In recent years, with the continuous investment by the government in urban construction and the continuous improvement of people's living standards, the area of urban road cleaning and domestic garbage have been increasing. To maintain a good city appearance and create a clean city environment, the construction of sanitation has been continuously strengthened, and self-driving sanitation vehicles have also reached an important upgrading moment. 

The application of autonomous driving in the sanitation sector 

According to relevant predictions, the field of autonomous driving is expected to be a vast market worth trillions of dollars. As one of the important scenarios within the autonomous driving domain, the cleaning industry is bound to witness a new wave of development. 
Autonomous sanitation, which involves replacing traditional manually-driven sanitation vehicles with autonomous sanitation vehicles, is widely applied in scenarios such as high-speed elevated roads, urban roads, and park pavements, to carry out sanitation tasks such as road cleaning, watering, and disinfection. Autonomous sanitation vehicles can also perform precise edge cleaning, support remote cloud scheduling and monitoring for intelligent management, effectively reducing labor costs and improving cleaning efficiency.
Since the routes of autonomous sanitation vehicles are relatively fixed and the driving speed is low, and the demand in cities is high, unmanned sanitation projects have already begun trial operations in several cities. Various environmental equipment enterprises have also joined hands with technology and intelligent enterprises to enter the unmanned sanitation field.
Of course, for the autonomous sanitation technology in sanitation, the priority issue to be solved is still to ensure thorough cleaning, followed by a wide coverage area. 

The sanitation industry has also entered the "zero-emission" era.
At present, most of the self-driving sanitation vehicles on the market use new energy sources, which can effectively reduce pollutants.
Using new energy sanitation vehicles will further increase the mechanization rate of sanitation operations during cleaning, achieve zero pollution, and reduce the noise impact on the surrounding environment. This helps to create a clean, environmentally friendly, and livable urban living environment. 

The world at 4 a.m. You will see a lot of it.
Although the road cleaning work is simple and repetitive, it still requires someone to stick to it. There was once a statement about the current situation of sanitation workers that sparked heated discussions - "Have you seen the world at 4 a.m.?" 。In order to enable everyone to have a better interaction with the city, sanitation workers get up early in the morning to clean the "facade" of the city spotlessly clean. However, with the advent of autonomous sanitation vehicles, it has brought a lot of convenience to sanitation operations and has become a good partner for sanitation workers every morning. It is believed that in the future, you will see more autonomous sanitation vehicles at work at "four o'clock in the morning". 

For autonomous sanitation vehicles, the current business models can be broadly classified into the light model of selling unmanned sanitation vehicle products and the heavy model of engaging in sanitation operations. It is expected that the demand for and the market supply of autonomous sanitation vehicles will continue to expand in the next five years, which is worthy of attention and anticipation by industry insiders.