Recently, the California Vehicle Authority has applied for three self-driving car road test licenses with Chinese-language technology companies, namely Jingchi, Tucson and Xiaoma Zhixing. This means that the three companies have received tickets for road test in the real road environment in California.
Condition: Get a $5 million deposit first
The California Auto Authority's autopilot license is a "hard indicator" for autopilot companies in the United States, with major automakers and large-scale technology companies that are driving autopilots licensed. This license means that its autonomous vehicles can be legally tested, and this is also a manifestation of technical strength.
California's assessment of autopilot testing companies does not include technical strength, only focus on technical qualifications and security capabilities, and the applicant company must pay a deposit of $5 million before testing. The money was used to prove that the test company was able to compensate for accidents during the test.
Jingchi: Using Lidar Target L4 Autopilot
Jingchi was founded by Wang Jin, former senior vice president of Baidu and the general manager of the autonomous driving department. At present, from the leaked information, the strength of the founding team of Jingchi cannot be underestimated. Except for Wang Jin of the CEO, CTO Han Xu previously served as Baidu Autopilot Division. Chief scientist and CFO previously served as CFO of the well-known laser radar manufacturer Velodyne.
On the autopilot technology route, Jingchi tends to continue the L4 level of Wang Jin and Han Xu in Baidu. The autopilot test car that Jingchi circulated on top of Velodyne's 64-line laser radar, instead of relying solely on the camera solution Low level of automatic driving.
In April of this year, Jingchi has obtained financing of more than 10 million US dollars from Hongtai Fund, Lianchuang Investment, Qiming Venture Capital, etc. With the approval of California Autopilot Road Test License, Jingchi's road to automatic driving research and development Will begin to accelerate. Although the company was registered in the United States, Jingchi official website clearly stated: "We are committed to the landing of autonomous driving technology in China."
Tucson's Future: Unmanned Unique Business is a truck passenger car only for testing
Beijing Tucson Future Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Tucson) is an academic team from California Institute of Technology, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Carnegie Mellon University, Nanyang Technological University and Tsinghua University, Peking University, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Fudan University, and Toyota, GM, etc. The company's researchers founded the autonomous driving technology company. CEO Chen Mo is a serial entrepreneur; CTO Hou Xiaodi is a California Institute of Technology Ph.D., responsible for the development of computer vision algorithms; chief scientist Wang Naiyan is a PhD of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, responsible for the research and development of deep learning algorithms.
Tucson in California will use a small passenger car for road test, but only for sensing, positioning, decision planning, etc., Tucson hopes to optimize the algorithm solution through test results, and finally apply to the truck's autopilot solution. .
Tucson's autonomous driving hardware solution uses millimeter-wave radar, a camera and the Drive PX2 autonomous core from NVIDIA. This route is basically the same as the technical route adopted by most car companies at this stage.
In Tucson's business logic, they only provide operational services for driving behavior, no hardware, only algorithms. The service target is a third-party carrier, a self-owned vehicle transporter, and a self-operated transport fleet of industrial and commercial enterprises. Tucson will continue to conduct self-driving car testing in 2018 with the approval of the California Road Test License in accordance with Chen Mo’s statement. The official commercialization time is set at 2019. The driver's cost percentage is charged for the service fee.
Interestingly, the company has made it clear that the truck will be its only business in the driverless program, and the passenger car will only be used for testing and will not be considered for commercialization.
Xiao Ma Zhixing: The next dark horse?
Xiaoma Zhixing’s CEO Lou Tiancheng joined Baidu’s self-driving R&D team under the recruitment of Wang Jin and became Baidu’s youngest T10 engineer. Soon, James Peng, another legendary technical talent recruited by Wang Jin, left Baidu to start his own business. In addition to the other three Baidu-based technical talents, the startups of five people have received nearly $100 million in financing from Sequoia and IDG.
The company's name is Pony.ai, and the Chinese name is Xiaoma Zhixing. In fact, the media has very few public reports on this company. Perhaps this company is low-key, perhaps the PR team has not yet been formed, but it cannot be denied that the company's technical strength.
Silicon Valley Chinese unmanned car entrepreneurship is on the rise
In fact, the Chinese are supporting half of Silicon Valley's self-driving entrepreneurship. The number of companies approved to launch unmanned vehicle road test in California has reached 33, and the number of companies with Chinese background has reached 10. Except for the remaining nine of Baidu, all are startups. The big players on the list include: Volkswagen, Mercedes-Benz, Waymo (Google), Tesla, Bosch, GM, BMW, Ford, NVIDIA and Apple, which was recently licensed. Here may reflect a trend, China has begun to catch up in the development of the automatic driving field.
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