Pony.ai CTO Lou Tiancheng deeply analyzes L4 autonomous driving technology

Tiancheng Lou believes that the real key is not the vehicle-side model itself, but the virtual environment used to train the vehicle-side model, namely the "world model". He believes that the world model is the "factory" of the vehicle-side model, and its accuracy will determine the performance upper limit of the vehicle-side model. This view is different from the current popular end-to-end approach, reflecting Pony.ai's in-depth exploration and reconstruction of the technology path in the past five years.