Audi or Huawei jointly study autonomous driving.

After demonstrating its superior autonomous driving ability, the Huawei version of Extreme Focus Alpha attracted many consumers and car companies to call "the truth". Audi, which has been developing its own autonomous driving scheme before, may also throw an olive branch to Huawei.

During the Shanghai Auto Show, Michael Hofmann, Executive Vice President of Audi China R&D, was interviewed by the media, suggesting that Audi intends to cooperate with Huawei in autonomous driving projects and install Huawei ADS system on domestic models.

As far as Huawei is concerned, Su Wei, president of its intelligent driving product line, also said: "A big European brand has signed a contract with Huawei to install Huawei's ADS system on Huawei's domestic models".

Combining these two things, the cooperation between Huawei and Audi is a high probability event.

At present, Audi is working hard to develop L2+ autopilot assistance system, including R&D personnel from China, to make it more suitable for the road conditions in China. The higher L3/L4 autopilot system can't be launched until the laws and regulations are perfected. According to the plan, Audi will show the L4 autopilot system based on vehicle-road coordination technology in Wuxi this year.

In fact, Audi's autonomous driving technology started earlier among traditional car companies. As early as 20 18, the new A8 model launched at that time was equipped with the world-leading L3 autopilot system. As a luxury brand that pays great attention to technology, Audi is also one of the earliest car companies in China to get a driver's license.

However, autonomous driving is an extremely complex project, which requires not only the coordination ability of software and hardware of car companies and the cooperation of upstream and downstream supply chains, but also a lot of data support. Big data is a unique resource for technology companies, and cooperation between car companies and technology companies to develop autonomous driving will surely become the mainstream in the future.

Perhaps Audi has encountered a bottleneck in the research and development of autonomous driving, and may feel that the research and development of autonomous driving needs to be accelerated, but in any case, if this is true, it is enough to show that China's scientific and technological strength has gradually been recognized worldwide.

At present, the technical route of autonomous driving can be divided into two schools: one is the "visual school" represented by Tesla and Baidu, which mainly relies on high-definition cameras to realize autonomous driving; Another school is a "lidar school" like Huawei. The sensing distance of lidar is longer, but the cost is higher.

As a luxury brand, Audi will undoubtedly pay more attention to the effect between cost and effect. After all, if the cost of lidar is hundreds of thousands or even millions, it will not be so high. A8 has L3 autopilot function, and uses lidar route. The same technical route may also be the reason why Huawei chose to cooperate.

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