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Xiaomi will focus on autonomous driving tech for its first vehicle

After achieving success in almost all the fields, Xiaomi has now started working on developing a car. Recently, Lei Jun, the founder of Xiaomi took Weibo to share a new recruitment advertisement for its vehicle.

The poster reveals that the company is hiring experts in the autonomous driving field for its own automobile unit. The recruitment ad is calling for 500 technical experts to join the “Xiaomi Autonomous Driving Department”.

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In case you don’t know, autonomous driving technology means self driving technology for smart cars, which is based on a GPS system.

Adding to this, the tech giant has also increased its recruitment efforts and openings for its Auto department in various fields. These fields include the following:

  • Data platforms
  • Millimeter-wave algorithms
  • A control system for the vehicle and its internal components
  • Development tools
  • Front end platform development
  • Embedded software
  • Imaging/perception
  • High-accuracy map and other

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Besides, the company plans to invest around 10 billion yuan ($1.5 billion) but over a period of 10 years. Xiaomi would have invested more than $10 billion for this new category of business.

Moreover, Lei Jun, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Xiaomi will remain the CEO of the new smart electric vehicle entity. It’s been reported that Xiaomi smart car will be a customer product and will be targeted at the mass market.

As of now, we don’t have much detail in regards. As the company has started teasing its first car, we believe that more information will arrive soon.

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