Due to the epidemic, various provinces and cities have put unmanned patrol cars, unmanned disinfection robots, medical assistant robots, medicine delivery, temperature measuring robots and other smart vehicles into the "battlefield". What tasks did driverless cars undertake during the epidemic? To what extent have my country's driverless smart cars developed? Let's take a look together.
Self-driving trucks
The demand for driverless driving revealed during the epidemic
Autonomous driving is no longer a new concept. In recent years, there have been a lot of big moves. However, due to limitations of technology, environment, law and other factors, it has not been widely popularized. At this critical moment of epidemic prevention and control, the demand for driverless vehicles from all walks of life has become extremely urgent.
For example, Shenzhen Futian District took the lead in using unmanned and fully automatic sanitation sweepers to complete cleaning, watering, garbage collection and other tasks independently; on February 10, Jiangxi Province’s first unmanned disinfection vehicle Arriving in Poyang County, they will be used for disinfection and disinfection of communities and urban villages, and carry out all-round and no-dead-corner disinfection operations for each community and urban villages. The application of driverless sanitation vehicles can not only maximize work efficiency, but also effectively ensure the safety of front-line sanitation workers.
Unmanned sanitation trucks on the streets of Shenzhen
In hospitals, driverless cars are also showing their talents: hospitals in Hubei, Guangdong and other places use unmanned food delivery trucks to deliver food to patients in isolation wards. The two hospitals of Huoshenshan and Leishenshan have also introduced low-speed self-driving cars and robots to undertake some of the tasks of transporting patients, delivering test orders, medicines, and patient meals. The application of driverless cars in hospitals saves medical staff time from traveling back and forth, allowing them to focus more on patient diagnosis and care.
Unmanned driving is used in the logistics industry, and it is also a combat force that cannot be underestimated: Shenzhen Yiqing Technology Company developed unmanned logistics vehicles to undertake the tasks of logistics warehouses and wards, wards and garbage stations, supermarkets and communities. Material transportation tasks between locations; driverless logistics vehicles launched by technology companies such as JD.com and Cainiao have also been used for precise express delivery, becoming the best solution to current logistics and distribution problems.
Autonomous vehicles are used in express delivery
Will autonomous trucks become popular?
The application of autonomous driving in the logistics industry allows us to see another possibility in the logistics and transportation industry. According to Reuters, the results of the business case evaluation of autonomous driving technology show that from the practicality test, Commercial vehicles carrying long-distance freight are more likely to be put into service. Self-driving trucks may become popular in the next few years.
Unmanned Trucks
Before this, my country’s commercial vehicle companies have made considerable progress in the field of unmanned driving. In 2019 alone, there were many reports on unmanned vehicles. News about driving commercial vehicles comes out frequently.
At the Shanghai Auto Show in April 2019, SINOTRUK exhibited its own L4 driverless HOWO-T5G electric truck. The truck has not only been commercially operated at ports, but has also been used in a variety of application scenarios such as highways and mining areas, unlocking multiple operating modes.
Sinotruk L4 driverless HOWO-T5G electric truck
On May 7, 2019, three driverless Dongfeng Tianlong heavy trucks conducted a test on the test road The public verification test of large-scale commercial vehicle platoon following was successful.
Unmanned Dongfeng Tianlong Heavy Truck
On July 29, 2019, Sany Heavy Duty Truck’s pure electric driverless concrete mixer truck officially rolled off the production line, becoming the country’s first driverless concrete mixer truck. Drive concrete mixer truck.
Sany Heavy Duty Truck’s pure electric driverless concrete mixer truck
On September 6, 2019, the launch ceremony of FAW Jiefang L2 mass-production commercial vehicle was held in Shanghai.
FAW Jiefang L2 mass-production commercial vehicle
On September 20, 2019, Beiben Heavy Duty Truck exhibited a vehicle at the 11th China Baotou Rare Earth Industry Forum L4 level autonomous driving heavy truck.
Beiben Heavy Duty Truck L4 autonomous driving heavy truck
On September 26, 2019, Foton Daimler Automobile’s autonomous driving media experience event was tested at the National Intelligent Connected Vehicle (Changsha) District held.
The media experienced Foton Daimler’s self-driving car on-site
On September 27, 2019, the Dongfeng Liuqi Chenglong T7? L4 level self-driving car “turned out”.
Dongfeng Liuqi Chenglong T7? L4 level autonomous driving
On December 15, 2019, SAIC Hongyan smart heavy-duty truck successfully completed 72 kilometers of autonomous driving, realizing 5G autonomous driving The heavy truck project was commercialized for the first time.
SAIC Hongyan Smart Heavy Truck
On February 12 this year, the Israeli company Innoviz Technologies announced that it would cooperate with China’s Shaanxi Heavy Duty Truck Co., Ltd. to deploy it in one of China’s largest ports 600 self-driving trucks. I believe that in 2020, there will be more news about driverless commercial vehicles, let us wait and see.
Smart Vehicle Innovation and Development Strategy
Recently, 11 ministries and commissions including the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Public Security, and the Ministry of Transport jointly issued the "Smart Vehicle Innovation and Development Strategy", stating that they will accelerate the promotion of smart vehicles Innovation and development. This strategy also provides the best guarantee for the development of the intelligent driving industry.
The strategy proposes that by 2025, the technological innovation, industrial ecology, infrastructure, regulations and standards, product supervision and network security systems of China's standard smart cars will be basically formed. Vehicle wireless communication networks (LTE-V2X, etc.) have achieved regional coverage. The new generation of vehicle wireless communication networks (5G-V2X) has gradually been applied in some cities and highways. The high-precision spatio-temporal reference service network has achieved full coverage.
The document points out that artificial intelligence, Internet and other companies will be encouraged to develop into leaders in autonomous driving system solutions, information and communications companies and other companies will be encouraged to develop into smart car data service providers and wireless communication network operators, and transportation infrastructure will be encouraged to Facilities-related companies have developed into smart city transportation system solution providers.
The document also emphasizes that in the future, we will actively cultivate new business formats such as road smart facilities, high-precision spatio-temporal benchmark services, smart car basic maps, Internet of Vehicles, network security, and smart travel. Strengthen big data applications in complex usage scenarios of smart cars, focusing on data value-added, travel services, financial insurance and other fields, and cultivate new business models.
Summary: In the fight against COVID-19, the use of driverless vehicles allows us to see their use scenarios in daily life, and also outlines for us the infinite possibilities of driverless vehicles in the future. . It is believed that with the support of national strategies and the catalysis of actual demand, autonomous driving technology will become popular in 2020.
This article comes from the author of Autohome Chejiahao and does not represent the views and positions of Autohome.