Recently, Xiaopeng Automobile, one of the three new forces in China, has once again been pushed to the cusp of the storm, precisely because it has been focusing on intelligent assisted driving, which has been focusing on research and development and publicity. I believe that many friends have learned about the accident, and found that many netizens have scolded Xiaopeng Automobile's intelligent auxiliary driving function, that is, NGP, but Xiaobian found two doubts about this accident and gave you an analysis.
Let's briefly review the accident. On March 13, the owner of the car, Mr. Deng, drove the Xiaopeng P7 on a high-speed route, the owner said that after turning on the automatic auxiliary driving on the national highway for more than ten kilometers, he suddenly encountered a car that overturned on the road, without any alarm and deceleration, the car crashed straight up, and there was an emergency brake after finding the abnormality, but the car did not react.
Xiaopeng Motors responded, and the content of the response had several key points. First, "the owner used ACC + LCC (adaptive cruise control & lane centering function)", which seems to be another way to say that the owner was not using the NGP function at that time, but the more common ACC + LCC two functions.
Some media observations also said: "Judging from the video screenshots, this Xiaopeng P7 is not a version equipped with Xplot3.0 hardware, that is, a model that does not support NGP functions, not what the owner said is in the automatic driving state." That is, the owner is driving a model that only has the Xpilot 2.5 version corresponding to the monocular camera, not the model with the Xpilot 3.0 version corresponding to the three-eye camera.
If so, why do owners think they use the NGP function, which needs to be further answered by subsequent owners and Xiaopeng officials.
Second, "caused by not maintaining an observation of the environment in front of the vehicle and taking over the vehicle in time", why there is this response, it is not difficult to understand. First of all, even if Xiaopeng's NGP function is turned on, it should be known that this is only an intelligent auxiliary driving function, not an automatic driving function, so in essence it still needs to be taken over, and it is impossible to completely let go of both hands. So, NGP functionality is so, and non-NGP is even more so.
Here, I will say a few more words. I believe that before we have all been attracted by the automatic driving function of some car companies, or confused, but the point that needs to be understood is that even if the car company has achieved automatic driving, the current domestic policy is still not open to automatic driving, so if you are now driving a vehicle with a fully automatic driving function, it means that either you have a wrong understanding, or there is a problem with the publicity of the car company or 4S store.
It is precisely because the policy has not been liberalized, whether it is Tesla, or Weilai, Ideal or Xiaopeng, they all use intelligent assisted driving or other words with "assistance" for publicity, in addition, in the actual measurement of the media, the word "takeover" is often mentioned. It is worth mentioning that Xiaopeng Automobile launched a smart driving score at the end of last year, which is equivalent to a kind of test for intelligent assisted driving, which is to prevent car owners from using driving functions indiscriminately, or using intelligent assisted driving as automatic driving.
Whether it is the problem of the car or the owner of the problem, the above analysis is to talk about one of the doubts, the other point is that even if the owner does use ACC + LCC, according to the reason, the front encounters a stationary thing, the vehicle will also stop, why xiaopeng P7 but a vigorous crash?
The first one may be XiaoPeng's problem. Perhaps Xiaopeng's set of L2 assisted driving did not do targeted development tests for similar scenarios. Because the vehicle in front of it was in a state of rollover at that time, the owner of this scene did not take over, but it was rare, and in the case that the owner did not take over, Xiaopeng did not do targeted tests, so the vehicle could not be identified. It seems that in the future, Xiaopeng needs to strengthen the test of multiple scenarios.
Second, the owner claimed that "before the collision, the vehicle did not have any warning reminder, after finding the abnormality in front, there was an attempt to urgently step on the brakes, but the vehicle did not react", but some media said that "from the driving recorder to see the situation, until close to the collision, the acceleration G value of the vehicle is still increasing, it should be in the acceleration state, rather than the owner's video said, stepping on the brakes did not react to the brakes", so the media speculated that the owner of the car at that time in an emergency, mistakenly stepped on the electric door as a brake.
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At this point, what Xiaobian wants to say is that there are still many doubts in the auxiliary driving accident of Xiaopeng P7, and follow-up investigation and evidence collection are needed to have results, and there is no need to blindly follow the trend now. In addition, I still want to remind everyone that whether it is Tesla, or other car companies such as Weilai, Ideal or Xiaopeng, the real full automatic driving has not yet arrived, and now it can be used with auxiliary driving functions, or it needs to be taken over, or it cannot completely let go of both hands and eyes.