The third of the 36-person automatic driving.
The “Automatic Driving 36” special report will be a Q&A interview to discuss the changes, disputes and future of the industry.
Since last year, the “funding winter” rumored in the industry has had varying degrees of impact on all walks of life. In the autonomous driving industry, L1/L2 intelligent driving has entered the popularization stage, and some startups that do L3/L4 automatic driving have been eliminated before commercialization. Of course, there are also a few players who survived through the landing scenarios in different scenarios and successfully entered the commercialization phase.
The Autopilot developer “AutoX” was founded in 2016. Its founder and CEO Xiao Jianxiong formed a founding team in Silicon Valley, USA, mainly developing L4 autopilot solutions, and then in Shenzhen. Shanghai, Beijing and Changzhou have landed R&D centers and production bases. Xiao Jianxiong graduated from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology with a Ph.D. from MIT. After graduation, he worked as an assistant professor at Princeton University and was the founder of the Computer Vision and Robotics Laboratory at Princeton University.
Xiao Jianxiong told that the core concept of AutoX is “automatic driving civilians”, and they want this high-end technology to be applied to everyday life scenes of ordinary people.
AutoX’s first large-scale landing scene was “unmanned car delivery.” In August last year, AutoX launched AutoX RoboDelivery in California to provide local residents with full-speed unmanned vehicle delivery service and unmanned rack-sale service on board, delivering up to 120 kilometers. /hour.
Of course, even with two sets of security systems (one set based on the “high-precision map” scheme and the other set using the real-time sensing scheme) to ensure security, there are still security officers in the car, really no Humanization will be realized after the completion of policies and technologies.
Source: AutoX
On June 18 this year, AutoX became a global company approved by the California government regulator.The second unmanned vehicle company that received a California Autopilot road trial operation license was allowed to provide automatic driving and taxi service to public passengers. On the day of the license, AutoX officially launched the RoboTaxi trial service for the general public, which is California’s first RoboTaxi operation service.
In addition to the United States, AutoX has launched new businesses in China and Europe. For example, the company is cooperating with a number of domestic companies that require transportation, such as express delivery and logistics. In addition, AutoX has also acquired the first batch of Guangzhou Intelligent Networked Vehicle Roads. Test license; recently, Swedish electric vehicle manufacturer NEVS also announced an exclusive strategic partnership with AutoX. NEX’s next-generation vehicle platform will integrate AutoX’s autonomous driving technology. The goal of the cooperation is to reach the first in Europe before the end of 2020. Large-scale RoboTaxi trial operation service.
Xiao Jianxiong said: “The development route of AutoX is ‘focus on technology’, so in the past three years, we are all polishing an L4 autopilot AI platform – “xUrban”, which is also the development of AutoX. The core of commercialization.
Based on this idea, AutoX appears to be both “RoboTaxi” and “Ship>RoboDelivery), but actually uses xUrban as the bottom layer. The common platform is then customized according to different scenarios. While the large-scale unmanned vehicle technical operation is the focus of research and development, AutoX will continue to invest more resources and costs in this part, and integrate emerging technologies such as 5G.
It is worth mentioning that at the WAIC 2019 World Artificial Intelligence Conference held on August 31st, the Shanghai Jiading District People’s Government announced a strategic cooperation with AutoX. The two sides will jointly build the Shanghai Driverless Operation Demonstration Zone. Cooperation to promote the intelligent network of the automotive industry.
It is estimated that from the end of 2019 to the beginning of 2020, AutoX will launch about 100 self-driving taxis (RoboTaxi) in the Jiading Driverless Operation Demonstration Zone and conduct trial operation. At that time, residents in the area will take auto-driving cars for commuting, high-speed rail, eating, shopping, etc., “Let auto-driving enter the lives of ordinary people,” Xiao Jianxiong said.
Source: AutoX
The urban demonstration area in Anting New Town, Jiading District covers an area of about 150 square kilometers and is used to construct a typical urban comprehensive demonstration zone and inter-city shared traffic corridor for intelligent networked vehicle road testing. From the end of 2019 to the beginning of 2020, AutoX finished cars can be freely shuttled in the operation demonstration area, and can be used in daily traffic environments such as residential areas, business districts and business districts.
In the future, AutoX will establish AutoX East China Headquarters in Shanghai International Automobile City in Jiading, Shanghai, and will exclusively invest in the “Artificial Intelligent Autopilot Demonstration Zone Operation Project”, focusing on the construction of artificial intelligence autopilot R&D center. Operation and big data center, artificial intelligence automatic driving industry application demonstration base and other projects, and set up a large-scale automatic driving large-scale fleet to jointly establish the first unmanned driving Robotaxi operation demonstration zone in China.
The following is a part of the recent interview with Xiao Jianxiong (after finishing and abridgement without changing the original intention)
: What is the core idea of AutoX Autopilot?
Xiao Jianxiong: Our core is to hope to achieve “civilian automatic driving”. Starting with AutoX, we wanted to be an L4 autopilot AI platform, xUrbanFusion. This platform is more like a Windows operating system hardware with a six-way Gm-class camera and laser radar, plus an industrial-grade master computer; in addition, through deep learning technology, AutoX’s sensing system xFusion fusion camera and lidar to identify objects Type and location, including the identification of small objects such as pedestrians.
In other words, in the future, whether it is a motor vehicle on the road or a logistics vehicle loaded in the factory, it can be customized according to the hardware scheme supported by the system.
: Why did you choose to land autonomous car business in California?
Xiao Jianxiong: Nobody taxi (RoboTaxi) and unmanned car delivery (RoboDelivery) is our most