Since the 1970s, the United States, Britain, Germany and other developed countries began to study driverless cars, and made breakthroughs in feasibility and practicality. China began to study driverless cars in the 1980s, and the National University of Defense Technology successfully developed the first truly driverless car in China at 1992.
In 2005, the first urban driverless car was successfully developed in Shanghai Jiaotong University.
The most advanced driverless car in the world has been tested and driven for nearly 500,000 kilometers, of which the last 80,000 kilometers were completed without any human safety intervention measures.
Driverless car is a smart car that senses the road environment, automatically plans the driving route and controls the vehicle to reach the predetermined target through the on-board sensing system.
It uses on-board sensors to sense the environment around the vehicle, and controls the steering and speed of the vehicle according to the sensed information of the road, vehicle position and obstacles, so that the vehicle can run safely and reliably on the road.
It combines automatic control, architecture, artificial intelligence, visual computing and other technologies. It is the product of highly developed computer science, pattern recognition and intelligent control technology, and it is also an important symbol to measure a country's scientific research strength and industrial level, and has broad application prospects in the fields of national defense and national economy.