Email Record: Theories and practices of self-driving vehicles [electronic resource] / Qingguo Zhou, professor, Lanzhou University and Deputy Director, Engineering Research Center for Open Source Software and Real-Time Systems, Ministry of Education, China, Zebang Shen, R&D Center, Mercedes-Benz Group AG, Beijing, China, Binbin Yong, an associate professor and masters supervisor in the School of Information Science and Engineering, Lanzhou University, China, Rui Zhao, School of Information Science & Engineering, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu, China, Peng Zhi, School of Information Science & Engineering, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, Gansu, China.