The 2016 China Self-Driving Market Investigation Research and Anticipated Future Development Trends published by China Industry Research believes that with the development of technology and system becomes perfected in recent years, internet industry leaders and OEMs start entering the arena of self-driving, pushing the development of this line of business. Different companies further promoted the development of self-driving ever since Google launched its self-driving car in 2014. On December 11th 2015, Tucson that runs on hydrogen and Soul that runs on electricity, which were respectively manufactured by Hyundai and Kia Motors, a total of 4 cars belonging to these two series were granted the license of self-driving that allow them to run on highways in Nevada, U.S. This was unprecedented among Korean car companies. OEMs such as Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Audi, Volvo and Tesla all began their business in self-driving, and good periodical achievements have been made too.

Following the successful self-driving test on different road conditions in early December 2015, Baidu announced the start of its self-driving division on December 14th 2015. The division focuses on the technological research, industry construction and implementation of self-driving automobiles. It plans to realize the commercialization of self-driving automobiles in three years and mass production in five years. In addition to its early involvement, OEMs such as BAIC, GAC, SAIC, Chang'an and BYD all have been devoting efforts in self-driving for years. The situations indicate that the technology in China is catching up with the advanced countries, and may even surpass them.

There will be 18 million automobiles that come with partial self-driving function worldwide by 2034, according to our forecast, and 12 million of them will be completely self-driving. China will be the largest market for self-driving cars.

The scope of automotive safety technologies is becoming increasingly wider, and more integrated, intelligent, systematic and for-all.

(I) More integrated:
The active safety technologies are integrated with passive safety technologies for better protection.

(II) More intelligent:
Future car is a moving computer, and a smart car has a series of fundamental features including smart braking, smart decelerating, and smart steering. Devices such as GPS, smart anti-collision system, smart driving system, smart tires and suspension as well as airbags will play roles that are becoming increasingly important.

(III) More systematic:
Cars, roads and people are incorporated into the same system for analysis where they coordinate and reach to the optimal status of performance, realizing the best coordination among the driver's behavioral characteristics, automotive mechanic characteristics, road facilities and traffic rules, achieving the best benefits as a whole.

(IV) More for-all:
The passive safety technologies that try to save or alleviate personnel injuries in the event of an accident are mostly based on the concept that the safety of those who are in the car shall be protected, such as seat belts, airbags and energy-absorbing steering columns. In the future, the safety technologies will be more for-all, which means that they will take the safety of those who are inside and outside the car into consideration at the same time.

Smart automotive manufacture is an important branch of equipment manufacture. OEM and auto parts industry are the most matured fields. The automobile production volume of China increased from 7.2789 million in 2006 to 28.1188 million in 2016. The number of sold automobiles increased from 7.328 million in 2006 to 28.0282 million in 2016. The annual average compound growth rates are 14.47% and 14.36% respectively. As the competition in the world intensifies, developed countries such as the U.S, Germany, U.K, and Japan have implemented the "re-industrialization" strategy that mainly aims to revitalizes their manufacture business, and a series of national projects themed as "smart manufacture" have been issued.