Local time on February 6, the Washington Motor Show organizers announced that the 2018 Washington Motor Show visitors increased by 5% compared to last year, as the organizers of the show also responsible for the New Washington Motor dealer Association Ottawa John Otto This is attributed to the more than 650 new models and new ways of display that the automaker brings in. The show was kicked off by a series of three-day pioneering conferences and events related to the autopilot industry, with many senior government officials participating in the show And related forums.
Among them, the 2018 Mobility Talks Internationnal Forum (MTI) with the theme of "Auto Networking and Autopilot" attracted government officials and experts from the United States, China, the United Kingdom, Japan, South Korea, the United Arab Emirates and other countries. They introduced various countries Development planning and challenges in the area of autopilot.
Khaled AbdulRahman Al Awadhi, an UAE Road Transport Authority official, said the United Arab Emirates is committed to becoming a leader in smart driving applications and Dubai, known as 'The City of Tombs,' will achieve 25% of autonomous vehicle driving by 2030.
Ambition of the city of the future
Dubai is the most populous city in the UAE. It is the second largest emirate after Abu Dhabi and the richest city in the Middle East. It is the economic and financial center of the Middle East and is called the 'Trade Capital' of the UAE.
In many people's minds, Dubai is a rich, dazzling tourist city, but in fact Dubai is very advanced in building planning, urban transport design, ecological management, urban network and so on, and has been actively exploring intelligent transportation.
According to Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of UAE, Dubai, he will be making Dubai the world's largest autonomous driving research and development laboratory. By 2030, 1/4 of the city's traffic According to the calculations, if the above goal is reached, Dubai will reduce transportation cost by 44%, traffic accident rate and pollution will drop by 12%, and the annual cost of 6 billion U.S. dollars due to traffic accidents and pollution will be saved Down.
At present, Dubai's hard infrastructure in areas such as artificial intelligence and big data is moving forward with the goal of making breakthroughs in autonomous and flying car technologies. In September last year, 50 Tesla Model S and Model X joined Dubai's taxis, The car is equipped with the latest Autopilot autopilot system and will be upgraded in the future with the main service at Dubai Airport and a further 150 vehicles to be delivered this year and next.
Almost at the same time, in Dubai, a self-driving air taxi developed by the German drone company Volocopter succeeded in a 'conceptual' flight test without passengers, and Dubai said it will launch an air taxi service as soon as possible.
Dubai's small target
Dubai is planning to build an autonomous driving minibus service network that will connect the main city with the under construction Blue Isle, a self-driving minibus, which is being undertaken by Dutch technology company 2getthere and is expected to reach 2018 Year-end or early 2019. By then, 25 self-driving minibuses will be able to travel from Blue Water Island to the main metro station 2.5 minutes away in 4 and a half minutes, with 24 passengers for each minibus , Capacity can reach 5000 one-way per hour.
In mid-January of this year, at the 2018 World Future Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Chinese new energy carmaker IONIC announced that it will jointly develop the L5-class self-driving concept car with the Masdar Eco-city of UAE and plans to build a new high- Put into use during the Dubai World Expo.
Recently, KPMG, one of the world's top four accounting firms, released a report 2018 Autoplay Maturity Index to assess the driving maturity of 20 countries from four dimensions: legislation, technological innovation, infrastructure and consumer attitudes Among them, the Netherlands ranked first, followed by Singapore, the United States, Sweden, Britain, Germany and Canada, while the UAE came in eighth place, more than South Korea, Japan, France, China and other countries.