Not even a year old, Mercedes-BMW's self-driving alliance dissolves

BMW has officially announced that it has frozen its plans to work on self-driving technology with Mercedes-Benz, according to foreign media outlet teslarati. At the same time, BMW has said it is laying off 6,000 employees, or about 5 percent of its 120,000 global workforce.

The Mercedes-BMW self-driving technology alliance began on July 4, 2019, less than a year ago. At the time, the two companies said they would fund people together to form an R&D team of 1,200 technicians to accelerate their efforts to catch up with Tesla in the field of autonomous driving. However, the emergence of the New Crown virus completely disrupted their plans, and the decision had to be made to suspend the partnership and lay off staff.

Meanwhile, Tesla, which is leading the research on autopilot technology, recently showed the world their latest achievements. After the software is updated to the latest version, Tesla cars will have the ability to automatically determine whether to brake or drive straight through based on the color of traffic signals. Previously, whenever a signal light is encountered, whether it is red or green, Tesla cars will automatically brake, requiring the driver to intervene in time in order to pass through the traffic properly, etc.

In addition, Tesla has also begun to recognize special symbols such as global signals, stop lines, stop signs, no-parking signs and other symbols, which is a big step forward in the study of autonomous driving on urban roads.

As time goes on, Tesla is pulling away from its competitors. The "Tesla killers" of the early days have either disappeared or have become bowed minions. And now those pure technology companies like Waymo, also because of the lack of actual road data support and the bottomless pit of capital and began to struggle on the edge of life and death. As for traditional giants like Mercedes-Benz and BMW, it's hopeless to build cars that don't work, and to engage in technology alliances that call it quits after less than a year.

Is it true that the only ones that can put pressure on Tesla are Azure, Xiaopeng, Nicola, Rivian, Lucid?Motors and these new forces? Maybe it's true! It's just that China's Azera and Xiaopeng will be the main players, and Nicola, Rivian, and Lucid?Motors, after all, are not yet in mass production, and despite their popularity, they only look to be inflated at this point!

Go for it, new forces! The whiplash against Tesla is on you!

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