autonomous driving

2025.03.08

08:35

National People's Congress Representative He Xiaopeng: The automotive industry is merging with robots

He Xiaopeng, deputy to the National People's Congress: A new AI era is coming. We have two changes: AI will promote the arrival of autonomous driving and even driverless driving; the automotive industry is beginning to merge with robots.

2025.03.06

13:38

He Xiaopeng, Chairman of Xpeng Motors: We will accelerate the pace of introducing autonomous driving technology into Hong Kong

During the 2025 National People's Congress, He Xiaopeng, deputy to the National People's Congress and chairman and CEO of Xpeng Motors, said that Xpeng's AI car market performance is outstanding and will accelerate the pace to introduce autonomous driving technology to Hong Kong. In order to improve the owner experience, Xpeng has applied for remote parking permits in Hong Kong as one of the first car companies, and has taken the lead in promising to upgrade remote parking and other functions for Hong Kong users for free.

2025.03.05

21:10

Avride signs partnership with Hyundai Motor Company for self-driving cars

On March 5, Avride, a developer of autonomous driving technology, announced that it had signed a memorandum of understanding with Hyundai Motor Company to jointly develop and operate vehicles capable of fully autonomous driving. These vehicles will be first launched in Dallas, Texas, USA later this year as part of Avride's exclusive robotaxi service on Uber.

11:11

Cainiao continues to develop "AI+Logistics" and develops the industry's first autonomous driving planner

Recently, Cainiao has developed the industry's first high-performance large-scale reinforcement learning planner for autonomous driving, which will enhance Cainiao's unmanned vehicles' ability to cope with complex scenarios. The research results have been included in the top international academic conference CVPR 2025. CVPR 2025, the top international conference in the field of computer vision and pattern recognition hosted by IEEE, recently announced the results of the joint research submitted by Zhejiang University and Cainiao's unmanned vehicle technical team. The conference has accepted the results. The joint research team proposed a new consistent autoregressive planner CarPlanner (Consistent Auto-regressive Trajectory Planning for Large-scale Reinforcement Learning in Autonomous Driving), which solves the problems of inefficiency and insufficient performance of reinforcement learning in trajectory planning. On the extremely demanding large-scale real-world dataset nuPlan, Cainiao proved for the first time that a planner based on reinforcement learning can surpass solutions based on imitation learning and rules. This is also the industry's first high-performance large-scale reinforcement learning planner for autonomous driving.

2025.03.04

21:28

Feng Xingya, deputy to the National People's Congress and chairman of GAC Group: "Smart driving and equal rights" is the goal GAC has always pursued

On March 4, Feng Xingya, deputy to the National People's Congress and chairman of GAC Group, said in an interview with reporters at the Guangdong delegation that "smart driving equal rights" means promoting smart driving to more models, from high-end models to general models. "Smart driving equal rights" is the goal that GAC has always pursued. Feng Xingya believes that the progress of "smart driving equal rights" is related to the speed of reduction in the technical cost of smart driving itself. All future models must be smart driving models, and "smart driving equal rights" must be a very normal thing. However, the current development of the automotive industry is still in the early stages of autonomous driving, and the cost of smart driving technology is still relatively high. In terms of cost, consumers may not be able to afford the application of smart driving technology on low-priced models. However, Feng Xingya noticed that the speed of smart driving cost reduction is faster than expected, and "smart driving equal rights" will soon be popularized. "GAC Group first reduced the urban smart driving function to 160,000-level models last year, and later reduced it to 150,000-level models. This is unimaginable. Therefore, 'smart driving equal rights' is the goal that GAC has always pursued." Feng Xingya said that in the next step, GAC Group will adopt smart driving functions on more models.

16:32

Lei Jun: AI face-changing and voice-onomatopoeia have become the "hardest hit areas" on the Internet and legislation should be enacted as soon as possible

In an interview, Lei Jun, a deputy to the National People's Congress, said that AI face-changing and AI voice-onomatopoeia technologies have become the main victims online, and called for legislation to focus on rectification as soon as possible. At the same time, he also interpreted the five suggestions brought to the National People's Congress this year, including accelerating the mass production of autonomous driving, developing the industry ecology of intelligent networked new energy vehicles, accelerating the high-quality development of the artificial intelligence terminal industry, and optimizing the design of new energy vehicle license plates.

11:13

It is rumored that Didi's self-driving department is seeking financing, but there is no official response yet

According to foreign media reports, Didi's autonomous driving division is reportedly seeking financing at a valuation of US$5 billion, which may raise hundreds of millions of dollars. It is currently negotiating with potential investors including a Beijing fund. A person familiar with the matter said that Didi may use the funds to continue developing autonomous driving technology and accelerate the mass production of its autonomous taxis. The reporter asked Didi to verify the above information, but no official response was given as of press time.

