China News Service, Xiangyang, May 18 (Hu Chuanlin, Liu Bing, Li Wen) The Hubei Xiangyang Traffic Police Detachment issued a license for the Laohekou special vehicle (special vehicle) test base (commonly called automatic Driving an engineering vehicle) marks the official start of testing of the Laohekou subdivision of the Xiangyang Intelligent Networked Automobile Test Area. On the same day, Dongfeng Commercial Vehicle Company's first intelligent networked engineering vehicle began field test in the test area.
The test site was selected in the mining area of Laohekou Cement Company of Gezhouba. The reporter saw at the scene that the intelligent networked engineering vehicle provided by Dongfeng Commercial Vehicle Company, from the appearance, is not much different from the ordinary engineering vehicle, except that the roof is fully surrounded by smart sensors such as GPS antennas, cameras and radars. ".
Xiangyang Traffic Police Detachment issued a license for the test base of Laohekou special vehicle (special vehicle) in the Intelligent Networked Automobile Test Area for Dongfeng Commercial Vehicle Co., Ltd. on the 17th.
After the test began, the truck actually carried 25 tons of ore and traveled on the bumpy roads of the mining area. There are uphill, downhill and curved roads on the test road of about 1.5 kilometers. Although there was a safety officer sitting in the cab, he did not touch the steering wheel, throttle and foot brakes during the whole journey, and only monitored the operation of the vehicle. The test vehicle travels at a speed of about 10 kilometers per hour. In the absence of driver operation, it can smoothly realize automatic driving functions such as turning, turning around, and automatically avoiding obstacles.
According to the relevant technical personnel of Dongfeng Commercial Vehicle Co., Ltd., this intelligent networked engineering vehicle is an L3 level autonomous driving vehicle. It is mainly used in closed construction site scenarios and can realize material transportation between loading and unloading points, including reversing, precision Fixed-point parking and other functions. Prior to this, the vehicle has been tested at the Xiangyang Dongfeng Automobile Proving Ground for more than 500 hours of closed-field testing. Follow-up tests will be carried out based on actual road scenarios based on the high-quality venues and test environment in the Laohekou test area.
On the day of the event, the Xiangyang Municipal Government also signed a framework agreement on intelligent network-linked vehicle testing cooperation with Dongfeng Commercial Vehicle Co., Ltd. (Finish)