China State -owned Automotive Manufacturer's electric car brand Smart Motors announced that the company's vehicles equipped with L3 -level autonomous driving function have obtained a high -speed autonomous driving test sign in Shanghai.

Comprehensive viewpoint network and Reuters reported that IM Motors (IM Motors) announced the above news on Monday (December 18).

Smart Motors said that in the future, the L3 high -speed self -driving road test will be launched in designated areas in Shanghai to accelerate the development of high -end intelligent driving products and meet the needs of users' high -end intelligent driving cars.

According to the division method formulated by the International Automobile Engineer Association, autonomous driving is divided into six levels from L0 to L5. L0 represents traditional human driving without assisting driving.When judging, manual intervention is still needed.

Smart Automobile is also applying for the Pilot of the L3 announcement of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China, and is expected to become the first model to enter the L3 -level autonomous driving admission pilot.

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued a notice of the development of L3 and L4 -level autonomous vehicle access and pilot on the road in November this year, which means that it allows individual buyers and team operators to sell and use such categories.The vehicle is one step closer.

According to Caixin.com, the first batch of models may be approved in the first quarter of next year.