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Chongqing Yongchuan District approved the unmanned autonomous driving taxi on August 8th.step. Lianhe Zaobao reporter visited Yongchuan last week and found that the driver's driving style was quite calm, not impatient; But it is slightly not enough in the United States that it is quite sensitive to the obstacles ahead, and it is not very gentle when stepping on the brakes.
Chongqing, known as the "stove" in western China, opened the "barbecue mode" in August, making the roadside and other cars almost impossible.Lianhe Zaobao reporter visited Yongchuan District in the west of Shancheng last week to meet high temperatures of more than 40 degrees Celsius. Before traveling, you can place a car through mobile phone application. After a few minutes, a small white sports car (SUV) slowly drives and stops.After the roadside, the reporter approached the glass window inwardly. I saw that there was no one in the car. It turned out to be a unmanned driving taxi.
There is a small display on the right side of the car door on the right side of the unmanned car. After entering the mobile phone tail number used by the calling car on it, the door handle of the rear door will automatically extend the door to open the door.After getting on the car, it is a good seat belt, and press the "Open Stroke" button on the screen in the car.The human car drove towards the predetermined destination at a speed of about 40 kilometers per hour.
This driverless vehicle was approved by the Yongchuan District Government on August 8th. It is the first batch of unmanned autonomous driving taxis in China to issue a commercial operation license.The first step of popularity.On the same day, it was also issued a license in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, so that Wuhan and Yongchuan became the only two cities that China currently allows all unmanned autonomous driving taxis to provide paid travel services on the road.
Earlier, China's autonomous driving taxi must be equipped with safety officers to start commercial operation.Yongchuan has launched 10 autonomous taxis in June this year. At that time, it had become the first city in western China to commercialize the commercialization of autonomous driving. It is also the sixth city of open autonomous driving services after North, Shanghai, Changsha, and Cangzhou.
It is impressive that in the process of driving with other people's driving cars, the driving style of the drone is quite calm, not impatient, and also abide by traffic rules.However, unmanned vehicles are quite sensitive to obstacles ahead, and they are not very gentle when stepping on the brakes. The journey has been broadcast more than once during the journey: "I was forced to brake urgently, sorry", and I was slightly inadequate in the United States.
This new commercial service is provided by the "radish running" of the Chinese Internet giant Baidu Group in Wuhan and Yongchuan. It is currently the only autonomous driving travel service platform that has been allowed to operate.The radish running in August last year has currently launched autonomous driving travel services in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and other places. The order volume exceeds one million, which has become the world's largest autonomous driving service provider.
Radish fast running currently invested in five unmanned autonomous driving taxis, operating within a range of 30 square kilometers in the new city area of Yongchuan. The route is 40 kilometers long. The operation time is from 9:30 am to 4:30 pm.EssenceThese unmanned vehicles adopt new energy sources and have passed tens of thousands of kilometers before the road to ensure safe operation.
The Minister of the Enterprise Service Department of Yongchuan Big Data Industrial Park, who participated in the construction of local intelligent transportation construction, said in an interview with Lianhe Morning Post that the drone was even more sensitive to obstacles during the testing phase and "one -size -fits -all", "the front aheadThere are obstacles to stop directly at 372 ... In the past, we took this driverless (car) and always felt a meal and one meal, and the experience was very poor. "
Once the example has been for example, if the green plants are not trimmed in time, as long as it extends about 10 cm from the roadside, "(unmanned vehicle) will either go around a lot or stop directly."
But with the optimization of artificial intelligence algorithms in the background, Zeng Jian said that drones can now better identify road conditions. "(Some) obstacles can directly pass."
The northern, eastern and southern parts of Yongchuan, there are mountain roads, fast roads, and urban roads. The road scenes are rich, which is also conducive to collecting more information data in the closed road test in the early stage of the autonomous driving software, optimizing artificial intelligence algorithms, ""The more things in front (autonomous driving) are absorbed, the later (in the face of different road conditions) will be more handy. "
For taxi driver's seats still retain the steering wheel with little practicality, Zeng Jian said with a smile: "If there is no, maybe ordinary people dare not sit. He will feel that in case of emergency, he will even grab the steering wheel.There are no opportunities. "But he expected that as the people's adaptation increased, I believe that the new models launched in the future may make the steering wheel completely enter history.
Yongchuan has the largest road system in western China
Yongchuan and Wuhan are also the second batch of open -unmanned autonomous driving shared travel services after Phoenix and California in the United States.
