Global and China Autonomous Mining Driving Market Report 2021 Featuring Chinese Technology Companies, Chinese OEMs, & Global Enterprises Such as Komatsu, Caterpillar, ASI, BELAZ News provided by Share this article Share this article ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. Demand and policies speed up landing of Autonomous Driving in Mining Traditional mines have problems in recruitment, efficiency, costs, and potential safety hazards, while which can be solved by autonomous driving well. At the same time, mining areas features closed environment, fixed lines, low speed, and point-to-point, marking one of the best scenarios for autonomous driving. As early as the 1990s, smart mining emerged abroad. Australia is currently the most mature in this aspect. As of February 2020, nearly 80% of approximately 500 autonomous trucks in the world had been in Australia. China has successively introduced policies to promote the development of smart mining, especially the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) and other 7 ministries and commissions issued Guidance on Speeding up the Development of Intelligent Coal Mines in 2020 to clearly require that open-pit coal mines should realize unmanned transport by 2025.