Fan Cheng Can Didis online automatic driving define future travel
Published on:2020-06-30
Didi auto pilot landed in Shanghai, do you dare to experience it?
In recent days, when you open Didi, you will find that the home page advertisement is no longer the riding card, but the slogan of Didis self driving departure. On the last day of the Dragon Boat Festival holiday, the large-scale manned demonstration application of Shanghai intelligent Internet connected vehicle was launched. Didi travel opened the automatic driving service to the public for the first time and put into trial operation in Jiading District, Shanghai.
At present, users in Shanghai can register online through didi app. After the approval, they can call autonomous vehicles free of charge in the automatic driving test section.
In fact, in addition to Didi, many travel platforms have already laid out automatic driving business. Baidus Apollo robotaxi is an autonomous taxi fleet. In June 2019, Apollo obtained 45 manned test licenses issued by Changsha municipal government. At present, the operation line passes through Changsha artificial intelligence technology city, Meixi lake, Yanghu lake, Dawang mountain, high tech Zone and other sections, with a total length of 135 kilometers and a demonstration area of 70 square kilometers. The relevant app intelligent applet has become the first self driving taxi service opened to the public through National applications in China.
Five days before Didis driverless launch, Gaode taxi and wenyuanzhixing weride reached cooperation and officially launched the open robotaxi operation service. Guangzhou passengers can also call wenyuanzhixing robotaxi with one click through Gaode taxi.
Over the past two years, Didis online car Hailing platform has been suffering: the problems accumulated for many years of rapid development continue to break out. First, the driver passenger contradiction leads to a series of conflicts. In addition, because the drivers quality cannot be audited, it has led to bad effects such as wounding or even killing people. Strict policies have been issued to restrict drivers, but still treat the symptoms rather than the root cause.
In fact, Didi has laid out its driverless strategy in 2018. According to public data, Didis automatic driving technology company obtained the road test license issued by Beijing in September 2018.
In March 2019, Didi registered "Shanghai woya Technology Co., Ltd." in Shanghai, specializing in the research of automatic driving technology.
In May 2020, Didi showed the latest achievements of automatic driving technology in Shanghai. CEO Cheng Wei placed an order with his mobile phone, and soon the unmanned car arrived at its destination. With this press conference, Didi driverless company received US $500 million in financing.
On June 27, 2020, Didi driverless was officially launched and landed in Shanghai. It carried out an open road experience of automatic driving online car Hailing near Jiading automobile Convention and Exhibition Center, and conducted a live broadcast of the whole process with CCTV news for more than 2 hours. Zhu Guangquan, a well-known pianist, became the anchor and explained the whole process to you.
The boat has passed ten thousand mountains, and the software asks the car to go to your feet. Its a cloudless day, and someone in the car is more at ease.
In the national intelligent connected vehicle (Shanghai) pilot demonstration area and on the intelligent connected vehicle demonstration Road, Didis unmanned vehicle runs smoothly and at a constant speed, and the route passes through the core areas such as automobile exhibition center, office area, subway station and hotel. Users can experience the automatic driving service free of charge by selecting the starting and ending points within the open road range through didi app. As long as the positioning in didi app is adjusted to Shanghai, you can directly apply for experience qualification in the new "future travel" section in the app.
In addition, it can be seen from the live broadcast on that day that in order to ensure the safety of passengers during the trial operation, each vehicle is equipped with a safety officer sitting in the main driving position and another tester sitting in the co drivers position. The tester needs to record whether there are abnormal conditions along the way through the mobile terminal and maintain communication with the nearby safety officer on the road condition information, To deal with emergencies at any time. The safety of passengers is ensured to the greatest extent.
Two orioles sing green willows and can walk without driving. A line of egrets went up into the blue sky and pulled over when they met a pedestrian car.
When unmanned driving is on, the safety officer only needs to press a button, and the vehicle will immediately start automatic driving. During this period, the safety drivers hands will always leave the steering wheel, and the vehicle will always be in automatic driving mode.
During the test, the safety officer will explain each step of the vehicle. "Now the signal light in front of us is blocked by the truck, but the vehicle will start slowly and automatically when it receives the message that the signal light turns green." "Just now, the radar detected a battery car at the zebra crossing ahead. The vehicle will calculate the passing time of the battery car and slow down in advance to ensure traffic safety."
