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Tesla, the much-watched electric car giant, has been in trouble again recently.

Two lawsuits involving Tesla Autopilot went to trial in September and October, respectively, with the first civil complaint accusing Autopilot of causing Micah Lee's Model 3 to swerve off the highway and crash into a palm tree at about 104.61 kilometers per hour, causing the vehicle to explode and catch fire, killing Micah Lee and injuring two other passengers.

In another fatal accident, Stephen Banner's Model 3 crashed into a trailer on the road. The trailer cut off the roof of the Model 3 on the spot, and Banner was "sent away" directly on the spot. As with the above accident, Autopilot did not take emergency avoidance, braking and other safety measures in the event of an accident.

Tesla still maintains a "no-pot" attitude, arguing that either the driver mistakenly uses Autopilot, or Autopilot is in a quantum entangled state of activation and non-activation in the event of an accident.

If a model sells a lot and has a large amount of ownership, it is normal to have a lot of online controversy, which will bring a steady stream of attention to the product. However, for assisted driving/autonomous driving, there is not much good news, but various safety accidents often occur.

(Image from Tesla) A series of lawsuits may have an impact on the reputation of Autopilot and its related autonomous driving projects. This is a problem that Tesla, which plans to make software subscriptions one of its revenue mainstays, has to face.

With an "none of my business" mentality, can automakers really handle the storm caused by assisted/autonomous driving?

"Several times safer than humans," assisted driving deified? Musk has said publicly that Tesla's self-driving program will determine whether the company becomes a financially successful business. The profit margin of vehicle manufacturing is limited, and there is not much future to make money by hardware. Subscription software service is an excellent way out.

Although Autopilot is free and standard, it costs tens of thousands of dollars to experience Tesla's "complete body" of autonomous driving, and successive price increases have plunged FSD penetration from 46% to 11%.

Tesla Autopilot and FSD have been repeatedly advocated by Musk as "several times safer than human drivers." He also predicts Tesla will achieve true autonomous driving, but even FSD and Autopilot have not been popularized yet. This pie, which has been painted since 2009, has still not been delivered to users and is now being questioned.

There are no times safer than humans. In short, Tesla reminds all users that they should always pay attention to road conditions and take over at any time when using Autopilot. As a result, Musk handed over a "negative textbook", personally tested FSD and conducted live commentary, and threatened to find Zuckerberg offline, but was not fined, on the grounds that "the traffic police did not see it with their own eyes".

All right, all right, the whole thing is "abstract without dead ends."

(Image from Tesla) For advanced driving assistance features, all car manufacturers are unified calibre_always pay attention to road conditions and take over at any time. This is obviously a function to assist the driver, but it is always advertised by manufacturers as "automatic driving," giving consumers the illusion of "I don't have to drive."

Because of this, many people regard assisted driving as "automatic driving," activate it and let it go, even in order to avoid system monitoring, use various "cheating means," and then lie flat and sleep, more skilled than driving by themselves, completely ignoring the word "assistance."

This also leads to different brands will always appear a group of "believers," staged a series of high-risk operations, but also recorded video sent to the Internet, in order to promote how powerful a certain assisted driving, do not need manual operation can be.

As a result, consumers misestimate the ability of assisted driving and even put their lives on the line to keep more onlookers away from assisted driving.

Earlier, a Weilai ES8 crashed into a pillar in the middle of the road while driving on Zhejiang Expressway, causing the vehicle to disintegrate and catch fire on the spot, killing the driver on the spot. At present, the cause of the accident is still under investigation. Some people speculate that the driver illegally used auxiliary driving, which led to the tragedy. While the safety of the vehicle was questioned, the auxiliary driving was also pulled down together.

However, autonomous driving and perfect policy standards have not yet been implemented, and autonomous driving above L3 cannot be commercialized on a large scale. Even if the manufacturer advertises the level of assisted driving as infinitely close to autonomous driving, assisted driving is an auxiliary property after all.

At the same time, there is only one Mercedes-Benz manufacturer that can really stand up for autonomous driving. Mercedes has said that when drivers of Mercedes cars equipped with Drive Pilot turn on the vehicle's advanced driver assistance system, they are no longer legally responsible for the operation of the car. If a car accident occurs, Mercedes will bear the relevant responsibility.

Automakers are stubborn, and Xiaotong thinks there is a certain truth. By coming forward to take responsibility for assisted/autonomous driving accidents, manufacturers are, to some extent, admitting that their solutions are flawed. Originally, everyone was worried about this kind of technology, but at this time the manufacturer stood up and took responsibility, which was not conducive to follow-up publicity.

(Picture from Lantu Automobile) On the other hand, the driver's state, auxiliary driving work situation, this kind of situation for a time can not understand, manufacturers and users will look for their own dialectical angle, clear their own responsibility. As the user side, he would rather not use it than talk to the manufacturer about the responsibility of assisted driving.

It can only be said that manufacturers and users should carefully consider the significance of assisted driving and autonomous driving for human beings. Human drivers will make mistakes, let alone computers composed of a bunch of sensors and algorithms. They should correctly understand technology, be fully prepared, and be careful to sail for thousands of years.

Manufacturers should also face up to accidents and problems caused by assisted driving/autonomous driving, learn from mistakes, and technology can continue to improve.

It's time to re-recognize "assisted driving." If you look at the nature of assisted driving "assistance," Xiaotong thinks the technology is mature.

Xiaotong had experienced a brand of advanced driving assistance, which, it was no exaggeration to say, helped me solve the boring mechanical movements of driving. All I had to do was keep my eyes on the road and be ready to take over and make decisions. A series of tests are required before use, lest users confuse assisted driving with autonomous driving.

Assisted driving skills are also relatively stiff, but under the radar + vision combination perception system, the surrounding environment is relatively sensitive, driving logic is also very cautious, rather let three minutes not grab a second.

Even if the auxiliary hardware is complete and the software algorithm is advanced, no manufacturer dares to stand up and say that he has developed an absolutely safe and efficient automatic driving technology that can replace human beings, let alone take a purely visual route, relying solely on algorithms to create a future solution.

Many sci-fi films present ideas that are more like "people and machines need each other." Human decision-making plays a vital role in driving, and even autonomous driving needs to be equipped at all times to supervise safety officers.

If you really don't want to drive, Xiaotong suggests driving for you, or going out for a taxi, rather than giving your life to artificial intelligence. Assisted driving is just a tool. We can't expect tools to have superior level and judgment.

(Picture from tram pass shooting) In order to promote automatic/assisted driving, car enterprises do not hesitate to stand on the edge of advertising law repeatedly jump, some may be only semi-finished products, hard to draw a pie for consumers. Excessive exaggeration of the promotion of assisted driving, misleading consumers, resulting in accidents will also cause trouble. Dealing with the relationship between manufacturers and users is far stronger than seizing technological heights in Xiaotong's view.

Assisted driving is good, but don't drink too much.

This article comes from Weixin Official Accounts: Tram Tong (ID: dianchetong233), Author: Tea Supervisor

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