Autonomous vehicle enterprises R & D investment are over 100 million 2016 will become the first year

2016 has been half, whether it is in April Changan self-driving car to complete 2000 kilometers of high-speed testing, or in June SAIC and Ali Group jointly released the "global mass production of Internet cars" Rongwei RX5 have won a wide range of attention from the industry and outside the understanding, so "self-driving "topped the list of key words in the Chinese auto market in the first half of the year. So for the independent car enterprises, what progress they currently have in the field of automatic driving? Whether their R&D investment can support the future layout, and whether 2016 can become the first year of automatic driving development for Chinese automobile enterprises? Below is the explanation for you one by one.

Gai Shi automobile for domestic autonomous vehicle enterprises automatic driving technology statistics found that there are currently a total of ten manufacturers involved in this field. Among them, FAW Group, SAIC Group, Changan Automobile, BAIC Group, Great Wall Motor has already shown its test models equipped with primary automatic driving technology, and in the first half of 2016, Guangzhou Automobile Group, Dongfeng Automobile, Geely Automobile, BYD Automobile, Lifan Automobile have also announced that they will complete the test of automatic driving prototypes in the next 5-10 years.

FAW Group

Highlights: Intelligent Connected Driving System completed in 2018, highway driving realized in 2020

As the "big brother" of new China's automobile industry, FAW Group is the first automobile enterprise to devote itself to the research and development of driverless technology in China, and cooperated with the National University of Defense Technology (NUDT) to complete the highway self-driving prototype on the basis of Hongqi's HQ3 model in 2007, and completed the test of the unmanned vehicle from Changsha to Wuhan in 3 hours and 22 minutes in July 14th, 2011. On July 14, 2011, the HQ3 unmanned vehicle of Hongqi completed an unmanned driving experiment on a 286-kilometer highway from Changsha to Wuhan; in 2013, the H7 of Hongqi, which has the function of PA-HA, was put on the market; and in April, 2015, FAW Group formally released its "Best Way" technology strategy, which marks the formal formation of the strategic plan of interconnecting intelligent automobile technology of FAW Group. This also marks the formalization of FAW Group's strategic plan for connected smart car technology.

According to the strategy's ten-year development plan, the "Best Way" strategy will be developed from the current 1.0 to 4.0. Currently, the "Best Way" 1.0 has been applied to Red Flag Sedan in 2013, with driver assistance functions such as emergency braking, collision avoidance warning and lane departure. The "Best Way" 1.0 has been applied to the Red flag sedan in 2013, with driver assistance functions such as emergency braking, anti-collision warning and lane departure. Before 2018, the plan of "Prime Way" 2.0 will be realized through the self-developed intelligent connected driving system, which can realize the functions of cell phone hailing, auto-parking, and vehicle following, and it is expected to be mounted on Red Flag H7 and Jiefang Commercial Vehicle.

And in 2020, the company will realize the "Best Way" 3.0, which can realize the V2X function, integrate high-speed driving and deep perception and urban intelligence technology. In 2025, the company will realize "Best Way" 4.0, and the penetration rate of highly automated driving products will reach more than 50%.

SAIC Motor Corporation

Highlights: Relying on China's driverless demonstration base, it will realize automatic driving in all road conditions in the next ten years.

In June 2016, the National Professional Intelligent Networked Vehicle Test Demonstration Base was settled in Shanghai, which also means that in the future, SAIC can vigorously develop the field of autonomous driving and even unmanned driving by relying on its geographical advantages.

In 2013, SAIC "allied" with AVIC in the field of autonomous driving, and demonstrated its self-developed intelligent driving car, iGS, at the 2015 Shanghai Auto Show. iGS observes the surrounding environment through cameras and radar, and then conveys the road condition data to the control software to analyze and give instructions. After the road test, iGS can initially realize the functions of remote control parking, automatic cruising, automatic following, lane keeping, lane changing and autonomous overtaking. Auto divides the automatic driving function into 5 levels, iGS is level 3, and the vision after 10 years is level 5, and the second generation MGiGS is currently being developed independently.

Changan Automobile

Highlights: completion of intelligent Ⅰ and Ⅱ level technology, and realization of industrialized application of automatic driving in 2020

In April 2015, Changan Automobile released its intelligentization strategy "6 5 4", i.e., to establish six basic technology system platforms, develop five core application technologies, and gradually realize the automobile from single intelligence to fully automatic driving in four stages. At present, Changan Automobile has completed the first stage of development tests, that is, 2000 kilometers of highway road test completed in April. It has now entered the second stage, which will realize the automation of combined functions, such as integrated adaptive cruise control, fully automated parking, and Intelligent Terminal 4.0 in 2018. In the future, in the third stage, limited automated driving will be realized, such as fully automated driving on highways; in the fourth stage, fully automated driving of automobiles will be realized in 2025, and industrialized applications will be entered.

Currently, Changan Automobile has mastered more than 60 intelligent technologies in three major categories, namely, intelligent interconnection, intelligent personalization and intelligent driving, among which, the structured road unmanned driving technology has passed the real-vehicle technical verification.

BAIC Group

Highlights: three driverless models were unveiled in September, and will be put into professional driverless commercial projects

At this year's Beijing Auto Show in April, BAIC showcased its driverless car based on the EU260. It is driverless by adding components such as millimeter-wave radar, high-definition camera, lidar and GPS antenna for road recognition, along with high-definition maps for route planning. Thanks to the cooperation with the Academy of Social Sciences, most of the driverless perception and control components currently carried by BAIC's driverless cars have been procured domestically, with the aim of laying the foundation for future mass production.

