Shenzhen issued the country’s first intelligent network-connected vehicle management regulations to clarify the standards for the determination of responsibility for autonomous driving traffic accidents.

Shenzhen issues the country’s first ICV management regulations

Clarify the standards for the determination of liability for autonomous driving traffic accidents

● Our reporter Jin Yidan

On July 6, the official public account “Shenzhen Announcement” of the Information Office of the Shenzhen Municipal People’s Government announced that the “Regulations on the Administration of Intelligent Connected Vehicles in Shenzhen Special Economic Zone” (referred to as the “Regulations”) will be implemented from August 1. It is reported that this is the first domestic regulation on the management of intelligent networked vehicles, which specifically stipulates the definition of automatic driving of intelligent networked vehicles, market access rules, road rights, and identification of rights and responsibilities. The agency stated that the “Regulations” provide a reference standard for autonomous driving access policies in other cities across the country, and the process of my country’s autonomous driving legislation is expected to accelerate.

Introduce entry criteria

In terms of the access management system, the “Regulations” require that the Shenzhen Municipal Department of Industry and Information Technology shall, according to the application of the manufacturer of the ICV product, list the ICV products that meet the local standards of Shenzhen in the Shenzhen ICV. product list. At the same time, ICV-related industry associations are encouraged to refer to international advanced standards, organize ICVs and related industry enterprises and institutions, and formulate leading and innovative ICV products and related group standards.

In order to avoid the impact of automatic driving on the current road traffic order and to alleviate the concerns of all walks of life, the Regulations stipulate the safety reminder rules for intelligent networked vehicles, requiring vehicles to be equipped with external indicators of automatic driving mode and drive in automatic driving mode. The indicator light should be turned on to send obvious safety reminders to other vehicles and pedestrians.

At the same time, the “Regulations” divide ICVs into three types: conditional autonomous driving, highly autonomous driving, and fully autonomous driving, and clarifies the obligations of ICV drivers to take over. Drivers of conditionally autonomous driving and highly autonomous driving ICVs should respond to the takeover request and immediately take over the vehicle when the automated driving system makes a dynamic driving task takeover request.

In addition, with regard to the determination of responsibility for autonomous driving traffic accidents, the “Regulations” stipulate that, first, if an intelligent networked vehicle with a driver has a traffic violation or a responsible accident, the driver shall bear the responsibility for the violation and compensation; In the event of a traffic violation or a responsible accident in an ICV without a driver, in principle, the owner and manager of the vehicle shall bear the liability for the violation and compensation, but the relevant provisions on driver points shall not apply to the punishment of the offender; three In a traffic accident, if the damage is caused by the defect of the intelligent networked vehicle, the driver or owner or manager of the vehicle may request compensation from the manufacturer or seller in accordance with the law after making compensation in accordance with the above provisions.

Capital Securities said that at present, the mileage of Shenzhen’s open test roads is about 145 kilometers, and a total of 93 road test and demonstration application notices have been issued. Among them, there are 23 manned demonstration application notices, and the number of open areas, open mileage and licenses are all at the forefront of the country. The “Regulations” mean that Shenzhen may become the first city in China to release L3-level and higher-level autonomous driving, and it will also provide standards and templates for L3-level autonomous driving access policies in other parts of the country.

Accelerated commercialization

With the continuous development of intelligent network technology, the number of intelligent network vehicles in my country continues to grow. The National Development and Reform Commission predicts that the penetration rate of smart cars in my country will reach 82% in 2025, and the number of smart cars will reach 28 million; in 2030, the penetration rate of smart cars in my country will reach 95%, and the number of smart cars will be about 38 million.

Car companies are accelerating the development of intelligent vehicles, especially in the field of autonomous driving. For example, Li Li, NIO’s recently launched new models Li Li L9 and NIO ES7, build high-level autonomous driving hardware systems for vehicles by pre-embedding automotive sensors and computing platforms.

At the perception level, the NIO ES7 is equipped with 1 lidar, 5 millimeter-wave radars, 12 ultrasonic radars, 1 dual front perception camera, 4 surround view cameras, and 7 environment perception cameras. The Ideal L9 uses 11 high-performance cameras as the main perception source of the Ideal ADMax assisted driving system; at the same time, the LiDAR is equipped with 128 lasers.

The mass production of the high computing power computing platform has accelerated the realization of L3 and above autonomous driving applications. The NVIDIA AGX Xavier chip started shipping in 2018, and the third-generation autonomous driving chip Orin will have a single-core computing power of 254TOPS. Among them, Weilai ES7 and Lili L9 are equipped with 4 and 2 NVIDIA Orin chips respectively. Qualcomm launched the Ride platform in January 2020 and entered the ADAS computing platform. Great Wall, GM, Volkswagen, and BMW will all develop ADAS systems based on the Qualcomm Ride platform. Among them, GM’s next-generation Ultra Cruise uses two Snapdragon SA8540PSoC and one SA9000PAI accelerator, and the computing power will reach 300TOPS.

According to data from the China Business Industry Research Institute, the scale of my country’s intelligent networked vehicle industry is expected to exceed 350 billion yuan in 2022.

Responsible editor: Li Ang