The Toyota will join baidu self-driving development plan to promote technology development in China

Reference news reported on July 2, according to Japanese media said that Toyota will join baidu to promote autonomous development alliance & other; The Apollo program & throughout; 。 Toyota hopes to join the program, accelerate the technical process of practical application.

according to the nikkei newspaper website on June 28, Toyota announced in April 2018 to the United States department of Uber stripping of the autopilot. The two sides will work together to develop web about car oriented fully automated driving a car by 2021 in the service the Uber and at the same time in the production of low-cost development of a new generation of automated driving suite to cooperate.

according to the report, & other; The Apollo program & throughout; Is under the baidu dominated, launched in 2017, automated driving and development alliance. The alliance to take & other; Open source & throughout; Enterprise mechanism, to participate in public a artificial intelligence ( AI） Control software of self-driving cars technical information, by the companies to promote specific development respectively. Toyota hopes to use by joining & other; The Apollo program & throughout; The technology, domestic advancing self-driving technology development in China.

it is reported that in addition to outside the big car companies such as Volkswagen, ford, including Intel and nvidia, more than 135 companies to attend & other The Apollo program & throughout; 。 In the Japanese auto makers, Honda had already joined, Toyota as the second home.

report points out, with Toyota wants to attend & other The Apollo program & throughout; To expand self-driving technology development system in China. Are discussing with r&d base in changshu city, jiangsu province of China as the core, the construction base in Shanghai and Beijing. Will also promote the cooperation with the Chinese local enterprises, and constantly complement in terms of technology development.

Toyota in order to promote the technology development of self-driving, founded in silicon valley AI research unit & other; 丰田研究所( TRI） ” 。 In order to apply the research achievements of TRI to cars, in 2018 also set up software development unit in Tokyo.

reported that China has the world's largest car market, in the pure electric vehicles ( EV) And a new generation of technologies such as automatic driving strength ascension. With a core of autopilot & other; Male Ann district & throughout; Urban construction is moving forward. Consultancy pricewaterhousecoopers predicts that by 2030 35% of new car sales in China will be the self-driving cars, more than the United States ( 10%) 。

according to the report, from the perspective of the new car sales of Toyota, the world's share is about 10%, only 6% in China. In recent years, Toyota is accelerating to develop the Chinese market, China's overall car sales in 2018 after 28 years of year-on-year decline in the background, Toyota's sales increased by 14%, to around 1. 48 million. Toyota announced the public free of charge 2 in April. 3. 74 million pieces of electric vehicle technology patents. In China and Beijing automotive group around the fuel cell vehicle ( FCV） Cooperation, is to accelerate a new generation of technology in the field of cooperation. In the field of automatic driving, Toyota will also explore the potential demand huge market in China.