Chinanews client, Beijing, May 28 (Reporter Wu Tao) When a car is slowly driving towards you, but there is no one inside, dare you to open the door?
Now, in Beijing, Shenzhen and other places, there are commercial trial operations of such unmanned (self-driving) vehicles. Perhaps in the future, this situation will become more and more commonplace.
Unmanned driving begins to commercialize, is the first year here?
On May 1, the first batch of 5G driverless buses in Wujiang, Suzhou entered trial operation.
There is no driver, no dashboard, two high-tech Haige driverless buses "Deep Blue" are driving along the East Tai Lake in Wujiang District, Suzhou.
Screenshots of unmanned driving videos on real road conditions announced by AutoX.
On May 6, AutoX fully unmanned RoboTaxi commercialized trial operation in Shenzhen for 100 days.
It is understood that AutoX's vehicles open to the public are truly completely unmanned, and the trial operation vehicles are unmanned in the front and rear seats.
As early as April, Baidu's Apollo GO driverless car-hailing project has been commercialized in Beijing Shougang Park.
In addition to unmanned passenger vehicles, in terms of delivery vehicles, JD.com and Meituan unmanned delivery vehicles have already "worked" on the roads in some areas of Beijing.
A while ago, some netizens were even "cute" by the emergency brake of the Meituan unmanned delivery vehicle. After being scared, they braked quickly. It was too sensitive.
Jiang Xinwei, Research Director of the Automotive Industry Center of Analysys, told Chinanews.com that this year is definitely the first year of commercialization of autonomous driving. The matter of autonomous driving will change from a concept to a commodity, into a commercially available and affordable product, and enter our lives. One of the content.
Indeed, more and more companies are working hard on autonomous driving, especially in the context of the crazy car building of major companies this year, unmanned driving is one of the killer applications.
Jiang Xinwei said: "It is expected that all car manufacturers will be providers of smart driving and shared travel services in the future."
NIO, which entered the field of smart cars earlier, obtained a driverless road test license in Shanghai in 2018.
Xiaopeng and Ideal Auto do not invest heavily in research and development of autonomous driving.
Ideal Car CEO Li Xiang once said: Autonomous driving and assisted driving should be standard equipment for smart cars.
Companies that have invested heavily include both new car-building forces and Internet giants.
Didi, Baidu, etc. are eager to autopilot.
On May 17, GAC Aian announced that it has reached a strategic cooperation with Didi's autonomous driving company. The two parties will jointly develop an unmanned new energy vehicle that can be used in large-scale applications and promote mass production at full speed.
After unmanned driving is popularized, there is no need to take a driver's license?
Many people have high hopes for driverless applications.
Every time an unmanned driving case appeared, some netizens said, "Is there no need to take a driver's license in the future?" Refer to the unmanned cars displayed by many manufacturers now, and some cars do not even have a steering wheel or instrument panel. Which driver's license test?
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The unmanned vehicle is displayed without a steering wheel, etc.
Photo by Wu Tao from China News Service
Industry professionals generally believe that unmanned driving will make many high-risk driving areas and working environments safer and more efficient.
The roads will also be smoother, because unmanned vehicles are all being dispatched scientifically, and there are not so many "arrogant" drivers who stop and change lanes at will.
There are also people wondering: After unmanned driving is popularized, whether high-speed will really become "high-speed" in the future, and there is no longer a limit to speed.
At present, consumers first perceive the most obvious change that may be that there are more and more various unmanned vehicles such as driverless taxis, driverless sweepers, driverless delivery vehicles, driverless garbage trucks, etc., "especially In the park or on fixed routes, unmanned driving is most suitable."
Some netizens said that unmanned driving is good, but it is better to have a significant difference with ordinary vehicles. If you see an empty vehicle running around at night, some cars will still talk, and heart disease will be scared. come out.
Li Deyi, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, recently imagined ten application scenarios for unmanned driving at the World Intelligence Conference: The truck track includes ports, mines, and trunk logistics; the passenger car track includes automatic parking, bus, and RoboTaxi; the agricultural machinery track includes Tractor; low-speed electric vehicle track includes unmanned distribution, environmental sanitation, and park commuting.
Li Deyi said that from 2025 to 2030, autonomous driving will leap from fun to useful. Ten major tracks will be fully rolled out. More than 10 million intelligent connected vehicles will be produced. Autonomous driving of BRT buses in most cities will be popularized in special vehicles and vehicles. Commercial vehicles, and quickly spread to private cars and cars.
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Display of L4 autonomous driving buses.
Photo by Wu Tao from China News Service
"From 2030 to 2035, self-driving cars will have learning capabilities, including trial and error learning and learning from accidents. It is no longer a software-defined car. It has not only computational intelligence, but also interactive intelligence and memory intelligence. Growth." Li Deyi said.
Bright prospects! Efficiency needs to be improved, specifications need to be improved
However, many unmanned driving projects are now called "unmanned driving". Actually, there are still real people sitting in the driving position and known as "safety officers". For example, the driverless bus mentioned above does not require the "safety officers" to put their hands on the steering wheel. On the other hand, the vehicle itself will always be in an automatic driving state.
Some driverless projects even require a "safety officer" in the co-pilot.
"Good guy! Without a driver without a driver and two'safety officers' with a driverless driver, is this an increase in efficiency or a decrease?" Some netizens questioned.
Even in the case of completely unmanned autonomous driving in the car, in many cases, a remote operator is required to perform the scene of "people sitting at home and the car driving on the road".
Looking at it this way, there is actually one driver and one car, which is not efficient.
The reporter experienced that in the Baidu autonomous driving travel service platform Apollo GO, the Beijing area can only book a car in Shougang Park, including Shougang Coking Plant, Qunming Lake and other four stations.
It is still impossible to hire a car anywhere, and the distance between the four stations is very close, which can not solve any practical problems. It is more of a "try to try."
Apollo GO in Beijing area supports car-hailing at four stations.
APP screenshot.
At present, some industry insiders believe that policy is the biggest uncertainty factor in the implementation of unmanned driving. After all, Baidu CEO Robin Li was punished by the traffic control department for the first time his autonomous driving hit the road in 2017.
Currently, unmanned vehicles are not supported on ordinary roads.
Zhou Lijun, chief analyst of Bitauto Research Institute, said in an interview with a reporter from Chinanews.com that China’s road environment is complex and changeable, and many roads do not have dedicated driverless channels. The difficulty of popularizing true driverless driving is not a problem of cars. Road issues.
Zhou Wei, director of the Automobile Transportation Technology Research Center of the Highway Research Institute of the Ministry of Transport, said that there are six obstacles restricting the application of unmanned operating vehicles: policies and regulations, standards and specifications, testing and evaluation, inspection and maintenance, network security, and infrastructure.
"There is still a problem of unclear thinking in policies and regulations. Without the promotion of policies and regulations, the industry will not be able to develop."
But the prospects for autonomous driving are bright!
According to a report released by the Chinese Society of Automotive Engineers in 2020, according to the comprehensive calculations of the research team, the new output value of automobiles driven by intelligence and connectivity in my country will be about 310 billion yuan in 2020, and it is expected that the new output value will reach 800 billion yuan in 2025. yuan.
For driverless cars, are you looking forward to it!
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