At a launch ceremony held in Pudong, Shanghai's high-level autonomous driving pilot zone welcomed a data collection fleet consisting of 30 Zhiji L6 vehicles. This fleet will take on the important mission of providing training data for autonomous driving large models, marking a significant step forward for Shanghai in the field of intelligent connected vehicles.
Tang Wenkan, Deputy Director of the Shanghai Municipal Commission of Economy and Informatization, elaborated on Shanghai's grand blueprint to build an AI "molded Shanghai" during the ceremony. He emphasized that Shanghai will advance the ecological construction of the intelligent connected vehicle industry by adopting a technical route based on "single vehicle intelligence and supported by vehicle-road-cloud collaboration."
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It is understood that Shanghai's layout in the field of autonomous driving is quite comprehensive. Firstly, through data collection vehicles from ride-hailing services and major automotive and technology companies, a complete data processing chain of "collection, cleaning, labeling, testing, and application" has been established, aiming to create a dataset and scenario library with tens of millions of autonomous driving data points. Secondly, a practical training platform for autonomous driving is under construction, integrating vehicle data, traffic light data, and real-time road condition information from across the city, while exploring the use of world models to generate virtual scene data to support model training and evaluation. Thirdly, a 100-kilometer 5G-A vehicle networking demonstration project has been launched in Jinqiao, Pudong, to validate typical application scenarios.
Currently, Shanghai has achieved significant results in the field of autonomous driving testing. The city has opened a total of 1,003 test roads, with a total mileage exceeding 2,000 kilometers. A total of 794 vehicles from 32 companies have obtained licenses for road testing, demonstration applications, and demonstration operations, accumulating a testing mileage of approximately 22.9 million kilometers and a testing duration of 1.22 million hours. These figures fully demonstrate Shanghai's determination and strength in advancing the development of autonomous driving technology.