Audi cancels L3 autonomous driving project

According to people familiar with the matter, Audi officially canceled its L3 autonomous driving research and development project at the end of 2019, and instead shifted hundreds of its team's employees to L2 and L4 autonomous driving technology research and development. Audi China employees said that the core reason for the cancellation of the L3 project is that the time for the regulations to be released is far away. Many industry insiders familiar with the project said that the core reason for the cancellation was that the "takeover" paradox of L3 autonomous driving could not be resolved. That is to say, when the L3 level system cannot work, it is difficult to determine how humans can take over the vehicle, but this problem does not exist with L2 and L4 level autonomous driving technology. In addition, people familiar with the project revealed that as of the end of 2018, Audi had been developing the L3 autonomous driving project for at least five years, with more than 1,000 R&D personnel involved in the project, and a cumulative investment of more than 1 billion euros. (car stuff)