00:00China has unveiled its first mandatory national safety standard for autonomous vehicles.
00:06It covers Level 3 and Level 4 self-driving systems.
00:10Level 3 means the car can drive itself under certain conditions with a human ready to take over if needed.
00:16Level 4 vehicles can drive without a driver but only in approved areas.
00:21The new rules aim to create a single safety framework before the technology is rolled out more widely.
00:28Now the standards tighten rules around driver responsibility.
00:33Level 3 vehicles must monitor whether drivers are ready to take over.
00:37Manufacturers must clearly explain how the technology works, its limits and when drivers are responsible.
00:45Automakers must also prove their systems are safe before deployment.
00:49And that includes risk management, simulation testing, closed track trials and real world road testing throughout a vehicle's life cycle.
00:59Xing Lei is founder of Auto Xing and former chief editor of China Auto Review.
01:05It's great to have you on the programme.
01:08Now these mandatory standards, are they going to give consumers more confidence do you think?
01:13Or do they raise that bar so high that companies won't be able to keep up?
01:19Oh, well, I think the answer is yes.
01:22And just to stress the significance of this standards, the key word is mandatory.
01:29And the industry has actually been looking forward to this being released and mandatory safety baseline framework foundation for the
01:42commercial rollout of the Level 3 and the Level 4 systems that you just explain what they are.
01:49And especially with the human-machine interaction, I think, which has recently been a topic of how the system will
01:59for sure know the driver will be able to take over in this Level 3 conditional automated driving.
02:07I think this will help both the industry, the automakers and the consumers because the automakers will have to require
02:19letting the consumers know through various means, manuals, websites, in-vehicle displays that they need to be ready.
02:30China already has autonomous vehicles on the road and now it's writing the rules to match.
02:36Europe, meanwhile, has the rules, but very few vehicles to apply them to.
02:42Which approach do you think is most likely to win out?
02:47Well, currently China is in the lead, but every region of the world is different.
02:53China is more where there's practical systems put into use, followed by now the mandatory Level 4 and 3 and
03:064.
03:06regulation, but there's one important regulation in Europe, which is the DCAS-171 Series 0-2, which actually a lot
03:17of the automakers need to meet in order to deploy the Level 2 Plus Plus systems.
03:26Which one of the Chinese automakers recently, they're claiming to be the first one that's trying to get approval for
03:35that, which is at the end of this year.
03:38And once you get that approval, whatever is available in the Chinese market of that system can be deployed into
03:46the European regions.
03:47I think that's important to point out.
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