Videos of car owners driving electric vehicles, including Teslas, through flooded roads in the recently flooded Henan province have been widely circulated on Chinese social networks and have sparked debate about the safety of electric vehicles in such road conditions.
Chinese tech giant Huawei recently made public a patent it is applying for related to identifying water depth in self-driving vehicles, which, if put to use, is expected to help save vehicles from unnecessary risks.
The patent was filed on March 3, 2021, and was made public by Huawei last week. Its abstract shows that it avoids the risks associated with vehicles wading through water by measuring the depth of standing water in a waterlogged area.
The method can be used for assisted driving and autonomous driving and can enhance the capability of a vehicle's advanced driver assistance system ADAS, which can be applied to connected vehicles, the patent abstract shows.
This is Huawei's latest technology layout in the automotive field.
At the 2021 Huawei Smart Manufacturing Data Infrastructure Summit held on July 7, Huawei and SAIC-Volkswagen jointly released the "Full-Stack Integrated Simulation Platform" solution.
It can be used in automotive and aerospace manufacturing scenarios, and is the first of its kind in China's automotive industry, accelerating autonomous driving research and development, aerospace simulation training, and providing data infrastructure for automotive, aerospace and other manufacturing companies.
Huawei can provide a full-stack integrated simulation platform from L1 infrastructure including compute, storage and network to L3 communication libraries, compilers, cluster management and professional services.
