"So far, the country has only issued L3 level of highly automated driving test licenses, L5 level, even if it is a test license, can not be easily issued!" "The old cadres of the traffic management bureau have a conservative view.

If their city takes the lead in issuing L5 test licenses to Pengyun cars, it is tantamount to attracting the focus of the topic to them, and if Pengyun driverless cars have any safety accidents, they will be held responsible.

"I think we can try to open up after passing strict testing. A young cadre said, "We have seen the use of artificial intelligence to assist traffic management in the past few months, and the results have been remarkable, and the Ministry of Transport has also issued a special document to urge our local traffic management bureaus to use new technologies." ”

"The unmanned driving of Pengyun Automobile this time is a fully autonomous driving developed by using the latest artificial intelligence technology, which should not be a problem from an intelligent point of view. ”

He is the person in charge of the intelligent traffic management system, Luo Zhe, after seeing the convenience of AI-assisted traffic management, he is very recognized by AI technology.

"How do you know there's no problem? Autonomous driving involves not only artificial intelligence, but also positioning systems, sensing systems, and so on. Can you guarantee that they're okay?"

"I can't guarantee it, but we can detect it!" Luo Zhe insisted on his own point of view, saying: "The future of traffic management and transportation mode must be intelligent transportation with new technologies as the core, how do you know if it will become better if you don't try?"

"What Xiao Luo said also makes sense, but have you thought about it, how can we detect it? Fully autonomous driving, this is a technology that has never appeared before. So I think it's better to put it in place, and we can first issue L3 or even L4 license plates to Pengyun Automobile to ensure that there is driver assistance driving. "In the traffic management bureau, there are more neutral views, not too radical, not too conservative.

Everyone argued endlessly, and in the end, it was up to the director and deputy director to make the decision.

Director Wu Changfeng frowned deeply, this is still a troublesome matter. It's not good to deny, and it's risky to support.

Now the whole country, including the leaders above, various departments and enterprises in the transportation industry, are waiting for their response, and a decision must be made as soon as possible.

"Report the test results of Pengyun Automobile's unmanned driving again!" he instructed, and someone immediately found materials and reported the results.

"In the past two months, they have not had a single traffic accident or traffic violation in the road test of their L3 highly autonomous driving for two months. Fully autonomous driving, tests to cope with various extreme and intense driving situations, their own submissions show that they have passed, but our review has not yet kept up. ”

Judging by the reports, they couldn't find anything wrong. But the most important thing is that this is a phased leap from manual driving to completely unmanned driving, and the first open city will inevitably face the greatest pressure.

Luo Zhe added: "The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has reviewed their information technologies such as intelligent driving, positioning and sensing, and it has been proved that there is no problem. ”

Wu Changfeng hesitated for a long time and said: "You can try to approve them to conduct road tests on some roads, and at the same time, there must be real-time supervision by the driver, and there must be high traffic accident insurance...... Let's give them a trial run for a month. ”

The Pengcheng Traffic Authority's "Trial Regulations on Fully Autonomous Vehicles" was promulgated, allowing Pengyun driverless cars to conduct road tests on the designated roads, and awarded them the world's first "L5 level" driverless car test license.

The regulations also specifically stipulate that once there is any traffic safety problem caused by immature unmanned driving technology, the test license will be withdrawn, and Pengyun Automobile needs to bear the corresponding traffic accident responsibility.

As soon as this regulation was promulgated, it unsurprisingly caused huge social repercussions. The media, experts, and the public have debated this practice and questioned the safety of unmanned driving.

But in any case, Pengyun driverless cars have been qualified for temporary road tests and can try to conduct completely driverless tests on the road.

According to the provisions of the trial regulations, Pengyun Automobile must still send a safe driver to sit in the car, and when there is an accident in the unmanned driving system, the right to drive the car in a timely manner.

"It is necessary to regularly test the unmanned driving system, and there must be no problems!" "At present, the relevant departments and most people are skeptical of fully autonomous driving, and once we have any small problems, they will be infinitely amplified by the media." ”

The Uber technology company incident is a case in point. ”

Previously, an Uber self-driving car in the United States was involved in a traffic accident in Tempe, Arizona, and collided with a pedestrian who was crossing the road.

After this incident, it caused a huge social repercussion, and some people openly resisted unmanned driving. The state's DMV also halted self-driving testing, so much so that Uber had to move its self-driving program to other states.

If a similar time development is carried out in Huaxia, it is estimated that it will not be transferred to other cities for trial treatment, but will be directly banned for a period of time! That will completely disrupt the industrial layout of Pengyun Automobile and have a very serious impact.

"We can accept that there are undetected problems in unmanned systems, but we can't let such problems cause safety accidents!" Lu Zixin's words were recorded as a core requirement.

In order to let the public see Pengyun Automobile's confidence in unmanned driving, Jiang Xunmei decided to personally ride the driverless car on the day of the test to prove the safety of this driving system.

On the first day of the actual road test of Pengyun driverless car, Pengyun Automobile Co., Ltd., Pengcheng Traffic Management Bureau, and all the news media attended the scene to hold a ribbon-cutting event for the world's first L5 driverless test license.

The Director of the Traffic Management Bureau, Mr Wu Cheong-fung, attended the event and participated in the ribbon-cutting.

The local television station sent staff to broadcast it live to record the moment.

A female host of Pengcheng TV brought a megaphone and said to the live camera: "Look, this is the world's first fully self-driving car made by Pengyun Automobile, which will drive on the road autonomously without a driver." A lot of people were skeptical about it, we connected the camera in the car, and there was a drone to shoot it in real time. You can see it in action on the road right away. ”