"Autopilot" has become the commanding height that the automobile industry is competing for because of the great success of Tesla, an American luxury electric car brand.
Up to now, Tesla's market value has reached US$ 276.751 billion, making it the world's largest automobile brand far exceeding Toyota's market value of US$ 172.636 billion.
Tesla's market value effect not only reflects investors' infinite optimism about the future of electric vehicles, but also lies in its pursuit of clean home energy.
as Tesla said, "Tesla? We are accelerating the transformation of the world to sustainable energy through electric vehicles, solar panels and comprehensive renewable energy solutions for families and enterprises. "
"big screen" creates intelligence
At present, there are Tesla Model on sale? S、Model? 3、Model? X and Model? Y, the price ranges from 29, yuan to 1 million yuan, and its fashionable appearance and simple interior seem to express the characteristics of this era.
Of course, the electric car is still its most valuable core. The most unique thing is that it creatively introduced the "big screen" into the car and created the "smart car era" belonging to Tesla.
Tesla implanted the car into the big screen, and through the numerous sensors, controllers and software carried by the car body, the car control buttons were highly integrated, and the car was controlled like a mobile phone through the big screen, which turned the car into a smart phone and brought an "unprecedented" driving experience that traditional cars did not have.
The big screen opens the era of "intelligent control" of automobiles. However, when it comes to Tesla's intelligence, it also has a commendable system called "Autopilot? Function of automatic assisted driving: enabled? Autopilot? After the automatic driving assistance function, the vehicle can automatically assist in steering, acceleration and braking in the driving lane.
The specific functions include automatic assisted navigation driving, calling function, automatic parking, automatic assisted lane change and hardware supporting fully automatic driving function.
However, it is the automatic assisted driving function promoted by Tesla that causes frequent accidents, resulting in many drivers' casualties.
disputes over autonomous driving accidents continue
On June 1st, a Tesla Model was built in Chiayi County, Taiwan Province Province, China. 3 When the special Autopilot function was turned on and the speed was fixed at 11km/h, it ran straight into a big truck overturned on the road. It was sunny at that time. Model? There are no brakes.
On the highway in Florida in p>216, it was almost the same scene, a Model? S directly hit a truck turning the corner, and the result was exactly the same.
on July 14th, Arizona, USA, a black Tesla Model? S collided with a police car on Interstate 1 near Benson, which led to a serial rear-end collision between the police car and an ambulance. He was using Tesla's Autopilot function when the vehicle collided.
on June 24, a Model? 3 Follow the car with Autopilot turned on, and collide with the muck truck trying to merge, and the vehicle fails to recognize the muck truck merging in front of the side.
after analyzing the accident vehicle, Tesla said that the owner's hands were off the steering wheel at the time of the accident, and no braking signal was detected. Finally, it was judged that the owner was not operating properly, not the problem of Autopilot.
on July 3th, this year, Tesla took part in the Japanese Model? The X lawsuit responded by denying "the patent defects of Tesla's autonomous driving technology and driver assistance function suite." It is expected that the Model will be? X The car accident with Autopilot enabled was attributed to improper personal operation.
However, the accidents caused by Tesla Autopilot system one after another point out that there are little-known problems in this set of automatic assisted navigation driving promoted by Tesla.
can the Tesla Autopilot automatic assisted driving system really be "automatic"?
at what level is it currently? Under what circumstances can it be used without accidents caused by "Autopilot"?
is Tesla making false propaganda?
according to SAE? International (International Association of Automotive Engineers) proposed the self-driving car classification standard in 214 for Level? The definition of Level 2 "The vehicle provides driving for many operations in steering wheel and acceleration and deceleration, and the human driver is responsible for the rest of the driving actions" and level? The definition of Level 4 is that "all driving operations are completed by vehicles, and human drivers do not need to pay attention, but limit road and environmental conditions". Tesla Autopilot system is still at level? Level 2.
Level? Level 2, mainly to reduce the driver's operating burden, the driver still has to take over the steering wheel and drive like an ordinary car.
It can be seen that Tesla also emphasized the word "assist" in the function description, so Tesla did not realize the ability of "fully autonomous driving".
However, it is officially defined as a function under the "fully automatic driving" capability, which is based on Tesla Model? S, for example, said in the official propaganda that "every new model?" Model? S? All come standard with advanced fully automatic driving hardware, which has been realized at present? Autopilot? Automatic assisted driving function, "it is easy to cause ambiguity.
At the same time, according to the definition of automatic driving classification, any declared "automatic driving" needs a specific scene at present, and can only realize the situation where the algorithm in the automatic driving system is applicable.
As we all know, artificial algorithms have limitations and boundaries.
Therefore, in a series of situations beyond the algorithm of Tesla Autopilot system, if the driver still wants to rely on it to drive the car automatically, it will inevitably lead to accidents.
In the above accidents, drivers all have the behavior of over-trusting and relying on Tesla Autopilot, which eventually leads to tragedy because it is beyond the scene scope of Tesla Autopilot system. Tesla also relied on this condition to deny that there was a design error and blamed the accident on the driver's improper operation.
However, from this point of view, it is enough to prove Tesla's claim that "Autopilot? Automatic assisted driving "is not reliable.
In actual use, drivers still need to concentrate and be ready to intervene at any time as usual, so as not to cause irreparable losses due to "technical misjudgment".
This article comes from the author of Chejia, car home, and does not represent car home's standpoint.