China News Service, Changchun, December 7 (Gao Longan) As soon as he walked into the FAW Group headquarters park, the smart minibus reserved by Tong Zhou through the mobile phone software drove from not far away, automatically opened and closed the door, and then steadily drove towards Book a place.
Unlike ordinary cars, this car has no driver, no steering wheel, gear lever, brake pedal, etc. There is only a safety officer, a touch screen and a few physical buttons in the car. It is more like a car than a car. "Private room".
The Hongqi smart minibus in the headquarters of the FAW Group.
Photo by Gao Longan
An Sixu, the operation manager of FAW Travel Technology Co., Ltd., introduced that from the end of November, the Hongqi smart minibus and the Hongqi E-HS3 L4 smart car developed by the FAW Group have provided employees with free connection services in the park, and everything has been in operation until now. Normally, the employee's evaluation of the vehicle is "very stable and convenient."
Gong Yinsheng, head of unmanned driving promotion at FAW Innovation Technology Research Institute, said that these two types of smart cars can achieve fully automatic driving in fixed scenarios, with mobile phone car-hailing, vehicle-road collaborative perception, obstacle avoidance and bypassing. Automatic parking and other functions.
For safety reasons, the vehicle speed is limited to a reasonable range, and each vehicle is equipped with a safety officer to deal with emergencies.
Gong Yinsheng recalled that when he first worked in the automobile industry 20 years ago, self-driving cars still existed in science fiction movies.
Now that it has "drove into" reality and provides convenience for people, it feels a little unbelievable.
Gong Yinsheng opened a drawing and said that the smart car adopts Hongqi's new network architecture, equipped with 5G communication technology, high-precision positioning system, etc., and each car is equipped with sensing equipment such as lidar, optical camera and ultrasonic detector to ensure the vehicle safe operation.
In addition, smart cars also involve many cutting-edge technologies such as road intelligent transformation, car big data cloud control basic platform, and high-precision maps.
And Changchun's strong automobile industry foundation provides a good platform for the R&D and production of smart cars.
At present, the Hongqi E-HS3 L4 smart car has undergone normalized test operations in the FAW Group headquarters park and surrounding open roads.
Hongqi smart minibuses have conducted normalized test operations in different scenarios in the FAW Group headquarters park, Chengde Mountain Resort and other places.
Gong Yinsheng said that Hongqi Smart Car is a new exploration of FAW in the field of smart driving, and it also accumulates experience for the commercial operation of smart cars.
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