"Unmanned Driving" competition is fierce: Chinese cities compete for opening up

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Multi -cities strive to allow the commercialization of autonomous driving first

Behind the consideration of policy directions and economic benefits

At the same time that the commercialization of autonomous driving is significantly accelerated

The industry contradictions that follow

It also needs the guidance of relevant policies and regulations

Autonomous driving, one of the most difficult technologies in the field of artificial intelligence, is ushered in policy support in many cities in China.

Due to the limitation of the bottleneck of autonomous driving technology, the autonomous driving industry once "ebb" after experiencing an early investment boom. People in the industry believe that the large -scale landing of autonomous driving taxis still takes 5-10 years, and commercialization has also progressed slowly. Due to the long -term "testing" and "demonstration application" stage, autonomous vehicles lack the qualifications for commercialization in policy, and enterprises have not "charged", and it is difficult to enter the stage of commercialization. Beginning in 2021, many autonomous driving startups have tried the commercial operation of unmanned taxis by looking for partners such as online car rental platforms to promote technological iterative upgrades and large -scale promotion and application by commercialization.

However, since this year, a series of policies have "opened their mouths" for the commercialization of autonomous driving. Among them, the attractive is the "Guide to Autonomous Cars Transport Safety Service (Trial)" released by the Ministry of Transport on August 8th, which proposes to encourage the use of autonomous vehicles on specific scenarios on the premise of ensuring transportation safety. Cycling, bus passenger transport and ordinary cargo transportation. The industry generally believes that this is the positive statement of the transportation regulatory department in the commercialization of autonomous driving.

The commercialization of autonomous driving has also accelerated significantly. On July 20, Beijing officially opened the pilot of commercialization of the first main driving service service in China. In August, Chongqing and Wuhan issued a pilot policy for unmanned commercialization of autonomous driving, allowing autonomous driving vehicles without safety officers in the vehicle to carry out commercial services on social roads, and distributed the first batch of unmanned demonstration operations to Baidu qualifications.

All localities are competing for commercialization pilots and the opening level of the policy, and there are considerations of policy direction and economic benefits behind it. Autonomous driving is not only a competition between enterprises, but also a contest between regions.

Multiple difficulties in large -scale landing

From the Suzhou North High -speed Railway, passengers are likely to call an autonomous car through the online platform. It may be distinguished from other vehicles with obvious appearance -a large -scale sensor with an umbrella -shaped area on the roof may also look no different from ordinary vehicles. The "Yangtze River Delta Intelligent Driving Industry Demonstration Zone" in Xiangcheng District, Suzhou City is located in about 10 square kilometers in the northern part of Suzhou, and more than 500 autonomous vehicles are tested and applied on the road.

Passengers can hit Robotaxi and ROBOBUS through the online platform, and get on and off at a special self -driving site. It has not yet charged. Suzhou is a city that has carried out the normalized operation of autonomous driving buses earlier. In Suzhou, passengers can take the autonomous driving bus through the "light boat travel" applet. At present, there are 7 sites including Jiajing Tiancheng Garden and Yucheng Experimental Primary School. The bus line named "Qingzhou 11 Line" is operated at 9:00 every day, ending at 16:30, and positioning at 3 kilometers of short -distance connection.

On June 10, 2021, the "unmanned minibus" in Suzhou, Jiangsu stopped at the site to carry passengers. Photography/Magazine Reporter Yun Bo

"Qingzhou Travel" was developed by Qingzhou Zhihang, a unmanned universal solution company, and its co -founder and CEO Yu Yan told "China News Weekly" that Qingzhou Zhihang was located in Suzhou in 2020. Nearly 400 people are currently. Qingzhou Zhihang's autonomous driving buses for urban open roads -Dragon Boat One has been operating in Suzhou High -speed Railway New City for two years, and a total of 8 lines have been opened.

Yu Yan said that it takes 5-10 years since Robotaxi's large -scale commercialization, and Robobus may only be able to land in 2 to 3 years due to the fixed running route, so it is the first to land the application scenario on Robobus.

The difficulty of commercialization of autonomous driving is mainly technical issues. Yu Yan believes that Robotaxi's large -scale popularization still has a lot of technical places to make breakthroughs, even Waymo can only achieve unmanned driving in a limited area. Waymo is the longest -testing mileage in the world. According to the 2021 autonomous road test report released by the California Transportation Administration (DMV), Waymo, the first -ranked mileage, ran 2.32 million miles throughout the year.

