Breaking through 1000 square kilometers, AutoX landed in the largest autonomous driving area in China.

654381October 28th, AutoX (Antu), a leading domestic company of RoboTaxi, officially announced that the total area of autonomous driving has exceeded 1000 square kilometers, which is the largest autonomous driving area in China, indicating that its RoboTaxi service has taken a solid step towards large-scale landing.

It is reported that AutoX has carried out self-driving road tests in four first-tier cities in the north, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, with a total area of over 1 1,000 square kilometers. AutoX unmanned vehicles can travel smoothly in these areas. The "capillary" from the main road to the village in the city covers a wide range and the road conditions are complex, which is the first case of automatic driving operation in China.

Any point-to-point autonomous driving area with an area of thousands of square kilometers indicates that RoboTaxi is moving towards real application and has the ability to provide autonomous driving service in a huge super city.

AutoX driverless vehicle in motion

Including 168 square kilometers of unmanned "no man's land", which is also the largest unmanned working area in China.

AutoX is the first autonomous driving company in China to obtain the license of DMV unmanned operation in California, the first company in China to carry out unmanned test on the open roads of first-tier cities, and the only autonomous driving company to carry out large-scale unmanned RoboTaxi operation all the year round. Last month, AutoX first revealed its self-driving super factory, which has the ability to mass-produce all driverless vehicles.

"RoboTaxi needs to ensure three preconditions to really land: no one can ensure real safety; Large coverage area, equivalent to normal car service; The coverage density is high, and the streets and alleys can be reached to meet the normal travel needs. " A spokesperson for AutoX said, "At present, AutoX has made major breakthroughs in three aspects: unmanned technology, large area and capillary density, and the large-scale landing capability of unmanned RoboTaxi is gradually complete."

In the end, I haven't taken over the complex scene of the city for nearly 6 hours.

At the same time, AutoX released a 5-hour and 40-minute unmanned video, which is the longest unmanned video in the industry.

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In the video, the AutoX unmanned vehicle runs smoothly in the area of 1 1,000 square kilometers, and the automatic driving takes over from beginning to end, covering all kinds of scenes and road conditions from day to night, from CBD to village in the city, from tunnel to expressway.

In the video, the AutoX unmanned vehicle starts from a completely unmanned state, and there is no one in the car.

All unmanned vehicles are activated.

The itinerary includes busy urban roads, which is at the peak in the evening, and the traffic and people flow reach the peak. The rest of the roads are in expressway, and AutoX unmanned vehicles have passed several high-speed toll stations, with a top speed of over 90 kilometers per hour.

Pass the toll gate

In addition, the unmanned vehicle also crossed a 2.3-kilometer tunnel. After entering the tunnel at 1 hour for 46 seconds, the AutoX unmanned vehicle always maintained a high speed of 50-60 kilometers per hour, continuously crossed three tunnels, and finally drove out smoothly. The location algorithm can easily deal with tunnels several kilometers long.

Pass the tunnel smoothly

When the policy requires a security officer, the unmanned vehicle will automatically pull over to pick up passengers, wait for the security officer to get on the bus and continue driving, and always maintain the automatic driving state. Out of concern for human safety officers, in the state of automatic driving, the vehicle changed its safety officer once by dropping off passengers.

At night, travel flexibly during peak hours.

There will be traffic on narrow roads at night.

China Characteristic Unprotected Left Turn

As shown in the video, the AutoX team goes through the test and operation, covering day to night, CBD to urban village, tunnel to high speed, hot and humid to rainy and foggy days, experiencing a lot of valuable autopilot scenes every day, and the driverless ability is constantly improving.

Three dimensions to complete a new breakthrough in unmanned landing

As the AutoX spokesperson said above, if RoboTaxi wants to move from test and demonstration operation to real large-scale landing, it needs to be prepared in three aspects: RoboTaxi is unmanned, with large coverage area and high coverage density, in order to provide users with a truly convenient travel experience.

In these three aspects, AutoX has invested for a long time and is currently at the leading level in the industry.

First of all, the only vehicle is completely unmanned.

The core requirement of RoboTaxi landing is safety. Unmanned driving is the only way to ensure safety, and the vehicle itself has the ability to drive automatically through continuous optimization technology. In the end, RoboTaxi should be able to get rid of the security officer and achieve the goal of no one in the whole car.