In addition, in the process of automatic driving, the vehicle will automatically avoid pedestrians on the zebra crossing. When going uphill and turning around, it is a test of driverless technology. The technical requirements are relatively high. For example, when turning left on Boyuan Road, if the vehicle judges that the green light time is not enough to turn, it will automatically wait for the next green light; When the straight green light is on, like ordinary vehicles, it will enter the waiting area in time; What is more intelligent than artificial intelligence is that driverless vehicles will comprehensively observe and calculate the traffic lights, other vehicles and whether there are pedestrians at zebra crossings, so as to ensure the smooth U-turn of vehicles in an all-round way and avoid peoples careless driving.
According to the measurement, the maximum speed of the vehicle is 50 kilometers per hour, and the whole test journey takes 15-20 minutes.
About not to come late at night, driving smoothly and turning slowly. Knock the chess pieces at leisure, drop the flowers, and drive home automatically!
As we all know, the safety factor of driving is higher in sunny days and good daylight, extreme scenes such as rainy days and night will test the drivers driving ability. Similarly, for unmanned driving, bad weather is also a great test. During the live broadcast on the first day of Didis trial operation, it coincided with the heavy rain in Shanghai, which was a great test for Didi. According to Didi, raindrops, darkness, water on the ground and splashes have an impact on the vehicles lidar. The increase of noise may lead to the poor vision of the "driver" of the car, and even lead to miscalculation, causing all kinds of emergency braking, affecting the ride experience and causing a complete threat. Technically, this requires automatic driving technology to have a very good denoising algorithm.
In addition, rainy days will also affect the grip of automobile tires, which puts forward higher requirements for the vehicle control system. In addition, the ground ponding will affect the positioning accuracy, and pedestrians will take umbrellas in rainy days. It will also require the long-term training data coverage of automatic driving test vehicles to be identified.
It is gratifying that didi automatic driving online car Hailing has been able to cope with todays rainy scene and ensure the safety of the whole journey to the greatest extent.
Driverless doesnt mean no one is responsible
When people feel bright about automatic driving, many voices of concern also come.
Many people wonder whether driverless technology is really reliable in China? On the one hand, can driverless technology cope with the complex road conditions in Chinese cities? On the other hand, Chinas population quality problem, is it really time to use driverless technology? Electric vehicles, tricycles, bicycles and other more flexible means of transportation are difficult to predict the next trend, and there is a lack of strict norms, so there are often violations and other behaviors in the driving process. Can a computer-controlled car react quickly? In addition, what should I do if I encounter porcelain bumping?
In addition, some people worry that once driverless technology is really popularized, it will declare the unemployment of 30 million online car Hailing drivers across the country. Whats more, after the shutdown caused by the epidemic, a large number of people lost their jobs. At this time, the announcement of driverless landing is undoubtedly a threat to many online car Hailing drivers.
Zhang Bo, CTO and CEO of Didi, mentioned that in didi network, there is a key indicator called transaction rate. Didi sends out demand from tens of millions of passengers every day, but the transaction rate is basically 75%, which means that 25% of passengers have no car to sit on. Moreover, this gap will continue to increase in the future, especially in first tier cities, so driverless will only provide a supplement to transport capacity.
In other words, in the current situation of short supply, Didi driverless will not rob the drivers job at all. Moreover, peoples warm service will not be replaced. Experienced and enthusiastic people will always need it, whether driving or maintenance.
Therefore, the problem of Didis driverless job grabbing is not full of worries. The invention of new technology will always promote society and liberate mankind. Its better to accept it with a smile.
Summary
As a product of the advancement of social science and technology, driverless technology brings us undeniable convenience. Didi automatic driving also proposed that the financing plan will increase investment in R & D and testing, including vehicle road coordination and related AI technology R & D, regional landing, etc.
"We need to make a plan for sustained investment for at least ten years." Cheng Wei, founder and CEO of didi travel, is very confident in Didis future, but he still believes that automatic driving technology should be mature and "road resistance and long". It is worth mentioning that "the service with temperature for drivers will not disappear due to the emergence of new technologies". On the contrary, automatic driving is becoming more and more mature, it will create more new jobs and posts for online car Hailing drivers in the future.
