Electric models represent not only environmental protection and low carbon, but also represent more advanced intelligence. Due to the high degree of integration of electrification equipment on electric models, the intelligent technology that can be equipped with vehicles is also getting higher and higher. As new energy vehicles become larger and larger, the realization of autonomous driving or unmanned driving is also sooner or later.
Recently, Japanese car companies such as Toyota and Mazda said that they will equip their major models with autonomous driving technology around 2022. Toyota also plans to launch a highway driverless system in 2022. These companies will install Level 2 autonomous driving or above.
Although level 2 automatic driving is an automatic driving system, it is still mainly operated by drivers on the road. Vehicles will only provide limited warnings and instantaneous assistance systems, such as blind spot warning, lane departure warning and automatic emergency braking. Therefore, although the Level 2 vehicle has the function of supporting automatic driving, the driver still needs to steer, brake or accelerate and other vehicle control to ensure the safety of people and vehicles when driving. The report quoted the Yano Research Institute as saying that by 2030, 62% or more of self-driving cars will be equipped with Level 2 self-driving systems.
Level Autonomous Driving is 5 levels, 1 is the second, sequentially up, and 5 levels are the strongest. Level 1-2 also requires the driver to control, Level 3-4 will gradually reduce the dependence on the driver, Level 3 and Level 4 autonomous driving functions can achieve automatic driving if the prerequisites are met. Level 5 vehicles can achieve autonomous driving in any situation and are considered fully autonomous, that is, driverless.
According to the SAE Agency's standard definition, Level 5 vehicles are also considered driverless cars, and if the self-driving cars are Level 4 and below, the car still requires manual control or human intervention by the driver in the event of any non-compliance. Although the current vehicles have not yet reached the level of level 5 of autonomous driving, but level 3 is coming, will level 5 be far away?
At the same time, Geely's car brand Zeekr also announced that it will cooperate with waymo, a driverless technology company. Develop exclusive vehicles for the Waymo One driverless fleet, develop driverless taxis in the United States, and put them into commercial operation in the United States. The model will be built based on the Krypton intelligent mobility platform - Haohan-M architecture, designed and developed by the Krypton European Innovation Center.
Major car companies are gradually stepping into the field of automatic driving, which also indicates that automatic driving is a major trend in the future. Maybe, in the future, there will be no driver's license.
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