Golden Dragon Insight Autonomous Buses Providing Shuttle Services for 2025 Formula 1 Heineken Chinese Grand Prix
2025-03-26 Source：www.chinabuses.org
Summarize：On March 23, the 2025 Formula 1 Heineken Chinese Grand Prix kicked off at the Shanghai International Circuit, where 10 top global racing teams delivered thrilling speed competitions to 220,000 spectators. During the event, Golden Dragon Insight autonomous buses entered the core area of the International Automobile City, providing free shuttle services for citizens to attend the race.
On March 23, the 2025 Formula 1 Heineken Chinese Grand Prix kicked off at the Shanghai International Circuit, where 10 top global racing teams delivered thrilling speed competitions to 220,000 spectators. During the event, Golden Dragon Insight autonomous buses entered the core area of the International Automobile City, providing free shuttle services for citizens to attend the race.
As one of the world's most influential motorsports events, the F1 Chinese Grand Prix annually attracts over 200,000 spectators. Efficient crowd dispersal and traffic pressure alleviation have always been challenges for event organizers. This year, the deployment of Golden Dragon Insight autonomous buses offered an innovative solution to this dilemma.
According to media reports, the autonomous bus experience route operates across five stations. Departing from Boyu Road-Moyu South Road Station, it travels along Boyu Road, passing Shanghai Yingyi Crowne Plaza Hotel, Rayfront Shanghai Auto City Hotel, Auto City Tower, and Shanghai Jiatinghui City Life Plaza, before returning to the starting point. The entire route spans approximately 8 kilometers and takes about 30 minutes.
During the event, Golden Dragon Insight autonomous buses completed 63 trips, with autonomous driving mileage exceeding 500 kilometers, delivering a "smooth and silky" ride experience to passengers. This service emerged as one of the highest-rated segments among spectators.
As a star product developed by Golden Dragon for future smart mobility, the Insight autonomous bus features a cool and stylish exterior design, adopting a fully-loaded, low-entry step, and plug-in door configuration. It is equipped with Mogo Auto's self-developed end-to-end "MogoAutoPilot + MogoMind" large model. Supported by its AI large model, the autonomous minibus possesses capabilities such as real-time traffic environment perception, road data analysis, and autonomous decision-making in emergencies. It can efficiently handle diverse road conditions and complex traffic scenarios, empowering urban public transportation systems and comprehensively enhancing the safety and operational efficiency of autonomous driving. While providing convenient travel experiences for spectators, this cutting-edge technology vehicle also showcased China's leading strength in the field of intelligent connected vehicles to the world.
The appearance of Golden Dragon Insight at the international stage of the F1 Chinese Grand Prix reflects the company's forward-looking (layout) of China's commercial prospects in intelligent connected vehicles. According to data from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the market size of China's autonomous driving industry exceeded 100 billion yuan in 2024, with over 30 cities opening pilot programs for autonomous driving commercialization. Large-scale events, airport zones, tourist attractions, and other closed/semi-closed scenarios are becoming "test fields" for the large-scale application of autonomous driving technology.
"Event shuttles are an excellent scenario to verify technical reliability and user acceptance," said a Golden Dragon autonomous driving R&D engineer in an interview. The Insight buses have cumulatively completed over 5 million kilometers of real road testing. During this event, 99.7% of passengers rated the rides as "smooth and responsive," demonstrating their readiness for large-scale commercial deployment. Currently, Golden Dragon is steadily advancing the regular operations of autonomous buses in the first batch of "smart cities" including Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, and Suzhou, a process strongly supported by local government policies.
The perfect performance of the Insight autonomous buses at this F1 Grand Prix further validated their stable operational capabilities in high-traffic, large-scale scenarios, accelerating the transition of China's autonomous driving from "demonstration operations" to a new phase of "universal services."
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