Car Sensing of Beijing in China Δ 21th of April 2017 Ω 10:09 AM

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Huawei signs MoU with Italy’s MetaSystem for Connected Car industry
autonomous vehicles to turn the liability for accidents shifts from humans to vehicles
or at least their software and manufacturers
advances in connected cars is resulting in changes to the way insurers position their services

Huawei signed an MoU with specialist vehicle electronics and telematics company MetaSystem,
which will see Huawei work with MetaSystem Italy
to develop connected car applications and
provide a variety of end-to-end usage-based insurance (UBI) solutions for the industry

they plan to promote the development and transformation of the connected car industry,
assist vehicle companies in digital transformation and
provide fully connected vehicle experiences

Plan is to integrate MetaSystem's connected car devices and applications with Huawei's OceanConnect IoT platform
Huawei and MetaSystem to develop connected car applications and
foster development by utilising the open capabilities of the OceanConnect platform

IoT to succeed only by the combined efforts of upstream and downstream partners
according to VP of the Cloud Core Network Product Line at Huawei

MetaSystem CEO Giuseppe Simonazzi saw the two major trends affecting business cases to be
the move from combustion engines to either hybrid or electric engines, and
popularity of the concept of Vehicles as a Service (VaaS), which increases demand for sensors and other on-board equipment.

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»Baidu

Baidu to Release a Free Operating System for Self-Driving Cars
Baidu is releasing much of the technology behind its self-driving car
it hopes will fast-track the technology’s progress
while cementing the company’s role in supplying key elements
such as mapping and machine-learning systems

Most of the companies developing automated driving carefully guard the technology
and expertise behind their systems, as a series of legal battles between competitors highlight.

Baidu’s move could perhaps lead to a more open effort and
lower the bar for developing advanced driver-assist systems as well as self-driving prototypes.

Baidu has Intelligent Driving Group.
It will release its self-driving platform—known as Apollo.

While much of the technology required to develop a self-driving car will be made freely available,
certain features such as some mapping and machine-learning services,
will be accessible through an application programming interface that Baidu will control.

It remains to be seen whether Baidu’s move will blow open the market for automated-driving technology.
As important as control and sensor software are,
the most valuable component of any self-driving system may be the data amassed through testing on real roads.
And Baidu has done less testing than some other companies, especially Google.

But the decision makes sense given the nature of China’s domestic car market,
which is also the largest auto market in the world.
Besides established foreign companies,
there are dozens of small carmakers in China, and
they lack the resources to develop their own self-driving vehicles.
By providing the technology for these manufacturers,
Baidu could establish itself as the supplier of the brains
for these rapidly growing companies, and
it might be able to benefit from the data they collect through testing.

Baidu’s move is somewhat reminiscent of Google’s decision to release Android,
a free operating system for smartphones, starting in 2008.
Android is now the most popular smartphone operating system in the world, and
although Google makes it available for free,
it serves to drive users to the company’s various mobile apps and services.

Baidu is one of China’s leading tech companies,
with a deep bench of AI and machine-learning talent in China and Silicon Valley.
The company invested heavily in AI after hiring Andrew Ng,
then a leading AI researcher at Google, to lead the effort in 2014.
Ng recently announced he was leaving the company to explore new opportunities.

Baidu began developing self-driving vehicles in 2015, and
it gave MIT Technology Review an exclusive sneak peek shortly
before publicly announcing the project.
The company has been testing autonomous vehicles since then on the streets of Beijing and in Wuzhen, a town not far from Shanghai.

The company hopes that giving away some of its technology will help it cement its position.

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