"Strange things happen every year, this year is particularly many", although 2022 only began a month, but "strange things" are emerging in an endless stream, and this is all from "experts", "authority", mainland Hong Kong has a fan reporter asked, "Why not vaccinate hamsters?" An economist released a research report on the public account, saying that "the three children cannot rely on the post-90s and post-00s, and suggested that the central bank print 2 trillion yuan more."
Recently, some foreign institutions have been fascinated, and the British legal regulator has suggested that "when an accident occurs in an autonomous car, the driver and occupant of the car do not need to bear any responsibility, and the party responsible for the accident will be the automatic driving technology research and development enterprise or car company." This makes the buyer and buy Jun shout directly, "Good guys, dare to love that autonomous driving is too reliable now." ”
The UK legal regulator said that if a self-driving car has its own technical errors that lead to traffic accidents, the owner should be protected by law, including the speeding of the speed limit recognition error, and the red light caused by the camera and processing system recognition error. But what Buyer Jun also wants to say is that if the above accidents really occur, although there is no responsibility, the driver and occupants are still at risk of injury.
These proposals are all about increasing public acceptance of autonomous driving, encouraging innovation and development, and ensuring safety and accountability.
But ironically, autonomous driving has not yet achieved legal status in the UK, only allowing lane-keeping technology, and drivers can drive with their hands off their hands in high-speed congestion, but the top speed cannot exceed 60km/h.
Despite this, the UK has spared no effort to promote the development of autonomous driving, and the British Association of Automakers and Dealers released a report in 2019 saying that the UK has been in a leading position in the world in the field of autonomous vehicles.
By 2030, it will contribute more than £62 billion to the economy, create 420,000 jobs and avoid 47,000 traffic accidents. Exports of connected and self-driving cars in the UK are expected to reach £15 billion by 2035.
So in the end, it's still for the money... Too many consumer doubts about autonomous driving today, making the process slow, sparked the proposal by legal institutions.
This proposal must determine a standard - what is autonomous driving, after all, most of today's mass production cars can not achieve true automatic driving, just driving assistance functions, who dares to use it?
According to the SAE (International Society of Automotive Engineers), the L0-L2 levels are driver assistance, specifying that "even if your foot has left the pedal and there is no steering, you are driving the vehicle". It is necessary to supervise at all times and to steer, brake or accelerate as necessary to ensure safety. Most of today's vehicles are only L2 level, and there is still a long way to go before true autonomous driving.
As for the L3-L5 level to be called autonomous driving, the L3 level stipulates that "you must drive" when a feature is requested, so according to the definition of the UK legal body, this is a paradox. L4 does not need to be taken over, but it is used in restricted scenarios, such as regionalized unmanned taxis.
L5 is the real meaning of automatic driving, no matter when and where it is taken over by the system, so in theory, the only one who can really apply the regulation is L5 level. L3 still needs manual control, and L4 level restricts the use of certain regions and scenarios, which will be difficult to prove.
Therefore, it is necessary to "determine responsibility" according to the proposal, then this proposal may have no subject, and no company is willing to call its own technology automatic driving, but calls itself driving assistance.
However, at the beginning of the launch of driving assistance, car companies often said that they were "automatic driving" in order to sell sales, which made consumers blindly reassured and led to many accidents. Among them are:
In March 2021, a Tesla Model Y crashed into a semi-trailer truck on the outskirts of Detroit, USA, for reasons or the visual perception on which the vehicle relied, mistakenly dismissing the truck compartment as blank.
Even more regrettably, this is not the first such accident. Back in 2016, an Autopilot-status Model S crashed into the underside of a truck in the same condition, which is believed to be the first self-driving fatal accident in history.
This may really be the reason why "drivers need to be educated", and the driver assistance system is regarded as automatic driving. Or it is known that it is a driving assistance, but it is regarded as automatic driving, and even the driving assistance is "changed" to automatic driving.
Driver assistance constantly monitors whether both hands are on the steering wheel and automatically exits if it detects that both hands are off the handlebar for a while. This raises a "business opportunity" – the self-driving gravity ball, which "tricks" the system through its own weight to mislead the vehicle for always holding the handlebars with both hands, thus keeping the driver assistance from exiting.
Here is no example, there have been overseas Tesla, Weilai, Xiaopeng, ideal and other brands of some car owners, deceptive system to make "turn on self-driving sleep, or play games" behavior, but for some reasons, now on the network has been difficult to find its traces, and it is certain that this matter can not be seen low.
On Taobao, idle fish can still search for related products through "self-driving artifacts", and monthly sales of 100+, some hidden channel sales can not be studied, which is enough to show that "today's consumers need to be educated."
Therefore, in general, this can only be said to be a promotion measure, which has certain positive significance, but it is not difficult to implement. For automatic driving, this is still a mature technology, we consumers can not blindly rely on, let alone use driving assistance as automatic driving, otherwise the injured must be themselves.