3,400 intelligent networked vehicles in Changsha have landed to build the world’s largest vehicle networking application.

　　China News Service, Changsha, September 8 (Fu Jingyi) "We have built the world’s largest car networking application and promoted its landing. At present, 3,400 intelligent networked vehicles have landed in Changsha." Ma Wei, co-founder and CEO of Changsha Intelligent Driving Research Institute, revealed on the 8th that in the future, Changsha will control public transport, municipal vehicles and traffic lights by car networking throughout the city to create a new ecology of smart cities.

　　Intelligent networked car is a self-driving car that can access the Internet, has multiple sensors, can send and receive signals, sense the surrounding physical environment, and interact with other vehicles or entities. At the 2020 Internet Yuelu Summit, which opened in Changsha on the same day, Ma Wei delivered a speech entitled "The Internet of Vehicles Helps Smart Transportation-The Advanced Way for the Development of a Self-driving City? "Speech.

　　Ma Wei introduced that the practice of Changsha’s self-driving city has gone through three years. In 2018, the largest autonomous driving test area in China was opened, with 1,230 mu of 5G full coverage. In 2019, the closed-loop project of intelligent networked vehicles was completed. The test area has 100 kilometers of high-speed and 100 square kilometers of urban roads, and the largest open road vehicle networking coverage in China was completed, as well as the landing test of Baidu driverless taxis, heavy trucks and sanitation vehicles.

　　Ma Wei said that in 2020, Changsha put forward the requirement of intelligent networked vehicles to complete the closed-loop market, so that citizens can enjoy the benefits of intelligent networked vehicles. Therefore, the research institute cooperated with Xiangjiang New District to find out the just-needed application of active bus priority, and built the world’s largest car networking application and promoted its landing. "We use the Internet of Vehicles to control traffic lights throughout the city. When the bus approaches and sends a priority request, the traffic lights will be optimized according to the overall situation and released for the bus."

　　On April 19, 2020, Baidu Apollo self-driving taxi was fully opened to the public in Changsha, with an operating range of about 100 square kilometers. Eleven days later, China’s first "Smart Bus Line 315" was opened to the public in Changsha.

　　Ma Wei pointed out that the use of assisted driving on open roads has great potential for improving the convenience and effectiveness of urban traffic. Changsha, a self-driving taxi, is in the forefront, but it still faces three challenges: technical maturity, regulatory tolerance and cost control. (End)