(Yicai Global) Oct. 14 -- The first China-led international standard for autonomous driving test scenarios was released this month. It will be widely used in research, development, testing, and management of self-driving vehicle technologies and products for smart connected vehicles worldwide.

Led by China, experts from more than 20 countries, including the United States, Germany and Japan, developed the ISO 34501: 2022 Road Vehicles - Test Scenarios for Automated Driving Systems - Vocabulary, which defines concepts in autonomous driving tests and results in a standardized language, China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology announced on its website yesterday.

China submitted a proposal to the road vehicle committee of the International Organization for Standardization in April 2018 to develop an international standard for autonomous driving. It was given approval to form a working group to plan a series of international standards around autonomous driving test scenarios.

The ISO 34501 is the first published standard in the series, which also includes the ISO 34502 Safety Evaluation Framework, the ISO 34503 Operational Design Domain, the ISO 34504 Scenario Categorization, and the ISO 34505 Scenario Evaluation and Test Case Generation, the announcement noted.

China has been accelerating the commercialization of self-driving vehicle technologies in recent years. More than 10 cities, including Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Guangzhou, have been trialing self-driving taxis and buses in designated areas during certain times.

To further regulate and promote commercialization, the transport ministry released in August draft guidelines for self-driving auto transport safety services to solicit public feedback opinions.

Editor: Peter Thomas