[Inventory] China’s eight large cross-border unmanned technology giants account for two seats in China

Robotics> Robot Network News: This year, many countries such as the United States, Singapore, Australia, Finland, and Dubai have begun small-scale trial run of unmanned vehicles. Driverless cars are also the focus areas for major technology companies such as Apple and Google. Will it become the next technological enterprise to create technological and performance miracles?

Driverless cars have a high degree of attention and attention in real-time information, and information passing by from time to time is the development trend of driverless cars. Then, in the end, what is the progress of today's driverless cars? Which technology giants at home and abroad? What kind of love and hatred does it have with auto companies? Xiao Bian below for each inventory details.

apple

Apple CEO Tim Cook once said that the automotive industry will undergo a "great change." "In my opinion, software will become an increasingly important part of the future of automobiles. Automated driving will become even more important."

Apple’s driverless car project was named Titan. Research and development began two years ago. Apple has invested a lot of manpower and material resources, but little progress has been made. In July of this year, Apple veteran Bob Mansfield returned to the company and took over the project. Although Apple's secretiveness has never publicly stated that it is developing a car, its "Project Titan" has long been no secret. Not long ago, Apple’s California Vehicle Authority also revealed that Apple is preparing to start a test program for driverless cars. However, from the latest news, this plan seems to disappoint everyone.

According to foreign media reports, at present, Apple has closed some parts of the driverless car project, but also cut off dozens of employees. Of course, in view of the large amount of manpower and financial resources invested in previous car construction projects, Apple will not directly give up the research and development of driverless cars. According to informed sources, this layoff was only part of the restart of the car project. What Apple is doing is to develop software for driverless cars.

Google

Google, which was the earliest driverless pilot, had already exceeded 100,000 kilometers in auto driving fleet mileage in 2010. At that time, Google only relied on the research of unmanned vehicles after car modification. It used Toyota's Lexus, Prius and other models. In May this year, it also reached an agreement with Fiat Chrysler to provide 100 converted Pacifica vans for its automated driving department for testing.

In the recent Google testing, Google Driverless Vehicle learned to identify false positives and intractable situations, that is when and where the horn should not be honking, and distinguish between oncoming vehicles and driving in the wrong lane at three o Vehicles in the reverse lane, but many problems still exist.

It is not only the leader of driverless cars, but also Google, the global leader in the development of Internet technology. His actions in policy and law are also very aggressive. It has established lobbying agencies with companies such as Ford and Uber, and conducted lobbying work in US states and federal legislatures to promote unmanned/automated driving in more places in the United States.