SAIC has established a commercial vehicle intelligent driving technology innovation company. Autonomous driving will be first implemented in ports, factories, and trunk logistics scenarios

(August 26, 2021, Shanghai) SAIC Motors announced today that it has officially established a commercial vehicle intelligent driving technology company, Shanghai Youdao Zhitu Technology Co., Ltd., and plans to settle in the Lingang New Area of ​​the China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone. As one of SAIC's "scientific and technological giants", Youdao Zhitu will fully rely on the technical accumulation and successful experience of the "5G+L4" intelligent heavy-duty truck project of Yangshan Port, focusing on L4 and L3 autonomous driving products for specific scenarios such as ports and factory areas and trunk logistics scenarios, creating a new business model of "technology + product + operation", and striving to become a "leader in full-scenario autonomous driving solutions and network freight platforms" in the global commercial vehicle field.

Software and algorithms, computing platforms, and network security to establish core competitive advantages

Relying on SAIC Group's rich accumulation and complete industrial chain advantages in cutting-edge technologies such as autonomous driving, new energy, network information security, and functional safety, UDR has successfully established three core competitive advantages in the field of intelligent driving technology: full-stack autonomous software and data-driven algorithms, high-computing-power automotive-grade computing platforms, and network information security.

Full-stack autonomous software and data-driven algorithms. The autonomous driving architecture independently developed by UDO Zhitu supports the rapid iteration and deployment of software and algorithms, and has established full-stack self-developed capabilities in core technical fields such as autonomous driving perception prediction, map positioning, and decision-making planning; it has more than 1.6 million kilometers of real-world autonomous driving scene data, and can greatly improve R&D efficiency by creating massive simulation scenes; the unique environmental adaptive control algorithm allows smart heavy trucks to maintain a control accuracy level of less than 10 cm in a typhoon of more than level 10.

High-computing-power automotive-grade computing platform. The automotive-grade computing platform independently developed by Udo AI always maintains the industry's leading position in terms of reliability, verification and computing power.

Network information security. UDO Zhitu has completed the construction of a full business chain security system of "network and data security + functional safety + quality safety", and introduced the whole vehicle functional safety system and design concept for the first time in the heavy truck field, realizing the comprehensive coordination of safety V model development and vehicle development. The company has become the only technology enterprise in the field of autonomous driving heavy trucks that has passed the Ministry of Public Security's information security level protection level 3 assessment.

In addition, Youdao Zhitu has also actively responded to the country's dual carbon strategy of "carbon peak and carbon neutrality", adhered to the green energy technology route, and cooperated with SAIC Hongyan to develop pure electric and hydrogen fuel cell intelligent driving heavy-duty trucks, which will be launched on the market within the year, fully supporting the construction of a green and intelligent transportation system.

L3 and L4 autonomous driving are being developed in parallel to accelerate commercialization

U-Drive will implement the development strategy of "L3 and L4 parallel development" and promote the continuous optimization and upgrading of the intelligent driving system through data-driven closed loop. Massive high-quality data at L3 level will drive the continuous evolution of L4 level algorithms; at the same time, L4 level algorithms trained based on massive data will feed back to L3 level technology upgrades, and continue to approach "true driverless driving" in a more efficient way in terms of technology.

Specifically, Youdao Zhitu will use L4 products for specific scenarios and L3 products for trunk logistics as entry points, and work with strategic partners to quickly expand market opportunities and build a full-link intelligent driving freight network platform.

In terms of specific scenarios such as ports and factory areas, Youdao Zhitu has reached strategic cooperation with leading domestic ports such as Shanghai Port and Qingdao Port, and continues to promote and expand quasi-commercial operations, and actively deploys in steel mills, power plants, shipyards and large inland distribution centers; in the field of trunk logistics, Youdao Zhitu will release a new L3-level intelligent heavy-duty truck product within the year and carry out commercial operations on limited routes. According to the plan, Youdao Zhitu will open up the full business chain of park logistics and terminal logistics by 2023, forming a full-scenario and full-business chain commercial vehicle Door to Door autonomous driving network.

As a winner of Toutiao's Qingyun Plan and Baijiahao's Bai+ Plan, the 2019 Baidu Digital Author of the Year, the Baijiahao's Most Popular Author in the Technology Field, the 2019 Sogou Technology and Culture Author, and the 2021 Baijiahao Quarterly Influential Creator, he has won many awards, including the 2013 Sohu Best Industry Media Person, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Beijing Third Place, the 2015 Guangmang Experience Award, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Finals Third Place, and the 2018 Baidu Dynamic Annual Powerful Celebrity.