In Chongqing has begun to have self-driving buses can be taken, you can feel the fun of self-driving, at present, self-driving is also to charge, and the charge is also relatively cheap, you have the opportunity to still try.

April 12, Chongqing Yongchuan District People's Government and Baidu held a strategic cooperation signing ceremony, the country's first self-driving bus demonstration operation project officially landed in Yongchuan, Chongqing, which marks the landing of China's self-driving ushered in a major breakthrough, can be charged to explore the model.

Route details

The operation route passes through Yongchuan Goddess Lake, Agricultural Machinery School, Xinglong Lake, East Gate of College of Arts and Sciences, Guanyin Mountain Park and other stations, with a mileage of nearly 10 kilometers in both directions.

Operation details

There are three self-driving buses in the first batch, which have a cruising range of 40-60 kilometers per hour. There is a safety officer on board who sits in the cab, but the entire drive is essentially controlled by the AI throughout.

The L4-class self-driving bus that made its global debut on the 12th is 5.9 meters long. As a self-driving bus for open-road operation, the bus can realize accurate stopping, and easily cope with bus stop scenarios and more complex urban road conditions, fully meeting the needs of normal bus operation.

The bus has four LiDARs, two millimeter-wave radars and seven monocular cameras to help the vehicle detect all kinds of information during the driving process, and the 360-degree design has no dead angle, which makes the sensing more comprehensive.

Combined with V2X vehicle-road coordination, it can realize L4-level vehicle-road cooperative sensing driving between vehicle OBU and intelligent networked roadside equipment, which can receive high-precision sensing data of the full range of traffic participants on the road surface collected by the roadside intelligent sensing system in real time, and reflect information such as pedestrians and automobiles on the current road surface, also including blind zones not visible from the driver's viewpoint inside the car, etc., to the car screen, even Advance notice of traffic light changes and waiting time, so that the vehicle decision-making planning in advance, to enhance the efficiency of the passage, to realize the smart car and intelligent road close combination.

The car seat is very comfortable, get on the car is also the same as ordinary buses, you can brush the card, each person 2 yuan, encounter traffic lights or pedestrians crossing the highway, the car will be forewarned in advance and slow stop, the whole process of driving more smoothly.

As the country's first city to launch self-driving toll demonstration operations, Chongqing citizens can make reservations through Apollo

Go, Baidu Maps, Yongchuan Service Commune and other APP ports to experience self-driving bus travel.

The self-driving buses on trial that day added more than 10 cameras and four infrared sensors. The vehicle departed from platform B21 on Baiju Avenue and traveled about 9 minutes to Dachang Junction North, covering a distance of about 5.7 kilometers.

During the journey, the safety officer sitting in the driver's seat does not need to control the steering wheel or apply the brakes, and the bus stops automatically when it reaches the platform. Passengers can through the car before and after the two display screen, real-time observation to the vehicle around the car, people, things running track.

Haikou Jiangdong New District Intelligent City Development and Construction Co., Ltd. person in charge of the car for the open road L4 12-seat self-driving vehicles, speed of 40 kilometers per hour, belonging to the "high degree of automatic driving" vehicles. Vehicles can be set up in advance to run on the route, no special circumstances, without human intervention. Vehicles in the running route according to the station one by one stop, stopping time according to the flow of passengers to adjust, each self-driving bus set up a safety officer, responsible for the safety of emergency operations.

Baiju Avenue self-driving bus line is Hainan's first open-road self-driving bus project, the trial run of the self-driving bus integration of artificial intelligence, 5G, edge computing, big data, C-V2X and other technologies, so that the vehicle has self-driving and HMI (human-machine interface) and other functions.

Including, the automatic driving function enables the vehicle to have the ability to drive automatically on the open road; the function of HMI-related products can meet the needs of the vehicle in terms of human-machine interaction, and increase the interaction with passengers, safety officers, and passers-by.

It is understood that the open road self-driving bus as an important part of the smart city, not only can improve the car and road utilization, reduce the probability of traffic accidents due to drunk driving, fatigue driving and other human factors, but also make the public travel safer, more convenient, environmentally friendly, and reduce the waste of land resources.

At present, the 5.7-kilometer (Dachang intersection-Jiangdong Avenue intersection section) self-driving demonstration project on the eastern extension of Baekju Avenue has been preliminarily completed. As a display area and demonstration section of automatic driving in Jiangdong New District, Baekju Avenue is equipped with RTK differential positioning base stations, RSU roadside units, magnetic road studs and other facilities used to support automatic driving technology, providing an important foundation for automatic driving for public transportation. After the official operation of the self-driving buses, it will help Jiangdong New District to build an innovative comprehensive transportation system led by green transportation.