For the first time in the unmanned delivery vehicle industry, innovative stone tools set up a safety committee

The Zhitong Finance App learned that recently, Neolithic, the leading unmanned delivery vehicle company, announced the establishment of a safety committee as an upgrade to the original safety organization. This is also the first company-level enterprise safety management organization in the unmanned delivery vehicle industry. As Neolithic's highest-level safety management agency, Neolithic CEO Yu Enyuan personally serves as the chairman of the committee. CTO Miao Qiankun and CPO Jie Jinghua are in charge of safety.

The Neolithic Safety Committee comprehensively coordinates the entire chain of safety management, including vehicle industry design, hardware, intelligent driving systems, operation services and data security, and formulates the company's safety strategies, policies and related standards. The committee approves the launch of the system and major technical plans, and conducts safety assessments and decisions on key matters such as autonomous driving algorithm updates, platform deployment, and operation area expansion to ensure that the launch project complies with the company's safety standards and related industry standards. The committee has a “one-vote veto” on projects that have not passed the safety assessment or are at risk.

As a supporting mechanism, the Safety Committee has established regular safety meetings and reporting mechanisms at the company and department levels to achieve real-time perception and dynamic supervision of safety risks, take the lead in organizing investigation and analysis of key safety issues and formulation of improvement measures, establish a closed-loop management mechanism, and regularly evaluate the safety performance of various departments and promote optimization. Furthermore, the Commission is responsible for overseeing the investment of safety resources, coordinating cross-departmental safety work, and meeting regulatory compliance requirements.

Under the Safety Committee structure, Neolithic has also set up corresponding safety centers in departments such as hardware, intelligent driving, emergency response, and operation. It has also set up intelligent safety centers to coordinate safety matters such as data and information security, platform security, AI security, and safety system development. The Safety Center implemented a “dual reporting line”, reporting both business to department heads and safety indicators to the safety committee, completely breaking the fragmented situation where “security departments don't understand technology and business departments don't care about safety”.

Each safety center regularly reports the department's safety-related data and indicators to the Safety Committee, conducts a first-level safety assessment of the department's relevant project plan, and then submits it to the Safety Committee for approval. At the same time, in accordance with the safety requirements of the Safety Committee, it is converted into the department's executive rules and risk management, and cooperates with and supports the investigation, traceability, and rectification of safety incidents occurring within the department.

Neolithic revealed some safety data. Up to now, the cumulative operating mileage of unmanned delivery vehicles has exceeded 200 million kilometers, achieving zero serious injuries and deaths. This set of numbers is extremely important in the autonomous driving industry, because compared to smart driving cars, the terminal logistics environment for unmanned delivery vehicles is more complex. Sidewalks, non-motorized lanes, internal roads, narrow streets, night scenes, etc. are highly random, spread all over various non-standardized obstacles, and the interaction density is more than ten times that of smart driving cars.

Neolithic CEO Yu Enyuan said that the competition for unmanned delivery vehicles was about technology and scale in the first half, and safety and compliance in the second half. Neolithic is willing to be the “most conservative” frontrunner. “Safety is the cornerstone of the Neolithic business model. Safety is 1, and efficiency, cost, and scale are all the latter 0. Without the first 1, no matter how many zeros there are in the back, it's meaningless. Safety is also a full-system job. It is a system project covering all aspects of products, operations, and data. As enterprises continue to evolve, only by establishing a trustworthy security system can unmanned delivery truly become social infrastructure and provide reliable services to users.”

Xie Jinghua, CPO of Neolithic and head of the Intelligent Safety Center, explained that Neolithic has built a six-layer safety compliance system covering the entire link of unmanned vehicles, from the vehicle itself to the cloud.

Product safety: Following the vehicle grade manufacturing system and IATF16949 quality management standards, suppliers and key components are screened according to vehicle grade standards. Key components are permanently bound to the VIN code, and the safety controller is redundant. Bicycles can only be delivered after passing thousands of tests and an equivalent mileage endurance test of more than 300,000 kilometers before going offline.

Smart driving safety: Adhere to the principle of “planning for the worst, designing the most redundant safety”, from perception to execution, establish a 100,000+ scenario decision base, and use a five-layer in-depth defense and master/secondary architecture from hardware redundancy to cloud operation to ensure that risks are detected in a timely manner and that the vehicle is kept in a safe state; it automatically triggers a minimum risk strategy (MRC) to guide the vehicle to park safely on the side.

Network and information security: For large-scale networked fleets, build vehicle-cloud-end full-link protection, communication encryption, OTA double signing, normalization of penetration testing and intrusion detection, strictly prevent remote intrusion, and align ISO/SAE21434 with GB44495 standards.

AI and data security: Relying on end-to-end models and security agents (agents), adhering to security boundaries. Key decisions are underpinned by redundant autonomous driving and rules. Agent decisions leave traces, can be played back and traceable, and multiple agent conflicts and loss of control are prevented through a unified governance mechanism. The final right to intervene is always controlled by humans; the data follows the “least necessary” principle, and license plates and faces are instantly desensitized. The entire process is encrypted and traceable.

Operational safety: For unmanned delivery vehicles, the safety of the operation process is critical. Establish and operate seven types of operating mechanisms covering all scenarios, implementing daily pre-service security checks, weekly risk reviews, real-time monitoring and emergency response at a 7×24 hour remote operation center, and a national maintenance team on standby 24 hours a day.

Ensuring safety: This is a safety point closely related to the public. Establish a complete emergency response process on the vehicle side - site - cloud. The remote side responds instantly to abnormal vehicle situations, and provides 7×24 hour accident handling services. The front line responds within 5 minutes, and the safety officer is on site to deal with it within 15 minutes.

In addition to this, Neolithic has established a closed loop of “insurance+enterprise” dual protection. According to the requirements of local governments, the company purchased 3 million to 5 million yuan of public liability insurance for each vehicle. For losses not covered by the insurance liability, Neolithic Company acts as the last barrier and bears ultimate liability.

Up to now, the cumulative operating mileage of Neolithic unmanned vehicles has exceeded 200 million kilometers. Before landing in every city, Neolithic will actively communicate with relevant government departments, comply with the relevant city requirements, and jointly establish feedback hotlines with the government to collect and dispose of public opinions and suggestions. It also complies with territorial requirements to provide real-time data on vehicle operation and takeover to local intelligent connected vehicle management offices.

Neolithic also announced that when conditions are ripe, it will publish an annual safety white paper to disclose key safety indicators, accident data, and control measures to the whole society. Industry insiders believe that this move will push the driverless delivery vehicle industry towards “transparent governance.”