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推进汽车自动驾驶走向实用化的全球联盟即将启动。在主办达沃斯会议的世界经济论坛（WEF）呼吁下，汽车、IT和保险等领域的27家跨国企业参加联盟。本月内将在美国启动验证试验，将根据自动驾驶的技术区分，磋商安全标准和驾驶规则的制定。围绕自动驾驶，跨行业合作正取得进展，民间企业将通过大规模合作引领自动驾驶的普及。
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参加验证试验的企业有27家。世界经济论坛的负责人表示，“跨国企业间进行如此大规模的合作史无前例”。仅汽车相关企业就包括丰田、日产汽车、通用汽车、大众、宝马、现代汽车和沃尔沃等12家。
在保险领域，有日本财险控股集团（Sompo Holdings）和美国利宝互助保险集团（Liberty Mutual Insurance Group）等参加。在IT相关领域，有瑞典爱立信和美国高通等参加。此外，打车服务提供商美国优步和物流企业美国UPS等也将加入。瑞典和新加坡政府也计划参加讨论，该联盟或将给欧洲全境和亚洲带来影响。
世界经济论坛于5月成立工作组，一直在讨论基于自动驾驶的未来社会的面貌。自12月起，在美国启动正式的验证试验。源自雷诺和麻省理工学院（MIT）的自动驾驶新创企业nu Tonomy将在美国波士顿的工业园区让自动驾驶汽车上路。
除了分享有关缓解交通拥堵和安全的数据之外，联盟还将讨论自动驾驶对铁路等其他交通工具可能产生的影响、以及损害保险等社会基础设施的完善等。今后，除了将以每2个月1次的频率召开会议外，还将通过电话磋商等方式汇总意见。并在每年1月举行的年度会议（达沃斯会议）等上发表成果。
随着众多知名企业的参加，此次的讨论结果有可能成为全球通用的制度和标准。不过，美国纯电动车（EV）企业特斯拉汽车等并未参加。同样未参加的美国谷歌和福特汽车等于4月在自动驾驶开发方面展开合作，围绕相关技术开发和规则制定方面的主导权竞争越来越激烈。
Toyota, Qualcomm join consortium on self-driving tech
Private-sector effort seeks to set safety standards, other rules.
TOKYO -- Toyota Motor and U.S. chipmaker Qualcomm are among the 27 companies forming a global consortium to bring self-driving technology onto the road.
The group aims to lead a private-sector push to establish safety standards and other rules for varying degrees of autonomous driving. The World Economic Forum, which formed a working committee in May to discuss the future of self-driving cars, had called for such an initiative.
The auto industry represents 12 of the participants, including Toyota, Nissan Motor, General Motors, Volkswagen, BMW, Hyundai Motor and Volvo Car. Insurers include Liberty Mutual Group and Japan's Sompo Holdings, with Qualcomm and Sweden's Ericsson among the information technology companies. Uber Technologies, the company behind the ride-hailing app, and U.S. logistics giant UPS are also taking part.
The consortium members will be involved in road tests that begin this month in the U.S. city of Boston, overseen by Renault and nuTonomy -- a startup sprung from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In addition to sharing data on safety and traffic congestion, they will discuss the impact on rail and other transit systems, as well as the implications for such sectors as casualty insurance. The group will convene every two months and report its findings at the forum's annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland.
However, companies such as U.S. electric car maker Tesla Motors are not part of the consortium. And with Google and Ford Motor teaming up in the self-driving arena, the battle will only intensify for gaining an upper hand in developing the technology and crafting the rules.
(Nikkei)
The group aims to lead a private-sector push to establish safety standards and other rules for varying degrees of autonomous driving. The World Economic Forum, which formed a working committee in May to discuss the future of self-driving cars, had called for such an initiative.
The auto industry represents 12 of the participants, including Toyota, Nissan Motor, General Motors, Volkswagen, BMW, Hyundai Motor and Volvo Car. Insurers include Liberty Mutual Group and Japan's Sompo Holdings, with Qualcomm and Sweden's Ericsson among the information technology companies. Uber Technologies, the company behind the ride-hailing app, and U.S. logistics giant UPS are also taking part.
The consortium members will be involved in road tests that begin this month in the U.S. city of Boston, overseen by Renault and nuTonomy -- a startup sprung from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In addition to sharing data on safety and traffic congestion, they will discuss the impact on rail and other transit systems, as well as the implications for such sectors as casualty insurance. The group will convene every two months and report its findings at the forum's annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland.
However, companies such as U.S. electric car maker Tesla Motors are not part of the consortium. And with Google and Ford Motor teaming up in the self-driving arena, the battle will only intensify for gaining an upper hand in developing the technology and crafting the rules.
(Nikkei)