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According to 36 Krypton, the latest personnel appointment and removal document issued by Huawei shows that Su Jing has been removed from her post as head of the intelligent driving products department. According to reports, the appointment and removal document was signed by Ren Zhengfei, founder of Huawei.

With regard to the above information, Huawei responded to 36 krypton: smart car solution BU Suqing made inappropriate remarks against Tesla when participating in external activities to talk about self-driving technology and safety. Suqing has conducted a deep review of his personal inappropriate remarks, but in view of the adverse impact of his remarks, our company has decided to remove Suqing Smart car solution BU from the post of head of intelligent driving products. Suqing will go to the strategic reserve team to receive training and distribution.

Who is Suqing? According to the data, Suqing joined Huawei from Hayes Chip, led the development of Huawei Leonardo da Vinci AI chip architecture, and later served as the chief architect of Huawei Terminal Company. Before his removal, he was the head of Huawei's smart driving products department. During his tenure as the minister of Huawei's intelligent driving products department, Suqing launched the autopilot system program ADS, and the arctic fox Alpha S Huawei HI version of Huawei ADS program was unveiled in Shanghai to achieve urban autopilot capability with mass production software and hardware programs, driving the violent rise of the entire self-driving market sector in one fell swoop.

So why was Suqing dismissed? At the 2021 Shanghai World artificial Intelligence Conference, Su Qing said at the round table communication session, "Tesla's accident rate is still very high over the past few years, and its accident type is very similar from the first person to the most recent one." Su Qing further elaborated, "in this place, I use the word 'accident', which may sound serious, but think about it. Machines will certainly cause accident rates when machines enter human society and human symbiosis. The ugly point is that we should reduce the probability of accidents to as low as possible." In terms of probability, this is something that could happen. He also said that in the next 100 years, the IQ of machines will not surpass that of humans, and L5 autopilot (fully autopilot) will be difficult to achieve in this lifetime. When talking about Tesla's accident, he used the word "thank you", which caused controversy, which was an important reason for Suqing's dismissal.

Why Suqing was dismissed for inappropriate remarks? could this have something to do with BAIC's polar fox Alpha S Huawei HI version? As we all know, on the eve of the opening of the Shanghai auto show, the BAIC polar fox ARCFOX brand brought the ARCFOX α S Huawei HI version, which is in close cooperation with Huawei, with an advance price of 38.89-429900 yuan. It is understood that the model is equipped with Huawei self-driving technology, equipped with Huawei smart car solution, integrated Huawei intelligent high-order autopilot system, Hongmeng OS Smart + connected cockpit and so on. This model represents Huawei's highest level of self-driving at present.

No matter what Su Qing thinks of Tesla's autopilot, the comments hurt not only Tesla, but also Huawei. Although Huawei currently has a top level of autopilot, there is no guarantee that something will go wrong. Of course, there may be some unknown reasons for Huawei's choice to remove Suqing, but the notice issued by Ren Zhengfei himself shows that the matter has had a relatively large impact on Huawei and has to be handled by Ren Zhengfei himself.

In response to this incident, some netizens said, "it is indeed inappropriate to say something. It may be fine to put it another way. As the company's senior executives speak and act on behalf of the company, some words cannot be outspoken." Huawei is now a big tree and some things can be avoided. Of course, he is right and right, but we have to pay attention to the occasion, even if everyone knows it, just like this Tesla. You can't take it out publicly and say it by someone else's name. In addition, autopilot does not guarantee that there will be no problems with Huawei in the future. He now points to others and says that if something happens to him, not to mention the ubiquitous navy, competitors can immediately bite back. What do you think of this matter?

As Suqing was removed from the post of minister of intelligent driving products, the position will also become vacant, with media reports that Bian Honglin succeeded Suqing as the new minister of intelligent driving products. On July 28, several Huawei insiders confirmed the change to the 21st Century Business Reporter. An insider told the reporter: "at present, Bian Honglin is the president of the hardware engineering and product development management department of the consumer BG and also the consumer BG CTO. This position is actually higher than that of the minister of smart driving products, or temporarily." It is understood that Bian Honglin will also serve as the CTO of Huawei's smart car solution BU (IAS BU).

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