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China planning 120km test drive for autonomous vehicles in 2013; 2,400 km test to come
19 October 2012
Xinhua. China is planning a 120 km test drive from Beijing to Tianjin for autonomous vehicles in 2013, according to the National Natural Science Foundation.
The vehicles are designed to perceive their environment, process it and respond accordingly with the help of GPS, ultrasonic radar and a variety of sensors.
In addition to the 2013 test, the vehicles are scheduled to undergo a longer test drive from Beijing to the city of Shenzhen in south China’s Guangdong Province, located some 2,400 km away, sources from the foundation said at a Thursday press conference.
The development of unmanned automobiles is part of a major research project on the cognition and calculation of visual and audio information that was initiated by the foundation in 2008. Zheng Nanning, head of an expert panel for the project, said the country’s research in unmanned automobiles, despite seeing a series of technological breakthroughs, still lags behind the global level.
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Interesting news for future driver less vehicles and potential major reduction in road fatalities, injuries and property damages cause by bad human drivers, up to 90% of the time.
Autonomous vehicles could also reduce fuel consumption, air pollution, noise, vehicle, tires and brakes wear etc.
Next to electrified vehicles, this may be one of the major technology change of the current and next decade.
Posted by: HarveyD | October 19, 2012 at 11:26 AM
China has low cost offshore labor in the “flat world”, so that Chinese imports are so inexpensive to enter in U.S. So many factors lead most US manufactories to close the doors and eventually jobs are lost accelerate. china manufacturing
Posted by: Edward Son | December 02, 2012 at 11:28 PM