Unmanned delivery vehicle industry first to establish Safety Committee 'New Stone Age'

Recently, the leading company in unmanned delivery vehicles, New Stone Age, announced the establishment of a Safety Committee, as an upgrade to the existing safety organization. This is also the first company-level enterprise safety management organization in the unmanned delivery vehicle industry. As the highest level safety governance body in New Stone Age, CEO Yu Enyuan personally serves as the chairman of the committee, with CTO Miao Qiankun and CPO Jie Jinghua as the responsible persons for safety. The Safety Committee of New Stone Age comprehensively coordinates the safety management of the entire chain, including vehicle industrial design, hardware, intelligent driving systems, operational services, and data security, establishing company safety strategies, policies, and relevant standards. The committee approves the launch of systems and major technical solutions, conducts safety assessments and decisions on key issues such as autonomous driving algorithm updates, platform deployment, and operational area expansion, ensuring that projects meet the company's safety standards and relevant industry regulations. For projects that do not pass safety assessments or have risks, the committee has the power of veto. As part of the mechanism, the Safety Committee has established regular safety meetings and reporting mechanisms at the company and department levels to achieve real-time awareness and dynamic supervision of safety risks, leading the investigation, analysis, and formulation of improvement measures for key safety issues, establishing a closed-loop management mechanism, regularly evaluating the safety performance of each department, and promoting optimization. In addition, the committee is also responsible for supervising safety resource allocation, coordinating cross-departmental safety work, and aligning with regulatory compliance requirements. Under the framework of the Safety Committee, New Stone Age has established dedicated safety centers in departments such as hardware, intelligent driving, emergency response, and operations, as well as establishing an Intelligent Safety Center to oversee data and information security, platform security, AI security, and security system development. The safety centers operate a "dual reporting" system, reporting business to department heads and safety indicators to the Safety Committee, breaking the division between "security departments not understanding technology and business departments disregarding safety." The safety centers regularly report safety-related data and indicators to the Safety Committee, conduct initial safety assessments for relevant department projects, and then submit them for approval by the Safety Committee. Furthermore, based on the safety requirements of the Safety Committee, they detailed execution rules for departments and conduct risk management, collaborate and support the Safety Committee in investigating, tracing, and rectifying safety incidents in the departments. New Stone Age disclosed some safety data: as of now, the accumulated operating mileage of unmanned delivery vehicles exceeds 200 million kilometers, with zero serious injury or fatal accidents. This data is significant in the autonomous driving industry because compared to smart driving vehicles, the environment for unmanned delivery vehicles, such as sidewalks, non-motorized lanes, community internal roads, narrow streets, and nighttime scenes, is much more complex and unpredictable, with a density of interactions ten times that of smart vehicles. New Stone Age CEO Yu Enyuan stated that the competition for unmanned delivery vehicles is based on technology and scale in the first half, and on safety and compliance in the second half. New Stone Age is willing to be the "most conservative" leader. "Safety is the cornerstone of New Stone Age's business model. Safety is a 1, while efficiency, cost, and scale are all zeros behind. Without the initial 1, the following zeros lose their meaning. Safety is a systematic work that covers all aspects of products, operations, and data, accompanying the continuous evolution of the company. Only by establishing a reliable safety system can unmanned delivery truly become a social infrastructure, providing users with reliable services." Jie Jinghua, CPO and head of the Intelligent Safety Center at New Stone Age, introduced that New Stone Age has built a six-layer safety and compliance system covering the entire chain of unmanned vehicles, from the vehicle body to the cloud. Product Safety: Adhering to vehicle-grade manufacturing systems and IATF16949 quality management standards, suppliers and critical components are screened according to vehicle-grade standards, critical components are permanently linked to VIN codes, safety controllers have dual redundancy, and single vehicles must pass thousands of tests and over 300,000 kilometers of equivalent mileage testing before delivery. Smart Driving Safety: Following the principle of "making the worst case assumption, designing the most redundant safety", setting up defense layers from perception to execution, establishing a decision-making library for over 100,000 scenarios, and using hardware redundancy to cloud operations for five-layer deep defense and main-secondary brain architecture to guarantee risks are timely detected and vehicles are maintained in a safe state; in extreme faults, the minimum risk strategy (MRC) is automatically triggered to guide the vehicle to safely pull over. Network and Information Security: Building a full chain protection for a networked fleet, with communication encryption, dual signing for OTA, normalization of penetration testing and intrusion detection to prevent remote intrusions, aligning with ISO/SAE21434 and GB44495 standards. AI and Data Security: Relying on end-to-end large models and secure intelligent agents, maintaining security boundaries, with critical decisions backed by redundancy measures from autonomous driving and rules to ensure risks are monitored, and decision-making by agents is traceable and replayable, with a unified governance mechanism to prevent conflicts and loss of control by multiple agents, with the ultimate intervention always in human hands; data follows the "least necessary" principle, and license plates and faces are instantly desensitized, storing all data securely encrypted and compliant with traceability. Operational Safety: For unmanned delivery vehicles, operational safety is crucial. Establishing and running seven major operation mechanisms covering all scenarios, implementing daily pre-job safety checks, weekly risk reviews, 24/7 remote operating center monitoring and emergency response, and a nationwide maintenance team on standby 24 hours. Security Guarantee: This is a safety point closely related to the public. Establishing a complete emergency response process from vehicle end to site to cloud, immediate remote response to abnormal vehicle situations, providing 24/7 accident response services, with on-site responses within 5 minutes and safety personnel arriving within 15 minutes. In addition, New Stone Age has built a dual safeguard loop of "insurance + company". According to local government requirements, the company has purchased public liability insurance ranging from 3-5 million RMB for each vehicle, and for losses not covered by insurance responsibilities, New Stone Age will serve as the final barrier and bear the ultimate compensation responsibility. So far, New Stone Age's unmanned vehicles have accumulated more than 200 million kilometers of operating mileage. Before entering each city, New Stone Age actively communicates with relevant government departments, complies with city requirements, and collaborates in building feedback hotlines with authorities to collect and address public opinions and suggestions, complying with local requirements to provide over 200 real-time vehicle operation and takeover data to local intelligent networked vehicle management offices. New Stone Age also announced that when conditions are mature, it will release an annual safety white paper, disclosing key safety indicators, accident data, governance measures to the society. Industry insiders believe that this move will promote the transparency governance of the unmanned delivery vehicle industry.