Previously, AutoX unmanned RoboTaxi realized "no one in the whole car" (no one in front of the car and no one in the back row) and was open to the public. This model is based on the front redundant line-controlled MPV of Chrysler FCA Grand Jetron, and is equipped with the fully unmanned system AutoX Gen5 independently developed by AutoX, including the high-resolution sensing system, the self-developed core on-board supercomputing platform AutoXCU, and the electronic and electrical architecture of the L4 unmanned field.

This also means that AutoX's fully unmanned RoboAxis team is the only fully unmanned RoboAxis team in China, and AutoX is the second in the world and the only company in China that operates a truly unmanned RoboAxis.

Up to now, AutoX has been operating unmanned RoboTaxi for more than one year, and has maintained a perfect zero accident record with excellent technical strength.

Second, China's largest arbitrary point-to-point autonomous driving field

The second core requirement for the real landing of RoboTaxi is to cover a large enough area, which is equivalent to the normal operation area of the * * * car.

For users, the limited regional and point-to-point travel services are of low value, and it is difficult to meet their daily travel needs. The practical application of RoboTaxi is also difficult to talk about, let alone form a real commercialization.

AutoX has released more than 1 1,000 square kilometers of autonomous driving field, which is an important step for China RoboTaxi application to truly enter the homes of ordinary people.

As early as 20 19, AutoX has accumulated autopilot experience in 13 cities around the world. Since then, AutoX has vigorously expanded a large-scale coherent point-to-point autonomous driving field. This time, it broke through 1 1,000 square kilometers, covering large and small capillary roads in the region. The area is enough to meet the real travel needs of a large number of urban users, which is of great value to the real landing of RoboTaxi scene.

Third, the highest density covers capillaries.

RoboTaxi's third operational requirement is high-density coverage, which can be achieved in all streets and lanes to meet normal travel needs. At present, other automatic driving operations are often getting on and off at several fixed stops, which are more similar to bus stops, rather than real arbitrary point-to-point travel experience.

Any point-to-point coverage density means that all kinds of road networks, including capillary roads, are completely covered in the whole operating area and can stop on all kinds of roads.

Only in this way can the travel service provided by RoboTaxi compete with the existing travel modes such as * * * sharing and carpooling, and finally further open the market through the superiority of technology and the convenience of service.

According to the latest report of Allied Market Yu Chen, it is estimated that by 2030, the market size of RoboTaxi will reach $38.66438+0 billion. With the continuous progress of driverless technology, the landing ability of real scenes will become an important indicator to measure the competitiveness of autonomous driving enterprises, which will continue to drive the healthy development of enterprises.

With deep technical reserves and years of operating experience, we will build an unmanned RoboTaxi moat.

In 2020, AutoX became the first company in China to conduct a completely unmanned test on the open roads of first-tier cities, the second in the world, and the first RoboTaxi in China to realize "completely unmanned".

Since then, AutoX has taken the lead in the large-scale landing of the unmanned robot RoboTaxi, and continued to promote the application of RoboTaxi to make substantial progress.

In the past year, AutoX released the first two-hour unmanned video in China, showing that 16 arbitrary point-to-point RoboTaxi orders were completed continuously on urban open roads; Self-driving video of the first village in China; This unmanned video lasted for 5 hours and 40 minutes.

It is not difficult to see that its RoboTaxi operation presents the characteristics of large-scale comfort, safe and reliable extreme scenes, and dropping off passengers at any point.

Last month, AutoX released the internal video of AutoX RoboTaxi Super Factory for the first time, showing the first truly unmanned RoboTaxi production line in China. The production line has been optimized for three generations to ensure the accuracy and consistency of each RoboTaxi mass production integration.

Every RoboTaxi is produced on a standardized production line and inspected by PDI before leaving the factory. It immediately went to the self-built automatic multi-sensor calibration turntable, four-wheel positioning and other calibration equipment in the workshop to complete the inspection of vehicles such as the constant temperature room and paint booth in the factory, and it can enter the unmanned state when leaving the factory.

At present, AutoX has built a research and development team of nearly 1,000 people, and continues to lead China in technology, operation, production and talents. AutoX will continue to increase its investment in R&D. At present, the five R&D centers located in the north, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Silicon Valley are vigorously recruiting technical talents.