Beijing completes nearly 4 million km autonomous driving test mileage in 2021

Beijing (Gasgoo)- On January 26th, Beijing released a report demonstrating the city’s achievements in the autonomous driving road test field in 2021, with nearly 4 million km of mileage.

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According to the report, by the end of 2021, the city accommodated 170 autonomous driving vehicles from 16 entities, accumulating 3.912 million km of safe autonomous driving road test mileage, growing consecutively for three years. Additionally, 124 of the testing vehicles were with safety drivers, accumulating 2.51 million km of road test mileage, with over 300,000 people participating in the manned pilot operation.

The report specifies that in order to realize high-level autonomous driving and achieve genuine industrialization of the technologies in the future, an autonomous driving product and service assessment system is required.

In 2021, the specific road tests for driverless autonomous driving technology had entered phase two, accumulating 75,933 km of open road testing mileage. Meanwhile, the manned autonomous driving tests were in phase three in 2021. Moreover, the city has issued nighttime test notices to 43 vehicles.

In April 2021, Beijing established an intelligent connected vehicle policy pilot zone, further promoting the commercial operation of autonomous driving vehicles in the city.  

Currently, the city has established a comprehensive autonomous driving vehicle technology test and assessment system, consisting of a closed test field, simulation test platform, autonomous driving vehicle technology evaluation, testing road requirement, data collection functions.

In 2021, Beijing opened up 27 testing roads in Daxing District and Tongzhou District and added 51 more testing roads in Shunyi District. The total testing road mileage expanded 46.9% from a year ago. Furthermore, the city opened up 82 driverless technology testing roads in 3 districts, covering a total of 423.26 km. Beijing also homes 190.92 km of 31 special weather testing roads in 2 districts.