In the Xidong New Town Business District, which is building a "future city", the lives of citizens are increasingly embracing the "future".
On December 25th, Wuxi, the capital of China's Internet of Things, ushered in a historic moment when science and technology changed life: six self-driving minibuses with the world's leading cellular vehicle networking communication technology and bicycle intelligence technology traveled on the open road and began to become the "kind partners" that residents of Xidong New Town can see every day in their lives.
On December 25, Wuxi ushered in the official opening of the open road autonomous bus connection line! It is proud that in the past two years, the entire Xidong New City has a radius of 45 square kilometers, and through the transformation and upgrading of a large number of roadside facilities and networks, it has all become a "smart road"! The intelligent networked roads in the new city have achieved large-scale coverage, and the 280-kilometer line mileage is the longest in the country.
December 25 was the first "warm-up" of the normal operation of the self-driving minibus, and a total of 3 groups of passenger "experience officers" came to participate in the test ride:
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Mr. Yao Binghua, the younger brother of Yao Tongbin, the winner of the "Two Bombs and One Star" Meritorious Service Medal, and five Young Pioneers of the Tianyi Experimental School became the first batch of citizen "experience officers" to experience the self-driving minibus on the spot.
Yao Binghua, who has 56 years of party experience, is keen to feel the progress of the times. The old man took Yang Yongkang, who was also an old party member, to scan the code and take the car together. "Well, this steering wheel moves on its own when the car turns!"
The Young Pioneers of the same car were amazed by the front display screen, the holographic projection that can only be seen in science fiction movies, real-time feedback in the car, the dynamic situation outside the car into a moving change of color blocks, real-time perception of the surrounding road conditions. The car is not big, but it is full of black technology!
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Passengers boarding the bus at Yingbin Square Station on Metro Line 2 are Xinjiang Kyrgyz employees from Jiangsu Xinri Electric Vehicle Co., Ltd. Dressed in exotic national costumes, they took out their mobile phones one by one to take selfies to feel the novelty of this "first journey".
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Fansoft Software is located in the core area of the business district, and many engineers of the company who live in Waterfront Jiayuan (Talent Apartment) have also come to try the "punch card". "When there is sudden overtaking and more parking on the side of the road, the minibus can warn itself and slow down." The engineers felt a different kind of "doorway" for the many roadside feedback information and the timely disposal ability of the system in the car.
The cold wind outside the window whistles, and the safe and convenient ride "first experience" makes these new city citizens feel the true happiness index of living in the new city.
From New Year's Day 2022, all citizens who come to Xidong New Town can scan the code to book a ride on such a special line minibus! ：
The future becomes everyday
The minibus runs smoothly, bringing convenience to the citizens of the new city.
In Wuxi, the "model room" of the future road is becoming more and more exciting: in Xidong New City, these 280 kilometers of lanes are being covered by various advanced roadside facilities, and futuristic autonomous vehicles and matching "smart roads" are fully put into use.
Behind them is the intelligent integration of data, platforms and a large number of hardware facilities, focusing on aspects from artificial intelligence, map positioning, vehicle manufacturing, packaging and testing, and a longer industrial chain. On the "track" of automatic driving, Wuxi is accelerating the layout of the "city of automatic driving" around the relevant policies promulgated, the issuance of test licenses and the construction of test roads.
The full occupancy of the 6 intelligent connected self-driving minibuses is 8 passengers and 1 safety officer. Working in parallel with the minibuses, there are also 2 technical coordination support vehicles. The working rhythm of these self-driving minibuses that have entered the normal operation is actually relatively single: point-to-point travel, and there is no stop in the middle. The daily schedule of "departures" of each line is set with reference to the subway arrival time of the day.
Chen Xinying, head of the daily operation of the minibus:
At present, the bus shuttles through the road section, which is the most intensive transportation route for the public, namely Chaqiao Shan Yun Jia Yuan to Cha Qiao Station of Metro Line 2, Metro Yingbin Square Station to Waterfront Jia Yuan, and Metro Yingbin Square Station to Runfuli.
From New Year's Day 2022, the self-driving minibus will be officially put into operation to serve the daily travel of residents in the new city, all citizens can scan the code to ride, and the minibus will become a "heart-warming little blue" that shuttles between residential areas and subway stations.
Reservation method: Each platform will set up a ride two-dimensional code, you can make a reservation by scanning the code, choose the appropriate shift, wait for the car to arrive at the station, scan and verify to take it; you can also search for the "Xidong New Town Autonomous Driving MiniBus" WeChat Mini Program (online from New Year's Day), after the reservation is successful, go to the minibus platform according to the reservation information.
Minibus road to enjoy "priority"
Jiangsu Aerospace Dawei Technology Co., Ltd. provides technical services for the construction of intelligent networked roads and minibus operation for the new city. In the autonomous driving minibus dispatching platform of Aerospace Dawei, data and platform real-time information exchange, and the "vehicle road network cloud" is no longer a difficult concept, but has become the wisdom hub of the future road.
It is understood that the automatic minibus vehicle includes the vehicle body, the hardware platform and the automatic driving system three parts, the camera installed in the front of the minibus can perceive the traffic lights, can detect the red lights, green lights, yellow lights and no lights within 80m.
Wang Pengcheng, technical director of aerospace dawei autonomous driving minibus: The front of the minibus is equipped with a lot of IoT perception equipment to monitor the status of safety officers in real time, and when the safety officers yawn, answer phone calls and other abnormal behaviors, they will issue voice reminders in time; lidar is installed on the left and right sides of the front of the minibus and the tail, which can identify obstacles at the edge of the lane, including ordinary vehicles, large cars, pedestrians, bicycles, etc.
A relatively complete vehicle network roadside infrastructure has also been built on the minibus connection line to provide guarantee for the safe and stable operation of vehicles. At the relevant signal control intersection, the "minibus first" signal control strategy is adopted to reduce the delay time of vehicles at the intersection and reflect the efficiency priority concept of public vehicles.
Wuxi, which will "drive" in the future, light up a wonderful life and accelerate the development of the Internet of Things industry, is striding towards a city of wisdom and a city of dreams!
(Source: Jiangnan Evening News Editor: Yiyi)