In the road testing data released by California every year, MPI (Miles Per Intervention, the average mileage driving between each manual takeover) is considered one of the key indicators to measure the level of autonomous driving technology. In 2021, Waymo's security officer took over 292 times, MPI was 7965 miles, that is, every 7956 miles needed to take over, and only compared with MPI. The reliability of Waymo's autonomous driving system was about 1/45 of human drivers. In 2019, Waymo's MPI was 13,200 miles, and the number of take -off times in the past two years has not increased.

"The marginal benefits of the traditional data collection method are no longer significant. This is an objective technical issue," said Di Di, the person in charge of the strategic strategy of autonomous driving technology and travel service providers. However, it is difficult to break through from the long -tail problem from 90 to 100, and it takes 10 or 100 times the price to increase by 1 %. "Technical problems will limit commercialization. "The main income point of shared autonomous driving in the future is part of the income of replacing human drivers." Di Di said. According to the 2021 report of Didi Chuxing, the driver's remuneration and subsidies have accounted for about 80 % of the net fare. The use of autonomous driving systems to replace human safety officers are the only way for commercialization, but the autonomous driving industry has not been able to "remove" the safety officer on the car.

Di Di believes that in addition to technical issues, economic benefits are also a problem of crossing on the head of the autonomous driving company. Most of the manufacturing modification costs are more than 500,000 yuan. "

China Zhixing was established in 2018, and announced in 2019 that it has developed autonomous driving through the technical routes of vehicle roads. Due to the resistance of technology and commercialization, the autonomous driving industry once became calm after experiencing an early investment boom. In order to break the bottlenecks of autonomous driving and land on the ground, two different technical routes have been produced in the field of autonomous driving. In addition to the intelligent routes used by Waymo and Qingzhou Zhihang, there is also the coordinated route of the road adopted by Zhongzhi Xing, which emphasizes the emphasis on the wisdom road to the car.

In Suzhou, the road collaboration plan of China Zhixing and Tianyi Transportation "Light Car · Cooked Road" has landed. Tianyi Transportation is an intelligent transportation operation and service provider established by China Telecom, China Intelligent Bank, and Suzhou State -owned SASA. It was established in 2021. "Light Car · Cooked Road" refers to a smart car with L2 lightweight configuration to realize the L4 level autonomous driving by using the ability of smart roads. In this plan, Zhongzhi Bank is responsible for the overall self -driving solution of the car side, and Tianyi Transportation is responsible for road construction.

Under the traditional bicycle route, perception completely relies on the sensor of the autonomous vehicle itself, but in the "light car · cooked road" scheme, even if all the sensors are covered and the perception of the road is only dependent on the road end. Intelligent information and make driving decisions.

"As a 'plug -in', the intelligent road can make up for the lack of bicycle in terms of technical safety." Di Di said, "In terms of economic benefits, partial perception and computing equipment are placed on the road end. Reserved lightweight sensors, so that the intelligence of the road is redundant to each other, and it can also make the overall cost of intelligent transportation and increase the efficiency. "

In the core business district near the Suzhou North Station of the high -speed rail new city, there are 1 "holographic road" that includes 12 intersections and 6 kilometers long, relying on nearly 200 different types of sensors to collaborate with the back -end vehicle and roads. The twin platform connection can be tracked in real time, and the status of all traffic participants within the road scope can be passed to the matching autonomous vehicles to achieve "vehicle and road collaboration".

However, the "light car · cooked road" has not yet disclosed the mileage and takeover of road testing. Some people in the industry believe that the responsible subjects in the coordination of the roads are not clear, and the decision -making contradictions between the car end and the road are difficult to resolve. It takes a long time to verify that it is true to achieve real collaboration.

Some people in the field of car roads pointed out that under the current technical conditions, the validity of the car and the road data is mainly judged by confidence, and then it is decided whether it is "listening to the car" or "the road". However, this system still requires massive big data collection and verification to improve the accuracy of system decisions. This also requires the continuous running -in and autonomous driving enterprises, and use a large number of test data to verify the credibility of decision -making.

Why is the government and enterprise so "keen"?

