After the automatic driving comes, can you sit in the car and enjoy the ride as much as you want? At the current level of technology, it is completely unfeasible. But according to the proposed traffic law changes proposed by the British Transport Department, British drivers can watch TV movies on the car's built-in screen during the vehicle's autonomous driving, which sounds very outrageous, right, and even more outrageous is that the new regulations say that mobile phones cannot be used in this case.
Under the new rules, as long as they remain in one lane and the speed is less than 60 km / h, the driver can watch TV and movies on the car's built-in screen during the vehicle's autonomous driving, but should take back control of the vehicle when needed. If an accident occurs in the autonomous driving mode of the vehicle, the driver is not personally responsible and will be responsible for the insurance company.
Why this rule is outrageous, first of all, we have to see where the automatic driving lands. Society of Automotive Engineers SAE divides autonomous driving into six levels: L0, L1, L2, L3, L4 and L5.
L0 is the lowest level, named human driving, as the name suggests, all operated by humans, and automatic driving is completely unrelated.
L1 is named assisted driving, which is to give the driver some relatively simple auxiliary support, and the driver also needs to operate. The most representative technology is ACC adaptive cruise, through the radar system on the body to detect the surrounding road conditions, to achieve automatic follow-up acceleration, deceleration, braking and so on.
Vehicles at L2 level can automate some functions, but the driver needs to monitor the road conditions and be ready to take over the vehicle at any time. It is usually equipped with the following functions: ACC adaptive cruise, lane keeping system, automatic brake assist system, automatic parking system. The L2 level makes driving much easier, and even on simple roads the hand can take a short off the wheel. The automatic brakes that everyone advertises on the market. Driving assistance, lane keeping, automatic parking, etc. fall into these two categories.
L3 level can basically achieve partial automatic driving operation of the vehicle in a specific environment, and automatically judge whether it can be automatically driven or returned to the driver for manual operation according to the road condition environment.
L4 can achieve the autonomous driving that people are pursuing, without the need for monitoring or response, and the vehicle can make the correct operation instantaneously according to its own judgment. People sitting on the car can do what they want to do, playing mobile phones will not be deducted points, and even sleeping can be, equivalent to sitting on the vehicle driven by a special driver, just need to get on the car and get off the car is enough. However, this level should limit the driving area and cannot be suitable for all driving scenarios.
L5 level is the highest level, named fully autonomous driving, as the name suggests, it is all taken over by AI, not limited by the road environment, can automatically judge road conditions and respond to emergencies. For now, L5 is fully autonomous.
From the perspective of automatic driving classification, if you want to let the driver sit in the car and watch TV, you must at least reach the level of L3 or even L4, and in fact, the most advanced models now only have the hardware conditions of L3, but they cannot reach L3 when they are actually running on the road. So in this case, how do you feel at ease to distract the driver from watching TV at the L2 level?
Even more outrageous is the ability to watch TV and not use the phone. To know that the current car machine system in order to avoid the driver distraction to look at the screen, are the use of voice commands, listening is the driver to obtain information is the safest way, compared to looking at the screen, the telephone for the distraction of attention is much lower, so such a rule if finally implemented, it can be said that it is the biggest threat to other traffic participants.