The articles in this special section focus on intelligent automobiles. The automotive industry is is experiencing disruptive changes at all levels—from design, and production, to community and business models. A previously rigid and very closed business environment is forced to open and embrace new methods to survive. In particular, it has become clear that a previously strongly deterministic approach has to be replaced with flexible adaptive approaches. This opened a path to new methods, which are reportedly necessary to bring the industry to the ultimate goal—driverless vehicles in any driving condition. The artificial intelligence (AI) has a significant role in this development, but it has not reached the full potential yet due to rigorous requirements that automotive-grade outputs need to satisfy. Nevertheless, an access to a paramount source of data has pushed AI methods to front rows, while all other processing methods are grouped in the “pre-AI era,” or even labeled as “vintage methods.”

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智能汽车：我们在那里吗？

本节中的文章重点介绍智能汽车。汽车行业正在经历从设计，生产到社区和商业模式各个层面的颠覆性变化。以前僵化且非常封闭的业务环境被迫开放并采用新的生存方法。特别地，已经变得明显的是，以前的强确定性方法必须被灵活的自适应方法代替。这开辟了一条通往新方法的道路，据报道，新方法是将汽车行业推向最终目标的必要条件-在任何驾驶条件下均实现无人驾驶。人工智能（AI）在这一发展中起着重要作用，但由于汽车级输出需要满足的严格要求，人工智能尚未发挥出全部潜力。不过，