The automobile industry is an important force to promote a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial change, and an important pillar of the national economy. In recent years, the domestic automotive industry has actively embraced a new round of scientific and technological revolution, adhering to innovation-driven development, and the national sales of new energy vehicles in 2021 reached 3.521 million units, an increase of about 1.6 times year-on-year, and the market penetration rate reached 13.4%, an increase of 8 percentage points over the previous year.
This year's government work report proposes to continue to support the consumption of new energy vehicles, but also clearly enhance the core competitiveness of the manufacturing industry, promote the smooth operation of the industrial economy, strengthen the supply guarantee of raw materials, key components, etc., and implement the leading enterprise chain stabilization chain project, which is of great guiding significance for promoting the mainland automobile industry to further boost confidence, sustained high-quality development, and enhance the core competitiveness of manufacturing enterprises.
In recent years, the cross-border integration of automobiles with artificial intelligence, big data, cloud computing and other high-tech products has gradually been renewed from a "hardware-based" industrialized product to a new mobile intelligent terminal. At the scene of the two sessions, "intelligent networked car" has also become a hot word for the deputies and members, and everyone has made suggestions and suggestions around popular high-frequency words such as "data security" and "vehicle-grade chip".
Establish a "automatic driving system" level evaluation and certification system and access mechanism
Focusing on new energy vehicles and intelligent network technology, Chen Hong, deputy to the National People's Congress, secretary of the party committee and chairman of SAIC Motor, brought a number of suggestions on new energy vehicles and intelligent network technology.
"The development of intelligent networked vehicles is not only a technical problem of improving the functions and performance of automobiles, but also involves deeper social issues such as government responsibilities, market order, laws and regulations, and social ethics." Chen Hong said that at present, the development of intelligent and connected vehicles is still restricted to varying degrees at the level of laws and regulations and technical standards. In the "Proposal on Amending and Improving Relevant Laws and Regulations and Supporting Policies to Support the Accelerated Development of Intelligent And Connected Vehicles", Chen Hong suggested that the legal status of the automatic driving system should be clarified in the Road Traffic Safety Law, and the standard rules and disposal mechanisms for the division of responsibilities between human drivers and "automatic driving systems" (car companies, parts suppliers, etc.) should be formulated. At the same time, in the "Measures for the Administration of Road Motor Vehicle Manufacturers and Product Access", a grade evaluation and certification system and access mechanism for "automatic driving system" are established.
"Lack of core" has also become an important factor restricting the development of the automotive industry. From the perspective of the industrial chain to supplement the chain and strengthen the chain, Chen Hong suggested strengthening policy guarantees to promote the development of domestic large computing chip. On the one hand, through policy guidance and multi-party coordination, establish unified technical specifications and standards for vehicle-grade chips, and establish a third-party testing and certification platform; in addition, it is recommended that the state take the lead in setting up special funds to encourage chip companies and automobile companies to participate together and accelerate the formation of domestic large-scale chip research and development, manufacturing and application capabilities.
Create a policy pilot zone for fully unmanned autonomous vehicles
Unmanned autonomous driving is an inevitable trend in the development of intelligent and connected vehicles. Li Yanhong, member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and chairman and CEO of Baidu, said that mainland autonomous driving has entered a critical period of landing, and technology has run and even led the world, and it is necessary to further break through the policy bottlenecks that are incompatible with the development of technology and industry, and stimulate innovation in the field of automatic driving.
"Unmanned is becoming the commanding heights of global autonomous driving technology and industrial competition. At this stage, the competition for unmanned autonomous driving in various countries is focused on policy innovation. Which country can introduce more breakthrough innovation policies, take the lead in realizing large-scale commercial use, and achieve unmanned, it can win the initiative in international competition. In Robin Li's view, the current mainland autonomous driving has entered a critical period of landing, and technology has been combined and even led the world, but the development of high-grade autonomous vehicles in the mainland is still facing the situation that it cannot enter the market, cannot be licensed, cannot be completely unmanned, cannot operate charges, and is difficult to determine the responsibility for accidents.
In this regard, Robin Li put forward three suggestions: First, guide and support local governments to introduce policies, clearly support unmanned vehicles without safety personnel on the road, and create a pilot zone for the manned operation policy of fully unmanned autonomous vehicles.
Second, accelerate the revision and promulgation and implementation of the Road Traffic Safety Law, and lay a legal foundation for accelerating the large-scale commercial and unmanned use of autonomous vehicles from the national level. Clarify the admission rules for L4 autonomous vehicles. Formulate policies such as autonomous driving operation management measures, insurance packages, accident handling mechanisms, etc., and issue official number plates for vehicles that meet the requirements.
Third, moderately advance the construction of intelligent transportation infrastructure, give full play to the remote control advantages of 5G, improve traffic efficiency and safety through vehicle-road coordination, and drive the transformation and upgrading of the automobile industry to intelligence and networking.
The development of intelligent connected vehicles should pay attention to data security and privacy protection
Intelligent connected cars are booming, but how can data security and user privacy be protected? Zhu Huarong, deputy to the National People's Congress, secretary of the Party Committee and chairman of Changan Automobile, submitted four suggestions, including "Suggestions on Coordinating the Development and Safety of Intelligent and Connected Vehicles" and "Suggestions on Replacing Paper Certificates of Conformity with Vehicle Electronic Certificates of Conformity and Improving national information management capabilities".
In his view, there are still problems in the current intelligent networked automobile industry, such as the lack of specific provisions on automotive data security and privacy protection, which is not conducive to the healthy development of intelligent networked vehicles; the application of network integration is not sufficient, most of them rely on a single industry to fight alone, and the data is not effectively integrated; in terms of system data, the lack of a unified standard data center, people, vehicles, roads, fields (parking lots), signal systems are not integrated enough, there are data barriers, island effects; intelligent networked vehicle regulations need to be further studied and improved. Including the identification of safety responsibility for intelligent connected vehicle products, the identification of traffic accident liability, the identification of the subject of automatic driving responsibility, the lack of legal provisions in terms of automatic driving ethics, etc., it is not conducive to the healthy development of intelligent and connected vehicles.
In this regard, Zhu Huarong suggested improving the system of laws and regulations, within the scope of safety and control, to accommodate the development of emerging industries; government guidance, regulatory protection, and standard unification, accelerate industry cooperation, break down data barriers; rationally formulate automotive data security and privacy protection requirements, establish credible automotive data circulation channels, and further promote the development of intelligent and connected vehicles while meeting data security requirements.
Establish a long-term mechanism for "digital space crash testing" of intelligent networked vehicles
Safety is a key word in intelligent and connected vehicles. Zhou Hongyi, member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and founder of 360, suggested that learning from the means of automotive physical crash testing should establish a long-term mechanism for the "digital space crash test" of intelligent and connected vehicles, and mandatory for intelligent networked vehicles sold in the mainland to pass the "digital space crash test".
According to the statistics of the 360 Vehicle Networking Security Laboratory, among the 53 models of intelligent networked cars sold by 25 car companies in China, 360 companies have found a total of more than 1600 vulnerabilities, of which more than 1000 are cloud vulnerabilities, which can cause attackers to remotely control all the intelligent networked cars of the brand in batches; more than 600 car-side vulnerabilities can lead to attackers controlling cars in close non-contact, such as opening and closing doors, starting engines, etc.
Zhou Hongyi believes that the automotive industry should build a set of intelligent networked vehicle situational awareness system with the automotive safety brain as the core as soon as possible to help regulatory authorities and car companies realize the real-time "visible, controllable and manageable" of automotive safety, and ensure that intelligent connected vehicles are always in a safe state.
Author: Zhou Yuan
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