On January 26, some media reported that Su Zhen, the former president of Huawei's intelligent driving product line, has recently left his job, and the specific destination has not been disclosed. Huawei has responded to the news, confirming that Su Zhen has left the Huawei car BU and thanking Su Zhen for his contribution to the car BU.
According to public information, Su Zhen first joined Huawei from HiSilicon chips, led the development of Huawei's Da Vinci AI chip architecture, and later launched the autopilot system solution ADS during his tenure as the director of Huawei's intelligent driving products department. In July last year, Su Zhen was dismissed from his post for inappropriate remarks about Tesla, and before his dismissal, he was the president and chief architect of Huawei's AUTOBU intelligent driving product line.
Huawei insiders have a good evaluation of Su's ability, but compared with this, Su's public speaking style, which is known for his radicalism, is more known to the outside world. At last year's Shanghai Auto Show, Su Zhen publicly stated that "Huawei's automatic driving is absolutely first" and "it will not do Robitaxi to die, and the companies that do Robotaxi at this stage will be doomed", and in July of the same year, he said "Tesla self-driving killing" at the Shanghai World AI Conference forum.
Su Zhen brought Huawei as much attention as the actual road test video of the Arctic Polar Fox Alpha S equipped with Huawei's ADS solution in the downtown area of Shanghai during last year's Shanghai Auto Show. After Su Zhen's speech at the Shanghai Auto Show, Meituan CEO Wang Xing also said on social media: "Tesla has finally encountered an opponent with equal technical strength and flickering ability."
But Su Zhen's subsequent Tesla killing theory and surprisingly bold views eventually brought himself and Huawei into the whirlpool of public opinion. "Tesla has had a very high accident rate over the years, and from killing the first person to the most recently killed person, its accident type is very similar."
"When the machine enters the human society and the human symbiosis, the machine will definitely cause the accident rate, and the ugly point is to kill people, but we must reduce the probability of its accident to the lowest possible." Probabilistically, this is something that can happen."
Although Su Zhen explained the meaning of "killing", it is also an indisputable fact that the spearhead is pointed at Tesla. In particular, the sharp and sensitive words such as "killing" seem to directly turn the technical immaturity problem faced by the industry into Tesla's own problem, which has caused a lot of controversy.
In addition, Su Zhen also said at the time that "human beings are still far from L5 level automatic driving technology, and they may not see the arrival of L5 level in their lifetime." Musk said early last year that Tesla was confident it would achieve L5-level self-driving technology this year and believed that the company's self-driving technology could justify its valuation. This sentence has also been interpreted by the outside world as a mockery of Tesla.
On July 27 last year, a personnel appointment and dismissal document personally issued by Ren Zhengfei showed that he was dismissed from the post of director of the Department of Intelligent Driving Products of Su Zhen and entered the reserve team to receive training and assignment. Su Jing will be replaced by Bian Honglin, former chief technology officer of Huawei consumer BG.
Huawei responded at the time that Su Zhen made inappropriate remarks against Tesla when participating in external activities to talk about autonomous driving technology and safety, and Su Zhen had conducted a deep review of his personal inappropriate remarks, but in view of the adverse impact caused by his remarks, the company decided to dismiss Su Zhen from the position of director of the intelligent driving product department of the intelligent car solution BU.
At present, the whereabouts of Su Zhen are temporarily unknown, last July, the network had reported that Su Zhen joined Weilai Automobile, Weilai responded at that time that the news was untrue, Su Zhen also denied it in the circle of friends, saying that "it is still in Huawei ADS, and just got the Covid 19 vaccine." Everything is fine, don't miss it."
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