Byd Company Limited(002594) is making continuous efforts in the field of automatic driving. Recently, it was reported that Byd Company Limited(002594) chose Baidu as its autopilot supplier. A source close to Baidu told the daily economic news: “Baidu provides Byd Company Limited(002594) with ANP intelligent driving products and man-machine driving map Integrating Transportation and parking. At the same time, baidu intelligent driving team has entered the site in advance to cooperate with Byd Company Limited(002594) for development and mass production of cooperative models will be realized soon.”
In addition, Byd Company Limited(002594) also recently participated in a new round of strategic financing of robosense, an intelligent lidar system developer (hereinafter referred to as Suteng juchuang). An investment banker told reporters that Byd Company Limited(002594) may be in the leading position in this round of financing of Suteng juchuang.
“At present, Byd Company Limited(002594) has a relatively good development in the Internet of vehicles, but the development of automatic driving is relatively backward. Baidu is one of the leaders in the automatic driving industry, and the cooperation between the two sides is reasonable. At the same time, at present, many car enterprises have made efforts to develop key parts, and the choice of laser radar has become particularly important.” Zhang Xiang, a researcher at the automotive industry innovation research center of Northern University of technology, said.
to supplement the short board of automatic driving
Byd Company Limited(002594) is not without accumulation in the field of automatic driving. As early as 2013, Byd Company Limited(002594) had signed a cooperation agreement with Beijing University of technology to jointly develop automatic driving technology. The test vehicle developed by both sides based on Surui tried to be equipped with lidar and won the first place in the automatic driving competition that year.
In 2014, Byd Company Limited(002594) also reached cooperation with the Communication Research Institute (I2R) of the science and Technology Research Bureau of Singapore to jointly develop autonomous driving and intelligent transportation technologies. In 2015, when Baidu driverless business unit was founded, Byd Company Limited(002594) took the lead in reaching cooperation with it. Wang Chuanfu, President and chairman of Byd Company Limited(002594) was also appointed as Baidu automatic driving consultant at the inaugural meeting.
However, the market effect of Byd Company Limited(002594) automatic driving is not ideal. At the end of 2021, China automobile Center conducted a CCRT assisted driving evaluation on six popular models. Among them, Byd Company Limited(002594) Han EV ranked lower in the “emergency risk avoidance performance indicators” closely related to personal safety.
In addition, Byd Company Limited(002594) Han EV has the functions of forward collision warning system, adaptive cruise, low-speed following mode, lane departure warning system, blind spot detection, automatic parking and so on, but it has no outstanding advantages. Compared with the pilot assistance function that has been launched by new forces such as Weilai and Xiaopeng, the automatic driving ability of Byd Company Limited(002594) has yet to be supplemented.
According to public data, in January, Byd Company Limited(002594) was the champion of Shanxi Guoxin Energy Corporation Limited(600617) automobile brand sales in the month with the monthly sales of more than 90000 new energy vehicles. It is said that from the development of Byd Company Limited(002594) new energy vehicles, its electrification process has made achievements, and its next focus may tilt to the direction of intelligence.
September 2021, When talking about intelligent transformation at the 2021 Lenovo innovation and technology conference, Wang Chuanfu also said: “At present, we have entered an era of intelligent transformation, and the new it is becoming a new engine of intelligent transformation. At the same time, the great transformation of the automotive industry, electrification is the first half and intelligence is the second half. Byd Company Limited(002594) is accelerating the digital and intelligent transformation of the manufacturing industry, and taking intellectualization as the ‘number one’ project.”
Industry analysts believe that intelligence is the core value and core competitiveness in the era of intelligent networked electric vehicles. In the field of automatic driving, the core of intelligence, Byd Company Limited(002594) ‘s actions also release the signal that it is further seizing the highland of automatic driving from the aspects of automatic driving software and hardware.
industry will tend to create cooperation
At present, under the wave of “new four modernizations”, Baidu and other technology companies have accelerated their deep penetration into the automobile industry, and their cooperation with mainstream automobile enterprises is becoming closer and closer. There is a view that the previous “Car + Internet” has changed to the trend of “Internet plus cars”. The competition between technology companies and car companies on cooperation leading power is more intense. For this reason, Saic Motor Corporation Limited(600104) chairman Chen Hong launched a “soul” torture.
Chen Hong previously said that Saic Motor Corporation Limited(600104) is unacceptable to cooperate with a third-party company such as Huawei in the field of automatic driving. “It’s like a company providing us with an overall solution. In this way, it will become the soul, and SAIC will become the body. We should master the soul in our own hands.” Chen Hong said.
However, some analysts said that for car companies and technology companies, the cooperation between the two sides has both advantages and disadvantages. What car companies lack is the advantages of big data processing, algorithm model and calculation mastered by science and technology companies, while science and technology companies lack the platform that can provide them with landing scenarios and quantifiable products, so as to realize the ability of self “hematopoiesis”.
At the same time, with the explosion of new energy vehicles and smart vehicles, all forces have also accelerated the pace of moving forward in the automatic driving track. Because only when the actual scene is applied, can we seize the first opportunity of driverless industrialization. When technology companies and car companies form a joint force, the automatic driving function can be realized faster.
In fact, the choice of technology companies as autonomous driving suppliers does not mean that car companies have given up their independent research and development in this field Feng Xingya, general manager of Guangzhou Automobile Group Co.Ltd(601238) once told reporters that Guangzhou Automobile Group Co.Ltd(601238) development of automatic driving will adhere to two paths: self research and cooperation with Huawei, which complement each other.
While Byd Company Limited(002594) in cooperation with Baidu, it is also building an autonomous driving R & D team. It is reported that Byd Company Limited(002594) has officially started to prepare for the establishment of the autonomous driving R & D center and intends to settle in Shanghai. A special talent recruitment fair has been held for this purpose. The recruitment posts include all links related to autonomous driving technology.
Regarding this, Zhou Shengyan, founder of intelligent driving technology MAXIEYE, China intelligent driving company, said: “the possibility of car enterprises independent research and development of automatic driving system is still relatively small, but the possibility of full mining (automatic driving system) is also relatively small. We believe that the industry will tend to cooperate and create more models in the future.”
