China, the world's largest automotive production and sales market. 269 ​​global car brands, Chinese brands accounted for 61, more than one-fifth of the total.
With the advent of the artificial intelligence era, the world’s technology giants and automakers were pushed into the wave of research and development of autopilot technology. Baidu has also been fortunate enough to join the "surf" team as a Chinese company.
In 2015, Baidu began to invest heavily in research and development of unmanned vehicle technology;
In December 2015, Baidu conducted a fully automated driving test of expressways and urban roads in Beijing;
In September 2016, Baidu’s driverless car was awarded a road test license for automatic driving in California;
In November 2016, Baidu launched an unmanned vehicle trial operation on the ordinary open road in Wuzhen. Hundreds of guests and journalists participating in the Wuzhen World Internet Conference took the Baidu unmanned vehicle.
Today, we hope to share mature technologies and work with numerous partners dedicated to advancing the development of autonomous driving technology to explore this exciting area better and faster.
We decided to publish the "Apollo Plan."
1. What is "Apollo Plan"?
We will provide an open, complete, and secure software platform to partners in the auto industry and autonomous driving areas to help them quickly integrate a vehicle and hardware system and build a complete autopilot system of their own.
The structure of the "Apollo" platform includes a complete set of software, hardware and service systems, including four major parts: vehicle platforms, hardware platforms, software platforms, and cloud data services.
We will open up code or capabilities for environmental awareness, path planning, vehicle control, vehicle operating systems, and other functions, and provide complete development and testing tools.
At the same time, we will also choose partners with the best cooperation and compatibility in the fields of vehicles and sensors to form a collaborative alliance and recommend them to project participants to further reduce the R&D thresholds for unmanned vehicles and promote the rapid adoption of technology.
2. Why is the Apollo Plan?
For Baidu, through technological openness, our technological achievements can be quickly applied in a wide range of fields and can promote rapid iteration of the technology itself. At the same time, Baidu has opened its own strongest, most mature and safest autopilot technology to the industry, which is conducive to establishing an ecosystem centered on cooperation and using Baidu’s technological superiority in the field of artificial intelligence as a partner. Enabling and jointly promoting the development and popularization of autonomous driving technology.
Lu Qi, President and Chief Operating Officer of Baidu Group stated that “China, as the world’s largest auto production and sales market, has a large number of auto brands and a more open cooperation environment. Baidu’s initiative to open up autopilot technology will collide with the auto industry. Innovation opportunities can more widely release the value accumulated by our technology and drive rapid change in the industry. Looking at the United States and other more developed automotive industries, Baidu’s open and innovative industry ecosystem will also accelerate the development of autonomous driving. To promote function."
3. What does the "Apollo Project" do next?
The current specific plan:
In July 2017, open the automatic driving ability of closed venues;
At the end of 2017, it outputs automatic driving ability in simple urban conditions;
By 2020, it will be gradually opened to fully automatic driving on highways and ordinary city roads.
Follow-up we will gradually announce more detailed plans.
In 1962, US President Kennedy once said something about the "Project Apollo":
We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard. â€
Since then, the term "Apollo" has been given extraordinary significance: it is groundbreaking, but it also requires the gathering of the power of many participants and super engineering that can bring tremendous impetus to social development. Baidu believes that autonomous driving and smart cars are also such businesses.
As the world’s first unmanned vehicle technology leader to announce its own technology and platform to the outside world, we decided to choose “Apollo†as the code of this plan to set off into another universe called artificial intelligence!
In 1969, the "Apollo Project" made Armstrong take a giant step on the moon. Today, we hope to free our hands in the future so that everyone can freely look up at the sky while driving.
Pod Mod,Closed Pod Systems,Vape Pod,Pod Vape Kit
Shenzhen Xcool Vapor Technology Co.,Ltd , https://www.szxcoolvape.com