Baidu, the owner of the largest Chinese search engine, revealed plans to cooperate this year with some of the world's leading automakers, to integrate ITB information communication solutions into cars of major brands such as Audi, General Motors, and Volkswagen, with the goal of making models introduced to China smarter.
The company relies on Baidu CarLife, an app that integrates smartphones and connected cars, and will be available on future Audi A3, A4, Q5 and Q7 models, and Cadillac's CTS and SRX series. The application provides a range of Baidu services, including free navigation by voice commands, playing music online, making phone calls, writing and sending text messages, and the application allows the operation of innovations provided by a third party.
CarLife can work through phones that are based on Android or iOS systems, and it communicates via Wi-Fi or USB with the system on which the car depends, whether it is Android, Linux, or QNX. It has been launched since January 2015 and works successfully. Now in BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Ford, and Chinese car BYD. That's not to mention the successful integration of CarLife into the interior system of the new Hyundai Tucson that was launched in September 2015.
It is worth noting that the expected number of personal cars in China will reach 160 million by 2016, and Baidu is working to allow the largest number of people to benefit from its advantages in the field of technology, especially in linking various services with cars, and is always striving to meet The rapidly changing demand for as many users as possible, and with the company's world-leading mapping technologies, Baidu is proud to have the ability to shape the future of the IT industry. As the development of maps is an integral part of the development of technology used in cars, that is why the company has been working on producing detailed maps in HD quality (high definition), which is an ongoing and ever-evolving project since 2013. Baidu expects that in a time range not exceeding the next five years, it will witness maps HD is a major development that becomes the mainstream in map services, so the company focuses a lot of its research and development efforts in this field, without diminishing the interest in developing self-driving technology for cars, or developing traditional navigation map infrastructures. This is so that the company, in its quest for future leadership, does not lose its current distinguished position.
Baidu had started fruitful cooperation with one of the largest automated solutions companies - HaaS in the United States, to read any real-time changes in the roads, and send real-time updates via the Internet, and thus the HD maps become “aware” of what is happening in the roads and traffic in At the same moment, it is always able to provide alternative solutions in a timely manner, so it can be called smart maps.
In addition to the CarLife application, Baidu is developing many technical solutions in cooperation with HaaS, in order to keep pace with the growing demand for smart cars. The CoDriver audio system and the high-fidelity CarGuard security system.
CarLife, MyCar, CoDriver, CarGuard applications and systems are the beating heart of Baidu's activities in its quest to make cars smarter. Fill the fuel tanks” so that you can control everything related to the car through one portal.