Although there is still technical difficulty in the large -scale landing of autonomous driving, autonomous driving companies are already seeking commercialization pilots. "Allowing the driver's passenger car to carry out operating fees is the beginning of commercialization." Di Di said, "Autonomous driving must run in a certain area and run at arbitrarily, which can be allowed to operate and the business model can be allowed to land. In turn, we can in turn promote technical iterative upgrades and large -scale promotion and application. "

Because commercial operations require licenses, and autonomous driving companies do not have relevant qualifications. Since 2021, their respective driving companies will "curve the country" by cooperating with third -party travel platforms. In August of this year, Koma Zhixing, a autonomous driving company, announced that Pony Zhixing Robotaxi will be launched in Beijing in Cao Cao. Companies such as Qingzhou Zhihang and Zhongzhixing are also planning to jointly operate Robotaxi in Suzhou with the online car rental platform.

However, it has its disadvantages to cooperate with the online car rental platform. An industry insider who is unknown says that this means that outside the autonomous driving section, it is actually a hybrid operation mode to restore the driver of the online car. The boundaries of responsibility are unclear and the user experience is not good.

Although the bottleneck of autonomous driving technology still exists, a good policy from the country to the local level also means support for the autonomous driving industry.

On August 8th, the "Guide to the Transportation Safety Service (Trial)" released by the Ministry of Transportation (Trial) (Draft for Soliciting Opinions) proposed that under the premise of ensuring transportation safety, encourage the use of autonomous vehicles to engage in taxis, Bus passenger and ordinary cargo transportation. Cheng Xiuyuan, vice president of Qingzhou Zhihang, told China News Weekly that the "Guide" encouraged the commercialization pilot of autonomous driving enterprises with a cautious attitude, which is conducive to promoting the closed loop of commercialization of the autonomous driving industry. Xie Liangbing, Dean of the Standard Ranking City Research Institute, previously stated that the previous competition between major cities in China revolved around the dimension of the national -level intelligent connected car test demonstration area, the promulgation of autonomous driving policies, the launch of the test plate, and the construction of the test road. Now, all localities have completely entered the competition stage of the pilot of the commercialization of autonomous driving.

On February 27, 2021, the autonomous taxi team on the streets of Wuhan, Hubei. Photo/Visual China

The commercial operation of local autonomous vehicles is allowed to be regarded as a signal for local governments to support the development of autonomous driving. On July 20, Beijing officially opened the pilot of commercialization of the first "main driving" travel service in China. Immediately afterwards, Chongqing and Wuhan were unwilling to fall behind and announced the pilot commercialization of "all unmanned" autonomous driving. In addition, Shenzhen, Pingtan, Xiamen, Changzhou, Zhengzhou and other places have repeatedly reported new progress in commercialization of autonomous driving.

In September 2020, Beijing established a high -level autonomous driving demonstration zone in Beijing. The director of the work of the demonstration area was Mong Lei, deputy director of the Beijing Economic and Technological Development Zone Management Committee. Industry insiders revealed that compared with the autonomous driving working group of some cities as a "part -time" identity, the Beijing Self -Driving Office is a physical institution with "high level".

At present, the commercialization pilot of Beijing is the stage of "master driving unmanned". Baidu and Xiaoma Zhixing become the first batch of promised enterprises. They will invest 30 main driving unmanned vehicles within 60 square kilometers in the core area of ​​the Economic Development Zone, and carry out it to carry out to carry out to carry out to carry out to carry out to carry out to carry out to carry out to carry out to carry out to carry out to carry out to carry out. Normal toll service.

The first city of the pilot of the unmanned commercialization is also very fierce. "Chongqing Daily" reported on August 8, saying that it learned from Baidu that China's first unmanned demonstration operation qualification was issued in Yongchuan. Phoenix.com Hubei issued an article that Wuhan government departments issued the first batch of unmanned demonstration operations to Baidu to Baidu.

According to the latest "Guide to Transportation Safety Service (Trial)" (trial) of the Ministry of Transport, complete autonomous vehicles engaged in transportation operations should be equipped with remote drivers or safety officers. At present, Yongchuan's radish running has allowed "no one in the car", but at the same time, it is equipped with a remote safety officer.

Although it is rushing to introduce policies to encourage the commercialization of autonomous driving, there is still a distance from the real "commercialization". Cheng Shidong, director of the Urban Transportation Research Office of the Institute of Comprehensive Transportation of the National Development and Reform Commission, believes that the current commercialization of autonomous driving is only a "symbolic fee". It has not yet formed a large -scale mature business model and still belongs to the test stage.

