Start of commercialization pilot, Beijing takes the lead in autonomous driving
■ Editorial
In the brand-new "no man's land" of autonomous driving, whoever takes the lead in the layout of the pilot program will have the opportunity for the future and the right to speak in the industry.
According to the Beijing News, on November 25, the country's first autonomous driving travel service commercialization pilot was opened in Beijing.
On the same day, the Beijing High-level Autonomous Driving Demonstration Zone Work Office announced the pilot program at the Yizhuang Innovation Release Event.
It is understood that at this stage, there will be no more than 100 autonomous vehicles in the 60 square kilometers of Beijing Economic Development Zone to carry out commercial pilot services.
Currently, companies have been approved.
The announcement of the pilot program for this demonstration zone not only marks a new stage in the domestic autonomous driving field from testing and demonstration to commercial pilot exploration, but also means that Beijing has made another big step on its way to an international science and technology innovation center. The construction of Beijing's "two districts" is also of great significance.
As explained by the relevant person in charge of the Beijing Economic and Technological Development Zone, the current autonomous driving companies have entered the second half of the journey, and the entire industry has moved from technology verification and product development to the stage of commercialization.
Therefore, the opening of the pilot commercialization of autonomous driving has opened up a complete closed loop from R&D to commercialization for autonomous driving companies, and will also encourage and guide the exploration and innovation of business models for autonomous driving travel services.
For a long time, the transformation of a large number of scientific and technological achievements has faced the problem of "medium obstruction" in the "last mile", and it is difficult to transform into actual productivity.
One of the most important reasons is that there is no business model.
It is understood that according to this management policy, under the premise of ensuring the principle of fair competition in the market, enterprises can adopt a market-based pricing mechanism; and on the premise of clarifying information such as charging principles and payment methods to passengers, they can open experience charging services.
In addition to encouraging business innovation, what needs to be noticed is that the development of autonomous driving technology is inseparable from the rapid progress of key core components and core technologies, which directly means that the development and production of these core components will form an industrial chain and even High-tech industrial clusters.
For example, hardware such as sensors, batteries, new materials, chips, artificial intelligence algorithms and software development and other software directions will all converge.
In addition to business innovation and industrial cluster effects, what is more important and far-reaching is that although the arrival of new energy vehicles brings autonomous driving from a dream to reality, looking around the world, facing the laws and regulations that may arise from autonomous driving At present, no country has a practical solution to business, transaction, and ethical issues.
As one of the most realistic application scenarios explored by AI technology, autonomous driving has always been placed with great hopes of leading the direction of the industry's future changes.
But it is precisely because this technology is sufficiently advanced that the current main traffic scene rules do not have corresponding supporting facilities.
In this brand-new "no man's land", whoever takes the lead in the layout and pilot projects will have the opportunity for the future and the right to speak in the industry.
Beijing's launch of the country's first commercial pilot of autonomous driving travel services undoubtedly seized the first opportunity on this track.
Beijing’s "14th Five-Year Plan" clearly states that it is necessary to accelerate the construction of an international science and technology innovation center.
To achieve this goal, it is extremely important to focus on "stuck neck" technical research and strategic scientific and technological strength, to promote the cultivation of new industrial kinetic energy and the construction of global application scenarios.
The landing of the autonomous driving demonstration zone is such an appropriate "lever" for development, and is also a typical example of strengthening policy guidance, system reform, and mechanism innovation.
The industrial policy logic behind it is to accelerate the gathering of various innovative elements to enterprises by giving the industry more tolerant development space and exploring trial and error space, comprehensively optimize the innovation environment, and give full play to the leading role of leading enterprises in innovation, in order to gradually establish an industrial ecology. In turn, it provides better funding and practical application data support for upstream technological research.
From the perspective of enterprises, for the development and exploration of enterprises with specialization and novelty, this kind of experimentation and inclusive freedom and open space are also the best empowerment for market entities by industrial policies.
In short, no matter from which level, Beijing officially opened the country's first pilot for commercialization of autonomous driving travel services, which will have far-reaching significance in promoting the construction of Beijing's "two districts" and "four centers", and the prospects are worth looking forward to.