This issue of IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine includes the first special issue looking into the application of the metaverse to connected and automated mobility. The metaverse is expected to interconnect the physical and digital worlds, and its application to the vehicular domain is fostered by the increasing softwarization of vehicles, augmented processing and sensing capabilities, and the pervasive direct and network-based connectivity of vehicles. This opens the door for novel applications that can exploit the large amounts of data collected by vehicles and their processing capability as well as the benefits of immersive applications, among others, for improving driving safety, efficiency, and comfort. I would like to thank our guest editors, Pengyuan Zhou, Lik Hang Lee, Zhi Liu, Hang Qiu, Tristan Braud, Aaron Ding, Sasu Tarkoma, and Pan Hui, for their hard work in preparing the special issue. In particular, I would like to express my gratitude to Pengyuan Zhou, who coordinated the process efficiently as lead guest editor. The guest editors have made a careful selection of five articles that address different technologies for the convergence of the metaverse and connected and automated mobility, including perception and mobile crowdsensing, digital twins, immersive applications, artificial intelligence-based edge networking, and generative pretrained transformers.

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本期 IEEE 车辆技术杂志包含第一期特刊，探讨元宇宙在互联和自动化移动中的应用。虚拟世界有望将物理世界和数字世界互连起来，而其在车辆领域的应用则得益于车辆软件化程度的提高、处理和传感能力的增强以及车辆普遍的直接和基于网络的连接。这为新颖的应用程序打开了大门，这些应用程序可以利用车辆收集的大量数据及其处理能力，以及沉浸式应用程序的优势等，以提高驾驶安全性、效率和舒适度。我要感谢我们的客座编辑 Pengyuan Zhou、Lik Hang Lee、Zhi Liu、Hang Qiu、Tristan Braud、Aaron Ding、Sasu Tarkoma 和 Pan Hui 为准备特刊所做的辛勤工作。我要特别向周鹏远表示感谢，他作为客座主编高效地协调了整个过程。客座编辑精心挑选了五篇文章，涉及元宇宙融合以及互联和自动化移动的不同技术，包括感知和移动群智感知、数字孪生、沉浸式应用、基于人工智能的边缘网络以及生成式预训练变压器。