Cheng Shidong suggested that there is no need to compete for commercialization pilots in policies. "Autonomous driving enterprises are not profitable, and the impact and driving of economic benefits are not obvious. Enterprises do not need to go to so many urban road testing. Tropical, temperate, mountainous areas, plains, and some cities that meet specific scenes are enough. Different scenarios are unmanned. "

Di Di also believes that it should be "solicited by a single city." "The big strategy of Zhongzhixing is a single city through, and the city is copied. There must be a breakthrough in a single point. Ten tens of kilometers in a certain city are not true commercialization." Di Di said, "Autonomous driving has a one The term is ODD (Operational Design Domain, which can be operated). It must be fully verified in this area and has the ability to commercialize and go out. "

However, in the process of promoting the commercialization of autonomous driving, the local governments and enterprises are in line with it, and they look at the larger market cake in the future. In order to promote the development of autonomous driving, the Suzhou Municipal Government has established a state -owned platform lead (Suzhou) Digital Industry Investment Co., Ltd. Wang Jiali believes that intelligent connected cars involve multi -disciplinary cross -border, with many segmented industrial chains, strong industrial drivingability Essence

Some people in the industry believe that in the context of the saturation of traditional infrastructure projects, the wisdom road may become the air outlet of new infrastructure investment. In May 2021, the Ministry of Housing and Construction and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology jointly announced the pilot of "double wisdom" (the cooperative development of smart city infrastructure and intelligent connected car), which is considered a new round of "city -building movement".

Under the air outlet, the construction of autonomous driving testing roads in various places has already entered the stage of heat.

Wang Jiali revealed that on the side of the road, Suzhou has built 63.4 kilometers of autonomous driving open areas, and is also building a three -phase test road with a 98.6 kilometer. After completion, there will be about 160 kilometers of autonomous driving test routes.

In June 2021, Chongqing announced the addition of 60 new Yongchuan District and Chongqing High -tech Zone with a total of 116.76 kilometers of road open autonomous driving tests. In August of this year, the Shenzhen Municipal Transportation Bureau announced that it will add 56.68 kilometers of new test roads. As of now, a total of about 201.37 kilometers has been opened with a total of about 201.37 kilometers. In September, the work office of the Beijing High -level Autonomous Driving Demonstration Zone announced that it will expand the construction area from 60 square kilometers of the previous economic opening zone core area to 500 square kilometers in the city.

Some people in the field of car roads revealed that the wisdom road depends on the investment and construction of the government's 5G new infrastructure. After the pilot is successful, the enterprise promotes the project, and then participates in the government's bidding to get the project. Some autonomous driving companies have been on the windmill. The Mushroom Company of the Mushroom Company of the Autonomous Driving Full Stack Technology and Operation Service Provider signed a strategic cooperation with Sichuan Tianfu New District on July 28. The total project amount reached 3 billion yuan. Earlier, the Mushroom Car Union also landed in hundreds of millions of yuan in autonomous driving projects in Dali, Hunan, Hengyang, Hunan, and Beijing Tongzhou. Baidu APOLLO's company also bid in 2020, Guangzhou Huangpu's smart transportation "new infrastructure" project. The project amount is close to 460 million yuan. This year, it won 503 million yuan in Guangzhou Huangpu's "Smart+" Checheng.com new urban infrastructure construction. project.

The demonstration area must be "controlled"

Autonomous driving has accelerated from road measurement to commercial operations. How to develop management measures at the same time as rapid development is also a problem that the autonomous driving demonstration area of ​​each city needs to be solved.

In 2019, Suzhou issued the first self -driving road test. Due to the integrated mutual recognition of the Yangtze River Delta region, it was examined in the Wuxi Communications Institute, and Zhongzhixing also obtained relevant licenses in 2019. Di Di said that the license has 17 exams, and each must be tested 30 times in a row. The road test license can be obtained after passing continuously. Wang Jiali, the chairman of the pioneer, pointed out that the authority issued by Jiangsu Province's road testing has been decentralized to various prefecture -level cities, and in the future, it can also pass a third -party testing agency for certification testing.

Due to the restrictions on urban energy levels, Suzhou has not yet introduced a pilot policy for businessization. Local autonomous driving enterprises are in the "demonstration application" stage, that is, the non -charging trial operation stage for non -special public. Wang Jiali said that Suzhou has a set of access standards for "demonstration applications". Autonomous vehicles need to pass a total of 2,000 kilometers of simulation testing virtual scenes in order to carry manned operation. In addition, Suzhou is applying for high -quality development zone in Jiangsu Province, and the future pioneer area may break through in regulations and policies.

In the process of autonomous driving, "removing safety officers" is a particularly critical sign. Wang Jiali believes that Suzhou is considering unmanned operations on low -speed operating vehicles such as sanitation vehicles and logistics vehicles. Because its operating time is usually in the early morning, night, it is not a motor vehicle, and the safety risk is small. For Robotaxi and Robobus, unmanned operation will be more prudent due to the current technical bottleneck restrictions.

