Driverless driving is the general direction of the development of modern cars, but there has been a debate around driverless cars, the most important of which is the problem of accidents.
On the afternoon of April 29, a screenshot of Baidu's founder, chairman and CEO Robin Li's circle of friends was circulated online, similar to Musk's view that automatic driving is safer than human driving, Robin Li said that "driverless driving will definitely have accidents, and even fatal accidents, but this probability is much lower than that of someone driving." ”
Zhang Yaqin, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, a chair professor of intelligent science at Tsinghua University, and the dean of the Intelligent Industry Research Institute, commented: "It should be at least an order of magnitude lower. ”
According to the CIDAS (China Traffic Accident In-Depth Survey) database, the driver's human factor accounted for about 81.5% of the 5664 accidents in which passenger cars were involved from 2011 to 2021; Tesla's latest quarterly safety report said that their self-driving reliability was 8.9 times that of humans.
For Li Yanhong's statement, some industry evaluators pointed out that "it may be intended to call for attention to the policy lag in the application of automatic driving technology and build the mainland's industrial competitiveness in the development of global automatic driving." ”
It is worth noting that Beijing recently issued a notice of unmanned manned demonstration application, Baidu became the first batch of approved enterprises, its autonomous driving service platform Radish Run, officially opened unmanned autonomous driving travel services, which means that the "no one behind the steering wheel" automatic driving service in China's megacities was officially released.
The demonstration application subject that has obtained the notice can carry out the unmanned autonomous driving manned demonstration application of open roads within 60 square kilometers of the Beijing High-level Autonomous Driving Demonstration Zone.
This time, Baidu carried out unmanned manned demonstration applications in accordance with the requirements of the Detailed Implementing Rules, and invested 10 unmanned vehicles in the first batch, and planned to add 30 unmanned vehicles in the follow-up plan.