WeRide Gets Unmanned Testing Licenses in Guangzhou
TapTechNews May 22nd news, the self-driving technology company WeRide today announced that it has obtained the remote testing (unmanned) license and the cargo testing license issued by Guangzhou City.
The self-driving freight vehicle Robovan (hereinafter referred to as the 'WeRide freight vehicle') under WeRide is allowed to carry out the 'pure unmanned test' and 'cargo test' of the self-driving urban freight vehicle in Guangzhou, and the test scope covers 797 test roads in 6 administrative districts such as Baiyun District, Huadu District, Panyu District, Huangpu District, Nansha District, and Haizhu District, as well as the whole area of Nansha, with a two-way mileage of 3,247 kilometers. (1 mile is about 1.60934 kilometers).
According to the introduction, this is China's first pure unmanned remote test license for L4-level self-driving freight vehicles in the urban open road scene, and it is also China's first 7x24 all-day self-driving freight vehicle cargo test activity.
WeRide said that the WeRide freight vehicle is China's first L4-level self-driving freight vehicle, which is developed using the Jiangling light passenger BEV model and is equipped with WeRide's full-stack software and hardware solution, with 360-degree blind area-free perception ability, full redundancy chassis and intelligent driving system, which can realize all-day and all-scenario operation, covering road scenarios such as urban centers, urban villages, and high-speed roads.
To meet the needs of its large-scale commercial landing application, WeRide has directional developed a cloud control platform and a self-driving freight App, which can view the running route and self-driving status in real time, and supports multi-dimensional commercial operation-level functions such as voice customer service, vehicle positioning, order status management, delivery progress query, and fleet scheduling.
At present, WeRide has cooperated with many Chinese logistics enterprises and landed an autonomous urban freight commercial operation pilot on Guangzhou International Bio-Island, and during the pilot period, it transports more than 50,000 items of goods daily.
TapTechNews found that WeRide has carried out a number of unmanned tests in its headquarters Guangzhou, including the commercial operation of Robotaxi self-driving taxis and Robosweeper self-driving sanitation vehicles. On December 30, 2023, WeRide joined hands with Guangzhou Bus Group to land the country's first self-driving minibus commercial paid operation service.