Geely, Unmanned Dream And Real

10 years later, Geely can produce the driver did not interfere with the operation of the smart car?
Or more bold, Geely will be the first to produce (not the production) Chinese version of the unmanned car business?
It should be said that this has appeared in the planning of Geely. But this plan can be achieved, yet to be realistic test.
A few days ago, I and a group of people against the scorching sun, in Tianjin, China Automotive Research Center watched a unmanned car as the protagonist of the game.
I can roughly describe - closed a section of the city as a simulated environment, there are some relatively simple traffic scenes, such as a variety of marking lines, Turbocharger roadblocks, dummies, etc., and then set the three game mode:
- unmanned competition set the preliminary and final, the preliminary need to challenge the task to start, the passage of the road, tunnel access and other 10 scenes, the final in addition to preliminary content, the need to test bank withdrawals, vehicles with Chi, crossing a total of 15 scenes The
- The intelligent auxiliary group competition includes automatic parking, automatic emergency braking, lane departure warning and maintenance of three test items, mainly for the production of intelligent auxiliary driving system for evaluation of the production car.
- Information security group competition mainly for intelligent function of the car for information security attack and defense evaluation, participants need to crack the car control protocol, such as engine speed, air conditioning switch and switch.
Here I do not quote the specific game, only said subjective feelings, there are two points:
1. Some of the participating vehicles can cope with most scenes, but reflect the speed is relatively slow, the way more "clumsy", both can see these scenes were unmanned vehicles to overcome, but still can not feel "human brain" in the operation, If you want to slow down a moment to respond and so on;
2. Most of the vehicles still remain in the experimental stage, such as some cars have a lot of external radar, antenna, cockpit inside a lot of test equipment, the overall feeling is that from the mass production is still very far away.
Just one day before the game, at the first World Engine Turbochager Intelligence Conference (WIC) on a smart driving sub-forum, I met Geely Automobile Research Institute Hu Zhengnan. What is special to him is that he is the only representative of a car company in a forum that is mainly played by academicians and industry professionals.
From this point of view, his point of view will be closer to the practice of the automotive field.
He first shared the view that the fourth auto industry change, with AI (artificial intelligence), large data, cloud computing and other technologies mature and come.
It should be said that this is a basic view of the industry without objection.
But he is very ground recognition: these advanced technology in the specific application of automotive products has not yet reached the "deeper depth", so the status quo is "there are many problems to solve, to break through."
In fact, Geely Automobile in the field of product intelligence has been practiced for nearly five years. Hu Zhengnan said: We summarize and sort out the experience of the development of intelligent automotive products, combined with the future development trend of intelligent technology research, on May 10 this year, released a new Geely brand 'iNTEC humanization technology - , There are five core technology modules in iNTEC.
The data show that the so-called "five core technology modules", refers to - efficient power technology G-Power, human safety technology G-Safety, intelligent driving technology G-Pilot, health ecological technology G-Blue, intelligent interchange Line technology G-Netlink five major technology.
Hu Zhengnan said: 'G-Pilot intelligent driving technology' is a master of artificial intelligence in automotive applications. "
He used four stages to describe the auspicious ambition, which, 1.0 era has come, the current Geely new generation models, including Borui, Bo Yue, Imperial GS, Imperial GL, etc. have been equipped with G-Pilot 1.0 related functions, these terms We should have been very familiar with, such as ACC adaptive cruise, AEB automatic emergency braking system, LDW lane departure warning, IHBC intelligent high beam control, PAS semi-automatic parking, to achieve vehicle coilovers for sale acceleration and deceleration control and information early warning.
And 2.0 times when the specific arrival, you can also see a lot of clues. It should be said that by 2020, you can see a clear iteration.
On the real sense of the watershed, the presence of the Chinese Academy of Engineering Li Deyi proposed from L2 to L3, that is, from the "liberation of hands" to "the liberation of the eyes" (the highest stage is mind off, liberation consciousness, but there are controversies, Some people think that the higher is drive off, I think this stage is not very different), Geely Institute put this goal into the GPILOT 3.0 stage.
This stage was geared on 2020 to 2024.
I have been very pleased to hear here. Because i feel that Geely is not like some businesses are putting the so-called intelligent driving just as a gimmick, but actually in the dry. Moreover, this line up the sleeves dry the guiding ideology, and the industry is generally recognized the general trend of the same, that is, in the scientific dry.
It was not so good to predict whether it was really made by Geely to produce China's first "HAND OFF" production car. This is one of the great factors, which is one of the many basic technology has gone beyond the scope of the existing automotive industry technology, but should be regulated by the Internet companies, communications companies, robot manufacturing R & D enterprises and car enterprises together, Even in the joint and there is competition, and finally possible to achieve.
In other words, it is important to do it yourself, but the election is more important to the camp. Due to the high complexity of the car, temporarily can not imagine a decade similar to Apple and Andrews against, as long as we choose the operating system can achieve unmanned path of the situation.
Intel is not the world's first software company, Apple is not the first smart equipment company, but it is their PK out of countless very similar to the competitive company, before the formation of today's pattern.
So we look forward to more than just auspicious Hu Zhengnan such a sober research institute president, should also have a higher level of path decision. At this point, the flexibility and courage of private enterprises Geely, in the past has repeatedly appeared.