Recently, the issue of driverless cars has received another wave of heated discussion. Some people believe that in a few decades, driverless vehicles will become mainstream, and then the streets will be full of driverless vehicles, which will make the safety of vehicles to drive. However, some people feel that whether to implement unmanned driving is also specific to a certain country or a certain city, as far as the current development of the mainland is concerned, it is basically impossible to implement unmanned driving.
I don't know which idea you will support, anyway, Xiaobian personally supports the second view, and I think in twenty or thirty years, driverless is unlikely to become a driving method that will often be seen on Chinese roads.
I know that although the idea of driverless driving is good, and it can better avoid various obstacles and dangerous situations through computers, for most people, the reliability of electronic technology is far less than that of the human brain. Since it is completely dependent on electronic technology to control the vehicle, it is inevitable that there will be no problems, and in this possibility, who can feel comfortable riding in a driverless vehicle?
For example, I have a friend who went to school in the United States and experienced a pilot driverless taxi in the United States in February this year. According to him, when he sat in the car to express to the system where he was going, there was a problem with the system's recognition, and he was very afraid that the taxi would take him to the wrong address. In addition, when he tried to take this taxi, it was late at night, and there were almost no other vehicles on the road, so the driverless vehicle performed relatively well when driving. However, in some places where brakes are needed, the vehicle does behave very quickly, and as soon as he brakes, his whole person directly hit the front seat, which really startled him.
In fact, through my friend's experience, we can also see that at present, driverless technology still has a lot of room for improvement. And according to our country's own situation, there are now more and more cars on the road, not to mention commuting time, even at the entrance of a certain attraction or at the entrance of primary and secondary schools, traffic jams will often occur. It is hard to imagine that in a road that can only pass two vehicles laterally, it is possible to drive smoothly with only the driverless function.
In fact, in my opinion, we do not have to pursue the driverless function too much, as long as the current new energy vehicles can continuously optimize and improve their own assisted driving functions, it can completely liberate the driver's driving pressure.
For example, vehicles with relatively powerful assisted driving functions can actually automatically change lanes according to the surrounding vehicles, which I think can be regarded as a very big improvement. However, no matter how the intelligent assistance function develops, in fact, it only plays an auxiliary role, and for some more complex traffic jams, it is still necessary to drive by man-made operation of the vehicle. For example, when encountering a pedestrian who suddenly breaks in during driving, in the case of driver operation, the driver can press the brakes in time, thereby avoiding the occurrence of tragedy, which is not something that is difficult for driverless vehicles to do?
Also as BYD Chairman Wang Chuanfu said recently, unmanned driving is something that fools people, is an emperor's new clothes, and he believes that the vehicle's assisted driving function is truly grounded.
In fact, I think his statement is also more in line with the specific situation of the mainland. After all, the country where automatic driving is most difficult to achieve should be China, unless the time comes to open up a special lane for autonomous vehicles, or let all the cars on the road become driverless cars, otherwise driverless will never become mainstream. However, I venture to predict that neither scenario will become a reality for nearly 30 years. Therefore, the development of unmanned driving in China still has a long way to go. I don't know if friends support the application of unmanned technology in China?