On July 6, BAIC New Technology Research Institute and Panjin Dawa District People's Government held a signing ceremony for a strategic cooperation agreement on driverless cars in Beijing, where the two sides will jointly develop and build a driverless experience project in the "Red Beach National Scenic Corridor". In September, BAIC will also unveil three new driverless vehicles, which may be put into use in the project.

Great Wall Motor

Highlights: Haval H8 and H9 have completed the development of driver assistance and will realize highway autonomous driving in 2020.

Great Wall Motor set up a specialized team in 2012 to research and develop driverless cars and other intelligent technologies. At present, Haval H8, H9 and some subsequent vehicles have completed the development of the driver assistance (ADAS) stage. Vehicles capable of autonomous driving on highways are expected to be launched in 2020.

Great Wall's driverless technology, through the application of a variety of sensors, can realize all-round detection of road conditions and the surrounding environment, and after high-speed computing by the internal intelligent electronic control unit, directly control the vehicle's electronic steering system, engine management system and braking system and other institutions to realize the vehicle's acceleration and deceleration, changing lanes, following the vehicle and overtaking and other actions. In addition, Great Wall Motor has also developed advanced technologies such as window lifting and lowering and engine start/stop control through brainwaves.

Guangzhou Automobile Group

Highlight: Jointly with the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) to create "new energy automatic driving".

GAC Group has chosen to cooperate with the Hefei Institute of Physical Sciences of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) to jointly develop "self-driving" cars and apply them to new energy models. The two sides will jointly research and develop technologies that can sense the external environment through on-board sensors and make autonomous intelligent decisions to realize autonomous driving for new energy vehicles. This will enhance the driverless technology of automobile autonomous driving integrating architecture, intelligent sensing, intelligent decision-making, and automatic control.

Previously, GAC has exhibited an independently developed WITSTAR pure electric drive intelligent concept car, which is equipped with an autonomous driving controller that can make driving decisions based on known navigation for route planning, environmental information and the vehicle's own state, and simulate the driver's implementation of the vehicle's forward and backward, steering, acceleration and deceleration, braking, and parking and other operations. Recently, Zhang Fangyou, Chairman of GAC Group, also said, "At present, GAC's new energy driverless car development is being promoted in phases, and has completed the first phase, i.e., the development of driverless key technology. The driverless programmable pure electric concept car designed by GAC has been unveiled at major auto shows in China as well as the Detroit Auto Show."

Geely Automobile

Highlights: betting on Volvo in the early stages, launching Geely-branded self-driving cars in the next 2-3 years

As early as last year, the Volvo self-driving experience has been successfully completed on Beijing's Sixth Ring Road, with a cumulative journey of 1,200 kilometers. In the test, the self-driving vehicle's AD automatic driving system in the more complex public road conditions, reliable and stable performance, driving the vehicle at 70 kilometers per hour during the driving process, without the need for the driver to intervene. It is understood that the production vehicle equipped with Volvo's self-driving system will be officially launched for sale in 2017.

In the recent CES ASIA exhibition, Volvo demonstrated the new S90 model equipped with the second-generation automatic driving assistance system Pilot Assist, and Shen Feng, vice president of research and development of Volvo China, disclosed that Volvo will put 100 cars into Sweden next year to carry out unmanned driver road tests in the practical sense, and at the appropriate time, the road test program will be introduced into China. Meanwhile, it is understood that Geely and Volvo have joined hands to develop self-driving technology, and its self-driving production car is expected to be launched in the next 2-3 years.

Dongfeng Motor

Highlights: Huawei to realize the "three-step" strategy

In October 2014, Dongfeng and Huawei signed an agreement that the two sides will work together to realize a smart car with emotional self-driving through three steps: car machine, car networking and smart car. In the future, Dongfeng's driverless cars will be equipped with Huawei's new product ME909T, which combines automobile and communication technologies with its high compatibility, integration, quality and stability.

The strategic cooperation between Dongfeng and Huawei is carried out in the form of "three steps", the first step is that Huawei develops WindLink products for Dongfeng, which has been applied to Dongfeng Fengshen AX7; the second step is to jointly plan future cooperation products in car networking, realizing the intelligent interconnection and interconnection of vehicles; and the third step is to integrate resources to build a truly meaningful driverless car. driverless car.

BYD Auto

Highlights: joint development with Internet companies

As early as February 2014 BYD Group has signed an agreement with Singapore's Technology and Research Agency Communications Research (I2R), the cooperation between the two sides will involve joint research and development of automated driving technology for vehicles and driverless car management system.

And just this January, BYD Group Chairman Chuanfu publicly stated that it is cooperating with Baidu in the development of driverless technology and will utilize the data support of its high-precision maps to create a future vehicle networking model. At the same time, BYD currently has no commercial plan for driverless cars, and will reduce accidents mainly through self-driving technology in the future.

Lifan Automobile

Highlights: New Energy + Internet + Intelligent Vehicles

In the new energy plan for 2020 released earlier this year, Lifan Automobile said that it will integrate the Internet Intelligent vehicles with new energy vehicles in the future. Chen Wei, vice chairman of Lifan Industry (Group) Co., Ltd. also mentioned that the "intelligent car" refers to driverless technology. Chen Wei said: "Lifan driverless cars will adopt low-speed design, will be on the market in June next year, almost every car will have the ability of driverless."

Meanwhile, in Lifan's overall plan for new energy, i.Blue 1.0 includes three core programs, including "New Blue Products", "Deep Blue Energy" and "Pan Blue Life". Blue 1.0 contains three core programs, including "New Blue Products", "Deep Blue Energy" and "Blue Life". In 2020, Lifan will sell 500,000 units of new energy vehicles. Lifan will also carry out the layout of the whole industry chain and ecological chain from the motor, electronic control, battery, car networking and other new energy industries, while the products will cover the "national car" and high-end performance of pure electric and hybrid products.