China will review in 2018 the standards for vehicle-to-vehicle interaction that are important for driverless vehicles and lay out a common nationwide standard after that, the chief of the Society of Automotive Engineers of China (SAE-China) stated.
China’s goal to develop a national standard might speed the execution of driverless vehicles in the world’s biggest auto market, contrasting with a patchwork of state laws and standards in the United States that some in the market say could hold back development.
Earlier this year, SAE-China – under the instructions of China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) and with input from every significant Chinese car manufacturer – set out to interpret unclear directives for the automotive market in sweeping 13th Five Year Plan and “Made in China 2025” policy.
The resulting 450-page roadmap, released in October, sets specific policy goals for virtually every element of the automotive market, including driverless cars and electric vehicles, for 3 five-year periods to 2030.
The document, nevertheless, stopped short of developing a unified standard for cars to communicate with each other (V2V) and surrounding infrastructure (V2I), both which are essential for autonomous automobiles to be effective.
Country will “lay the foundation” for V2V and V2I standards in 2018 in the next update of the roadmap, with a more specific standard to be developed in between 2020 and 2025 and agreed to by all vehicle brands, SAE-China Chief Fu Yuwu stated.
China’s method of main unified planning could reveal to be more efficient than nations like Japan, which is having a hard time to make its 3 largest car manufacturers agree on standards, he said.
