Nansha speeds up autonomous driving development

Guangzhou's Nansha district signed a framework cooperation agreement with Pony.ai and CAS Smart City (Guangzhou) on March 1, aimed at pushing forward the integration between car-end sensing in autonomous driving and the construction of a smart city management platform.

Nansha is scheduled to open all roads in the district for autonomous driving tests. It will also build an autonomous driving test base in Qingsheng and push forward the construction of a demonstration zone for intelligent networked vehicle road tests.

The Nansha government will offer support in building special sections of road with 5G and car-end sensing systems that can meet the demands of high-level autonomous driving. It will also gather relevant data about vehicles, roads and people collected by Pony.ai and CAS Smart City to make the district smarter.

By the end of 2020, Nansha had opened 90.7 kilometers of road for testing, accounting for around 58 percent of Guangzhou's total, and ranking first in the city.

A national autonomous driving testing base of around 475 mu (32 hectares) will be built in Qingsheng. It is expected to include various facilities such as a testing data center, laboratories and high precision positioning equipment. 

The application of autonomous driving in commercial operations is expected to be sped up in Nansha in sectors including urban sanitation and unmanned distribution.