On March 8, five days have passed since the opening of the thirteenth session of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference on March 3rd. When reporters once again came to the Beijing Convention Center, media reporters waiting outside the economic circle group meeting compared to the first group. Most of the meetings were less frequent, but according to staff members, after each group meeting, Li Yanhong, the founder of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and the chairman and chief executive officer of Baidu, was almost always a focus of journalists.
In response to a reporter's question, Li Yanhong said that the real landing of driverless car technology is not a sudden process, but it should be gradual.
Li Yanhong said that the unmanned vehicles of Baidu and Jinlong Bus Co., Ltd. will be mass-produced in July and August of this year, but will not be used on public roads but will be used in certain specific closed scenarios. Next year, L3 level The autopilot passenger car will be officially launched.
Many reporters 'containment' interview Li Yanhong
Although he is the leader of Internet companies, the proposals submitted by Li Yanhong in each of the two sessions of the country each year are almost affiliated with cars:
In 2016, Li Yanhong proposed to speed up the formulation and improvement of relevant policies and regulations for driverless cars and seize the commanding heights of industrial development;
In 2017, he also proposed that intelligent traffic lights should be built to ease traffic congestion.
This year's national two conferences, one of the proposals submitted by Li Yanhong is 'Proposing a New Global Height of Automated Driving Policy, Building a Proposal for a Powerful Auto Industry', which is in turn aimed at promoting and promoting self-driving cars.
Photo: Li Yanhong, speaking at the group meeting
It is reported that the unmanned light bus referred to by Li Yanhong for mass production in the second half of this year has neither a driving position nor a steering wheel. It is truly unmanned. Although this vehicle is only used for closed and specific applications such as docks and parks. Scene, but this will undoubtedly become an important step for China's automotive products in the unmanned field.
However, it is clear that the ultimate goal of Li Yanhong is to realize that driving a driverless car into millions of households. This is also an important reason why Baidu is actively conducting domestic road testing work.
At the end of 2017, the Beijing Municipal Transport Commission, jointly with the Beijing Public Security Traffic Control Bureau, Beijing Economic Information Commission and other departments, formulated and issued the “Beijing Municipal Government’s Guidance on Accelerating the Road Test of Autopilot Vehicles (Trial)” and “Beijing Automated Rules for the Implementation of Road Test Management for Driving Vehicles (Trial), two documents to regulate and promote the actual road test of self-driving cars.
The nation’s first batch of three intelligent network-linked automotive open road test plates have also been issued in Shanghai.
In response, Li Yanhong responded to media interviews that Baidu’s unmanned vehicle is in the process of applying for a license, and is expected to achieve an open road test in the first half of this year. 'There is no big problem in estimation, it should be taken down quickly'.
Li Yanhong also said that next year, L3 class driverless cars will be officially on the market, the car will achieve automatic driving on the highway, before the speed will be out of high speed, will remind the driver to take over the vehicle in time, it is reported that the application of this technology Has been widely promoted in the field of aviation.