The city’s autonomous driving pilot will be upgraded again in June 2024 – the autonomous driving demonstration area will be expanded to 600 square kilometers

　　The original title: The city’s autonomous driving pilot will be upgraded again in June this year – the autonomous driving demonstration area will be expanded to 600 square kilometers

　　Autonomous cars are "starting" from Yizhuang and "driving" to a wider area of Beijing. Recently, it was learned from the Municipal Self-driving Office that the Beijing High-level Autonomous Driving Demonstration Zone started construction in 2020 and has been iterated to the 3.0 stage. It will be expanded to 600 square kilometers in June 2024, of which 440 square kilometers are located in Tongzhou and Shunyi.

　　Tongzhou Shunyi can take driverless taxis

　　In September 2020, the city launched the construction of the world’s first vehicle-road cloud integrated autonomous driving demonstration area in Yizhuang. With the continuous expansion of the city’s pilot exploration, the autonomous driving demonstration area has been expanded to the surrounding 100 square kilometers.

　　With a wider land, autonomous cars are running more and more "smoothly". The country’s first intelligent networked vehicle policy pilot area built based on the demonstration area has frequently launched new policies in the industry. Take autonomous passenger vehicles as an example, safety officers are gradually moved from the main driver to the co-pilot, then to the back row, and finally to remote control and complete unmanned; the original road test is also moving towards manned and commercialized pilots in the mileage accumulation.

　　Entering 2024, Beijing’s autonomous vehicles will see new progress almost every few days. Not only will unmanned sweepers and unmanned patrol cars be added one after another, but unmanned "taxis", unmanned shuttle vehicles, and unmanned heavy trucks will also be sent to farther destinations.

　　According to the plan, in June 2024, the scope of the demonstration area will be further expanded from the current 160 square kilometers to 600 square kilometers, achieving full coverage of more than 400 road intersections and 10 kilometers of expressway roadside intelligent equipment and smart city special network, and initially building a city-level engineering test platform.

　　At present, the construction of the demonstration area has been expanded to Tongzhou and Shunyi, which is the remaining 440 square kilometers of the 3.0 phase. With the completion of the 3.0 phase of the demonstration area, the scope of the intelligent network policy pilot area will also be expanded simultaneously, and autonomous vehicles will operate within the coverage of the demonstration area. This means that after the completion in June, more autonomous cars will run on the streets of Tongzhou and Shunyi, and residents of the two places can also experience driverless "taxis" with one click and enjoy unmanned delivery services.

　　Eight scenarios serve the lives of citizens

　　Driverless taxis, autonomous minibuses, unmanned shuttle cars, unmanned delivery vehicles, unmanned sweepers, unmanned patrol cars, autonomous freight trucks, and unmanned retail vehicles have served the lives of citizens in Beijing in eight application scenarios.

　　The data shows that the demonstration area has deployed more than 800 autonomous vehicles, issued road test plates for 29 test car companies, and the test mileage is nearly 30 million kilometers. These autonomous cars have achieved good demonstration application results within the current demonstration area, and various scenarios have been commercialized.

　　"In the future, with the construction and further planning of the demonstration area, the corresponding scenarios will also be expanded according to local conditions." According to the relevant person in charge of the Municipal Self-Driving Office, in early 2024, the city has realized the autonomous driving connection from the demonstration area to Daxing Airport and the short-distance connection around the three major buildings of the sub-center. In the future, as conditions mature, more stations will be gradually opened to realize the opening of connections in Beijing South Railway Station, Fengtai Station, Chaoyang Station, Qinghe Station, City Sub-center Station, Daxing Airport, and Capital Airport, creating more benchmark cases for autonomous driving application scenarios.

　　The 4.0 phase of the demonstration area will also start construction in 2024. Compared with the 3.0 phase, this phase will further mobilize the enthusiasm of the construction of demonstration areas in various administrative regions, and explore more perfect and efficient investment models and construction mechanisms. At the same time, contiguous development will be realized in application scenarios such as passenger cars and unmanned cleaning, and the commercialization of autonomous driving will be accelerated.

　　Autonomous driving legislation is expected to be completed by 2024

　　In 2024, autonomous cars will usher in legislative protection. "The city’s intelligent connected car policy pilot area has formed a policy system architecture of ‘2 + 5 + N ‘, built a moderately advanced policy management system for industrial development, and accumulated relatively mature and rich experience in autonomous car testing and demonstration, supervision and management," said the relevant person in charge of the Municipal Bureau of Economy and Information Technology.

　　As early as October 2021, the Municipal Bureau of Economy and Information Technology and relevant units to build a world-class intelligent connected vehicle technology innovation highland and industrial incubation base as the goal, and actively promote legislative research work, has initially formed a legislative content framework, It is planned to establish a principled institutional framework for autonomous car supervision around innovation testing activities, infrastructure building, data open utilization, etc., to create favorable conditions for key core technology research, industrial cultivation and development and demonstration applications.

　　In the legislative process, it is planned to solidify the experience of the integrated construction of car, road and cloud in the demonstration area and replicate and promote it throughout the city. The relevant person in charge of the Municipal Bureau of Economy and Information Technology said that the legislative work of autonomous cars in this city is advancing in an orderly manner and has been included in the legislative review project of the Municipal People’s Congress in 2024, and strives to complete the review and release within the year. (Cao Zheng)