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City to regulate driverless vehicle testing
    2018-03-22  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

Han Ximin

ximhan@126.com

COMPANIES involved in driverless vehicle testing must hand in applications for approval and conduct tests at designated areas and time periods, according to a draft rule on the testing of smart cars on roads.

According to the draft rule, which has been compiled by Shenzhen’s transport commission, the police and the trade and information commission, a joint conference will be instituted to review the applications and give clear requirements on the number of vehicles and the driverless areas and time periods designated for the test. Each round of tests should last no longer than three months, and the number of vehicles deployed for each round should be no more than five.

Police will give temporary plates with serial numbers for each vehicle, which must not be swapped among vehicles.

During the driverless tests, the standby drivers should be on alert to handle emergencies, and the applicants need to purchase traffic accident insurance with a premium of at least 5 million yuan (US$789,652) or provide a letter of guarantee of 5 million yuan signed by a bank promising to compensate for damages in accidents involving its driverless vehicles.

Four driverless buses with drivers sitting behind the steering wheel started a trial operation in Futian Bonded Zone in December.

The buses with the intelligent bus system Alphaba have a designed speed of 10 to 30 kph, can be fully charged in 40 minutes and cover 150 km on a single charge.

The driverless buses are expected to significantly lower emissions and solve traffic problems with their advanced data sharing abilities, as well as reduce labor costs and relieve drivers’ workload.

Safety once again has become a top concern, and debate about whether autonomous vehicles are being put into use prematurely was revived after a fatal accident involving an Uber driverless car in Tempe, Arizona, the United States, on Sunday.

A 49-year-old woman was killed in Tempe by an Uber car operating in autonomous mode with a human monitor behind the wheel.

The death comes a year after Uber took its self-driving cars off the road following an accident that left a Volvo SUV on its side in Arizona. The program was later reinstated.

Toyota announced Tuesday it has suspended U.S. tests of driverless cars on public roads following Uber’s fatal accident in Arizona.

Toyota said it was concerned about the “emotional effect” the incident might have on its test drivers.

Companies, including Ford, General Motors, Tesla and Waymo, are investing heavily on research to develop self-driving cars, which are often characterized as the future of the industry and hailed as a way to reduce traffic accidents.

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