"Until now, the entire country has only issued an L3 grade test license for highly autonomous driving. L5 grade, even if it is a test license, it cannot be issued so easily!" The old cadres of the Traffic Bureau held a conservative view.
If their city was the first to issue an L5 grade test license for Pengyun cars, it was tantamount to attracting the focus of the topic to them. If Pengyun's driverless cars had any safety accidents, these decision-makers would have to bear the responsibility.
"I think we can try to open it up after passing strict tests." A young cadre said, "Using artificial intelligence to assist traffic management, we have seen it in the past few months, the results are remarkable. The Ministry of Transport has even specially issued a document to urge our local Traffic Bureau to use the new technology."
"This time, Pengyun's driverless cars are using the latest artificial intelligence technology to develop complete autonomous driving. From an intelligent point of view, it should not be a problem."
He was the person in charge of the intelligent traffic management system, Luo Zhe. After seeing the convenience of artificial intelligence assisted traffic management, he approved of artificial intelligence technology very much.
"How do you know there is no problem? Driverless cars not only involve artificial intelligence, but also positioning systems, sensor systems, etc. Can you guarantee that there is no problem with these? "Someone directly used words to refute.
"I can't guarantee, but we can test it!" Luo Zhe insisted on his view and said, "The future traffic management and transportation methods will definitely use new technology as the core of intelligent traffic. If we don't try it, how do we know whether it will become better or not?"
"What Little Luo said makes sense, but have you thought about how we will test it? Complete autonomous driving, this is a technology that has never appeared before. What method and standard do we use to guarantee that there is no problem? Therefore, I feel that it's better to put it aside. We can first give Pengyun cars an L3 or even an L4 license plate to guarantee that there will be a driver to assist in driving. "In the Traffic Control Bureau, there were more people who held a neutral viewpoint. They were not too radical or too conservative.
Everyone argued endlessly, in the end, it was still up to the director and deputy director to make the decision.
Director Wu Changfeng frowned deeply, this was still a troublesome matter. Denying it was not good, the risk of supporting it was also high.
Now, the entire country, including the leaders above, various departments in the transportation industry, and enterprises, were all waiting for their response, they had to make a decision as soon as possible.
"Report the results of Pengyun's driverless car test again!" He ordered. Immediately, someone found the materials and reported the results.
"In the past, their L3 has been on autopilot for two months, and there hasn't been a single traffic accident or traffic violation. Fully autonomous driving, which allows them to cope with all kinds of extreme and intense driving conditions, they have already passed the test according to the information they submitted, but we haven't followed up with the review yet. "
From the reports, they couldn't find any problems. However, the most important thing was that this was a step from manual driving to completely autonomous driving. The first city to be opened to the public would definitely face the greatest pressure.
Luo Zhe added, "The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has already reviewed their smart driving, positioning, and sensing technology. It has proven that there are no problems."
Wu Changfeng hesitated for a long time and said, "We can try to allow them to conduct road tests on some of the roads. At the same time, there must be real-time supervision by a driver, and there must be high traffic accident insurance … Let them test it for a month first."
Pengcheng's Traffic Bureau's "Trial Regulations on Fully Autonomous Vehicles" was issued, allowing Pengyun's autonomous vehicles to be tested on designated roads. They were awarded the world's first "L5" autonomous vehicle test license plate.
The regulations also specifically stipulated that once there were any traffic safety problems caused by the immaturity of the autonomous vehicle technology, the test license plate would be taken back, and Pengyun would have to bear the corresponding traffic accident liability.
Once this example came out, it unsurprisingly caused a huge social response. The media, experts, and the public all debated this approach and questioned the safety of autonomous vehicles.
However, regardless, Pengyun's autonomous vehicles had obtained the qualifications for temporary road testing and could try to conduct a complete autonomous vehicle test on the road.
According to the regulations of the trial regulations, Pengyun's vehicles still had to send a safety driver to sit in the vehicle. When the autonomous vehicle system had an accident, the driver would take control of the vehicle in time.
"The autonomous vehicle system must be tested regularly. There must not be any problems!" Inside Pengyun's vehicle, Lu Zixin emphasized at the senior management meeting. "Currently, the relevant departments and most of the citizens are skeptical of fully autonomous driving. Once we have a small problem, it will be infinitely magnified by the media."
The incident with Uber Technologies is a good example. "
Previously, one of Uber's autonomous vehicles had a traffic accident in Tempe, Arizona. It collided with a pedestrian who was crossing the road, and the pedestrian died after being sent to the hospital. When the Uber vehicle hit the pedestrian, it was in an autonomous state. This was the first case in history where an autonomous vehicle hit and killed a pedestrian on the open road.
After this incident, it caused a huge social response, and some people openly boycotted autonomous vehicles. The state's Department of Motor Vehicles also stopped the autonomous vehicle test, so Uber had no choice but to move the autonomous vehicle project to other states.
If a similar development happened in China, it was estimated that there would not be the treatment of moving to other cities for trial. It would be directly banned for a period of time! That would completely disrupt Pengyun's industrial layout, and the impact would be very heavy.
"We can accept that the autonomous vehicle system has an undiscovered problem, but we can't let this problem cause a safety accident!" Lu Zixin's words were recorded as a core requirement.
In order to let the public see Pengyun's confidence in autonomous vehicles, Jiang Xunmei decided to personally ride in the autonomous vehicle on the day of the test to prove the safety of this driving system.
On the first day of Pengyun's autonomous vehicle test, Pengyun Motor Co., Ltd, Pengcheng's Traffic Bureau, and various news media were all present to hold a ribbon-cutting event for the world's first L5 autonomous vehicle test license plate.
The Traffic Bureau's Director Wu Changfeng personally attended the event and participated in the ribbon-cutting.
The local TV station sent staff to do a live broadcast to record this moment.
A female host from Pengcheng's TV station carried a loudspeaker and said to the live broadcast camera, "Everyone look, this is the world's first fully autonomous vehicle made by Pengyun Motor. It will not need a driver to drive on the road. A lot of people have doubts about it. We have connected the camera lens on the car, and there are drones to film in real time. We will be able to see how it actually drives on the road. "
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