Recently, Baidu Apollo held Apollo Day 2024 at Baidu radish fast car robot Zhixing Valley in Wuhan, fully demonstrating Baidu’s ten years of great progress in self-driving, a technological leap based on large models, a new definition of passenger safety, and the world’s largest autonomous operation network of unmanned vehicles.
Wang Yunpeng, vice president of Baidu Group and president of the intelligent driving group, said at the scene: “We are pleased to see that our original intention of self-driving-making cars smarter and easier to travel-is becoming a reality.
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, “Wang Yunpeng, vice president of Baidu Group and president of the intelligent driving group”, the first large model to support L4 self-driving, ten years of deep cultivation, so that Baidu Apollo has safer technology and safer products.
At the event, Baidu Apollo launched the world’s first large model Apollo ADFM (Autonomous Driving Foundation Model) that supports L4 self-driving, and launched a new radish fast running sixth-generation unmanned car with Baidu’s sixth-generation intelligent system solution and a price of only 200000 yuan.
Large model-driven autopilot achieves a technological leap.
Baidu Apollo ADFM reconstructs autopilot based on large model technology, which can take into account the safety and generalization of the technology, so that the safety is more than 10 times higher than that of human drivers, and achieve city-level global complex scene coverage.
Relying on the application practice of the self-driving model, Baidu radish fast run has conquered the complex road scene in Wuhan, realized the coverage of the whole city, full time and space scene in Wuhan, and provided convenient unmanned travel service for nearly half of Wuhan citizens.
At the same time, in the field of L2 + intelligent driving, ANP3, the only pure visual city navigation aid product in China, will also fully apply the large autopilot model Apollo ADFM, and Huanxin will be upgraded to ASD (Apollo Self-Driving), which will soon be launched in the mass production of all series of models in Ji Yue, taking the lead in realizing that intelligent driving can be opened all over the country and wherever there is a Baidu map.
Xu Baoqiang, general manager of Baidu’s self-driving technology department, said: “based on the large model of self-driving, we already have the technical capabilities required for city-level self-driving travel services.
In the face of a new city, it takes only half a year to complete the preparation of the global fully self-driving travel service.
In the future, this verification time will be further shortened, where there is a Baidu map, there is autopilot, and the vision of changing the mode of travel is within reach.
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, “Xu Baoqiang, General Manager of Baidu self-driving Technology Department”, and Yin Ying, General Manager of Baidu Automotive Robotics Department, released the unmanned car with Baidu Apollo sixth-generation self-driving system solution at the meeting.
Radish Express sixth-generation unmanned car comprehensively applied the scheme of “Baidu Apollo ADFM model + hardware products + security architecture”.
The scheme ensures the stability and reliability of vehicles through 10-weight safety redundancy scheme and 6-weight MRC security strategy, and the safety level is close to that of domestic large aircraft C919.
The sixth-generation unmanned car of radish fast running is also a newly defined unmanned vehicle product based on the user demand of unmanned travel and focusing on “passenger safety”.
Baidu believes that the ultimate safety of unmanned cars should be “never downtime, never lose accuracy, always online”.
Yin Ying, general manager of Baidu Automotive Robotics Department, 
, as of April, Baidu Apollo’s self-driving mileage had exceeded 100m km, but there had never been a major casualty.
At the same time, Baidu Apollo has taken out 5 million insurance for each driverless car and passengers, but data over the past two years show that the actual vehicle risk rate is only 1 / 14 of that of human drivers.
To complete more than 6 million trips, users and market are the only standards for testing technology.
Baidu Radish Express began its market-oriented exploration in 2021.
In practice, it established the world’s largest automatic operation network for unmanned vehicles, which can achieve global monitoring of the whole process, including automatic preparation, risk early warning, automatic OTA, remote control windows and other fully automatic management units.
In order to ensure safety, before hitting the road, each unmanned vehicle will undergo more than a thousand stringent safety professional tests, such as software and hardware testing, human-computer interaction test, legal compliance test, and so on, to ensure that every unmanned vehicle hit by users is safe and compliant.
the remote automatic diagnosis system will check the condition of the unmanned vehicle regularly to ensure that it works normally and in good condition.
In order to deal with the emergency of passengers, SOS service is provided in the car.
In case of sudden discomfort, the remote cloud module will respond in real time after pressing the SOS help button, which can not only help the vehicle park safely, but also dial 120 to send passengers to medical treatment in time.
, Chen Zhuo, general manager of Baidu self-driving business, and Chen Zhuo, general manager of Baidu self-driving business, said: “since radish ran online, we have received real feedback from 1.
76 million users.
User demand is the driving force for radish to run and move forward, and we will go wherever users need us to go.
” Data show that radish fast has completed more than 6 million trips across the country.
In Wuhan, the service area of radish fast running has exceeded 3000 square kilometers, covering a population of 7.
7 million.
At the dawn of commercialization, the cost of the sixth-generation unmanned car equipped with Baidu Apollo sixth-generation intelligent system solution has been directly reduced by 60% compared with the fifth-generation car, and the price is only 200000, setting a new industry record again.
The first batch of sixth-generation unmanned cars will be put into use in Wuhan from now on, and a thousand unmanned vehicles will be deployed in Wuhan this year, so that more users can enjoy the beautiful green and safe travel.
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, “the sixth generation of radish fast unmanned vehicles are officially unveiled”.
At the same time, with the completion of the construction of radish fast unmanned vehicle automatic operation network, operating costs will be reduced by 30%.
Through self-driving technology and continuous optimization of human cabin efficiency, service costs will be reduced by 80%.
The meticulous cost control makes the radish fast running cost continue to reduce.
the expansion of time and space coverage and the comprehensive satisfaction of more users’ needs make the radish fast running income grow steadily.
At the beginning of 2023, the scale of our operation was relatively small, and every car had to lose a lot of money every day.
By the beginning of this year, with the substantial improvement in time and space coverage and operational efficiency, radish fast running revenue has increased nine times, and the loss has been reduced by more than half.
As thousands of sixth-generation unmanned cars have been put into use, the revenue growth rate of radish fast running will be faster, which is very close to the critical point of break-even.
Our goal is that the radish fast run will be harvested in Wuhan by the end of 2024.
We will balance our financial assets and enter a fully profitable period in 2025.
Radish Run will become the world’s first autonomous driving travel service platform to achieve commercial profitability.
” Chen Zhuo said, 
,”Baidu Radish Run Sixth Generation Unmanned Vehicle Road Test”, profit is certainly an important milestone, but for Radish Run, providing autonomous driving travel services that are truly valuable to users is the foundation for sustainable development.
The dawn of commercialization has given Baidu Radish Quick Run the ability to use more resources for the safety and experience upgrade of unmanned vehicles, and is committed to creating a more convenient, safer and accessible travel future for everyone.,.Wang Yunpeng said that Baidu and its car company partners will continue to think about and define unmanned vehicles, with the goal of reducing the cost of each generation of products by half and increasing the capacity of 10 times.
In the future, Radish Run will quickly replicate Wuhan’s successful experience and continue to land in more cities, so that good travel can truly reach every user.
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