In people's minds, autonomous driving and driverless driving are just internal projects of some companies and cutting-edge research laboratories. They look cool, but they don't know when they will actually appear in life.
However, its progress is actually faster than people think: Google has already licensed autopilots in California and several other states in the US; Tesla has already delivered the model S and X series already available. The automatic driving function allows the driver to hand over the steering wheel and throttle brake to the computer and sensor in the highway environment.
Don't think that only companies like Google and Tesla with technology and Internet genes will delve into autonomous driving technology. A number of "traditional" car companies such as General Motors, BMW, and Ford are also moving further and further along this road. Of course, they have a wealth of experience in building cars, so they mostly choose to cooperate with Internet technology companies to exchange resources.
We have compiled a list of companies that have been betting on autonomous driving technology. You will find that the entire automotive industry has been identified, and that autonomous driving and driverless cars will officially take over the road in the future.
"traditional" car manufacturer
General Motors is one of the largest automakers in the United States, headquartered in the American city of cars, Detroit, Michigan. GM owns four local brands, Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet and GMC, as well as other small brands such as Opel and Wuling.
GM bought Cruise AutomaTIon, a self-driving technology startup, for $1 billion this year. It also spent $500 million to buy a 9% stake in mobile phone software company Lyft. GM has partnered with American research institutes such as Carnegie Mellon University to set up cutting-edge technology laboratories in Palo Alto, Silicon Valley, and has initiated research on autonomous driving technology.
Just recently, General Motors announced that it will work with Lyft to get a self-driving electric car on the road within a year – not one or two, but a special car formation. GM plans to retrofit Chevrolet's electric car Bolt to design and wait for the autopilot electric car used in the program. At present, GM and Lyft have not officially announced other details, but the Wall Street Journal reported that they will be tested in an undisclosed US city, and local users will have the opportunity to choose whether to take autonomous driving when they call the car. Special car.
Chrysler Pacifica
Fiat Chrysler is a world-renowned car manufacturer that was formed in 2014 by Fiat of Italy and Chrysler of the United States. Fiat Chrysler owns well-known car brands such as Fiat, Ferrari, Chrysler, Dodge, Alfa Romeo and Maserati.
Fiat Chrysler has recently partnered with Google's parent company, Alphabet, to provide 100 modified Pacifica vans to the latter's autonomous driving division to test Alphabet's autonomous driving technology.
Ford is a veteran of the automotive industry and is now one of the largest automakers in the United States, headquartered in Dearborn, Michigan, USA. Ford owns the Ford, Lincoln and other car brands.
Ford has established an autonomous driving development route earlier in the world's first-line traditional car companies, invested heavily in research and development, and conducted road tests in Michigan, Arizona and California. Unlike other auto companies that are still in the early stages of autonomous driving research, Ford claims to have completed autonomous driving tests in a non-optimal environment such as snow and a completely dull night environment, which is better than human driving.
Ford is mainly tested in the Fusion Hybrid sedan, which is said to have the largest auto-driving car formation in the automotive industry, with dozens of vehicles.
Toyota is one of the largest automakers in Japan, with brands such as Lexus and Subaru.
Toyota is Google's former auto supplier for driverless car technology, providing Google with the hybrid Prius and the Lexus RX. Toyota also established its own autopilot research unit, Toyota Research InsTItute, in October last year, and is cooperating with famous American universities such as Stanford and MIT. The main technical members of TRI are from the US Department of Defense's DARPA Lab, Google, Facebook, and MIT.
Audi's self-driving car based on RS7
Audi belongs to the Volkswagen Group of Germany and is a mid- to high-end sedan brand.
In early 2014, Audi introduced the Traffic Jam Assistant for CES. As its name suggests, its main function is to assist the driver in driving when traffic jams. The driver presses the TJA button on the steering wheel. When the hardware system detects that the surrounding conditions are suitable for starting the automatic driving state (such as appropriate speed, no roadside pedestrians, etc.), the driver will be prompted to activate the TJA system on the central control panel. .
In June 2015, PingWest played and tried the Audi A7 with autopilot. This car can only enter the automatic driving state when the road is closed, there is no traffic light, and the ground sign is clear, and the speed must be less than 60 kilometers - it is only white, it can only be opened in the city's loop or fast road. This is a kind of assisted driving under limited conditions, which is beyond the scope of our discussion today, but still counts as autonomous driving. Audi said that in 2017, it will be added to the high-end models such as the A8, which is commercially available.
Other car brands that are researching this auxiliary nature and limited autonomous driving functions include Daimler (Benz), Geely (Volvo) and many more.
Delphi may not be a well-known company. However, in the past 100 years the company has supplied parts to almost every first-line car manufacturer in the world. According to Lei Feng.com, Delphi has invented the world's first electric starter, the first embedded radio, and the first car radio navigation system.
In recent years, Delphi has been providing automated driving outsourcing technology to its customers, such as Audi and Mercedes. Like the parts it invented in the past, the autopilot module produced by Delphi will be put into the car as a standard part by other car manufacturers. Although it is still not within the scope of our discussion today, the significance of Delphi is that it is possible that all the cars in the future will have the function of autonomous driving in certain situations.
(Other parts suppliers that provide auto-driving and assisted driving related technologies to automakers, including ConTInental, Bosch, etc.)
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