The prevailing view of autonomous driving has become a cliché: highly automated driving will make driving safer and will also help improve our lives or productivity. At the same time, the mechanism of shared sharing brought by autonomous driving can also reduce the number of vehicles, and the problems of traffic congestion and pollution in the city can be solved.
From the impression of pure tool cars to the current high-end passenger positioning, the speed of upward development of domestic pickup trucks is impressive. What impressed us was that many of the current models are equipped with L2 level autonomous driving technology. To be sure, self-driving technology is increasingly becoming the standard for a high-end pickup. Adaptive cruise system, AEB active braking system, lane keeping assist are the "basic" functions of L2 level automatic driving, in addition to a series of driving assistance functions suitable for different scenarios, such as face recognition, automatic parking, etc.
The definition of L2 level is: "The vehicle provides driving to multiple operations in the steering wheel and acceleration, and the human driver is responsible for the rest of the driving action." "The driving operation is the vehicle, but the monitoring of the environment around the vehicle and the takeover of the vehicle after the occurrence of the situation are both the driver.
In simple terms, if the vehicle can autonomously control the direction (lateral) and acceleration and braking (longitudinal) at the same time during driving, it is in line with L2 level of automatic driving. But throughout the journey, the driver must focus on monitoring the surrounding environment in real time and be ready to take over the vehicle at any time.
Although L2 autonomous driving cannot be hands-free, it can improve driving comfort.
For users who often run long distances, L2 autonomous driving technology is a very intimate partner. After setting the top speed (such as 120km/h) on the high speed, basically do not need the throttle and brake, it will liberate the feet, it will automatically follow the front car to drive (if there is no front car, it will drive according to the set maximum speed), even if there is a vehicle inserted in the middle, the brakes are relatively gentle, and will not make you feel uncomfortable.
Should I consider these configurations when buying a car?
First of all, to understand that the L2 level automatic driving function is composed of a series of driving assistance functions, it can assist steering, auxiliary acceleration and braking, etc., but in this process, these functions are only auxiliary, the driver is still playing the main role, so it is more called "advanced assisted driving", after all, it is still far from automatic driving.
As for whether to consider these configurations when buying a car? The answer is naturally yes, but it depends on your actual use of the car, such as often running long distances, ACC adaptive cruise, lane keeping assistance, these are more important; if most of the situation is only driving in the city, even if ACC adaptive endurance has a car function, but may also be in the "standby state". Of course, different price points, different brands of models, even if it is the same configuration, the experience will be different, and the personal experience before making a decision is the most important.
L2-level automatic driving is no longer a rare configuration, and you can even often encounter it on domestic cars that cost more than 100,000 yuan. The current automatic driving, not level two or three, whether it is driverless or automatic driving, independent brands are basically still at the technical level, and there are not many that can let consumers experience themselves (without guardianship). But we are still looking forward to the future development of autonomous driving.