Introduction 15 pation of leading Chinese financial institutions, the creation of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and various funds aimed at building road networks in neighboring countries allow China to develop the economy of the western provinces, generate a multiplier effect in neighboring Chinese industries, stimulate the growth of China's foreign trade. This, in turn, acti 2 vates the economic development of the participating countries of the pro2 ject, contributes to strengthening transport integration at the regional and subregional levels and provides them with independent access to new world markets.
China is rapidly breaking into the promising global market of semi2 and automatic car driving technologies, as well as the production of innovative software with integrated autonomous driving capability without driver part2 icipation. It should be noted that despite the fact that cars are becoming more and more independent, the driver's participation in the movement process is still necessary, and the leadership of the People's Republic of Chi2 na believes to achieve full automation of vehicles at the end of the 14th fi2 ve2year plan. Already today, many Chinese manufacturers are creating cars that can move on public roads autonomously, and not under the control of a driver.
The development of driverless driving in China creates both signifi2 cant social and multiplicative effects. The number of road accidents is dras2 tically reduced and human casualties are almost completely eliminated, which leads to a significant reduction in the cost of auto insurance and rapid response medicine. The cost of transporting goods and people is reduced by saving on wages and reducing fuel consumption. New industries related to the development, production and maintenance of self2driving cars are emerging, and a significant multiplier effect is generated in industries rela2 ted to the production of electronic stuffing of «smart» cars.
Nowadays, the automotive industry of the PRC is undergoing a significant transformati2 on — the largest Chinese automakers with scientific and technical compani2 es, research centers and large telecommunications corporations are actively developing and implementing artificial neural networks based on artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, digital technologies and «Big Data» techno2 logies, creating algorithms for using AI and cloud computing in the field of unmanned driving, traffic monitoring, control and management of urban traffic.
In general, this work is aimed at turning Chinese megacities into «smart» cities with convenient transport infrastructure and intelligent road transport, and the main trend is already obvious — the future of the Chinese automotive industry will be associated with autonomous driving, which will become a mass phenomenon. Already today in China, the exchange of in2 formation between cars using V2V technology, together with the receipt by