With JiDU, China is once again showing its innovative strength in the field of autonomous driving.
Geely recently launched satellites into space to better secure the networking of autonomous driving. Also owned by the company Volvo and it is major shareholder in Mercedes Benz. Now they are cooperating with the Chinese Google: Baidu. With Apollo in particular, the Internet giant has launched a leading platform for the development of autonomous driving.
Together they now support the company for autonomous e-vehicles: JiDU. The young company recently presented its Robocar, which is officially called JiDU ROBO-01. The vehicle was introduced in the Chinese metaverse: “XiRang metaverse”. A promising appearance.
A new one is supposed to be in the vehicle AI regulate the systems and thus bring a revolutionary approach to the market. The human being is at the center of the design and the AI also organizes the HMI. The vehicle represents an SUV arriving with gullwing doors. It also has an active rear wing that can be raised and is called “ROBOWing”.
There is still a steering wheel, but it is foldable and has a U-shape. The edge-free front display runs over the full width, has a 3D look, immersive audio and video and has a voice function. The seats are borrowed from spacecraft with their zero-g seats, and the doors don’t have door handles.
JiDU’s autonomous driving is powered by Baidu’s full-stack Apollo technology, whose capabilities have been proven with 27 million test kilometers on public roads in over 30 cities. The advanced driving skills of the robotic vehicle are based on a special, trained functionality and the JIDU Robocar Neural JET (JIDU Evolving Technology). It supports a high-level autonomous driving system with full redundancy of all critical systems.
Two are used Nvidia Drive Orin X Processors with a total of 31 sensors, including two lidar 5MM wave radars and a dozen cameras. The car drives on level 4 and uses motorways, but also urban streets and can park itself. It communicates using edge signals, so it doesn’t rely on cellular or the cloud.
A limited version of the model is expected to be launched later this fall, and a second model is set to debut at the Guangzhou Auto Show.