autonomous driving

2025.04.19

07:57

The penetration rate of intelligent cockpits in new cars in China has reached 73%

The report from the automotive industry pointed out that the market penetration rate of automobiles with combined driving assistance functions in my country has grown rapidly and has now entered the stage of large-scale application. The market penetration rate has increased from 23.5% in 2021 to 57.3% in 2024. It is expected that the market penetration rate of L2 level, that is, automobiles with partial autonomous driving functions, will exceed 70% this year.

2025.04.18

16:42

Pony.ai to launch new generation Robotaxi at Shanghai Auto Show

On April 18, Pony.ai announced that it will launch the new generation Robotaxi globally at the 2025 Shanghai Auto Show. The entire seventh-generation Robotaxi family will make its collective debut for the first time, and the seventh-generation autonomous driving system will be launched globally.

2025.04.17

20:45

The Ministry of Public Security's Road Research Center issued a long article on popularizing the law: Beware of the "high-level intelligent driving" trap. False propaganda of autonomous driving may lead to a prison sentence of less than 2 years.

The official WeChat account of the Road Traffic Safety Research Center of the Ministry of Public Security, "Traffic Research Society", recently published an article titled "Smart Navigation, Safe Escort - Be Cautious in Using the Assisted Driving Function of Intelligent Connected Vehicles", which mentioned recent traffic accidents caused by drivers' incorrect use of assisted driving and revealed the cause - some drivers do not have a good understanding of assisted driving and mistakenly believe that "assisted driving = automatic driving". The article pointed out that some drivers engage in dangerous behaviors such as playing with mobile phones, sleeping, chatting, and eating after turning on the assisted driving function, which not only violates road traffic safety laws and regulations, but also poses a serious threat to the safety of other road users. According to Article 28 of the "Advertising Law of the People's Republic of China", if a car company fabricates or exaggerates the assisted driving function (such as describing Level 2 assisted driving as "automatic driving") through advertisements or promotional materials to mislead consumers to buy, the market supervision department may impose a fine of 5-10 times the advertising fee for false propaganda in accordance with the "Advertising Law of the People's Republic of China", and revoke the business license in serious cases. If false advertising causes serious consequences (such as causing traffic accidents resulting in casualties), it may violate Article 222 of the Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China, and the person responsible may be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than two years or criminal detention, and may be fined or fined alone.

19:17

Tan Dai, President of Huoshan: The capabilities of many agents are still at the L1 stage similar to autonomous driving

"At present, the capabilities of many agents are still at the elementary level. The direction of industry development is to truly realize agents with stronger reflection, planning and autonomous decision-making capabilities." On April 17, at the Volcano Engine 2025 FORCE LINK AI Innovation Tour in Hangzhou, Tan Dai, president of Volcano under ByteDance, said in an interview. Tan Dai believes that the deep thinking model is the basis for building an agent. The model must be able to think, plan and reflect well, and must support multimodality, just like humans have vision and hearing, so that the agent can better handle complex tasks. On the same day, Doubao 1.5 deep thinking model was officially released. According to reports, in addition to outstanding performance in general tasks such as mathematics, programming, scientific reasoning, creative writing, etc., this model also launched a visual version of the deep thinking model with visual reasoning ability, which can associate and think about what it sees like humans.

2025.04.16

23:25

Lyft (LYFT.O): Expects to launch self-driving taxi service in downtown Atlanta this summer.

2025.04.14

22:54

Musk: A general artificial intelligence solution for fully autonomous driving will emerge

Tesla CEO Elon Musk posted: "Soon, for the first time, there will be a general, pure AI solution for fully autonomous driving. All it takes is a camera and a Tesla AI chip with Tesla AI software."

15:54

Li Liyun of Xiaopeng Motors: AI cars are the first step towards concrete intelligence

On the afternoon of April 14, at the Xiaopeng AI sharing and exchange meeting, Li Liyun, head of Xiaopeng Motors' autonomous driving, said that the problem of autonomous driving is essentially a problem of "complex physical AI", and AI cars are the first step in figurative intelligence. Li Liyun said that autonomous driving not only needs to understand the world, but more importantly, it also needs to take action, including dynamic responses to acceleration and deceleration, accelerators and brakes, steering wheels, signal lights, and even more interactions between people, cars and the outside world in the future. In Li Liyun's view, the more important point is that autonomous driving is a product that needs to be mass-produced for users. It needs to meet consumers' requirements for functional experience and be safe and collision-free, so autonomous driving is a very difficult and very interesting embodied problem.

