China's first Automotive Intelligent Safety Assessment Program (AI-SAP) was released in Chongqing on Wednesday, providing all-round assessment of intelligent vehicles' safety performance, especially in real-case scenarios.
Released at the 2024 China Automotive Electronics and Information (Jinfeng) International Forum in the southwestern municipality, AI-SAP measures the safety performance of intelligent vehicle by its capability of environment sensing, decision making, control measures taking and emergency situation responding.
The program also includes an intelligent safety measurement protocol for self-driving cars.
"The protocol released not only fill in the void in the development of self-driving systems and the safety evaluation, but also sets new standards for the global automotive industry in terms of safety evaluation," said Zhu Xichan, director of the Automotive Safety Technology Institute of Tongji University.
AI-SAP will focus on measuring the intelligent vehicles' safety performance in complex scenarios, said Cao Fei, deputy managing director of the technical committee of China Merchants Testing Vehicle Technology Research Institute Co., Ltd.
"AI-SAP is able to conduct alpine-cold tests for the intelligent vehicles in winter in low-visibility environments of snowing, raining and at night. It can also test the intelligent vehicle's capability for using the Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) system to keep a safe distance following the driving car, so as to verify the working stability of its sensors like cameras and radars and improve its safety performance in the extremely cold regions," said Cao.
The expert said that going forward, China will further the standardization efforts in scenario testing and road adaptation evaluation for intelligent connected vehicles (ICVs) .
China releases first intelligent safety assessment program for automobiles
