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.
The forecast gives a public timeline from a major Chinese automaker for L3 conditional autonomous driving, arriving as the country's first mandatory L3/L4 safety standard, published in August, is slated to take effect on July 1, 2027.
IT之家 10 月 21 日消息，据第一财经报道，针对比亚迪 L3 级别车辆何时落地，比亚迪集团高级副总裁、汽车新技术研究院院长杨冬生在世界智能网联汽车大会上表示，L3 级别有条件自动驾驶有希望在 2028 年落地，更高级别自动驾驶通过迭代，有望再过 1-2 年落地。
值得一提的是，我国首部 L3 / L4 智能网联汽车自动驾驶系统安全要求强制性国标在今年 8 月发布，拟于 2027 年 7 月 1 日起正式实施。
另外，中国科学技术协会名誉主席万钢今日在 2026 世界智能网联汽车大会开幕式上表示，高级别自动驾驶技术加速落地，截至 2026 年上半年，全国已开放测试道路 5.7 万公里，发放测试示范牌照超 2 万张，累计测试里程超 2.2 亿公里，预期 2030 年，L3 级自动驾驶渗透率将超过 35%。
IT之家提醒：辅助驾驶≠自动驾驶，即使开启相关功能，驾驶员也绝不能放松警惕，驾驶人才是最终的责任主体，开车时使用“智驾”，仍需驾驶人全程保持专注，时刻留意路况车况，不能分心、疲劳驾驶。
另外，根据汽车驾驶自动化分级的国家标准，驾驶自动化等级分为 0-5 级：
- L0 为应急辅助
- L1 为部分驾驶辅助
- L2 为组合驾驶辅助
- L3 为有条件自动驾驶
- L4 为高度自动驾驶
- L5 才是完全自动驾驶
