China's Practice of Industrializing Autonomous Driving in the Context of Intelligent Transformation
Autonomous driving is a transformative force in today's transportation society.As a typical scenario for the concentrated appli-cation of artificial intelligence technology,autonomous driving possesses a"dual"nature of both technology and society.Its industrializa-tion process is fundamentally a co-construction process of technology and social factors.Based on relationship data from 175 intelligent connected vehicle companies and questionnaire data from 819 real-world social experiments on autonomous driving,a systematic analysis was conducted on the formation mechanism and theoretical logic of China's autonomous driving industrialization practice.The re-search indicates that,under the high environmental embeddedness of autonomous driving,it is embedded in China's complex road en-vironment on one hand and China's unique social environment on the other hand.This necessitates changes to the technology roadmap with a focus on single-vehicle intelligence.Ultimately,through a series of complementary technological innovations and collaborative in-novation efforts among diverse innovation actors,the development path of intelligent connected vehicles with vehicle-road coordination at its core has become the practical choice for the industrialization of autonomous driving in China.