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"So far, only L3-level highly automated driving test licenses have been issued across the country, and L5-level, even test licenses, cannot be easily issued!" Veteran cadres of the Transportation Administration hold a conservative view.

If their city is the first to issue L5-level test licenses to Pengyun Auto, it will be tantamount to attracting the focus of the topic to them. If there is another safety accident with Pengyun's driverless car, they, the decision makers, will all be held responsible.

"I think we can try to open it up after passing strict inspections," said a young cadre. "Using artificial intelligence to assist traffic management, we have seen it in the past few months, and the results have been remarkable. The Ministry of Transport also issued a special document. Urge our local traffic authorities to use new technologies."

"This time, the unmanned driving of Pengyun Automobile is fully automatic driving developed by using the latest artificial intelligence technology. From the perspective of intelligence, it should not be a problem."

He is Luo Zhe, the person in charge of the intelligent traffic management system. After seeing the convenience of artificial intelligence-assisted traffic management, he is very recognized for artificial intelligence technology.

"How do you know there's no problem? Unmanned driving involves not only artificial intelligence, but also positioning systems, sensing systems, etc. Can you guarantee that they are all right?" Someone started talking directly.

"I can't guarantee it, but we can detect it!" Luo Zhe insisted on his own point of view and said: "The future traffic management and transportation methods must be intelligent transportation with new technology as the core. better?"

"What Xiao Luo said also makes sense, but have you ever thought about it? How do we detect it? Completely autonomous driving is a technology that has never appeared before. What method and standard do we use to ensure that it has no problems? So I think, still If you put it away, you can first issue L3 or even L4 licenses to Pengyun Automobile to ensure that there is a driver to assist driving." In the traffic control bureau, more neutral views are held, not too radical or too much. keep.

Everyone was arguing, and in the end, the director and deputy director had to make the decision.

Director Wu Changfeng frowned deeply, this was a troublesome matter. Negation is not good, and support is risky.

Now the whole country, including the leaders above, various departments of the transportation industry, and enterprises, are all waiting for their responses, and a decision must be made as soon as possible.

"Report the test results of Pengyun Auto's unmanned driving again!" he ordered, and someone immediately found materials and reported the results.

"In the past period of time, their L3 highly autonomous driving road test has been conducted for two months, and there has been no traffic accident or traffic violation. Fully autonomous driving, testing for various extreme and intense driving situations, according to their own submissions The display has passed, but our review has not kept up."

Judging from the data reports, they could not find any problems. But most importantly, this is a staged step from manual driving to complete unmanned driving. The first open city will inevitably face the greatest pressure.

Luo Zhe added: "The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has reviewed their information technologies such as intelligent driving, positioning and sensing, and it has proved to be no problem."

Wu Changfeng hesitated for a long time and said: "You can try to approve them to conduct road tests on some roads, and at the same time, there must be real-time supervision of drivers, and high traffic accident insurance... Let them test run for a month. "

The "Regulations on the Trial Implementation of Fully Autonomous Vehicles" issued by the Pengcheng Traffic Administration, allowing Pengyun driverless vehicles to conduct road tests on designated roads, and awarded them the world's first "L5 level" driverless vehicle test license. .

The regulations also specifically stipulate that in the event of any traffic safety problems caused by immature driverless technology, the test license will be withdrawn, and Pengyun Automobile will be responsible for the corresponding traffic accident.

As soon as this regulation came out, it aroused huge social repercussions without any accident. The media, experts, and the public have disputed this approach and questioned the safety of unmanned vehicles.

But in any case, Pengyun's driverless car has been qualified for a temporary road test and can try to conduct a fully driverless test on the road.

According to the provisions of the trial regulations, Pengyun Automobile still has to send a safety driver to sit in the car, and in the event of an accident in the driverless system, they can control the driving right in time.

"The unmanned driving system must be tested regularly, and there must be no problems!" Inside Pengyun Automobile, Lu Zixin emphasized at the senior management meeting, "At present, relevant departments and most citizens are suspicious of fully autonomous driving. A small problem will be magnified infinitely by the media.”

The incident at Uber Technologies is a lesson in the past. "

Earlier, an Uber self-driving car was involved in a traffic accident in Tempe, Arizona, when it collided with a pedestrian crossing the street, and the pedestrian died after being taken to the hospital. The Uber vehicle was in self-driving mode when it struck the pedestrian, the first-ever case of a self-driving vehicle killing a pedestrian on a public road.

After this incident, it caused huge social repercussions, and some people openly boycotted unmanned driving. The state's DMV has also halted self-driving testing, so much so that Uber had to move its self-driving program to other states.

If a similar time develops in Huaxia, it is estimated that the treatment will not be transferred to other cities for trial, but will be directly banned for a period of time! That will completely disrupt the industrial layout of Pengyun Auto, and the impact will be severe.

"We can accept that there are undiscovered problems in the driverless system, but we cannot let such problems cause safety accidents!" Lu Zixin's words were recorded as the core requirement.

In order to let the public see Pengyun Automobile's confidence in driverless cars, Jiang Xunmei decided to personally ride the driverless car on the test day to prove the safety of this driving system.

On the first day of the actual road test of Pengyun's unmanned vehicle, Pengyun Automobile Co., Ltd., Pengcheng Traffic Management Bureau, and all the news media attended the event to hold the ribbon-cutting event for the world's first L5-level unmanned test license plate.

Wu Changfeng, director of the Transportation Administration, attended the event in person and participated in the ribbon-cutting.

The local TV station sent staff to broadcast live to record the moment.

A female host of Pengcheng TV, with a loudspeaker, said to the live broadcast camera: "Look, this is the world's first fully self-driving car made by Pengyun Automobile. It will be autonomous without a driver. Driving on the road. A lot of people were skeptical about it, we hooked up the cameras in the car, and we had the drone filming it in real time. Immediately we could see it actually driving on the road.”