The Meituan unmanned car hit again, this time hitting the bus, from the photos, the accident was in Beijing, and it looks like it was on the highway, and the location may still be in the Meituan base camp - Shunyi District.
According to official information, the Meituan unmanned vehicle has been operating normally in Shunyi for two years, covering more than 20 communities.
In October last year, meituan unmanned vehicle had a close contact with a private car at the mouth of Baima Road in Beijing's Shunyi District, and the car at that time was also the unmanned delivery vehicle magic bag 20 cooperated by Meituan and Mimo Zhixing.
The length, width and height of the magic bag 20 are 2450/1010/1900mm, the total volume of the two cargo boxes is 540L, and the load capacity is 150kg. The vehicle is equipped with three lidars, including one long-range high-resolution Panda series lidar and two medium-range XT series lidars.
In addition, there are 19 cameras, 2 millimeter wave radars and 9 ultrasonic radars, counting the chassis and body, the cost of 100 units is expected to be more than 500,000 yuan.
When Meituan exposed its first crash ticket in October last year, it triggered a discussion on the right of way for unmanned delivery vehicles.
Because such unmanned delivery vehicles are not motor vehicles, they cannot apply for road test licenses in accordance with the existing autonomous driving test management measures, and were defined by the traffic police as "micro passenger cars without number plates" when they were ticketed last year, but the road where they were located at that time was a non-motorized road.
The location of this crash seems to be in the motorized road, which is an open road, and how will the ticket be opened?
In fact, Meituan took the T3 license plate of Beijing's automatic driving test as early as 2019, but it only took the license plate of the passenger car.
In May 2021, the Beijing High-level Autonomous Driving Demonstration Zone issued the Implementation Rules for the Administration of Unmanned Delivery Vehicles, issuing the first batch of unmanned delivery vehicle body codes to JD.com, Meituan and Neolithic, allowing unmanned delivery vehicles to go on the road for the first time.
In September 2021, Shunyi District also issued the "Implementation Guidelines for the Management of Unmanned Delivery Vehicles", allowing unmanned delivery vehicles to carry out public road tests or demonstration applications in Shunyi.
However, the full text of these two documents is not made public, and it is impossible to know how responsibilities are divided and defined, and the applicable areas are only part of Daxing District and Shunyi District.