The World Intelligent Driving Challenge (WIDC) is an internationally authoritative and influential competition and a premier platform for international exchanges in the industry. It presents standards for testing related technologies. Through all-dimensional testing in autonomous driving, intelligent assistance, information security and virtual scenarios, the WIDC provides authoritative and impartial third-party services for intelligent driving technologies, standards and rule-making as well as public autonomous driving knowledge. The 2nd WIDC will be co-organized by the People’s Government of Dongli District, the China Automotive Technology & Research Center, the China Productivity Promotion Center and the Autonomous Driving Committee of the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence.

The competition will have four focuses on autonomous driving, intelligent assistance, information security and virtual testing. The testing scenarios and rules are more complete and strict than those of last year.

Apart from closed roads, there will be expressway, off-road, and open-road testing in the autonomous driving contest. Dozens of scenarios such as safe driving, travel efficiency, and information services are included. The intelligent assistance contest includes six system components, namely pre-collision, lane departure warning, PA automatic parking, lane keeping, rear traffic warning, and adaptive cruise control.

The information security contest is upgraded to anticipate attacks through wireless connections. It will become a national and even international innovation contest. The newly added virtual testing contest will connect the virtual testing system of AAI, a German company, to vehicles. By using simulated road, weather and traffic conditions, it evaluates perceptive, decision-making and executive functions. The results will provide reliable criteria for intelligent vehicle R&D and product improvement.

The challenge has attracted nearly 90 teams from companies, universities and research institutes of China, the US, Germany and Japan. There is a rules-making team of 70 top Chinese and international experts and a judging panel of 150. Over 100 industry leaders and academics will be invited as observers. The challenges will be broadcast by China Central Television and Tianjin TV and reported by over 100 Chinese and international media outlets. There are also opportunities for audiences to have hands-on experiences of intelligent driving. An intelligent driving demonstration will deliver an authentic experience of the technology.