10:20

Lei Jun: It is recommended to strengthen the governance of the hardest-hit areas of "AI face-changing and voice-changing" illegal infringement and accelerate the promotion of mass production of autonomous driving

Reporters learned that the 2025 two sessions suggestions of National People's Congress deputy Lei Jun include: suggestions on accelerating the mass production of autonomous driving, suggestions on developing the industrial ecology of intelligent networked new energy vehicles, suggestions on accelerating the high-quality development of the artificial intelligence terminal industry, suggestions on optimizing the design of new energy vehicle license plates, and suggestions on strengthening the governance of areas hardest hit by illegal infringements of "AI face-changing and onomatopoeia".

2025.03.03

22:28

He Xiaopeng, deputy to the National People's Congress and chairman of Xpeng Motors: Judging from the trend, all automobile companies must transform into robot car companies

He Xiaopeng, deputy to the National People's Congress and chairman of Xiaopeng Motors, said that judging from the trend, automobile companies must transform into robot car companies, and future cars will become mobile robots with four wheels. He Xiaopeng believes that the form of future cars is: the upper body is the living and working space, the lower body is the chassis, the middle is the smart cockpit, the roof is the aircraft, the rear is the camera, the bottom of the car is the laser radar, and the wheels are hub motors. He Xiaopeng also said that future cars will realize intelligent assisted driving in all scenarios, including cities, highways, parking lots, rural roads, etc., to achieve point-to-point automatic driving.

20:46

WeRide founder responds to "autonomous driving replaces a large number of jobs": new positions already exist, job migration is gradual

In response to the question "If more and more transportation vehicles become self-driving, will a large number of jobs be replaced?", Han Xu, founder and CEO of WeRide, said that a key question that philosophers in the 21st century think about is the relationship between humans and machines, more specifically, the relationship between humans and artificial intelligence (AI). Many jobs that were once done by humans have gradually been replaced by machines. Looking back at history, this is not the first time. Programmable switches replaced human operators, washing machines replaced laundry workers, and mining has also adopted a large number of automated technologies. This is the migration or transformation of human jobs. I think we should invest more resources and efforts to create more friendly and pleasant jobs for people. In fact, such new jobs already exist, such as data annotation and elderly care. At the same time, such job migration is gradual. In fact, in many aging societies, the key problem is not employment, but the shortage of bus drivers and taxi drivers. Therefore, we hope to use self-driving technology to solve this problem. So we must master the rhythm of technology application. We don't want to see self-driving taxis replace all traditional taxis overnight. We don't want to do such a thing. I think a gradual strategy is a good choice. What we do is to gradually fill the gap between supply and demand.

20:36

Shenzhen: Accelerate the training of large models in the fields of embodied intelligence and autonomous driving

18:26

Huawei Cloud launches a series of cloud services including end-to-end large model security solution

During the 2025 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Huawei Cloud released a series of cloud services for the global market, including data center cloud solutions, enterprise IT migration cloud solutions, disaster recovery and backup continuity solutions, large model security solutions, CMRP multi-layer linkage anti-ransomware security solutions, and commercial vehicle autonomous driving solutions. Among them, the end-to-end large model security solution covers environmental security, corpus data security compliance, model reasoning security compliance, and unified security operations.

2025.02.28

18:22

Caocao Travel holds launch ceremony for Caocao Intelligent Driving Platform

On February 28, Caocao Travel held a launch ceremony for the Caocao Intelligent Driving Platform, announcing that it had successfully built the country's first "F Cube" fully self-developed closed-loop intelligent driving ecosystem. At the same time, it launched Robotaxi operation pilots in Suzhou and Hangzhou, and deployed vehicles equipped with Geely's latest intelligent driving system. Caocao Travel CEO Gong Xin revealed that Caocao Intelligent Driving plans to launch customized Robotaxi models in 2026, and the manufacturing cost of each vehicle is expected to be significantly lower than similar models in the industry.

17:02

MIIT: Companies should not use the term “autonomous driving system” in the naming and marketing of combined driving assistance systems or functions, which implies to consumers that the system can be used as an autonomous driving system.

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued the "Guidelines for the Management and Technology of Access, Recall and Online Software Upgrade of Intelligent Connected Vehicle Products", which proposed to regulate marketing and publicity activities. When enterprises provide consumers with information on the driving automation level, system capabilities, system boundaries, etc. of intelligent connected vehicles, they should be truthful and comprehensive, and should not make false, exaggerated system capabilities or misleading publicity to ensure that consumers correctly understand and use intelligent connected vehicle products. In the naming and marketing of combined driving assistance systems or functions, enterprises shall not use terms that imply to consumers that the system can be used as an autonomous driving system and has functions that it does not actually have, so as to prevent the risk of driver abuse.

11:58

ThunderSoft: The company has accumulated low-altitude economy-related technologies and is participating in and deploying low-altitude economy fields

Thundersoft said on the interactive platform that the company has accumulated low-altitude economy-related technologies and is participating in and deploying low-altitude economy. For example, the company has IoT sensors and communication technologies, advanced navigation algorithms, environmental perception technologies, and decision support system technologies for autonomous driving. In addition, the company's robot RB6 platform, with its leading AI and 5G capabilities, can empower AMR, drones, urban air mobility (UAM) aircraft and other products. These related technologies and products can be used in the low-altitude field.

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