On the morning of April 2nd, Tencent’s self-driving car made its first public appearance at the Fourth Ring Road in Beijing. This was the first public appearance of a Tencent autonomous driving prototype. Which laser pointer sensors are equipped for Tencent’s unmanned vehicles?
This is a white Changan SUV modified prototype with a huge eye-catching lidar above it, and a modified sensor added at the rear of the car-it is not common and looks like a lidar. Around the front and back of the body, sensors such as cameras, millimeter-wave radar are installed. It is speculated that Tencent’s self-driving technology solution should use multi-sensor redundancy such as lidar and camera, which is the current mainstream and stable route.
Previously, Tencent also introduced the general idea of unmanned vehicles at the 2017 Global Partner Conference-the core is to walk on two legs with “advanced laser pointer assisted driving” and “unmanned driving”. What we see today is probably the prototype car on the “driverless” line.
In recent years, the three BAT giants have deployed unmanned vehicles. In July 2014, Baidu confirmed for the first time that it had launched a “Baidu self-driving car” research and development program, and will cooperate with Jinlong Automobile in July this year to take the lead in mass production of driverless minibuses. Ali and SAIC announced a joint venture to set up a 1 billion Internet car fund to prioritize the development of in-vehicle systems. At present, Tencent has held 5% of Tesla’s shares, becoming its fifth largest shareholder, and joined hands with Baidu and other institutions to invest in Weilai Automobile. According to reports, Tencent has developed its own driverless system.