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The pace of intelligent driving to obtain a "legal identity" is accelerating. Recently, the State Administration for Market Regulation (Standards Committee) officially issued the national recommendation standard (GB/T 40429-2021) for automatic driving functions. It is reported that the new standard will be officially implemented on March 1, 2022.

China’s autonomous driving classification standards are officially promulgated and will be implemented before March 1, 2022

The level is divided into level 0-level 5

The "Automotive Driving Automation Classification" considers dynamic driving tasks, minimum risk status, and minimum risk strategies, and divides the automatic driving of automobiles into levels 0-5. Among them, the current common lane centering control, adaptive cruise control and other functions belong to level 1 driving automation (partial driving assistance).

"Automotive Driving Automation Classification" also clearly stated the responsibilities of the driver in each level of driving automation. For example, when the adaptive cruise function is turned on, the driver should complete the driving operation together with the automation system. Drivers should also undertake emergency operations for emergencies and intervene in dynamic driving tasks at critical moments to ensure the safety of vehicles and passengers.

It is worth noting that starting from Level 3 automatic driving, the target and event detection and response objects have changed from the driver to the system, and the dynamic driving task support has also changed from the driver to the dynamic driving task support user. This means that in the case of conditional autonomous driving, the driver has been allowed to let go and only needs to take over driving when necessary.

Increased attention

In recent years, the Chinese government's emphasis on intelligent networked vehicles has continued to increase. On September 19, 2019, the “Outline for Building a Powerful Transportation Country” issued by the State Council proposed to strengthen the research and development of intelligent connected vehicles (smart cars, autonomous driving, and vehicle-road collaboration) to form an independent, controllable and complete industrial chain.

As early as January 2018, the National Development and Reform Commission issued the "Smart Car Innovative Development Strategy" (draft for comments), with the goal of reaching 50% of new cars in smart cars by 2020. In the same year, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued supporting documents such as the "Action Plan for the Development of the Internet of Vehicles Industry", "Management Specifications for Road Testing of Intelligent Connected Vehicles (Trial)", and "Guidelines for the Construction of the National Internet of Vehicles Industry Standard System (General Requirements)".

The approval of the national recommendation standard (GB/T 40429-2021) of "Automotive Driving Automation Classification" means that China will officially have an official automatic driving classification standard. Prior to this, the industry has always followed the SAE classification standard formulated by the United States for the intelligent classification of auto-driving cars.

Unmanned driving arrives early?

"Automotive Driving Automation Classification" is one of the basic standards of China's intelligent networked vehicle standard system, and will provide support for the subsequent promulgation of relevant laws, regulations, and mandatory standards for autonomous driving in China.

In this regard, industry experts said that the classification standard will help promote the early arrival of unmanned vehicles. At present, many new cars on the market are equipped with L2 level automatic driving systems, and some models are even equipped with L3 level automatic driving systems. Unmanned driving may arrive in 2024 soonest.

Some experts also pointed out that it is expected that between 2024 and 2025, there will be locally commercialized L4 level autonomous driving (also known as unmanned driving) in China, but unmanned driving must reach a mature and commercialized level in all scenarios. It will be 2030.