and commercial value of open ecology is unlimited.

"In 2008, BYD launched the world's first mass-produced plug-in hybrid car, and since then, electrification has gradually become the mainstream of the automotive industry," Mr Zhangyaqin said. Ten years later, 2018 is also a landmark year for the automotive industry. BYD and Baidu's joint work will also accelerate the process of intellectualization in the automotive industry. "

When it comes to openness, we have to talk about the key issue of security. Wang Chuanfu said that security is fundamental. There is no security. Everything behind is zero. We believe that through joint efforts with global partners, we can solve the security problems of the automotive platform, and we can achieve or even surpass "bank security."

Zhangyaqin revealed that "nearly half of Apollo's code has been added for security in the past year. "Security is the" first day "of Baidu Apollo platform. This year, China released its first self-driving safety report, established the Apollo Automobile Information Security Laboratory, and jointly released China's first chip-level car ECU information security solution, which goes deep into the chip layer to ensure the safety of controlled vehicles. He believes that security has two aspects. One is public security and the other is information security. Chinese is "security" and it is actually two different dimensions. Traditional car companies are more experienced in public safety and Internet technology companies are better at information security. Baidu and BYD's dual efforts in security will also add "double insurance" to the safety development of the autopilot business.

Automatic driving has also injected strong momentum into the construction of smart cities in the future. Baidu and BYD are not simply laying out the automotive industry, but drawing a larger urban blueprint for the future. Zhangyaqin and Wang Chuanfu launched a "brain hole" in the construction of smart urban transportation in the future.

Mr. Zhangyaqin said that self-driving would lead to a disruptive increase in efficiency. The McKinsey report shows that by 2030, autopilot will reduce traffic accidents by more than 90 %, will save US travelers 40 % of their time, and will reduce fuel consumption by 40 %. "The realization of the self-parking solution introduced by the Apollo platform. It will increase the vehicle owner's travel efficiency by 30 %. The smart transport industry chain associated with autopilot will form more new clusters than in the traditional automotive era. People in the future will live more in smart cars, which will become an extension of the human living room or office. Unmanned driving will completely subvert the product design of the entire automotive industry. The innovation brought by autopilot must not be limited to the automotive and transportation industries, but can even affect the entertainment industry, the real estate industry, and so on.

Wang Chuanfu emphasized the intelligent transportation landscape based on large data in the cloud. At present, there are 3 million vehicles in the city. If each vehicle is 10 % open, there are almost 100 million sensory terminals. Like human nerve endings, it is distributed in the streets and alleys of the city. Data such as urban sanitation, meteorology, transportation, and public security will all be uploaded to the cloud platform in real time. The city will never be more transparent. "For example, if a child is lost, you can immediately find the location information in three minutes, or if you lose your wallet, you can find out which street the wallet left in one minute. "

When will the smart cities described by the two bosses come true? Zhangyaqin said that Baidu has already reached strategic cooperation with Xiongan New Area, Tianjin, Chongqing and other places. Through strong alliances with excellent partners such as BYD, Baidu has used artificial intelligence and Internet of Things technology. Connect the cloud-side-end-to-end industry and consumers to accelerate the realization of the future blueprint for smart cities.

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