Zhong Xiangping: Tencent does not build cars, does not directly participate in the research and development of self-driving algorithms, and launches a new product "Intelligent driving Cloud Map" for smart cars.

Thank you, Mr. Air, a netizen of CTOnews.com, for your clue delivery! Tencent released Tencent Intelligent driving Cloud Map, a mapping service platform for self-driving and cabin driving, during today's 2023 Tencent Global Digital Ecology Conference intelligent transportation and smart travel, CTOnews.com reported on Sept. 8.

According to Zhong Xiangping, vice president of Tencent Group and president of Tencent Intelligent Transportation and Travel, Tencent Zhijia Cloud Map has realized the comprehensive cloud of the industry's first self-driving map, which can be combined with dynamic traffic information, environmental information, user driving experience and car companies' own data assets to build multi-journey maps in the cloud to achieve online updates at the factor level and the fastest minute level.

It has scalable multi-layer form, including basic map layer, updated feature layer, ODD dynamic layer, driving experience layer, operation layer and so on. It is said to be a "live map" that can be operated.

Zhong Xiangping also said that Tencent will work with some car companies to build large models of the automobile industry, including cockpit models, intelligent driving training models, intelligent customer service models and so on. In addition, he also stated once again that Tencent does not go out to build cars, nor is it directly involved in the research and development of self-driving algorithms, but to provide cloud maps and other infrastructure needed by smart cars to car companies and automobile ecological enterprises.