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The Taiwan government-backed Automotive ARTC Level 3 Autonomous System Involves
Research & Testing Center (ARTC) is set to unveil Unique Humane Technologies
an “all-weather high-speed autonomous driving
testing facility” in September this year as part of When in self-driving mode, the ARTC Level
Taiwan’s efforts to build its autonomous-vehicle 3 system’s onboard cameras embedded with AI
development capability. technology can determine whether or not the driver
is staying awakening and able to handle the car
Housig a 200-meter tunnel, this very site is by detecting the driver’s physical characteristics,
designed to test autonomous vehicles to see if including eye blinking rate, vision direction, and
they will go wrong in various weather conditions head angle.
like heavy rain, dense fog, sun rising and setting,
and nightfall, as well as varying road types such as In case that the driver feels sick and is not able
tunnel and elevated highways at speed up to 110 to take over the steering wheel, the system will
kilometers per hour. keep alarming and slow down the vehicle gradually
or pull it over before the helps that it calls for arrive.
ARTC On Track to Fully Equip its Testing Control will go back to the autonomous system
Capability again after unmanageable problems are fi xed. The
ARTC system’s competing cousins can do nothing
Chairman of the center, Jerry Wang, points out but keep sending warnings when the driver is
that along with automotive electronics and artifi cial detected tired.
intelligence vehicles developing prosperously, the
center will persistently make its laboratory facilities ARTC Mini Autonomous Bus Wins Edison
and testing fields as complete as possible to help Awards
the island’s autonomous-vehicle industry shoot for
business opportunity on the global market. This bus, which is said to be the world’s
first of its kind, has won the 2025 edition of the
Founded in 1990, the center has achieved Edison Awards, which were established in 1987
many self-driving technologies in recent years. In by the American Marketing Association to honor
May this year, for instance, the center announced innovations in product and service development,
a self-driving electric mini-bus conforming to the marketing and human-centered design.
United Nation Regulation No. 157 for Level 3
autonomous driving system, in partnership with So far, the Society of Automotive Engineers
local automotive electronics supply chain and (SAE) defi nes 6 levels of driving automation ranging
electric bus manufacturers in addition to the backup from 0 (fully manual) to 5 (fully autonomous) for
from the Ministry of Economic Affairs’ Technology global self-driving vehicles. Level 1 and Level 2
Development Program. automations still account for the majority of the
assistant-driving systems available onboard.
However, market surveyor Frost & Sullivan