During the trial operation, Dongfeng autonomous driving engineering vehicle, loaded with 25 tons of ores, drove 1.5 km on a bumpy road. With upward & downward slopes and a bend on the road, the vehicle drove automatically by 10 km/h without any assistance from a safety engineer inside the driver’s cockpit. Finally, it successfully performed such complicated tasks as making a U turn and avoiding barriers.
According to Dongfeng Commercial Vehicle Co., Ltd., the new engineering vehicle meets L3-level autonomous driving standards and can be chiefly used at some enclosed mining areas. Before the trial operation, the vehicle has already successfully passed a 500-hour test at an enclosed driving area in Xiangyang, Hubei province.