Ruan Tingchuan, a city manager of the Chongqing City Manager of Baidu Autonomous Driving Area, described it to Lianhe Zaobao in the interview that all unmanned autonomous driving taxis have a "historical significance of milestones" on the road in China.You can start considering profitability and form a new business model.
Ruan Tingchuan pointed out that compared with the United States, China's urban population density is higher, traffic congestion is more frequent, and the driverless environment is more complicated.The achievement of this result is actually reaching the international height. "
For autonomous driving "add a pair of eyes"
Ruan Tingchuan introduced that Yongchuan currently has the largest road system in western China, and the intersection is connected to the network. The road information provided is equivalent to "adding a pair of eyes" for autonomous driving.The district currently has nearly 70 % of the city's autonomous open roads in Chongqing, and its innovative layout is forward -looking; Baidu currently has a total of 27 autonomous taxis and buses (of which 22 vehicles are equipped with safety officers) operate on Yongchuan HighwayThe scale also accounts for nearly 70 % of Chongqing's city. These unmanned vehicles accumulated as high as 99 % of the city's mileage. "Therefore, Chongqing's autonomous driving see Yongchuan."
Baidu unmanned projects were originally north of the north, such as relatively flat cities, as the main bases. After the expansion of Yongchuan in 2020, it actually faced many problems.Ruan Tingchuan said that the team must overcome the unique mountain roads in the south of the south, as well as more traffic scenarios, and invested many resources in previous technology research and development, hardware software, and manpower.Chongqing allows motor vehicles and non -motor vehicles to share highways, which also brings great challenges to driverless technology.
Ruan Tingchuan pointed out that more problems faced on the unmanned vehicle highway also came from some non -traffic rules and takeaway brothers.Some of the scenes of PK with us (unmanned cars) are very challenging. "
He calls on the driver on the highway to give unmanned vehicles more understanding and maintain good and orderly togetherTraffic environment and industry development.
Zeng Jian, Minister of the Enterprise Service Department of Yongchuan Big Data Industrial Park, also frankly faced the behavior of other drivers on the Yongchuan Highway in the early days.The psychology of car sensitivity.However, after the traffic law enforcement department and the driver actively communicated and understood, this phenomenon "rarely" in Yongchuan.
Zeng Jian also pointed out that the relevant laws of autonomous driving are not yet complete in China, while Yongchuan introduced relevant rules and regulations and began trial to avoid no law in the future.
Ruan Tingchuan welcomes Yongchuan's exploration: "(new management measures) will provide enterprises with more harmonious policy soil."He believes that relevant laws and regulations will gradually improve in practice.
Promote smart transportation and benefit people's livelihood
Baidu is the earliest company in China to deploy autonomous driving. As early as 2017, Apollo (Apollo) has been established in 2017. The total mileage of autonomous driving tests has exceeded 32 million kilometers.Baidu also cooperated with Yongchuan District Government. In September 2020, the first autonomous opening test and demonstration operation base was built in the central urban area of Yongchuan, covering 20 square kilometers in the urban area, 180 kilometers of test roads, and deploying 5G communication road networks in all aspects.Can be carried out for testing at the same time.
Chen Minle, Secretary of the Chongqing Municipal Party Committee of the Communist Party of China, during September 2020, during the China International Intelligent Industry Expo (Smart Expo), he met Li Yanhong, the founder of Baidu who came to Chongqing to further promote the pilot of smart transportation and settled in Yongchuan.Yongchuan Big Data Industrial Park and Baidu have become the owner and construction party of smart transportation projects.
Zeng Jian introduced that the district government hopes to benefit people's livelihood by promoting intelligent transportation and bring more convenience to the people. "Whether it is unmanned, automatic parking, or public transportation,The way you want to reach the destination you want. This is the original purpose of our smart transportation. "
Zeng Jian also said that the smart transportation of Beijing, Shenzhen, Hangzhou and other places was originally at the forefront of the country, while Yongchuan "took a lot of detours" by standing in front of the developed cities."This (lower trial and error cost) is also a major advantage of us. In terms of maturity and pilot effects in the later period, we may lead to lead."
Thousands of miles away from the clouds through the cloud
Although there are no safety officers on the driverless car running some unmanned cars, each car is equipped with a "cloud driver" through the cloud, which means that the real -life driver can take over from the cloud remotely to take over the unmanned vehicle driving on the road from the road., Timely deal with emergency accidents on the road.
