autonomous driving

2025.04.30

20:41

Guangdong: Promote government and other public service agencies to take the lead in accessing artificial intelligence big models

The General Office of the People's Government of Guangdong Province issued the "Several Measures for Guangdong Province to Further Stimulate the Vitality of Market Subjects and Accelerate the Construction of a Modern Industrial System", which proposed to vigorously develop application scenarios. Create a scenario innovation ecosystem, with scenarios as the driving force and applications as the orientation, regularly publish a list of application scenario opportunities for cutting-edge track industries, and implement application scenario investment promotion. Promote government and other public service agencies to take the lead in accessing large artificial intelligence models, set up city-level real-life test sites in the fields of autonomous driving and low-altitude economy, build more than 20 regional characteristic scenarios and more than 100 demonstration scenarios with promotion value and driving effect each year, and accelerate the formation of large-scale commercial applications.

19:02

Zhongji Xuchuan: High-speed and high-bandwidth passenger car optical interconnection solution products are being promoted

Zhongji Xuchuan stated at an earnings briefing on April 30 that the company has developed products for high-speed, large-bandwidth passenger car optical interconnection solutions required for autonomous driving and is currently actively promoting them in the market.

17:57

WeRide: W5 unmanned logistics vehicle obtains Guangzhou's first batch of unmanned driving equipment road test licenses

According to WeRide, the unveiling ceremony of the "Autonomous Driving Test Base and Smart Transportation Demonstration Zone" in Nansha District, Guangzhou was held at Pearl Bay in Nansha District on April 30. At the ceremony, WeRide officially obtained the first batch of unmanned driving equipment road test licenses issued by Nansha District, Guangzhou, and the company's unmanned logistics vehicle robovan W5 was allowed to carry out road testing activities in Nansha District.

11:16

Hankesi: RoboBus is the first in China to pass the national "Technical Conditions for Motor Vehicle Operation Safety" certification, accelerating the commercialization of autonomous driving

According to the official microblog of PIX Moving, a company in which KINSHENG shares are held, autonomous vehicles in China must meet the national standard GB 7258-2017 "Technical Conditions for Motor Vehicle Operation Safety" to ensure their safe operation on public roads. As a low-speed autonomous driving manned equipment product, RoboBus, a subsidiary of PIX Moving, has become the first low-speed unmanned minibus model in China that has passed the GB 7258 standard test and obtained the "Motor Vehicle Safety Operation Mandatory Project Test Report". This is not only a qualification, but also a "ticket" to large-scale commercial use. RoboBus is entering the fast lane of autonomous driving commercialization. At the same time, the key systems and components of the RoboBus vehicle have passed the EU ECE regulations and obtained the public road autonomous driving vehicle test and operation license in Italy. In addition, RoboBus has successfully obtained the public road license for autonomous driving in Guiyang, and will apply for national autonomous driving road permits in the future to promote the large-scale implementation of intelligent transportation.

07:10

Toyota and Waymo team up to develop self-driving car platform

Toyota Motor and Waymo, Google's autonomous driving company, announced a strategic partnership to jointly develop a driverless car platform.

07:09

Toyota Motor and Waymo, the self-driving car company owned by Google, announced a strategic partnership to jointly develop a driverless car platform.

2025.04.29

22:55

Self-driving buses are coming to Guangzhou's central city area, priced at 5 yuan per person during the trial operation

On the evening of April 29, the first autonomous driving bus line on the main road in the central urban area of Guangzhou, the "Yangcheng Smart Bus Cultural Tourism Demonstration Line" on Dongfeng Road, was officially opened for trial operation. The fare for the loop mode is 10 yuan/person, and the preferential fare during the trial operation is 5 yuan/person. The entire line operates in a loop mode, with the starting and ending stations at Meidong Road Terminal in Yuexiu District, passing through Dongjun Square, Yuexiu Bridge, Zhongshan Memorial Hall (Municipal Federation of Trade Unions), Guangyi, Guangdong Building Station, Xianlie South Road Intersection and other stations, and can be connected to Metro Line 1, Line 2, and Line 5, connecting Zhongshan Memorial Hall, Martyrs Cemetery, Liuhua Lake Park South Gate and other attractions and landmarks. The trial operation service time is 19:00-21:00, and you can directly get on the bus and swipe the Yangcheng Pass.