In recent days, when you open Didi, you will find that the home page advertisement is no longer the riding card, but the slogan of Didis self driving departure. On the last day of the Dragon Boat Festival holiday, the large-scale manned demonstration application of Shanghai intelligent Internet connected vehicle was launched. Didi travel opened the automatic driving service to the public for the first time and put into trial operation in Jiading District, Shanghai.
At present, users in Shanghai can register online through didi app. After the approval, they can call autonomous vehicles free of charge in the automatic driving test section.
In fact, in addition to Didi, many travel platforms have already laid out automatic driving business. Baidus Apollo robotaxi is an autonomous taxi fleet. In June 2019, Apollo obtained 45 manned test licenses issued by Changsha municipal government. At present, the operation line passes through Changsha artificial intelligence technology city, Meixi lake, Yanghu lake, Dawang mountain, high tech Zone and other sections, with a total length of 135 kilometers and a demonstration area of 70 square kilometers. The relevant app intelligent applet has become the first self driving taxi service opened to the public through National applications in China.
Five days before Didis driverless launch, Gaode taxi and wenyuanzhixing weride reached cooperation and officially launched the open robotaxi operation service. Guangzhou passengers can also call wenyuanzhixing robotaxi with one click through Gaode taxi.
Over the past two years, Didis online car Hailing platform has been suffering: the problems accumulated for many years of rapid development continue to break out. First, the driver passenger contradiction leads to a series of conflicts. In addition, because the drivers quality cannot be audited, it has led to bad effects such as wounding or even killing people. Strict policies have been issued to restrict drivers, but still treat the symptoms rather than the root cause.
In fact, Didi has laid out its driverless strategy in 2018. According to public data, Didis automatic driving technology company obtained the road test license issued by Beijing in September 2018.
In March 2019, Didi registered "Shanghai woya Technology Co., Ltd." in Shanghai, specializing in the research of automatic driving technology.
In May 2020, Didi showed the latest achievements of automatic driving technology in Shanghai. CEO Cheng Wei placed an order with his mobile phone, and soon the unmanned car arrived at its destination. With this press conference, Didi driverless company received US $500 million in financing.
On June 27, 2020, Didi driverless was officially launched and landed in Shanghai. It carried out an open road experience of automatic driving online car Hailing near Jiading automobile Convention and Exhibition Center, and conducted a live broadcast of the whole process with CCTV news for more than 2 hours. Zhu Guangquan, a well-known pianist, became the anchor and explained the whole process to you.
The boat has passed ten thousand mountains, and the software asks the car to go to your feet. Its a cloudless day, and someone in the car is more at ease.
In the national intelligent connected vehicle (Shanghai) pilot demonstration area and on the intelligent connected vehicle demonstration Road, Didis unmanned vehicle runs smoothly and at a constant speed, and the route passes through the core areas such as automobile exhibition center, office area, subway station and hotel. Users can experience the automatic driving service free of charge by selecting the starting and ending points within the open road range through didi app. As long as the positioning in didi app is adjusted to Shanghai, you can directly apply for experience qualification in the new "future travel" section in the app.
In addition, it can be seen from the live broadcast on that day that in order to ensure the safety of passengers during the trial operation, each vehicle is equipped with a safety officer sitting in the main driving position and another tester sitting in the co drivers position. The tester needs to record whether there are abnormal conditions along the way through the mobile terminal and maintain communication with the nearby safety officer on the road condition information, To deal with emergencies at any time. The safety of passengers is ensured to the greatest extent.
Two orioles sing green willows and can walk without driving. A line of egrets went up into the blue sky and pulled over when they met a pedestrian car.
When unmanned driving is on, the safety officer only needs to press a button, and the vehicle will immediately start automatic driving. During this period, the safety drivers hands will always leave the steering wheel, and the vehicle will always be in automatic driving mode.
During the test, the safety officer will explain each step of the vehicle. "Now the signal light in front of us is blocked by the truck, but the vehicle will start slowly and automatically when it receives the message that the signal light turns green." "Just now, the radar detected a battery car at the zebra crossing ahead. The vehicle will calculate the passing time of the battery car and slow down in advance to ensure traffic safety."
