According to the data released by JATO, Tesla's share of the global market will reach 21% in 2021, and there is no doubt that Tesla is definitely the most popular new energy vehicle brand at present. However, this successful throne is made up of many "accidents".
Tesla, the culprit of the car accident
In January 2016, 23-year-old Gao Gao ning drove his father Gao Jubin's Tesla Model S into a road sweeper parked on the side of the road, and the Model S was destroyed on the spot, and the life of a 23-year-old was lost. Afterwards, Gao Jubin did not get hysterical, but buried all his great grief in his heart and quickly began to entrust lawyers to sue Tesla.
It is reported that before the accident, Gao Gaoning turned on Tesla's autopilot function. At the same time, in the seconds of the car accident, Gao Gaoning was still humming, driving easily. Gao Jubin believes that what caused the tragedy was Tesla's exaggerated autopilot function. Lawyers believe that Tesla exaggerated its own self-driving technology in the process of publicity, but the actual situation is seriously inconsistent, consumers are misled, and eventually there is a car accident.
It is worth mentioning that the 23-year-old Gao Gao ning has been serving in the army before, and the position is exactly that of the driver. According to his comrades-in-arms, Gao Gaoning is skilled in driving and has a safe driving record of tens of thousands of kilometers. To this day, the case is still inconclusive, Tesla has been dragging its feet on data problems, and as a father, Gao Jubin has been running for six years to protect the rights of the deceased.
Musk: Tesla autopilot can be done without hands
On May 7, 2016, driver Joshua Brown was driving a Tesla on the highway when joshua Brown died in a car accident because the autopilot function did not notice the trailer crossing the road. In March 2018, Apple engineer Huang Weilun died in a car accident driving a Tesla Model X, and when the accident occurred, Huang Weilun turned on Autopilot autopilot assistance, but the vehicle still inexplicably crashed into the isolation belt. In the so many years that Tesla has become popular, there are many similar autopilot problems.
Not only at home, Tesla has left its "great achievements" around the world, and most of the time, drivers turn on the autopilot function. Whether it is the mainland or the old United States, Tesla is promoting "complete automatic driving" on its official website. At the end of 2020, Musk also hinted on social media that the world can play games while driving Tesla, which shows that Musk believes that Tesla autopilot is "no hand".
Employees were fired only for demonstrating autopilot
After more and more accidents, the world is aware of the safety hazards of Tesla's automatic driving, but Tesla is unwilling to admit it and has been prevaricating for various reasons. At the same time, because the autopilot data is held in tesla's hands, the specific details are difficult to know, so the responsibility for Tesla has become extremely difficult, and even the official Tesla has no way to do anything.
But something recently happened that made us clearly recognize the huge flaws of Tesla's autopilot. Tesla engineer John Bernal posted a video of Tesla's self-driving evaluation on a video website last month. In the video, we can clearly see that under the command of Tesla's autopilot software, Tesla's front "no hesitation" crashed into the roadside guard. Fortunately, the vehicle was very slow during the evaluation, so there was no danger.
What John Bernal didn't expect was that he was fired by Tesla quickly after the video was released. The manager also told him that the video he posted was in conflict with the company's interests. In other words, Tesla felt that its employees had exposed the defects of its own products and caused losses to the company, so it fired the employees.
In addition, in order to prevent John Bernal from continuing to publish similar review videos, Tesla also banned his personal Model 3 and banned the automatic driving function. However, John Bernal did not give up, he borrowed a friend's Tesla to continue to do reviews, and the result was "running a red light" later...
The true level of Tesla's autopilot
Is Tesla AutoPilot really that powerful? At the end of 2020, Tesla's deputy general counsel, Eric M. C. Williams was interviewed by the California Vehicle Management Office because Musk exaggerated Tesla's autopilot features on social media. In the face of the questioning of the vehicle control office, Williams instigated, he said: Tesla Autopilot and FSD capabilities are not automatic driving, they are just a kind of auxiliary driving, and only L2 level.
Curiously, in the same year, Musk also said in public that Tesla's autopilot was close to L5 level and would soon be fully autonomous. The huge contradiction between the family and the family's back and forth makes everyone wonder, what is the thing that Tesla has bragged about for so long in the end, even Tesla himself can't understand? Maybe they know it in their hearts, but they just don't want to admit it.
Huawei, better technology, and a more user-friendly concept
Autonomous driving is currently divided into L0-L5 levels, and the higher the number, the higher the level. In the industry's view, Tesla's current level of autonomous driving should be around L2, which is the same as most new energy vehicles on the market. The Polar Fox Alpha S previously launched by Huawei and Beiqi Blue Valley has reached the level of automatic driving L3, and some professionals believe that it is close to the L4 level.
To create more powerful and reliable autonomous driving functions. Huawei has spent a lot of money to build an autonomous driving test base, which is currently the world's top test base, with 14 laboratories and 103 static elements of roads, capable of simulating 3,000 traffic accident scenarios. Through this base, Huawei's autonomous driving technology will once again lead, becoming more stable and safer.
When Discussing his own autopilot software, Musk always proudly says that Tesla has the best self-driving technology, and will also list a variety of professional terms to support it. For example, Tesla's back-end computing power has reached the world's first, automatic driving has been tested by a large number of data and models, and the degree of intelligence is leading the world. But Musk rarely mentions ethical issues about autonomous driving. Too many Tesla accidents seem to make Musk feel a great risk, so he tries to avoid falling into the whirlpool of public opinion.
Huawei is different. Su Jing, the former head of Huawei's automatic driving, once said bluntly: When humans rely on machines, the phenomenon of accidents caused by machines will inevitably occur, and we should reduce this probability to the lowest possible range. This shows that Huawei realized very early on that when autonomous driving became mainstream, suppliers providing solutions should try to ensure safety, rather than blindly pursuing technological superiority.
Will Tesla not understand the same thing? The author is more inclined to think that Tesla is "carrying a clear and confused", in order to get more markets and seek more benefits, Tesla shows more "professional" and "technology" to the public to win attention, while deliberately ignoring the safety problems that will inevitably be encountered in the development process of automatic driving. This disregard for life has caused so much grief in the past that more lives may be allowed to pay for it in the future. (Bluegrass)
What is Musk trying to hide? Tesla's security flaws were exposed, and the relevant employees were directly fired
Huawei Su Jing was right, Tesla employees demonstrated autopilot, and musk was directly fired