Autonomous driving engineers from around the globe gathered in southwest China’s Guiyang City to join efforts in making autonomous cars in the area.
In total, there were 30 engineers and 10 mentors from 12 countries attending the open collaboration camping program known as “Move it Hackthon,” which will see two self-driving cars built and tested on Chinese roads within five days.
The program is the first offline activity from the “global innovative” open source community known as “Move it.” Its goal is “to address common challenges facing autonomous driving by cooperation,” according a news release from the Publicity Department of the CPC Guiyang Committee.
In other words, the program aims to simplify and facilitate the development of self-driving vehicles for others — including students, engineers and startups. The solutions derived from their work will then be made available to “reduce innovation and application thresholds” of driverless cars and spread the use of the technology.
The engineers and mentors participating in the camp will take part in activities covering areas such as algorithm debugging, wire control technology transformation, automatic driving sample car installation and commissioning, mentor sharing and more.
Once the vehicles are ready, the last phase of the program will see the engineers installing and debugging the autonomous vehicles before readying them for group competition, according to the Publicity Department of the CPC Guiyang Committee.