On August 20, 2021, the 2021 I-Vista Autonomous Driving Challenge started in Chongqing. The participating autonomous cars (white) challenged the "S -type road" traffic scene on the real road. Picture/Xinhua

The Beijing Demonstration Zone has set a clear stage for the development of Robotaxi, and has established four stages: manned testing, highway testing, unmanned testing, and commercialization pilot. In the process of unmanned testing, according to the security officers, Beijing clearly divided the autonomous driving test into three stages. According to the "Beijing High -level Autonomous Driving Demonstration Zone Development Report", the first stage was shifted from the main driver's position to the co -driving position, that is, "the main driver is no one". Putting up to ensure the safe operation of the vehicle. The second stage of the security officer will be shifted from the co -pilot to the back row. The third stage will completely cancel the safety officers in the car and enter the real unmanned test stage.

Another problem in front of autonomous driving companies is that the standards between cities are not uniform. Taking the road test license as an example, the road testing licenses issued by some cities do not recognize each other, and the enterprise has to re -examine. In addition, the license is aimed at vehicles rather than issued by enterprises. Some people in the industry revealed that it takes 2 million yuan to obtain a autonomous driver's license in Beijing, which is a great cost for enterprises. The cost of obtaining Wuxi license is 500,000 yuan, and 5 cars can be tested at a time.

Because autonomous driving companies have not yet made profit, they mainly depend on investment and government subsidies. Industry insiders revealed that some companies mainly rely on government purchases to maintain operating projects that have not yet been commercialized. Taking Suzhou as an example, the Industrial and Information Bureau has multiple subsidies for road test support and scene support, such as intelligent driving enterprises that use the region -based market -oriented test site, road test venue, facilities and related services. A subsidy is given at 20 % of the actual road test service expenses.

In cities that have been allowed to commercialize pilots, Beijing has clear admission requirements. Cheng Xiuyuan, vice president of Qingzhou Zhihang, told China News Weekly that if you want to meet the 4,000 kilometers of air load test and 6000 kilometers of simulation load testing in Beijing, the mileage mileage should be "effective autonomous driving mileage. "It includes the requirements for other indicators to take over rates, and can obtain commercial operational qualifications for non -special public charges.

The Beijing Demonstration Zone has specific mileage, the number of orders, vehicles, the number of vehicles, the number of vehicles, and the mileage of the vehicle testing of the Beijing Demonstration Zone. For example, for the amount of ordering, the number of single -receiving orders during the commercialization pilot phase is required within the implementation scope of the main driver.

According to data disclosed in Beijing, the total mileage of autonomous driving in the demonstration area is about 3.08 million kilometers. However, Beijing did not disclose the takeover situation. It only announced the proportion of autonomous driving status. The proportion of 2021 was maintained between 70 % and 80 %, indicating that the proportion of manual takeover continued to decrease. In the United States, the data disclosure of the autonomous driving industry is higher. According to the regulations of California DMV, autonomous vehicles need to take over the DMV report every year, and explain in detail the location, whether it is safe, the weather conditions at the time, and road traffic conditions in order to obtain the new year's road test license. DMV also releases reports every year to disclose the test mileage and the number of times of the enterprises.

In China, data and other data have not been announced in various places. Cheng Shidong believes that government or third -party institutions should access the enterprise's autonomous driving system to obtain data such as real road test mileage and takeover. "Whether the autonomous driving technology is qualified and a person's driver's license is a different logic. It is impossible to determine whether the driving technology passes through several exams. The data of the autonomous vehicle should be tracked in real time. Whether mature. "

The issue of data ownership may become a conflict in the field of intelligent connected cars in the future. On the one hand, in the construction of car road collaboration, the smart road will collect information and data of a large number of urban traffic scenarios, or conflict with personal privacy; on the other hand, how to supervise corporate data is also a problem. Autonomous driving companies have no motivation to publish data. Former Huawei Minister of the Autonomous Driving Products, Su Yan, once said that the real pick -up data is a commercial secret for any company, which is meaningless compared to a certain type of specific data.

Some people in the autonomous driving industry said that some privacy data is encrypted and requires permissions to transmit it. "Just like the car drove by a human driver, where the car goes, the traffic police will not master in real time." After the accident occurs, the autonomous vehicle will report the relevant information to the regulatory platform.

