Auto Driving Test Environment Accelerated Everywhere

Recently, the field of automatic driving at home and abroad is frequent. In June 27th, the dripping trip for the first time opened the public to the automatic driving service, causing strong concern in the market. The next second days, according to media reports, Amazon announced the acquisition of Zoox, an automatic driving company, for $1 billion 200 million, which is seen as an important part of Amazon's autopilot.

At the same time, the speed of automatic driving test environment is accelerating.

On July 1st, the Zhongguancun Science City Management Committee revealed that the 100 square kilometers automatic driving demonstration area and the first phase automatic driving test road in Zhongguancun Science City have been fully opened. After opening, the test road was expanded from 3 to 52, and the mileage increased from 19.4 km to 215.3 km.

As a matter of fact, the "golden ten years" of automatic driving is coming. The "energy saving and new energy vehicle technology roadmap" released by the China Automobile Engineering Society has proposed that by 2020, the scale of the automobile industry will reach 30 million, and the market share of driving assistance / partial automatic driving vehicles will reach 50%. From 2021 to 2025, we will strive to be able to list highly or completely self driving vehicles. From 2026 to 2030, each vehicle should be driven by unmanned or auxiliary vehicles. Driving system.

Open testing environment

The road test scale is undoubtedly an important yardstick for evaluating the automatic driving technology of enterprises, and automatic driving in speed up also attracts more open road tests.

It is understood that the newly opened automatic driving test road in Beijing includes 3 R2 roads, 6 kilometres of mileage, 38 R3 roads, 148.6 kilometres of mileage, 6 R4 roads, 35.1 kilometers mileage, 5 R5 roads and 25.6 kilometers mileage. The automatic driving vehicle with the corresponding test qualification can be tested in the test area except 0 hours to 9 hours, 17 hours to 24 hours.

On the test section, the automatic driving demonstration zone of Zhongguancun science city starts from Sha Yang Road, South to hot spring road, east to Yongfeng base, West to Nie Zhuang Zhuang - Bei'an River Road, and Haidian driving school area, with a planned area of 100 square kilometers.

According to the relevant person in charge of Zhongguancun Science City, the future Zhongguancun automatic driving innovation demonstration area will build a series of new infrastructure projects, such as automatic driving, 5G vehicle networking, high precision map, Beidou navigation, intelligent transportation and so on, and build an innovative system of intelligent network demonstration application integrated with vehicle, road, cloud, network and map, and strive to form 50 billion yuan industrial scale in 3 years. 。

Nationwide, Beijing is undoubtedly the leader of automatic driving road survey. In 2019, the automatic driving vehicle road test report of Beijing showed that as of the end of 2019, Beijing had accumulated 151 roads and 503.68 kilometers of test roads in Haidian District, Shunyi District, Beijing economic and Technological Development Zone and Fangshan District.

Outside Beijing, cities including Shanghai, Changsha, Shenzhen, Chongqing and other cities also have their own automatic driving test open sections, and attract the corresponding autopilot companies to enter. At present, Shanghai's open test road mileage is 126.57 km, leading the country. Shenzhen has released 124 kilometers of open test road covering 9 administrative districts.

In addition to testing the road, the number of licenses issued everywhere also reflects openness. According to statistics, from the end of 2019 to the end of, a total of 77 vehicles were tested for 13 enterprises, with a test mileage of 1 million 40 thousand km. As of April this year, Shanghai has issued 69 intelligent Internet connection vehicle road test licences for 19 test companies, the number of testing enterprises is the most in the country.

Changsha is equally fierce in licensing. In April of this year, the Changsha municipal government issued the intelligent network vehicle open road test license to the intelligent driving heavy truck of Shenzhen Lan Technology (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., panda intelligent bus and winning technology (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. Up to now, Changsha has issued 55 test licenses in 3 batches.

"Automatic driving as a new technology to subvert human driving behavior has entered a large-scale R & D phase and is on the eve of commercialization." "Road test is a necessary step to detect the performance of the autopilot vehicle system, and also a prerequisite for the realization of the automatic driving business deployment," he Rong Liang, an Industrial Economics Institute at Sai Di think tank, said.

Road test catch up time

On the one hand, all parts of the country are running small distances in road testing. On the other hand, there is still a gap between China and the United States.

Hon wing Liang said that the United States has formed a more relaxed atmosphere of automatic driving policy. 41 states in the United States have allowed automatic driving tests, accounting for 80% of the total number of state governments in the country. In contrast, the automatic driving test in China is mainly in large and medium-sized cities. Up to the end of 2019, 17 cities had accumulated over 200 autopilot road test licenses in 17 cities.

In addition, testing in the US region of California has been in the lead. In 2018, a total of 48 enterprises participated in the "California road survey", and 496 vehicles totaled 3 million 258 thousand and 100 km. A total of 8 enterprises participated in the "Beijing road survey" in 2018. The cumulative mileage of 54 vehicles was 150 thousand km, which was only 4.6% of the mileage of California road.

But the domestic situation is catching up. In 2019, 36 companies completed 4 million 634 thousand and 900 km automatic driving test on public roads in California, an increase of 39.52% over the previous year. The mileage of 1 million 40 thousand kilometers completed in Beijing in 2019 is 22.44% in California, which is greatly improved compared with the 4.6% level in the previous year.

"American automatic driving technology is at the leading level in the world, but our country still has certain advantages, and the development of automatic driving has greater potential." He pointed out.

The advantages are first reflected in the unified and standardized industrial system of the whole country. In April 2019, when China issued the "intelligent network vehicle road test management standard (Trial Implementation)", the regulations of the autonomous region and the import and export regulations were added in two months, and the number of automatic driving road test licenses was 91. The increase was 80%. By the end of 2019, there were 200 automatic driving test licenses in the country.

At the same time, China also has the advantage of intelligent road infrastructure, such as the advantages of the entire industrial chain and the unified deployment of 5G communications, and it is also the world's largest potential market for automatic driving.

In the view of he Rong Liang, our country should innovate in the system, organize experts to study the connection policy, confirm the test results which are excellent in foreign tests through the appraisal mechanism, and attract enterprises to conduct automatic driving tests in China. This can save test capital and time cost, and speed up the development of China's automatic driving technology.