In addition, in the process of automatic driving, the vehicle will automatically avoid pedestrians on the zebra crossing. When going uphill and turning around, it is a test of driverless technology. The technical requirements are relatively high. For example, when turning left on Boyuan Road, if the vehicle judges that the green light time is not enough to turn, it will automatically wait for the next green light; When the straight green light is on, like ordinary vehicles, it will enter the waiting area in time; What is more intelligent than artificial intelligence is that driverless vehicles will comprehensively observe and calculate the traffic lights, other vehicles and whether there are pedestrians at zebra crossings, so as to ensure the smooth U-turn of vehicles in an all-round way and avoid peoples careless driving.
According to the measurement, the maximum speed of the vehicle is 50 kilometers per hour, and the whole test journey takes 15-20 minutes.
About not to come late at night, driving smoothly and turning slowly. Knock the chess pieces at leisure, drop the flowers, and drive home automatically!
As we all know, the safety factor of driving is higher in sunny days and good daylight, extreme scenes such as rainy days and night will test the drivers driving ability. Similarly, for unmanned driving, bad weather is also a great test. During the live broadcast on the first day of Didis trial operation, it coincided with the heavy rain in Shanghai, which was a great test for Didi. According to Didi, raindrops, darkness, water on the ground and splashes have an impact on the vehicles lidar. The increase of noise may lead to the poor vision of the "driver" of the car, and even lead to miscalculation, causing all kinds of emergency braking, affecting the ride experience and causing a complete threat. Technically, this requires automatic driving technology to have a very good denoising algorithm.
In addition, rainy days will also affect the grip of automobile tires, which puts forward higher requirements for the vehicle control system. In addition, the ground ponding will affect the positioning accuracy, and pedestrians will take umbrellas in rainy days. It will also require the long-term training data coverage of automatic driving test vehicles to be identified.
It is gratifying that didi automatic driving online car Hailing has been able to cope with todays rainy scene and ensure the safety of the whole journey to the greatest extent.
Driverless doesnt mean no one is responsible
When people feel bright about automatic driving, many voices of concern also come.
Many people wonder whether driverless technology is really reliable in China? On the one hand, can driverless technology cope with the complex road conditions in Chinese cities? On the other hand, Chinas population quality problem, is it really time to use driverless technology? Electric vehicles, tricycles, bicycles and other more flexible means of transportation are difficult to predict the next trend, and there is a lack of strict norms, so there are often violations and other behaviors in the driving process. Can a computer-controlled car react quickly? In addition, what should I do if I encounter porcelain bumping?
In addition, some people worry that once driverless technology is really popularized, it will declare the unemployment of 30 million online car Hailing drivers across the country. Whats more, after the shutdown caused by the epidemic, a large number of people lost their jobs. At this time, the announcement of driverless landing is undoubtedly a threat to many online car Hailing drivers.
Zhang Bo, CTO and CEO of Didi, mentioned that in didi network, there is a key indicator called transaction rate. Didi sends out demand from tens of millions of passengers every day, but the transaction rate is basically 75%, which means that 25% of passengers have no car to sit on. Moreover, this gap will continue to increase in the future, especially in first tier cities, so driverless will only provide a supplement to transport capacity.
In other words, in the current situation of short supply, Didi driverless will not rob the drivers job at all. Moreover, peoples warm service will not be replaced. Experienced and enthusiastic people will always need it, whether driving or maintenance.
Therefore, the problem of Didis driverless job grabbing is not full of worries. The invention of new technology will always promote society and liberate mankind. Its better to accept it with a smile.
Summary
As a product of the advancement of social science and technology, driverless technology brings us undeniable convenience. Didi automatic driving also proposed that the financing plan will increase investment in R & D and testing, including vehicle road coordination and related AI technology R & D, regional landing, etc.
"We need to make a plan for sustained investment for at least ten years." Cheng Wei, founder and CEO of didi travel, is very confident in Didis future, but he still believes that automatic driving technology should be mature and "road resistance and long". It is worth mentioning that "the service with temperature for drivers will not disappear due to the emergence of new technologies". On the contrary, automatic driving is becoming more and more mature, it will create more new jobs and posts for online car Hailing drivers in the future.
