Shenzhen is the first to introduce new rules!The division of the responsibility of autonomous driving accident is clear

A few days ago

The Shenzhen Municipal People's Congress Standing Committee meeting reviewed and approved

"Regulations on the Management of Intelligent Connected Automobile in Shenzhen Special Economic Zone"

(The following referred to as the "Regulations")

Management of the use of autonomous vehicles

Division of rights and responsibilities when traffic accidents occur

This is the first time in China

Smart connected car marketization applications make clear stipulation

The New Deal will be officially implemented from August 1st this year

The healthy and orderly development of autonomous driving is essential. Wu Bofeng/Photo

High -level autonomous driving is becoming more mature

Li Wanli, a member of the China Automobile Industry Consulting Commission, said in an interview with the China Consumer Daily that at this stage, the development of the domestic automotive market has been tightly linked with digitalization. The autonomous driving of connected technology in one body is an important trend in the development of automobiles in the future. "After gradually solving the prominent problems of electrification, intelligent networking technologies including autonomous driving and smart cockpits will usher in a faster stage of development." He said.

At present, a variety of production models such as Audi A8, Roewe Marvel-R, GAC New Energy Ean LX have the ability to produce L3 auxiliary driving. However, due to regulatory factors, automobile companies can only be opened on mass production models to current L2 levels allowed.

The "New Energy Vehicle Industry Development Plan (2021-2035)" issued by the State Council proposes that by 2025, a highly autonomous vehicle will realize the commercialization of limited areas and specific scenarios; by 2035, a large -scale application of highly autonomous vehicles will be achieved.

It is foreseeable that the autonomous driving technology that is currently only in the initial stage is about to usher in a high time. In the context of the development of autonomous driving technology, the voices of the market on the introduction of relevant laws and regulations are getting higher and higher.

Fill in responsibility and lack of market gaps

Nie Zaqing, a member of the Management Committee of Baidu Apollo Intelligent Traffic Joint Research Center, said to the reporter of the China Consumer Daily: "Autonomous driving is facing huge safety challenges. Under the circumstances, an unpredictable situation will be encountered. For example, the blocking, blind spots, and the front of the car suddenly change the trails of traffic lights, which may bring some accidents. "

So, when a driver abandoned the driver's control over accidents, how can you judge the liability of the accident?

"Regulations" shows:

Intelligent Connect

Refers to cars that can be safely drove on the road by instead of the operation of the autonomous driving system, including conditional autonomous driving, highly autonomous driving, and fully autonomous driving. Among them, vehicles with conditional autonomous driving (L3 level) and highly autonomous driving (level L4) shall have an artificial driving mode and corresponding device, and are equipped with drivers. As the highest level of autonomous driving, that is, vehicles that are fully driving (L5), can not have an artificial driving mode and corresponding device, and can not be equipped with drivers. However, the full autonomous driving intelligent connected car without a driver can only drive in the areas and sections of the traffic management department of the municipal public security organs.

Compared with the problem of autonomous driving matching drivers, consumers are most concerned about the ownership of traffic accidents and responsibilities.

"Regulations" shows:

Intelligent connected cars equipped with drivers occur in traffic violations, and the traffic management department of the public security organs shall punish drivers in accordance with the law;

If a traffic accident and a smart connected car are responsible, the driver of the vehicle shall bear the corresponding damage compensation liability;

If a traffic accident is caused by the quality defect of intelligent connected cars, the driver may pursue the producers and sellers of the intelligent connected car after the driver shall bear the liability for damages in accordance with the law.

In other words, as long as the L3 level or L4 -level autonomous driving system is turned on, the first responsibility is the driver if the vehicle occurs in traffic accidents.

Li Wanli believes that because in accordance with relevant regulations, whether it is L3 or L4 -level vehicles must be equipped with a driver, and the vehicle is taken over if necessary, so the driver needs to be responsible for the driving conditions of the vehicle. The actual accident liability basis needs to be determined based on the on -site and the root cause of the accident.

The reporter learned that only intelligent connected cars equipped with fully autonomous driving (L5 level) had traffic violations or responsibilities during a driverless period. In principle The punishment of illegal actors is not applicable to the relevant regulations of the driver's score.

Policies stipulate that intelligent connected cars need to be equipped with external indicators of autonomous driving mode. When driving in autonomous driving mode, the external indicator light should be turned on to start warning and clear driving status. At present, most of the models on the market are not equipped with this device, and the implementation of the relevant regulations will inevitably guide future intelligent connected cars to configure indicator lights during production.

An Qingheng, director of the China Automobile Industry Consulting Commission, told a reporter from the China Consumer News that the implementation of the "Regulations" largely fills the domestic gap in domestic autonomous driving responsibilities at or above the L3 level. Vehicle provides reference.

The division of the autonomous driving level is chaotic

For a long time, in order to increase product attractiveness, there have been mainstream car companies to increase product attractiveness, and when introducing vehicle autonomous driving technology, L2.5, L2.9 and other "L2+" are used. Dongfeng Citroen's new medium -sized sedan Versailles C5X, FAW Pentium's new third -generation B70, and the new generation of Starway new generation of mass production models all claim that the vehicle's autonomous driving is L2.5. For a while, the L2 level, which was originally a normal statement, became a rare thing. An industry insider who deeply cultivated the automotive market for more than 20 years and the current Minister of Technology R & D Department of a certain independent brand technology revealed to the China Consumer News that the practice of car companies is not a simple marketing story, and it is more a kind of " The ingenious "method, no matter what level of L2+to, its underlying logic is still L2 level. "For car companies, while actively showing autonomous driving techniques to the consumer market, the L2 level is" protection ". Once the vehicle occurs, the driver must first bear the responsibility of the accident. The risks and hidden dangers are caused. "He believes that whether it has reached the L2+level or even L2.9 level models, whether it already has the L3 level of autonomous driving capabilities, it needs to attract the attention of the industry.

Today, auto companies are usually divided into autonomous driving technology levels based on relevant industry standards. Because of this, a series of dazzling technical terms appeared on the basis of L2 levels, which also confused consumers.

People in the industry suggested whether the identification of the automotive autonomous driving level in the future can participate in the participation of relevant departments, so that the division of autonomous driving levels is no longer chaotic. Does the sensitive topic of auto companies' responsibility for autonomous driving accidents have led to the subjective stagnation of autonomous driving at the L2 level?

It is not difficult to speculate that although the implementation of the "Regulations" takes a big step forward, if you want to truly model the development of autonomous driving, there is still a long way to go.

Produced by Chinese Consumer Newspaper New Media Editorial Department

Source/China Consumer News · China Consumer Network

Reporter/Wu Bofeng

Edit/Pei Ying

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