In 2019 GM will produce a new generation of driverless cars: no steering wheel and pedal


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[NetEase smart news January 13 news] General Motors Corporation announced today that it plans to mass-produce unmanned cars with conventional controls such as steering wheels and pedals before 2019. This is a bold statement that declares the future direction of development for one of the top three automotive manufacturers in the United States. At the opening of the Detroit Motor Show next week, this statement will certainly have a major impact on the future of the automotive industry.

The car will be its unmanned fourth-generation electric Chevy bolt, currently being tested on public roads in San Francisco and Phoenix.

After coming out of the production line at the General Motors plant in Orion, Michigan, they will be deployed in many cities.

GM President Dan Oman said in an interview with the Verge: “This is a very exciting time. It will become the development path for large-scale autonomous vehicles and will produce the first uncontrolled car.” This is a very interesting thing to share with everyone."

This announcement coincided with the end of the United States International Consumer Electronics Show, many large companies have announced their own self-driving car program, and just before the Detroit auto show, the industry will show all profitable trucks and SUVs.

By committing to launching completely unmanned cars in a short period of time, GM is seeking to beat its old rivals and new rivals in an increasingly fierce competition to manufacture and deploy robot cars. Ford said that by 2021, it will produce a "steerless and pedalless" driverless car, and Waymo, the parent company of Google's parent company Alphabet, is preparing to launch its first completely unmanned minivan in Phoenix. Commercial taxi service featured (although traditional control methods are still used).

Unlike other companies, General Motors also showed us the interior design of its new futuristic car. To some extent, it is a car version of the Rorschach inkblot test. The internal symmetrical structure looks both disturbing and completely normal. Instead of the steering wheel, it is replaced by an empty area. There is more space in the sprint phase. This is a bit strange, as you can see in the related video.

The car maker submitted a petition to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration of the United States asking it to deploy a car without meeting all federal safety standards. Oman said that the company did not seek exemption from federal automotive safety standards.

General Motors proposed "to meet this standard in a different way," Oman said. "A car without a steering wheel cannot have a steering wheel airbag," he said. "What we can do is put the airbags on the side of the passengers on this side." So, this is to meet the standards, but meet their requirements in a way that is different from the rules, and this is exactly what the petition seeks to obtain Accredited place. ”

GM announced that it will announce its first 33-page safety report to the US Department of Transportation. The FBI re-raised in 2016 and last year that technology companies and automakers dedicated to self-driving cars voluntarily submitted a safety checklist to the government to help pay close attention to this fast-moving technology. General Motors is the second company to submit a report on driverless cars, and Waymo is the first one.

General Motors divides its safety assessment into 12 parts: safety system, operation design field, target and event detection and response, backup (minimum risk condition), verification method, human-machine interface, vehicle network security, collision reliability, post-collision Acts, data records, consumer education and training, federal, state, and local laws. This is very detailed, sometimes boring and sometimes attractive. Look at how GM designs and plans its cars to handle all the ordinary and crazy things that happen on American roads.


There are some prominent elements in the announcement, such as why GM's testing in San Francisco is more important than testing in the suburbs.

(Although we also test vehicles in Phoenix, our San Francisco vehicle estimates that their interactions are on average 32 times the number of vehicles compared to the Phoenix vehicles. Therefore, San Francisco has proposed more about our autopilot system. There are many challenges, because with the increase in the number of objects, the interaction with objects that must be considered by the autopilot system will also multiply.)

For example, General Motors’ Chevy bolt will encounter 270 emergency vehicles for every 1,000 miles in San Francisco, compared to just 6 in Phoenix.

This safety report excludes certain information, such as the number of times human safety drivers were forced to control driverless cars, and the number of vehicle accidents involving General Motors. (Cruise Automation, GM’s autonomous driving department, told California regulators that only six car collisions had occurred in its cars in September 2017. According to state law, companies with automated vehicle license testing must disclose All accidents, even if they are not at fault.)

When it comes to accidents, General Motors does not have a data logger on every self-driving car to store and protect information at the time of the accident. The collected data includes car sensors, vehicle behavior, and any malfunctions that occur. Just like a black box recorder on an airplane, a data recorder can be used in catastrophic accidents.

This report and the announcement about General Motors' first driverless car will surely impress investors. As the company has the ability to produce its products on a large scale, it is optimistic.

The automaker has been making big acquisitions, acquiring Cruise Automation and LIDAR technology vendor Strobe to help it become a "full-stack" auto car company. The company also plans to launch at least 20 new electric vehicles by 2023, a goal that will enable it to drive battery-powered cars to the mainstream.

Oman said that this is GM's advantage in front of its competitors. "We believe this technology will change the world," he said. "We are doing everything we can to bring it out as quickly as possible."

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