According to foreign media reports, Japan Honda CEOs, Takahiro Hachigo, said that the company announced its cooperation with the unmanned technology pioneer Waymo, but there is no substantial progress.
Eight Township Long Hong said this week that there was no substantive results with Waymo's negotiations. Eight Township Longhong said: "We are still in the stage of investigation and have not developed to specific research and business."
The comments of Bagonghong, another reflect that the cooperation of Waymo and the old car manufacturer is slow. Prior to this, Waymo said its original intention to traditionally, using their expertise.
A few years ago, when Waymo was only part of Google, it was discussed with Toyota, but failed to reach a consensus. In 2015, Ford announced that it reached an agreement with Google, saying that the unmanned car produced will be able to configure the hardware and software developed by Google, but there is no substantive results yet. In February of this year, Ford invests $ 1 billion in the unmanned startup enterprise Argo Ai.
Honda and Waymo said in December last year, they will cooperate with driverless technology. This is said that Honda hopes to find a helper in R & D next-generation car technology to catch up with larger scale, more funds more abundant competitors.
Eight Township Longhong said that the Waymo dialogue continued, and employees from Honda and Waymo regularly meet Mountain View, and the two companies have offices in the local area. He said that there is no specific progress and does not mean "we are in a deadlock or there is no progress."
When Waymo is reluctant to share the key to the key, the eight Township Longhong said that now the discussion has not developed into this issue.
Some sources known to Waymo idea pointed out that negotiations were trapped in the past seven months. Both companies are studying, installing Waymo hardware on Honda car or Honda produces driverless cars that Waymo produce road test.
Analysts said that lack of progress is worrying, because Honda needs more improvements in technology. From the perspective of the annual sales of the car, Honda is only Toyota, half of the general car.
Lyon Securities Analyst Christopher Richter said: "The root cause of the two companies reached an agreement is that they realize that they can't do anything. However, progress cannot be more frustrated."
Deutsche Bank Analyst Kurt Sanger said: "Honda has always been in good performance in technology cooperation."
Eight Township Long Hong is not recognized by this view. He said that the company cooperates with unmanned technology European suppliers. Eight Township Longhong, especially mentioned Honda and Hitachi to produce electric vehicle motor.
Eight Township Longhong said: "We pay attention to cooperation with suppliers in the fields such as motor, battery and electronic control."
However, the traditional large car is also progressive in cooperation with Waymo. Fiat Krysler produces a small truck with induction components for Waymo, and then sells it to the latter for testing. Waymo CEO John Krafcik said in December last year, from the signing agreement to delivery of the car usually take six months.
After the announcement of Honda, Waymo also actively cooperated with companies other than traditional car companies. In May of this year, Waymo used the United States to use the LYFT to sign an agreement to jointly develop unmanned technology. In June, Waymo helped car rental company Avis Budget to maintain its increasingly growing driver.
Honda plans to sell driverless cars that can travel on high speeds in 2020, until 2025, driverless cars that can travel in the city street. However, the company's independently developed driver's equipment is still in the early stage.
Honda is responsible for the engineer of Drous-Drive Technology Yuji Yasui, said the company needs to increase the human hand and obtain a decentralized objective from the outside.
The engineer also said that the above objectives are not possible in Honda's current level. The company needs to cooperate with universities, or other start-up companies that are especially good at software technology.
Original link: https://www.eeboard.com/news/waymo/
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