China pushes high-tech car standards
Ministry issues working points for guidelines and regulations to go hand-in-hand with technology, Hao Yan reports.
The standardization of autonomous driving and advanced driver assistance systems is accelerating in China, with the burgeoning technologies set to benefit society by minimizing human errors.
Last Tuesday, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued the Key Working Points of Intelligent Connected Vehicle Standardization for 2018 to promote and facilitate the development of the intelligent connected vehicles industry, and advance the development of fundamental standards and those that are in urgent demand.
The working points include following and implementing the national telematics industrial standards guideline issued at the end of last year and the development of advanced driver-assistance systems standards. Also given priority is the development of standards regarding autonomous driving. An intelligent connected vehicle standardization commission will be established with working groups on driver assistance systems and autonomous driving.
"The guideline has pointed out that more than 30 key standards will be defined by 2020 to found the systems for ADAS and low-level autonomous driving, and a system of over 100 standards will be set up by 2025 for higher level autonomous driving," said Li Wei, deputy general manager of China Automotive Technology & Research Center.
ADAS includes a series of elementary technologies that can assist drivers and vehicles to avoid safety risks. It is the first step towards fully autonomous driving.
Automakers in the world's largest car market have been increasingly involved in the research and development of autonomous driving technologies, with the vision that it will benefit society. Autonomous driving technology can prevent human errors that cause the majority of accidents, and to have the technology introduced, clear standards are needed to define it, according to Hakan Samuelsson, president and CEO of Volvo Car Group, who spoke to China Daily in an exclusive interview on Wednesday in Beijing.
"It would be good to start with guidelines, and the regulations should work hand in hand with technology to come up to a situation which defines exactly how these cars can work in traffic," Samuelsson said. He added that traffic safety is critical for autonomous driving safety, and that China can play a unique role in future scenarios as traffic becomes more congested.
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