Automatic driving is a function full of beautiful imagination, if this function is used well, a lifetime has passed like this, and if it is not used well, a lifetime will pass quickly.
On the cusp of this storm, WEILAI Auto said that the Navigator on Pilot (NOP) pilot assist is not autonomous driving. Xiaopeng Motors' response is that no matter what function the owner uses, the main body of responsibility is still the driver. Not only Weilai Automobile and Xiaopeng Motors, Tesla has had many similar serious traffic accidents before, what is the result?
Automatic assisted driving, all blame users for not reading the instructions?
Many people are not optimistic about automatic driving, but automatic driving has become the direction of car companies, but even in the industry, not all car companies are optimistic about automatic driving. For example, Tan Xuguang, chairman and CEO of Weichai Power, his recent famous remark is "Don't listen to them, what L1 is OK, L2 is also so-so, L3 is impossible." ”
Well, although the Audi A8, Tesla Model 3, Model S, Xiaopeng P5, Xiaopeng P7, Jihu αS, Nio ES6, NIO ES8 and other models have claimed to have achieved L3 level autonomous driving, and Shenzhen will give priority to the pilot. In addition, the china automobile center for L3 and above vehicle automatic driving evaluation procedures will also be introduced within the year, which shows that most car companies are optimistic about the self-capital scenery. With automatic driving as the selling point, the pace of new energy vehicle companies is larger than that of traditional energy vehicle companies, of course, the things that are pulled are also more painful.
Despite this, most of the so-called autonomous driving is still in the assisted driving stage. That is to say, in a relatively safe driving environment, the owner can let the vehicle drive for a while, and the owner can drink saliva to deal with the work or chat about WeChat. But although cars have become very smart, their cameras still can't distinguish between blue cars and blue skies, white cars or white clouds. The millimeter-wave radar in the rain and fog weather environment detection range will also be sharply attenuated, even in good weather, millimeter-wave radar can detect the most detectable range is only 250 meters, and the detection ability of this cargo on still life is still worrying.
Therefore, before the lidar was loaded in large quantities, the so-called automatic driving was mostly self-deception, and the core of driving safety was still the driver, but in the long run, automatic driving may really be able to shine from the dream into reality, MYAUTO advises to read more instructions, perhaps this can live for many more years.
Toyota, which has always been cautious, is this going to go into the pit?
If a purely visual, autonomous solution will lead to blind cars, Toyota, which has always been cautious, recently said it was considering going into the pit. Toyota's subsidiary Woven Planet was recently trying to learn from Tesla's valuable experience of testing autonomous driving systems with low-cost cameras for the simple reason that lidar is just too expensive.
If you think about it, the polar fox alpha S with only three lidar starts at nearly 400,000 yuan, of which a considerable amount of money is dedicated to lidar and Huawei, and even if lidar has made a major breakthrough in the future, from a mechanical leap to the solid-state stage, or a high-level version of solid-state lidar at a relatively cheap cost, but according to the forecast, it will happen at least five years later. What's more, car companies, including Toyota Motor, do not have enough advantages in lidar, so bending over for cost is a more reliable choice for Toyota Motor.
Moreover, as a very traditional car company, Toyota motor is still very conservative in embracing new energy. Although their 2023 bZ4X pure electric SUV has been sold overseas, it will have to wait at least two months in China. It is said that the battery supplier of FAW Toyota bZ4X pure electric SUV after domestic production will change from Panasonic to Ningde Era, thereby saving costs. From the perspective of the model itself, FAW Toyota bZ4X's dense physical buttons make this car look more like a traditional energy car, and its huge screen is also relatively lackluster in terms of content.
This shows that even when the new energy vehicle market has become clear to the point where it can no longer be clear, Toyota is still cautious and skeptical. If so, in the field of autonomous driving, Toyota's future will not have much to do.
For the new car-making forces, traditional car companies like Toyota are falling, and this is where their future opportunities lie. As for whether automatic driving is so reliable and whether it can become more reliable, this problem is indeed quite difficult to build new forces in cars. Then again, don't car owners read the instructions?
"Copyright notice: This article is myauto original article, has been through the blockchain technology for copyright certification, we welcome cooperation, but prohibit any form of adaptation and reproduction plagiarism, violators will be held legally responsible!"