On February 27, the fully unmanned self-driving car drove through the Yangsigang Yangtze River Bridge in Wuhan and the Baishazhou Bridge in Wuhan, completing the "first span of the Yangtze River" of autonomous driving, and Wuhan became the first city in the country to realize the demonstration operation of intelligent networked vehicles across the Yangtze River.
As the largest city in central China, Wuhan has a complex urban topography, crisscrossed by rivers and lakes, and 11 bridges connecting the north and south of the Yangtze River, jointly building a complex and unique transportation network in Wuhan. Cross-river travel is also the most important scene in the daily life of 14 million permanent residents of Wuhan. The radish run took the lead in crossing the Yangsigang Yangtze River Bridge and Wuhan Baishazhou Bridge, realizing the regional connection of fully unmanned autonomous driving from Jiangbei to Jiangnan, while providing rich choices for Wuhan citizens to travel better, Radish Express expanded the autonomous driving service area and service scale, and continued to help Wuhan move towards the "first city of autonomous driving".
Chen Zhuo, General Manager of the Autonomous Driving Business Department, said: "Wuhan is one of the first batch of dual-intelligence pilot cities in China, and has been seizing new opportunities for the upgrading and development of the intelligent networked vehicle industry for many years, and cultivating and expanding new quality productivity. The first cross-river passage of a fully unmanned self-driving car is a preliminary manifestation of Wuhan's efforts to develop new energy and intelligent networked vehicles and focus on the development of artificial intelligence over the years. ”
The autonomous driving across the Yangtze River is also a true portrayal and epitome of Wuhan's cultivation and expansion of "new quality productivity" in the new era. After the cross-river passage, the two strategic emerging industries of Wuhan's new energy vehicles and artificial intelligence will be connected in series, building a bridge for the two highlands of scientific and technological innovation, Chegu and Optics Valley, and promoting China's intelligent networked automobile industry to move forward from a global parallel to a leading one.
In recent years, with the rapid development of new technologies such as artificial intelligence, 5G communication, and big data, the application of autonomous driving technology in the transportation field has accelerated, and it has been rapidly iterated from closed site tests to road tests, and from pilot demonstrations to commercial trial demonstration operations. Up to now, 21 cities in China, including Beijing, Wuhan, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen, have issued local policies for autonomous driving testing, and more than 60 companies have obtained autonomous driving test licenses. In line with the implementation of the policy, cities have actively carried out the construction of autonomous vehicle test bases, accelerated the introduction and training of talents, and improved the industrial chain support, providing a solid foundation for the rapid development of autonomous driving technology.
Since 2013, it has been deploying in the field of autonomous driving, and has been insisting on a high-pressure and marathon R&D investment for ten years, and driving long-term development with technological innovation. Up to now, Apollo has accumulated more than 90 million kilometers of high-level autonomous driving safety tests and has more than 5,000 autonomous driving patent families, of which the number of high-level autonomous driving patent families is the largest in the world. In the future, Carrot Express will continue to closely follow Wuhan's innovative policy of autonomous driving, continue to improve service quality and optimize user experience, and continuously expand travel scenarios. At the same time, the radiation effect of large-scale high-level autonomous driving demonstration applications based on Wuhan will be further formed, and the large-scale implementation of autonomous driving from "regional demonstration" to "city-level application" will be promoted, so as to make the final sprint for commercialization.