Yang Diange, a professor at the School of Vehicle and Languard of Tsinghua University, recently issued a statement saying that smart car data management should take into account security and development, and "should be rough or not." He believes that the technical route of the smart car is still in the exploration stage, and the relevant data security management regulations should not be too detailed. They should give the enterprise a certain degree of freedom under the premise of keeping the basic security bottom line. At present, the intelligent car data cross -border and data storage have all been formally constrained. Qualified management of geographical information data collection and storage also adopts qualification management. Under the conditions of ensuring basic security, it can be used in data use, data accuracy, data classification and other aspects Appropriate space for enterprises to explore the space, and then form some detailed regulations after the technology matures, otherwise it is easy to occur.

People close to the regulatory level revealed to China News Weekly that although the company will report the test situation to the regulatory authorities every six months, because the receiving rate and other indicators involve corporate secrets, not all data will be reported to the regulatory authorities.

"The government will supervise the testing vehicles, but it will not evaluate the technology itself due to the requirements of safety prevention." growing up very fast."

The security responsibility is deserved to be improved

With the development of the autonomous driving industry, related laws and regulations also need to be improved. Data disclosed by Beijing show that there are 18 traffic accidents in the demonstration area. According to the driving mode, there are 6 accidents in the artificial driving mode, 12 accidents in the autonomous driving mode (including 3 blame accidents and 9 no blame accidents). On average, an accident occurred every 171,000 kilometers.

For the main body of the autonomous driving road test license, China and foreign countries have high insurance requirements. The California Vehicle Administration requires enterprises to bear $ 5 million in insurance to prove that they have the ability to blame personal damage, death or property loss caused by autonomous vehicles. In China, the "Intelligent Connected Automobile Road Test Management Specification (Trial)" requires that autonomous driving enterprises to obtain a traffic accident liability insurance voucher, and the traffic accident liability insurance certificate or less than 5 million yuan per car or no less than 5 million yuan Yuan RMB's autonomous driving road test accident compensation letter.

However, the current rules of traffic accidents and violations of the current laws and regulations are designed according to the traditional thinking of the vehicle with the driver of the driver. Among the autonomous vehicles, humans no longer control the vehicle as a fully operator. complex.

The "Regulations on the Management of the Intelligent Connected Automobile of the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone" (hereinafter referred to as the "Regulations"), which was officially implemented on August 1, is China's first intelligent connected car regulation. Industry insiders said that because autonomous vehicles have not formed a large scale, autonomous driving models have not been regulated as new types of traffic participants. Previously, the regulations in traffic management have been missing, and "the traffic management department is passively cope."

Cheng Shidong believes that Shenzhen issued the first regulations on the handling of illegal driving roads in the Special Economic Zone of the Economic Zone, filling the gap of the lack of responsible subjects in the previous autonomous driving accident.

Zeng Qianyu, a staff member of the Wisdom Department of the Shenzhen Transportation Bureau, told China News Weekly that the "Regulations" was set up by Shenzhen People's Congress, the Municipal Public Security Traffic Police Bureau, and the Municipal Industry and Information Technology Bureau. Complete legislation within time. Zeng Qianyu said that there are dozens of on -site symposiums in the special class to inspect the development of the enterprise in many places. By sorting out the current 43 terms of China and the legislative specifications of Europe and the United States, it has come up with nearly 900,000 words of survey reports. When an accident occurs in a self -driving vehicle, who takes responsibility? The "Regulations" stipulate around the situation of "driver" and "no driver". For the responsibility that belongs to the intelligent connected car and there are drivers, the driver will be responsible for the driver first; for those without a driver, based on the principle of "who benefits and who is responsible", the vehicle owner and the manager come first come first. Liability. If the accident was found in the future, the driver, the owner of the vehicle, and the vehicle manager could recover to the vehicle production seller in accordance with regulations, and generally followed the rules of "compensation and then recovery".

In other words, for self -driving vehicles, as long as there are safety officers in the vehicle, the safety officer should be responsible. Cheng Shidong believes that the main body of responsibility is reasonable as a security officer, and the safety officer can still manipulate the vehicle in emergency situations. However, some practitioners who are unwilling to be named have stated that they are based on safety officers to help the role of driving. Since then, if other cities have issued corresponding regulations, they can further refine the identification of the accident responsibility. It is determined whether the accident is driving or the system is driving to determine whether it is the responsibility of the security officer or the responsibility of the system.

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Magazine title: Autonomous driving in many cities: How difficult is commercialization

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