Recently, on the famous rights protection program, a Xiaopeng P7 owner responded to reporters that his vehicle had an accident when using the automatic parking function, crashing into the fire pipe valve in the rear, causing the vehicle and valve to be damaged to varying degrees. Regarding this incident, Xiaopeng's after-sales staff said that this is a "weak scene" encountered by the vehicle, what does this mean?
First of all, let's restore the situation of the scene, when the owner uses the memory parking function, the Xiaopeng P7 begins to park automatically, there is a short stay in the process of reversing, but soon it starts again, at this time a collision occurred, and the system prompts to exit the parking. The whole process is too late to react according to the owner.
Regarding this argument, Xiaopeng's staff gave an explanation: "Due to the dim light in the basement, the look around camera is inaccurate to identify the actual parking space, and the target position is different; at the same time, there is a "weak scene", and the ultrasonic radar has a perceptual limitation on the fire pole behind the car, and eventually an accident occurs. "Here we have a doubt, that is, since it is a weak scene, the system should exit the automatic parking in time under the premise that it cannot determine the environment, and turn to the driver to operate, why continue to force parking?
In addition, the manager of the east public relations department of Xiaopeng Automobile stressed that the memory parking of Xiaopeng P7 is not fully automatic driving, and the owner cannot get rid of the control of the car, which is written in the instruction manual of the vehicle. Here we still have a question, if the owner's description is true, then in the parking process, it seems that there is no opportunity to give the owner a timely time to step on the brakes.
We checked the official website of Xiaopeng Motors, which has a relevant introduction to "intelligent parking assistance", one of which is like this: "P7 can cope with a variety of parking scenarios, especially suitable for night parking, narrow parking spaces, raw hand parking and other conditions" This explanation seems to be contrary to the "weak scenes" given by Xiaopeng staff.
GO Chejun commented: This incident did not cause casualties, and the property damage is not too serious, which is a blessing in misfortune. At present, all kinds of automatic driving and automatic parking are auxiliary functions, and even Tesla's so-called "full automatic driving" cannot be separated from the driver's control of the vehicle. Therefore, we recommend that when using such functions, do not lose your mind, so as to avoid accidents.