Automotive Dec 17, 2020 02:10 PM (GMT+8) · EqualOcean
December 17, Ma Zhixing( Pony.ai )It announced that it had obtained the first self driving truck test license issued by Guangzhou City and was allowed to carry out open road test. The actual road test will accelerate the R & D and verification of automatic driving truck technology, and promote the application and landing attempt of pony intelligent automatic driving technology in logistics field. At present, Xiaoma Zhixing is developing the technology of automatic driving truck in China and the United States at the same time. In April 2019, Xiaoma Zhixing announced the research and development progress of automatic driving truck for the first time, and demonstrated the automatic driving software and hardware system for heavy trucks at the third China International Import Expo in November this year, which can realize L4 automatic driving. Since its establishment at the end of 2016, the technical goal of pony smart travel is to create a "virtual driver" suitable for all types of vehicles and scenes, and put its foothold in the two application fields of travel and transportation. In terms of passenger cars, Ma Zhixing has set up regular test and operation teams in both China and the United States. As of October, it has completed more than 3.5 million kilometers of automatic driving test mileage on open roads. Lou Tiancheng, co-founder of Xiaoma Zhixing and CTO, once said: "in terms of automatic driving technology, passenger cars and business vehicles have great commonality, or the key parts are common rather than independent. We don't treat truck technology and passenger technology as two separate technology stacks. "