“Sandbox supervision” is coming, and auto driving ushers in major benefits!
On April 1, the General Administration of Market Supervision announced that five departments, including the General Administration of market supervision, the Ministry of industry and information technology, the Ministry of transport, the Ministry of emergency response and the General Administration of customs, jointly issued the notice on the trial implementation of the vehicle safety sandbox supervision system to jointly launch the pilot work of vehicle safety sandbox supervision.
The so-called sandbox supervision (sandbox) refers to the need to delimit a scope, take inclusive and prudent supervision measures for the enterprises in the “box”, and prevent the problems from spreading outside the “box”. It belongs to the implementation of fault tolerance and error correction mechanism within the controllable range, and the regulatory department shall supervise the whole process of operation to ensure the safety of test and make the final evaluation.
Experts pointed out that the “sandbox supervision” will benefit Chinese enterprises in their attempts at auto driving and help relevant companies enhance their competitiveness in the second half of the auto reform of intelligent Internet connection.
earlier cutting edge technology
quality and safety problems caused by are included in the scope of supervision
The State Administration of market supervision pointed out that at present, the integrated development of electrification, intelligence, networking and sharing of the automobile industry is accelerated, traditional safety problems and new safety problems are superimposed, and the automobile safety situation is complex and changeable. According to the new regulations on automobile safety and property safety, it is proposed to improve the supervision mode of automobile safety in the field of new automobile safety and property.
According to the circular, the supervision of automobile safety sandbox adheres to the bottom line of product safety, adopts the catalogue list system, and is carried out on a trial basis in some models and regions to ensure that the system is appropriate, safe and controllable sandbox Supervision Targets cutting-edge technologies such as environmental perception, intelligent decision-making and collaborative control used in vehicles, or new functions and modes such as automatic driving at all levels and remote upgrading the vehicles involved must pass the market access conditions such as the announcement of road motor vehicle manufacturers and products and obtain the compulsory certification certificate. The operating motor vehicles shall meet the relevant standards of operation safety.
According to the notice, it is difficult to foresee the potential risks of applying for entry into the cutting-edge technology or new function and new mode of sandbox supervision based on the existing scientific cognition. Enterprises applying for sandbox supervision, including relevant automobile vehicles, parts, Internet technology, data services, network operation, software and system supply, need to actively fulfill the main responsibility of quality and safety, jointly study and evaluate unknown risks with regulatory authorities, and have necessary testing and emergency disposal resources.
The General Administration of market supervision will build a cloud platform for automobile quality and safety supervision service, adopt diversified management such as enterprise self-discipline, information disclosure, public supervision, administrative guidance and quality service for cutting-edge technologies or new functions and new models entering sandbox supervision, clarify the main responsibilities of enterprise safety and protect the legitimate rights and interests of consumers. During the sandbox supervision cycle, if the enterprise violates the existing laws and regulations, it will not be exempted from relevant responsibilities.
The State Administration of market supervision said that as a useful supplement to the traditional supervision methods, the automobile safety sandbox supervision has changed from passive supervision to active supervision, which is conducive to bringing the quality and safety problems caused by cutting-edge technologies into the scope of supervision earlier, improving the emergency response capacity, preventing and resolving major risks, protecting the legitimate rights and interests of consumers, encouraging enterprise technological innovation and advocating best safety design practices.
benefit the promotion of automatic driving in real application scenarios
Mei Songlin, an auto industry analyst, told the Shanghai Securities News that the new notice is very important to China’s auto industry and it is necessary to support cutting-edge auto technologies, “which is good for related companies of auto intelligent network”.
Mei Songlin pointed out that “sandbox supervision” is particularly beneficial to some cutting-edge technologies that are still challenged in the current development, especially the automatic driving technology of L3 level and above. “Sandbox supervision” opens up a new channel for the first trial of technology, which is conducive to the practical verification and rapid landing of cutting-edge technologies, and makes relevant industrial chain companies dare to reclaim the “test field” in the field of technology.
It is worth noting that recently, many places in China have frequently tested the commercial application of automatic driving.
On November 25, 2021, China’s first pilot commercialization of self driving travel service was officially launched in Beijing. Baidu and Xiaoma Zhixing became the first batch of enterprises allowed to carry out commercial pilot services. They will invest no more than 100 self driving vehicles to carry out commercial pilot services within 60 square kilometers of Beijing Economic and Technological Development Zone. Industry insiders believe that this marks China’s automatic driving field from testing and demonstration to a new stage of commercial pilot exploration.
In addition to Beijing, at present, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Changsha and other places have also partially opened the normal operation of automatic driving to capture the first opportunity of the automatic driving industry. Among them, Shanghai has now opened 253 automatic driving test roads in four test areas: Jiading, Lingang, Fengxian and Jinqiao, with more than 5000 test scenes; Three 5g automatic driving network buses are operated in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province; Guangzhou launched the pilot of mixed operation of intelligent Internet connected vehicles and human driven vehicles Saic Motor Corporation Limited(600104) , Guangzhou Automobile Group Co.Ltd(601238) and other listed companies have increased investment in the R & D and promotion of automatic driving technology.
“Driving in the test area is one thing, and driving on real urban roads is another. There is a huge difference between the two in road and traffic environment.” Mei Songlin believes that although there have been many explorations of automatic driving in the past few years, it is only limited to the automatic driving test area rather than the real use environment. The recent development of automatic driving in the real use environment in some places is a leap forward attempt, and “sandbox supervision” is the support of these attempts at the national regulatory level. “There are evidence to follow and laws to follow. Automobile companies can have the courage to participate in it in the future.” The relevant person in charge of Jidu automobile told the reporter of Shanghai Securities News.
Miao Wei, deputy director of the Economic Committee of the National Committee of the Chinese people’s Political Consultative Conference, said at the 2022 forum of China electric vehicle hundred people’s association that if new energy vehicles are compared to the first half of global automobile brand competition, intelligent Internet connected vehicles are the second half; China’s automobile industry made great progress in the first half, but the decision is still in the second half. New technologies and new directions such as short-range broadband wireless communication technology, edge computing and vehicle road coordination are expected to further enrich the application scenarios of new energy vehicles.