09:47

Tianjin: Accelerate the development and application of new technologies and products such as autonomous driving and brain-computer interfaces

Recently, the Tianjin Municipal People's Government issued the "Action Plan for Tianjin to Build a "Big Consumption" Pattern". The "Plan" proposes to promote consumption of upgraded goods. Expand the supply of upgraded consumption, cultivate new consumption growth points such as smart home, beauty, and pets, and attract and cultivate well-known companies of upgraded consumer goods such as cultural entertainment, daily necessities, and green food. Carry out the "artificial intelligence +" action, promote "artificial intelligence + consumption", accelerate the development and application of new technologies and new products such as autonomous driving, smart wearables, ultra-high-definition video, brain-computer interfaces, robots, and additive manufacturing, and open up a new track for high-growth consumption. Increase efforts to expand the scope of the implementation of old-for-new consumer goods, improve the efficiency of subsidy issuance, and continue to promote the upgrade and replacement of consumer goods such as automobiles, home appliances, digital products, home decoration, and electric bicycles. Extend the automobile consumption chain and expand automobile aftermarket consumption.

08:17

Xincheng launches automotive-grade smart driving SoC design platform

VeriSilicon recently announced that its automotive-grade high-performance smart driving system-on-chip (SoC) design platform has been verified and successfully implemented in customer projects. Based on VeriSilicon's Silicon Platform as a Service (SiPaaS) business model, the platform can provide technical support for high-performance computing needs such as autonomous driving and intelligent driver assistance systems (ADAS).

2025.04.28

12:34

IDC: The overall scale of China's automotive cloud market will increase by 27.4% year-on-year in the second half of 2024

The latest "China Automotive Cloud Market (2024 H2) Tracking" report released by International Data Corporation (IDC) shows that the overall scale of China's automotive cloud market will reach 6.51 billion yuan in the second half of 2024, a year-on-year increase of 27.4%. The infrastructure market scale is 4.3 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 36%; the solution market scale is 2.21 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 13.3%. Looking ahead, the deepening of autonomous driving technology and the development of generative AI will open up a new growth ceiling for automotive cloud and promote the continued penetration of cloud computing in the automotive industry.

2025.04.26

17:34

The world's first three-duct wearable single-person aircraft made its first successful flight in Hangzhou

The first wearable single-person aircraft based on a three-duct configuration in China successfully made its maiden flight in Hangzhou. Developed by Hangzhou Zhiyuan Research Institute, the aircraft has a range of ≥8km, a maximum flight altitude of ≥1km, a flight time of ≥20min, and a maximum speed of ≥60km/h. Tian Congling, a senior engineer at Hangzhou Zhiyuan Research Institute, introduced that it uses ducted power and rudder fusion control, which is efficient and reliable. In terms of human-computer interaction, the aircraft can be used with AR helmets and joystick operations to achieve intelligent interaction, and can free both hands in the automatic driving state to achieve high-altitude operations. From the application point of view, it can be used in scenarios such as emergency rescue, flight experience, and low-altitude economic aerial operations.

02:46

California is seeking public comment on proposed regulations for self-driving vehicles.

2025.04.25

10:06

Pony.ai and Tencent Cloud reach strategic cooperation

Recently, Pony.ai and Tencent Cloud signed a strategic cooperation agreement to carry out strategic cooperation around the development of L4 autonomous driving and the implementation of Robotaxi services. The two parties will expand the product form and business scenarios of Robotaxi on the vehicle side and the user side through technical cooperation in the fields of cloud services, map data, information security, and smart cockpit ecology.

2025.04.24

15:10

CIMC Vehicles: Partner Karl Power launches the future transport robot KargoBot Space

On April 23, CIMC Vehicles' ecological partner Kargo Power held a strategic conference on future transport robots at the Shanghai International Auto Show, launching the world's first future transport robot KargoBot Space, which is universal for all industries and scenarios. This product can achieve a 5-fold increase in the gross profit of single-vehicle transportation through the first technologies of three industries. Kargo Power also announced that bulk freight and express delivery models will be mass-produced in 2027. In 2023, CIMC Vehicles completed the angel round investment in Kargo Power, an innovative new energy power system company, through the Shenzhen Bay Angel Fund. In the future, the cooperation between CIMC Vehicles and Kargo Power will promote smart logistics from a single technological breakthrough to an ecological synergy stage. The two parties will expand the application scenarios of autonomous driving and build a full industrial chain system with the KargoBot Space universal platform as the core.

12:14

Xiao Yong of GAC Aion: Tightening the promotion of assisted driving is beneficial to honest companies like Aion

On April 24, Xiao Yong, head of the marketing department of GAC Group Aion, said at the Shanghai Auto Show that after the official clear standardization of the promotion caliber of intelligent assisted driving and technical certification, it will be more beneficial for companies like Aion that have technical reserves and are relatively honest. He said that Aion is not competing to be the first company to release L4 products, but wants to be a company that puts safety first. At this Shanghai Auto Show, Aion and Didi Autonomous Driving jointly released the L4 highly autonomous driving Robotaxi model. The car's hardware configuration is equipped with infrared cameras and 10 laser radars, including 4 long-range radars and 6 blind spot radars. Xiao Yong said that the model will be delivered off the production line at the end of 2025.

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