When it comes to Tesla's autopilot, there will always be a group of people who come out with yin and yang weird ridicule.
"It turns out that your automatic driving is only an aid", "your automatic driving is not particularly easy to use", "how can automatic driving have accidents" and so on to show their extremely advanced consciousness.
Automatic driving must be a general direction, the future passenger cars must be with automatic driving as the core development goal of high-tech technology carrier, which does not have automatic driving, which will be eliminated.
Essentially, the "autonomous driving" I said above is wrong, because like many people, I like to omit the word "assist".
Autonomous driving is divided into many levels, from L0 to L5.
No matter what level, even the human brain that is currently considered by countless people to be the safest to "drive by myself", there will still be a large number of accidents, and we must admit one thing: life is impermanent, and the large intestine is wrapped in the small intestine.
Accidents never go away, it only decreases as technology upgrades.
So what I want to say is that in the case that everything has a probability of happening and cannot be truly 100%, we don't have to choke on food at all, and autonomous driving is still a research that must be done at present.
Among civil enterprises, Tesla's autopilot has the characteristics of the largest sales volume, the lowest cost, and the most complete cumulative driving mileage at the same time.
The data shows that Tesla has traveled 4.8 billion kilometers after activating Autopilot, which is equivalent to running 120,000 laps around the earth.
A large amount of basic data, cloud data, and test logic make Tesla's self-driving reserves very rich.
Previous reports show that there will only be one accident every 6.94 million kilometers under the role of Autopilot, and one accident every 2 million kilometers under normal driving conditions.
Many people in China have been staring at Tesla's accidents, in fact, in Tesla's hundreds of thousands of sales, more than 7 years of domestic development history, even hundreds of traffic accidents are very normal.
No matter which brand has such a large volume, the traffic accident data will not be better than Tesla, because the current domestic road conditions require that automatic driving technology is not allowed on the road, and major companies are fighting for automatic driving assistance.
At present, there is no data that can be given: Tesla has eliminated the number of accidents after opening Autopilot.
Part of the accident itself is uncontrollable, and part of it is controllable, such as driving a mobile phone to distract the brakes and not rear-end the front car in time, it is possible to avoid risks by actively braking, but if it is rear-ended by others, it is uncontrollable.
Autonomous driving assistance is to make controllable accidents more controllable. From the current richness of technical equipment, Tesla Autopilot is indeed ahead of the industry on the basis of super mileage experience and manufacturing experience.
The core direction of the future will not be wrong: the operation of personnel + a very mature automatic driving assistance system can prevent the vast majority of accidents, and the development of more mature, more advanced and more automated automatic driving technology must be indispensable.
Aren't the domestic giants Baidu, Ali, and Huawei also investing a lot of R&D expenses on autonomous driving every year?
The development of science and technology for products, consumers is always boundless, Tesla, Huawei, Baidu is also OK, their research and development is fundamentally to ensure that the models sold on the market have better safety.
Therefore, in the face of pure technology, there is no need to wear colored glasses to look at Tesla, after all, in the current new energy products, the model 3's automatic assisted driving performance is still a strong degree that many companies cannot surpass.