15:16

He Xiaopeng: The essence of Xiaopeng is an AI car company

He Xiaopeng, chairman of Xpeng Motors, said on a social networking platform that as the earliest car company to take "intelligence" as its core, Xpeng is essentially an AI car company. "I think the greatest value of AI lies in changing the physical world, not just the digital world. We want to be a global AI car company. I want to change the physical world through AI, which is very meaningful, but also more difficult." He Xiaopeng pointed out that Xpeng insists on full-stack self-development. Last year, it took the lead in introducing reinforcement learning and model distillation in the field of autonomous driving, and trained a large-scale physical world model. No other car company in China can do this.

2025.04.13

09:17

GAC Group's first L3-class car is planned to be launched in 2025

Feng Xingya, Chairman and General Manager of GAC Group, stated at the 2025 GAC Technology Day on the evening of April 12 that GAC is one of the first passenger car companies qualified for the country's L3 access pilot program, and in the fourth quarter of 2025, GAC's L3 autonomous driving models will be available for sale.

2025.04.09

15:38

Chengdu HUAWEI: Successfully released multi-channel fully integrated high-performance RF direct-sourced RFFPGA

Chengdu HUAWEI announced that the HWDSF700T RF FPGA developed by the company was successfully released recently. The product integrates high-speed and high-precision AD/DA chips and FPGA chips, combined with independent full-process development software tools, reaching the domestic leading level. The product provides a systematic solution for downstream customers and can be widely used in high-end equipment such as high-speed communication, intelligent perception, broadband detection, and autonomous driving. The company will continue to increase its R&D investment in the field of integrated circuits and continuously launch more innovative products to meet customer needs.

2025.04.02

16:18

WeRide announces launch of robotaxi service in Dubai

On April 2, local time, WeRide announced a strategic partnership with Uber and the Dubai Roads and Transport Authority. The three parties will work together to launch robotaxi autonomous driving travel services in Dubai.

2025.04.01

09:53

SiEngine Technology's global autonomous driving headquarters project signed and landed in Nanjing Jiangbei New District

Recently, the CoreEngine Technology Global Autonomous Driving Headquarters project with a total investment of 3 billion yuan was signed and landed in Nanjing Jiangbei New District. In the future, SiEngine Technology's global autonomous driving headquarters will carry out R&D, iteration and market application of the entire product line of high-end autonomous driving chips. It is reported that CoreEngine Technology's product "Dragon Eagle No. 1" is the first 7nm automotive-grade smart cockpit chip in China, and it is also the only 7nm cockpit chip in China that has achieved mass production. Its performance is comparable to international leading products, and it has a leading market share in the domestic automotive chip market. The "Star One" (AD1000) full-scenario high-end autonomous driving chip was successfully lit up in October last year.

2025.03.31

10:36

Musk said Tesla is on track to launch an unsupervised fully self-driving service in Austin in June, and he also expressed his hope to provide Neuralink implants for blind people later this year.

10:34

Musk says Tesla on track to launch fully autonomous driving without human supervision in Austin in June

Musk said Tesla is on track to launch fully autonomous driving without human supervision in Austin in June.

2025.03.29

21:43

Lei Jun: In the early days of car manufacturing, everyone thought Xiaomi Auto was late to the game, but "we came at the right time"

Lei Jun shared Xiaomi's latest progress in its automotive business at the earnings conference and talked about the challenges Xiaomi Auto faced in its early days. He said, "In the early days of car manufacturing, everyone thought that Xiaomi Auto entered the market late, but looking back now, we came at the right time." Lei Jun also revealed that Xiaomi Auto has made significant progress in technology, including self-developed battery technology, Xiaomi autonomous driving technology, etc., and emphasized that Xiaomi will continue to insist on technological innovation and improvement of user experience in the automotive field.

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