The future belongs to intelligent vehicles

Editor's note: Robin Li, the chairman of China's largest search engine Baidu livestreamed himself riding in what he claimed was his company's first driverless car on Beijing's Fifth Ring Road on July 5, sparking a public debate on traffic regulations. There is no law or regulation on driverless cars, and traffic police said they are investigating the case. Three experts share their views on the subject with China Daily's Wu Zheyu. Excerpts follow:

Be prepared for the imminent auto storm

Although the United States National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has a broader definition for intelligent vehicles, which is accepted by many countries, cars as a whole can be classified into five grades. If a manually driven car is grade 0, a fully self-driving car will be grade 4.