When Shenzhen tested unmanned buses in December last year, it was predicted that the hometown of each of us would soon follow, but many people said it was unlikely.
Less than two months after the test in Shenzhen, Shanghai started the "first shot": the first batch of intelligent networked open road test number plates in China, officially issued in Shanghai, but just after 10 days, Hangzhou tested the unmannedplan It has already entered the implementation phase.When we found out, the road was almost repaired.
On January 22, 2019, the section of Yangquan, Shanxi Wuyu Expressway was closed, and 22 autopilot and high-precision map collection vehicles equipped with Baidu Apollo platform were used to carry out automatic driving road test and data collection work.
On March 13, 2019, at the Gexiang Road next to the Alibaba headquarters, the city of Hangzhou conducted an unmanned autopilot test.
On April 12, 2019, the first self-driving intelligent network-connected highway test section in China--Qilu Traffic Intelligent Network Linked Highway Test Base and R&D Center Project was launched in Jinan.The project is constructed at the original site of Binlai Expressway Reconstruction and Extension Project.The total length of the project will be 26 kilometers. It is planned to be open to traffic in September 2019.
However, Hangzhou is more "terrible" than we think. In addition to quietly building roads and launching drone testing, it is also building China's first super highway, unlimited speed, unmanned, and photovoltaic.
Maybe the next one is Guangzhou, Nanjing, Wuhan, Chengdu, Chongqing, Changsha... and China will fully enter the test unmanned era!
When the era ofunmannedis coming, are signs and markings still useful?
Earlier, Tesla CEO Elon Musk had publicly complained about the ambiguity of road traffic signs and markings in many parts of the United States.
The automatic driving system needs to recognize the road traffic signs and markings to ensure that the vehicle does not deviate from the lane, and automatically complete the turning and other operations. Once the sign, the marking is blurred or the road is covered by the rain and snow weather marking, the system itself has lost its use.
In addition to gradually solving some technical problems, the road itself and its affiliated traffic facilities will become the biggest obstacle to the self-driving car if it can not meet the conditions of automatic driving.
Regardless of signs, markings or other traffic facilities, clear and complete integrity are particularly important for autonomous vehicles. The traffic department in Shanghai, China has begun to develop the country's first new road marking system to meet the travel conditions of future self-driving cars; Alibaba, the first batch of unmanned road test licenses in Hangzhou, also focused on the road's intelligent security system. In the field of domestic road traffic safety facilities, Jiangsu Kechuang traffic Safety Industry Research Institute and Shanxi Zhongtu Traffic Technology Co.,Ltdare actively developing new ecological signs and marking systems.
