World Intelligent Connected Vehicles Conference

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1. Oct 22
   Changan chairman forecasts industry L3 mass production in 2027, L4 commercialization in 2028

   At the 2026 World Intelligent Connected Vehicles Conference in Beijing on October 21, Changan Automobile chairman Zhao Fei said the industry is expected to reach mass production of L3 autonomous driving in 2027 and commercial operation of L4 in 2028. In his keynote, he also said the Changan Nevo Q06 drew close to 50% of its first-month orders for the urban navigation-assisted version, a company figure. Zhao argued that cars will be the earliest and fastest-scaling载体 for on-device physical AI, and called safety the non-negotiable baseline, noting Changan has taken part in drafting more than 360 international, national and industry standards.

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2. Oct 21
   BYD's Yang Dongsheng says L3 conditional autonomous driving could land in 2028

   Yang Dongsheng, BYD Group senior vice president and head of its automotive new technology research institute, said at the World Intelligent Connected Vehicles Conference that L3-level conditional autonomous driving has hopes of landing in 2028, with higher-level autonomous driving possibly arriving one to two years later through iteration, according to a First Financial report relayed by IT之家 and 36Kr. The reports note that China's first mandatory national standard on L3/L4 automated driving system safety requirements was published in August and is slated to take effect on July 1, 2027. At the same conference, Wan Gang, honorary chairman of the China Association for Science and Technology, said that by the first half of 2026 China had opened 57,000 km of test roads, issued more than 20,000 test demonstration plates and accumulated over 220 million km of test mileage, and projected L3 penetration above 35% by 2030.

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3. Oct 21
   XPeng's He Xiaopeng: autonomous driving's second half brings three shifts and three metrics

   XPeng Group chairman and CEO He Xiaopeng told the 2026 World Intelligent Connected Vehicles Conference that autonomous driving's "second half" will bring three major changes: software shifting from conventional software to AI models and data, hardware moving from partial components to full-stack coupling across chips, chassis, cockpit, self-driving and the whole vehicle, and regulation and deployment shifting as countries worldwide push L2, L3 and L4 rules and explore where L4 and L5 can be deployed. He also named three metrics absent from the first half — safety collision mileage, users' all-scenario coverage and the share of users willing to pay — saying together they would form numerical targets guiding better experience, safety and returns. In a separate report by Yicai, he said autonomous driving should skip L3, arguing it only transfers safety responsibility to the system while user experience is not optimized and, crucially, safety does not improve; he expects opportunity in L2, L4 and a redefined L5, calling L3 essentially an enhanced form of L2.

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