The i-VISTA Grand Challenge awards ceremony was held in Chongqing Liangjiang Collaborative Innovation Zone to present trophies, medals, and prizes to winners on August 22.
The scene of i-VISTA Grand Challenge (Photo provided to iChongqing)
As one of the major activities of the Smart China Expo, i-VISTA Grand Challenge has been held four times. With its widely recognized professionalism, authoritativeness, and influence, a large number of consumers also became its fans. This year's competition began on August 19. Altogether 105 teams from automobile enterprises, universities and colleges, and research institutes competed fiercely for three days to determine the final rankings in Advanced Driving Assistance System (ADAS), Strongest Car Brain Challenge, Virtual Simulation Challenge, Commercialization Process Challenge, and Low-Speed Autonomous Driving Challenge.
The award ceremony of the i-VISTA Grand Challenge was held on August 22. (Photo provided to iChongqing)
"Through the contest, we displayed our strength, won respect, and discovered the shortcomings to be improved." A member of the SERES No. 1 Team, the Strongest Car Brain Challenge champion, was excited, "Competing and communicating with competitors, who are the best players in their respective industries, is of the same significance as winning the game."
Wan Xinming, General Manager of CAERI, delivered a speech and said, "This year's i-VISTA Grand Challenge was professional and interesting, offering a high-quality communication platform for technology companies, automobile companies, universities and colleges, and users of autonomous vehicles." In the future, i-VISTA Grand Challenge and i-VISTA China Intelligent Vehicle Indexes will continue playing the role of an industry benchmark, serving consumers in buying and using cars, guiding enterprises to optimize development and design, and empowering the intelligent transformation of the auto industry.
Cars in competition (Photo provided to iChongqing)
The event advocates practicing on a competitive basis and facilitating progress through competitions. The i-VISTA Grand Challenge is held not only to display the new technologies, new achievements, and new trends of the intelligent auto industry, but also to find solutions to the key issues that currently constrain the development of this industry by pooling resources from all parties. On the scene of the award ceremony, Jiang Xueqian, second-level inspector of Chongqing Economic and Information Technology Commission, said, "Since recent years, the intelligent auto industry has been in the ascendant, but it is also facing many policy barriers, quite a few technical bottlenecks, and product application limitations. Therefore, adequate testing and verification are a must for the commercialization of self-driving technology. Chongqing's complex and diverse road scenes provide the perfect conditions for self-driving vehicle testing and competitions. Therefore, she firmly believes that the i-VISTA Grand Challenge will get better.
The main venue of this session of the competition was moved to Chongqing Liangjiang Collaborative Innovation Zone. The advanced hardware facilities and complete supporting services there ensured the successful holding of the event. Li Jie, Deputy Director of Liangjiang New Area Administrative Committee, attended the award ceremony and said, "In this year's competition, the performance of Chinese auto brands is eye-catching, especially the representatives of Chongqing's intelligent manufacturing — Changan Automobile and Jinkang Seres, with excellent results in several competitions. It also verifies that sci-tech innovation is driving national brands and that intelligence will become the breakthrough point for China's auto industry to grow.
The staff is conscientious and responsible. (Photo provided to iChongqing)
Intelligent driving will create a better future. During an interval of the award ceremony, a heart-stirring video reviewed the exhilarating event: preparation of the contestants, wonderful and exciting competition scenes, sweat pouring down from contestants' faces, etc. When watching these scenes recorded by the camera, all the participants, judges, staff, media, volunteers, and sponsor representatives showed gratified and happy expressions. Although this year's competition has ended, the exploration of intelligent vehicles and smart transport will continue. Everyone is looking forward to the i-VISTA Grand Challenge next year!
(Wu Jian contributed to this report.)