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"Sandbox supervision" is coming, and automotive autonomous driving has ushered in a major positive!
The State Administration for Market Regulation released a news release on April 1 that the State Administration for Market Regulation, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Transport, the Ministry of Emergency Response, the General Administration of Customs and other five departments jointly issued the "Notice on the Trial Implementation of the Automotive Safety Sandbox Supervision System" to jointly start the pilot work of automotive safety sandbox supervision.
The so-called sandbox supervision (sandbox) refers to the first delineation of a scope, for the enterprises in the "box", take inclusive and prudent regulatory measures, while preventing the problem from spreading to the outside of the "box", belongs to the implementation of fault tolerance and correction mechanism within the controllable range, and the regulatory department supervises the whole process of operation to ensure the safety of the test and make a final evaluation.
Experts pointed out that "sandbox supervision" will benefit domestic enterprises in the attempt of automotive autonomous driving, and help related companies to enhance their competitiveness in the second half of the automotive revolution of intelligent networking.
Cutting-edge technology earlier
The quality and safety issues caused by them are included in the scope of supervision
The State Administration of Market Regulation pointed out that at present, the electrification, intelligence, networking and sharing of the automobile industry are accelerating the integration and development, and the traditional safety issues and new safety issues are superimposed, and the automobile safety situation is complex and changeable. In order to better protect consumers' personal property and social public safety, improve the safety supervision methods of new technologies, new formats and new models of automobiles, according to the Regulations on the Administration of Recall of Defective Automobile Products, it is proposed to pilot the sandbox supervision system in the field of automobile safety.
According to the Circular, the supervision of the automobile safety sandbox adheres to the bottom line of product safety, adopts the catalog list system, and carries out trial implementation in some models and some regions to ensure that the system is moderate, safe and controllable. The object of sandbox supervision is the use of cutting-edge technologies such as environmental perception, intelligent decision-making, and collaborative control in vehicles, or the realization of new functions and new models such as autonomous driving at all levels and remote upgrades. The vehicles involved must pass the market access conditions such as the "Announcement of Road Motor Vehicle Manufacturers and Products", obtain a compulsory certification certificate, and the commercial motor vehicles shall comply with the relevant standards for operational safety.
According to the Circular, applications for entry into cutting-edge technologies or new features and new models of sandbox supervision are difficult to foresee with existing scientific understanding. Enterprises applying for sandbox supervision, including related vehicles, parts, Internet technology, data services, network operations, software and system supply, etc., need to actively perform the main responsibility of quality and safety, and work with the regulatory authorities to study and assess unknown risks, and have the necessary testing and emergency disposal resources.
The State Administration for Market Regulation will build a cloud platform for automotive quality and safety supervision services, and adopt diversified management such as enterprise self-discipline, information disclosure, public supervision, administrative guidance, and quality services for cutting-edge technologies or new functions and new models that enter the sandbox supervision, clarify the main responsibilities of enterprise safety, and protect the legitimate rights and interests of consumers. During the sandbox supervision period, if an enterprise violates the current laws and regulations, it is not exempted from relevant liabilities.
The State Administration for Market Regulation said that as a useful supplement to the traditional supervision method, the automotive safety sandbox supervision has changed from passive supervision to active supervision, which is conducive to including the quality and safety problems caused by cutting-edge technologies into the scope of supervision earlier, improving emergency response capabilities, preventing and resolving major risks, protecting the legitimate rights and interests of consumers, and at the same time encouraging technological innovation of enterprises and advocating the best safety design practices.
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It is good for the promotion of automatic driving in real application scenarios
Mei Songlin, an analyst in the automotive industry, analyzed the Shanghai Securities Daily reporter that the new "Notice" is very important to China's automobile industry, and it is necessary to support the cutting-edge technology of automobiles, which is "good for companies related to automotive intelligent networking.".
Mei Songlin pointed out that "sandbox supervision" is particularly beneficial to some cutting-edge technologies that are still challenged by the current development, especially automatic driving technology at L3 level and above. "Sandbox supervision" has opened up a new channel for the first trial of technology, which is conducive to the practical verification and rapid landing of cutting-edge technology, so that relevant industrial chain companies dare to reclaim the "test field" in the field of technology.
It is worth noting that many places in China have recently frequently tested the commercial application of autonomous driving.
On November 25, 2021, the first pilot commercialization of autonomous mobility services in China was officially launched in Beijing, and Baidu and Xiaoma Zhixing became the first batch of enterprises to be allowed to carry out commercial pilot services, and will invest no more than 100 autonomous vehicles to carry out commercial pilot services in the 60 square kilometers of beijing economic and technological development zone. Industry insiders believe that this marks a new stage in the domestic autonomous driving field from test demonstration to commercial pilot exploration.
In addition to Beijing, at present, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Changsha and other places have also partially opened up the normal operation of automatic driving, capturing the opportunities of the automatic driving industry. Among them, Shanghai has now opened 253 autonomous driving test roads and more than 5,000 test scenarios in the four test areas of Jiading, Lingang, Fengxian and Jinqiao; 3 5G autonomous driving network buses are operated in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province; and Guangzhou has launched a pilot project of mixed travel of intelligent networked vehicles and human-driven vehicles. Listed companies such as SAIC Motor and GUANGZHOU AUTOMOBILE Group have increased their investment in the research and development and promotion of autonomous driving technology.
"It's one thing to drive in a test area, it's another thing to drive on a real city road, and the difference between the road and the traffic environment is huge." Mei Songlin believes that although there have been many explorations of automatic driving in the past few years, it is limited to the automatic driving test area, rather than the real use environment, and the recent real use environment of automatic driving in some places is a leapfrog attempt, and "sandbox supervision" is the support for these attempts at the national regulatory level. "There is evidence to follow, there is a law to follow, and car companies can dare to participate in it in the future." The person in charge of Jidu Automobile told the Shanghai Securities Daily reporter.
Miao Wei, deputy director of the Economic Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, said at the 2022 China Electric Vehicle Hundred Forum that if new energy vehicles are compared to the first half of global automobile brand competition, intelligent and connected vehicles are in the second half; China's automotive industry has made great progress in the first half, but the decision is still in the second half, and new technologies and new directions such as short-range broadband wireless communication technology, edge computing, and vehicle-road collaboration are expected to further enrich the application scenarios of new energy vehicles.
Editor: Quan Zeyuan Responsible Editor: Zhang Xiaoguang Proofreader: Feng Wenjun
Producer: Shan Linghe Editor: You Feifei Issued: Pan Linqing