In addition to the efforts of medical staff and civil servants, the "driverless smart car" that we have been paying attention to in recent years has also played a role in controlling this novel coronavirus so quickly in China. According to Bian Xiao's rough understanding, unmanned intelligence plays a role in the following scenarios:
JD.COM used L4-class unmanned delivery vehicle to deliver medical materials from the delivery station to the Ninth Hospital of Wuhan, 600 meters away, and the unmanned delivery vehicle undertook 50%-70% of the orders of this hospital. In addition to materials and express delivery, Wuhan also has postal unmanned delivery vehicles, which undertake the delivery tasks within the area of Xiantao Municipal Government and its directly affiliated units.
Meituan launched unmanned delivery vehicles in Beijing, equipped with unmanned delivery vehicles around Meituan's grocery service site, and delivered them to distant communities. The driving speed on the public test road is about 20 kilometers per hour.
In Zhangjiang artificial intelligence island, Shanghai, unmanned disinfection vehicles have been applied. The disinfection vehicle can carry 160L disinfectant, and carry out self-propelled spray disinfection at a speed of 5 kilometers per hour. At present, similar self-driving disinfection vehicles have been put into use in Shanghai, Shandong, Jiangxi, Wenzhou, Wuhan, Guangzhou and other places.
In Futian District, Shenzhen, the unmanned sanitation sweeper has recently been "on duty". This car is enough to replace sanitation workers for outdoor cleaning, cleaning, watering and garbage collection.
Although the above statistics are not comprehensive, we can also see the direction of driverless smart cars. In this epidemic, because of avoiding the infectivity of "human-to-human transmission", everyone has reduced the number of trips at home, and the use effect of unmanned delivery vehicles has indeed performed well, which not only solved the problem of medical staff delivering meals, but also disinfected at designated points, and even helped us deliver takeout and express delivery.
On February 24th, the National Development and Reform Commission and other 1 1 departments jointly issued the "Innovative Development Strategy of Smart Cars", which clearly put forward the strategic goal of building China's standard smart cars and realizing the power of smart cars, as well as six key tasks for further implementation, and made a comprehensive deployment and systematic planning for the future development of smart cars in China. From the current point of view, the unmanned smart car not only has the laying of research and development, but also gives us the direction and field of use. In strategic planning, what kind of usage scenarios can driverless smart cars achieve?
The strategy puts forward the vision of smart car development: by 2025, the technical innovation, industrial ecology, infrastructure, laws and regulations, product supervision and network security system of standard smart cars in China will basically take shape. Smart cars with conditional self-driving can be produced on a large scale, and highly self-driving smart cars can be applied to the market in specific environments. Positive progress has been made in the construction of intelligent transportation systems and related facilities in smart cities, and in-vehicle wireless communication networks (LTE-V2X? ) to achieve regional coverage, a new generation of in-vehicle wireless communication network (5G-V2X) is gradually applied in some cities and highways, and a high-precision space-time reference service network achieves full coverage. In the future, with the gradual realization of the vision of safe, efficient, green and civilized smart car power, the beautiful life it brings to people is very exciting.
Of course, this is only a vision. We don't know how difficult the technical problems that need to be broken through are, and whether they can be commercialized and applied on a large scale is also a big problem. Of course, these are not issues that we can care about and contribute to. We assume that if such a driverless smart car is on the road on a large scale, what kind of standard will it be in front of traffic regulations?
For example, Tesla autopilot, which is very popular now, has only reached L2 level at present. To use this autopilot, it is necessary to ensure that the driver can intervene in the control of the vehicle at any time. At present, the unified method is: to start the driverless function, you must put your hand on the steering wheel with the sensor installed. If there is a traffic accident at this time, the division of responsibilities is simple and clear, but the direction we are working hard now is that drivers don't need to intervene, so how can we divide traffic accidents under such circumstances? Is it the owner of a driverless smart car or a self-driving car? Or research and develop car companies?
Faced with such a situation, China's traffic law has no clear instructions at present, and so do foreign countries. At present, there are few unmanned intelligent vehicles and self-driving vehicles driving in closed places and special experimental roads stipulated by the state.
When driverless smart cars and highly self-driving cars are popularized in the future, the traffic regulations related to such vehicles in various countries will inevitably be innovated, which will greatly affect the interests of both consumers and developers.
finally
This epidemic has brought many application opportunities to low-speed unmanned driving. Everyone came to explore the landing scene. Unmanned vehicles are brilliant, and everyone sees some hope. However, if we really want to take "unmanned intelligence" and "autonomous driving" as the direction in the future, besides technology, we should also consider how to "coexist" with current traditional cars. The future intelligence is beautiful, but our drivers also have their own persistence and love.
This article comes from car home, the author of the car manufacturer, and does not represent car home's position.