New Progress Of Xiaomi Car
On the evening of August 11, the 2022 Lei Jun annual speech was held. One more thing brought the latest progress in Xiaomi's car manufacturing.
Lei Jun introduced that since Xiaomi announced its entry into the automotive industry, it has always received enthusiastic attention from the outside world. However, although the confidentiality work was done well during the period, there were still various messages, and various rumors were also carried out during the period.
Lei Jun said that Xiaomi will not refute the rumors in the next two years, and will report the situation about the automobile business to everyone at a suitable node.
In this speech, Lei Jun revealed that Xiaomi chose autonomous driving as a breakthrough direction and adopted a full-stack self-developed algorithm.
Xiaomi invested 3.3 billion in R&D expenses in the field of autonomous driving in the first phase and has established a research and development team of more than 500 people. At the same time, through wholly-owned mergers and acquisitions and industrial investment in upstream and downstream enterprises, it is promoting the medium and long-term industrial layout in the field of autonomous driving.
At the same time, Xiaomi's self-driving technology also made its debut here. In the video, the test car equipped with Xiaomi's self-driving technology can realize one-key summoning, unprotected U-turn, automatic bypassing of temporarily parked vehicles, automatic bypassing of accident vehicles, and bypassing around the island. , autonomous valet parking, automatic avoidance of pedestrians, down continuous ramps, and other full-scene automatic driving.
At the end of the video, Xiaomi Auto showed a new technology. The charging robot next to the parking space automatically extends its robotic arm after the vehicle is parked in the parking space to charge the vehicle, realizing unattended automatic energy replenishment, and further improving the car experience.
It is reported that Xiaomi's self-driving technology has entered the testing stage. In the first phase, 140 test vehicles are planned, which will be successively tested across the country. The goal is to enter the first camp in the industry in 2024. This is also the latest progress since Xiaomi officially announced the "building of a car" on March 30 last year.
