Recently, after Xiaopeng Motors announced the mass production of smart electric vehicles equipped with lidar next year, it was publicly dissed by Tesla founder Musk.
Tesla and Xiaopeng Motors each other in the air
Recently, after Xiaopeng Motors announced the mass production of smart electric vehicles equipped with lidar next year, it was publicly dissed by Tesla founder Musk.
It is reported that an insider in the U.S. forwarded a report on Xpeng Automobile’s Lidar, and tweeted that Xiaopeng Automobile’s use of Lidar appears to be different from Tesla. At the same time, this industry insider believes that lidar can improve accuracy but is of limited help in realizing autonomous driving, and mentioned the dispute between Xiaopeng Motors and Tesla’s automatic algorithm plagiarism.
After seeing this, Musk tweeted in response that Xiaopeng Motors has an old version of Tesla’s software and does not have Tesla’s neural network algorithm, and emphasized that this is only a problem for the Xiaopeng Motors family and other Chinese companies. Did not do so.
Later, Xiaopeng Motors CEO He Xiaopeng was in Moments of Friends with Weibo posted that Xiaopeng Motors includes Lidar’s next-generation autonomous driving architecture makes “someone in the west very upset” and claims that rumor can’t beat any competitors. Suspected of responding to Musk’s accusations.
It is understood that Tesla has always sneered at lidar technology. Musk believes that the reality displayed by lidar is like a strange ghost world, except for metal, almost everything is translucent, which is meaningless for autonomous driving.
Recently, He Xiaopeng said in an interview with the media that Xiaopeng Motors is not the same as the traditional L4 autopilot or driverless companies. It is based on vision rather than lidar. This is the most Efficient, closest to real people, and cheapestof.
Tesla and Xiaopeng Motors have a long history of grievances. Last year, Tesla sued a former employee of Xiaopeng Motors for alleged business theft, and demanded that Xiaopeng Motors hand over all the source code for autonomous driving. At present, the relevant case is still under trial and there is no conclusion yet.
Editor-in-chief’s comment: Xiaopeng Motors and Tesla are fighting each other in the air, which is a confrontation between the new forces of China and the West to build cars. For a long time, new domestic carmakers have been regarded as followers of Tesla, and there are few innovations that surpass Tesla. As Xiaopeng Motors and other new domestic car manufacturers pay more and more attention to self-research, in the future, the difference between Tesla and Tesla at the level of product software and hardware will gradually appear, and differentiated competition will further intensify.
At the same time, from the perspective of the global market, the new forces in China and the West are bound to set off fierce battles. On the one hand, Tesla has established a relatively mature brand image in the domestic market, forming a certain scale advantage, and Prices continue to drop, and the market overlap with new domestic car manufacturers such as Xiaopeng Motors has increased…
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