According to incomplete statistics, there are as many as 26 startup companies in China with unmanned technology research and development as the main direction , and the financing scale is nearly 10 billion yuan. In July , the experience of Baidu CEO on a driverless car equipped with the “Apollo Plan” platform was arousing people’s infinite imagination of the future of driverless driving.

 

From a broader perspective, driverlessness is still only one of the core components of smart transportation in the future. Unmanned real landing, but also need two other major solutions as a support to build a complete smart transportation ecology, one is smart parking, the other is wireless charging.

 

Smart parking. Although the driverless car already has the ability to sense and make decisions while driving, so that people's hands are freed from the steering wheel, but when the person gets off the car, when the car needs to be parking, how can it finishes a series of complicated activities automatically, such as to find the parking space, parking and paying?

 

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At this time, the car needs to access a smart parking platform, receive the real-time location information of the nearby parking lot, parking space and other details, then develop an optimal parking plan. At the same time, the parking lot must also have the relevant software and hardware facilities to provide a series of services such as parking lot indoor positioning, navigation, parking space index, automatic lift release, and electronic payment for the driverless car. Complete the entire parking session without anyone.

 

A driverless car must not only "driving" but also "parking." Because the software and hardware technologies and supporting resources involved in “driving” and “parking” are very different, few enterprises can “big-packed” and more cross-border cooperation to achieve coordinated development. Therefore, it is foreseeable that the driverless company and the smart parking platform will be close partners in the future.

 

In addition to "running" and "stopping", how can the problem of energy supply for driverless cars be solved? Unmanned vehicles are generally powered by electricity and are challenging the status of oil as a major automotive energy source. So how do the vehicles complete their own charging?

 

The current manual plug-in charging will be eliminated in the future, and the popularity of wireless charging is. Companies such as Qualcomm and WiTricity have turned wireless charging of electric vehicles into reality. Simply park the car in the garage and the car will automatically receive power from the charging source below the vehicle. According to relevant reports, well-known foreign companies such as BMW, Ford, Toyota, and Porsche are also planning to launch new energy vehicles equipped with wireless charging devices in the past two years.

 

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Driverless cars will carry the main services to realize smart transportation in the future, but smart transportation will inevitably support the two aspects of smart parking and wireless charging. These three major solutions cover the three different aspects of driving, and will build a truly unmanned intelligent transportation in the form of “iron triangle” in the future.

 

As a part of driverless driving, smart parking can not only ensure the unmanned parking of unmanned vehicles, but also the big data mastered by its platform, which has the value that can not be ignored for the development and landing of unmanned driving. It is foreseeable that the powerful enterprises in the field of smart parking will soon become the "toon" of the unmanned giants vying for cooperation.

 

Source from: Network