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Road automated driving as a new generation of information technology and the integration of the transport industry’s development has become a new round of global scientific and technological innovation and industrial transformation. This technology will promote the continuous upgrading of the field of road traffic. At present, the government, enterprises, and investors all take this as the goal and direction to accelerate automated driving in China. A reasonable traffic law and regulation system is required to promote the healthy development of automatic driving and fully release scientific and technological innovation subjects’ vitality. Until now, China has formulated an official rule concerning the road testing of automated driving. According to this rule, no passenger and freight transportation can be officially applied using automatic vehicles. Therefore, this paper tries to construct the traffic law and regulation framework to promote automated driving development.

The transportation field will be continuously upgraded, subverted, and reshaped under the impetus of the technological revolution represented by artificial intelligence. To promote the development of autonomous driving, in addition to the technological construction of a vehicle-road coordination system, it is also necessary to build a new governance architecture for autonomous driving in terms of management models. The worldwide governments have generally recognized the legal status of autonomous driving systems and regulated the rules on the administration of road testing. However, this new technology has not been generally allowed to be commercially applied in the transportation service. This article analyzes the fundamental influences that autonomous driving will bring to the road system. The changes in the road, vehicle, transportation service, and governance model are discussed in detail.

With the rapid development of e-commerce in China, the automated and intelligent level of logistics distribution is continuously improving, and it is heading towards large-scale production and all-round commercial application. Since 2015, driverless delivery vehicles in China have been developing rapidly, and the imp act of “COVID-19” has accelerated the application of driverless delivery vehicles. At present, the application scenarios of driverless delivery vehicles can be divided into closed areas and open areas. However, there is a dispute about the legal status definition of the driverless delivery vehicle, whether it is a “mobile intelligent express box” or a “vehicle in freight transportation.” Regarding these two different legal statuses, the differences in legal regulation applicability and supervision are discussed in detail. This paper proposes that the legal status should be defined based on the type of application scenario.