Lianhe Zaobao reporter visited Baidu's office in Yongchuan Big Data Industrial Park, and saw that Baidu employees sitting on the driver's simulator at the scene, taking over a unmanned vehicle far away from Beijing and thousands of miles away.
Ruan Tingchuan introduced that for unmanned cars without safety officers on the car, the company actually sent another safety car to follow the demonstration operation at the beginning, providing passengers with one more layer of guarantee, and preventing real -life driving from being unable to follow fromThe cloud takes over the situation of unmanned vehicles.However, as the technology is increasingly improved, the company will develop in the direction of a safe car in the future.
is more expensive than ordinary taxis and online car rental
The price of the fifth -generation autonomous driving model currently used in radish fast running is 480,000 yuan (RMB, the same below, the same, S $ 97,800). Although the price of the sixth generation model has dropped significantly to 250,000 yuan, it is more than the Internet about the Internet.The cost of vehicles is still high, and there is still lack of market competitiveness.In Yongchuan and Wuhan, unmanned autonomous driving taxi services, the starting price is 16 yuan, the mileage unit price per kilometer is 2 yuan and 8 cents, which is more expensive than ordinary taxis and online car rental.The price is as low as one fold.The reporter took five kilometers by unmanned vehicle that day and paid only 2 yuan and 5 cents.
Ruan Tingchuan admits that the small cost of the fleet is indeed high, but by achieving the commercialization demonstration operation of the first unmanned autonomous taxi taxi in China, Baidu can take the lead in forming a closed -loop of the commercial model.More and more, the company will adjust its capacity in a timely manner.The company currently plans to launch its business to 65 cities in China by 2025, and it will be opened into 100 cities in 2030.
Zeng Jian revealed that the Yongchuan State -owned Assets Supervision Bureau is expected to complete the establishment of a joint venture with Baidu this year.Urban coverage ".
Zeng Jian said that the government has continued to introduce smart transportation services to the people's livelihood before, but it is impossible to invest infinitely. The project must be profitable later to form a good cycle.At the same time, this joint venture also has an attempt to seize the unmanned market."If we can do this well in Yongchuan, we are also confident to spread it (unmanned taxi business) to the entire southwest (region)."
But he also evaluated: "If you want to spread the whole country, the truth may not be achieved in the short term. But if we can achieve a good results in Chongqing ... then it should be very good to copy to other citiesThis is also our goal. "
Scholars: Showing Chongqing's openness is conducive to attracting upstream and downstream industries
Chongqing interviewees evaluated that all unmanned autonomous driving taxis were put into operation in Yongchuan.EssenceScholars also predict that although unmanned driving will bring a "transformative impact" to the transportation industry, in the long run, it should not hit the livelihood of other travel industry industry.
Pu Yongjian, a professor of economics at the School of Economics and Business Administration of Chongqing University, said in an interview that Chongqing, as one of China's largest automotive industry centers, has been pushing the intelligent industry in recent years, and it is imperative to be a large driverless industry.At the same time, Chongqing's landforms are complex and have a large population, and they can also provide rich data for artificial intelligence, making unmanned driving algorithms more accurate.
Pu Yongjian pointed out that in the current high -tech competition between China and the United States, China "basically on the same starting line as the United States" in artificial intelligence.He analyzed that China is easier to obtain data than the United States, and the richness of data surpasses the United States. It is expected that China is more likely to achieve key breakthroughs in the field of artificial intelligence and driverless driving.
Qiu Dongyang, director of the MBA Center of Chongqing University of Technology, evaluated that although "symbolic significance is greater than practical significance", the unmanned autonomous driving taxi is put into operation in Chongqing to show the opening level of ChongqingUnmanned driving upstream and downstream industrial agglomerations and promote the construction of a soft environment.
Qiu Dongyang expects that unmanned driving may eventually have a "great impact" on travel, express delivery and other industries, including caused some workers to unemployment, but believe that the process will be longer.He also pointed out that unmanned driving will also create new opportunities and other jobs, including security, maintenance and other aspects of industry service needs.Chongqing's priority layout can also actively explore and better control various problems that may occur in the future."Don't worry too much ... Actually the impact is not as great as imagined."
Pu Yongjian pointed out that with the slowdown of China's population growth, the cost of labor will inevitably become higher after the next 10 years. At that time, not only the older drivers will enter retirement, the general education level will be further improved, which may lead to less less than less.People are willing to invest in the travel industry.He believes that the driverless industry is a forward -looking layout in Chongqing, which can fill the labor gap in the long run.
