What is the experience of self-driving cars and buses on public roads? Is it safe and secure? How exactly is autonomous driving technology achieved? On the afternoon of February 8, the city image interview activity of "New Atmosphere of the City of The Two Olympics - 2022 Chinese and Foreign Media Beijing Tour" sponsored by the 2022 Beijing News Center came to the Zhongguancun Autonomous Driving Demonstration Zone, and 56 reporters from 37 Chinese and foreign media experienced the convenience brought by automatic driving on the spot.
In recent years, Haidian District has accelerated the construction of an autonomous driving innovation demonstration zone and actively promoted the open testing of autonomous vehicles in the demonstration area. Zhongguancun Science City North District plans to build a 100 square kilometer Zhongguancun autonomous driving innovation demonstration zone, from Shayang Road in the north, to Wenquan Road in the south, from Yongfeng Industrial Base in the east, to Niegezhuang - Bei'anhe Road and Haidian Driving School in the west, covering an area of more than 100 square kilometers, to build a Zhongguancun autonomous driving innovation demonstration zone, forming a district (automatic innovation demonstration area) and a port (automatic driving innovation port) structure.
In order to give full play to the traction and driving role of Baidu and other leading enterprises, support enterprises to carry out unmanned testing, and combine the actual needs of enterprise driverless business development, Haidian has selected 5 sections (35.1 km in both directions) in Wenyang Road, Cuihu North Road, Daoxianghu Road, Wenbei Road and Beiqing Road as the unmanned test section of the 52 215.3 km test roads that have been opened. As of January 5, 2022, various types of autonomous vehicles have been tested and operated in the demonstration area for 512 days, with a total of more than 38,900 hours and more than 4,880 vehicles, with a total of more than 6,910 testers.
From the Zhongguancun Intelligent Connected Vehicle Frontier Innovation Center to the Daoxianghu Subway Station, the reporters experienced the automatic driving of a pony Zhixing. There is still a person sitting in the main driver's seat, but his identity is no longer that of a driver but a safety officer, and he can only "take over" when the situation is critical. Although it is autonomous driving, the car is exceptionally smooth, comparable to the "old driver", and even more obedient to traffic rules. The staff revealed: "It is precisely under the deep integration of multiple sensors in the whole vehicle that it supports the safe operation of automatic driving." "The performance of the unmanned minibus of the light boat is also excellent enough, and the reporters can clearly see the motor vehicle, non-motorized vehicle and pedestrian pictures captured by the sensors from the display screen in the car during the test ride."
"It feels very good to sit in the car, very smooth, probably higher than the level of being driven!" Sebastien Berritut, a reporter for the French Broadcasting Company, lamented that the vehicle was also very smooth when turning left and right and waiting for traffic lights, and there was no feeling of sudden braking. It is understood that this is due to the fact that the minibus is equipped with 4 lidars, 4 cameras and 1 millimeter-wave radar in front of the bus, and a 64-line lidar and a millimeter-wave radar are also installed behind the car.
Zhan Song, a full-media reporter from Wuhan's Yangtze River Daily, is the busiest reporter on the scene, he and his colleagues have been busy shooting the unmanned vehicles of various science and technology innovation enterprises, not only on-site video interview technicians, but also record personal visits to Vlog (video network log) columns at any time, all projects have been experienced over and over again. "Only by visiting closely can you understand how cool the technology in Zhongguancun is!" Zhan Song said that during the Winter Olympics, in addition to the news reports of the event, he often signed up to participate in the city image interview activities, and also filmed the tidbits of citizens and tourists queuing up to buy ice piers, hoping to let more audiences see the charm of Beijing through multi-angle, novel and grounded all-media news.
Autonomous driving is moving from "manned" to "unmanned." Not long ago, the Beijing Intelligent Connected Vehicle Policy Pilot Zone has issued a management policy related to unmanned road testing, in line with the principle of "safe and orderly, gradually liberalized", it is clear that the applicant body needs to carry out unmanned road testing in accordance with the three stages of "co-driver", "rear row person" and "remote outside the car", which will gradually remove the safety officer and realize the real unmanned automatic driving.
It is understood that Zhongguancun Science City will accelerate the construction of a world-leading, technologically advanced and scene-rich autonomous driving innovation demonstration zone, create a closed test field for automatic driving with complete functions and outstanding characteristics, create a test environment for the comprehensive integration of intelligent networked vehicles and intelligent transportation, build an open test area with advanced technology and complete system, and promote Zhongguancun Science City to become an internationally leading innovation highland for the intelligent networked automobile industry.