One-click SOS is not exclusive to luxury cars, and these 80,000 cars also have roadside rescue calls

According to the Southeast County Public Security (ID: Southeast Public Security) of Hechi City, Guangxi Province, on March 28, a man drove into a 200-meter cliff and could not call the police because his mobile phone was broken, and after being trapped in the wild for five days, he was found by villagers who went into the mountains to do farm work.

Judging from the pictures of the scene released by the Southeast Public Security, the man was driving a blue Changan CS35PLUS. Although it is only a small SUV that starts at less than 70,000, the body quality of the CS35PLUS is still not to be said.

The picture comes from the Southeast Public Security Public Account

However, what makes brother understand is curious: when the CS35PLUS was listed in 2018, its top model with the Internet of Vehicles had a "road rescue call" configuration, there was a "SOS" button behind the reading light, pressing this button, or when the vehicle detected a collision, Chang'an Background would contact the owner, and send the owner's location to the police to help the owner alarm, it seems that the owner's CS35PLUS is not the top model.

The picture comes from the public account of the Southern Morning Post

"Roadside Assistance Calls" are almost standard on luxury brand models, such as Volvo's On Call (Car Butler) and Mercedes Mercedes me. Previously, after the collision of Mercedes-Benz owners' drunk driving, because the Mercedes-Benz background could not contact the owner directly to the police, the traffic police found an interesting story about the owner's drunk driving.

Image from Jiangsu City Channel

Of course, safety has never been the exclusive preserve of the rich, and these models are also equipped with roadside rescue calls, becoming the last link in guarding safety.

Changan Auchan X5

Manufacturer guidance price: 6.99~107,900

Body wheelbase: 2710mm powertrain: 1.6L (128Ps) + 5-speed manual / 1.6L (128Ps) + CVT / 1.5T (180Ps) + 7-stop wet dual clutch

Seeing Changan Auchan X5, many people may feel strange: why not write Changan CS35PLUS directly? This is because all along, zhige writing shopping guide articles is not only writing about specific models, but also writing a kind of car selection thinking.

Behind the "roadside call" configuration is actually a technology called E-Call (short for emergency call, Chinese literally translated as automotive emergency call system). Whether it's Volvo's On Call or Lexus' Gbook, behind it's the system. In 2013, Huawei, Yuanmeng, Changan Automobile, BYD Automobile and other car companies and communication companies established the "E-Call Standard Working Group", and in 2018, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology website publicly solicited opinions on the "On-board Accident Emergency Call System" mandatory national standard plan project. It was also after this year that the self-brand models began to be equipped with "roadside rescue calls".

Therefore, within the Changan Group, the "roadside rescue call" of Changan, Changan Auchan and Changan Kaicheng uses the same backstage. However, on the Changan model, this configuration is not called "road rescue call" but directly called "road rescue". For Changan models, as long as they have the function of the Internet of Vehicles, they generally support "road rescue calls".

On changan Auchan's hottest selling model X5, the 1.6L CVT premium model with a guidance price of 85,900 is equipped with a roadside rescue call, and there is an "SOS" button in the middle of the reading light on the roof, and the button can be called Changan Auchan backstage at the push of the button. In order to prevent accidental touch, Changan Auchan also intimately set up a transparent protective cover for this button.

Back to the X5 itself, the 128-horsepower 1.6L engine matches the powertrain of the CVT transmission, which is really a bit sorry for this sporty design, so the 180-horsepower 1.5T engine matching the 7-speed wet dual-clutch transmission version is more worth buying. However, if the 1.5T model wants a roadside rescue call configuration, the landing budget needs to be increased to 110,000, and only the 1.5T DCT premium model and above with a guidance price of 95,900 have this configuration.

Auspicious Binyue

Manufacturer guidance price: 7.58 ~ 119,800

Body track: 2600mm powertrain: 1.4T (141Ps) + 6-speed manual / 1.4T (141Ps) + 6 moisture-blocking dual-clutch / 1.5T(177Ps) + 7-stop dual-clutch

As mentioned earlier, "as long as there is a car networking function, roadside rescue calls are generally supported", so when we see that in the configuration table of Geely Binyue, platinum, diamonds and stars are "GKUI Jike Intelligent Ecosystem", and the sub-top and top-matching are "new digital intelligent cockpit systems", we know that the sub-top and top-matching support "roadside rescue calls".

However, in Geely, the name of "roadside rescue call" has become "E-CAII intelligent emergency rescue". In addition, due to the versatility of technology, models that generally support E-CAII also support functions such as remote control of vehicles and vehicle search.

Geely Binyue is not a small SUV for the main family, the sub-top and top pairing is equipped with a 177-horsepower three-cylinder 1.5T engine, matched with a 7-stop wet-off dual-clutch transmission, the official nominal zero hundred acceleration time of 7.9 seconds, but the starting price is only 109,800. Coupled with L2-level assisted driving support active braking, lane departure warning and other functions, binyue really achieve fast and safe.

However, this three-cylinder engine may become a concern for many consumers, fortunately, the Binyue with the 1.5T four-cylinder engine has appeared in the declaration list of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and it is expected to be listed in the middle of the year, and this part of the consumer can wait a little longer.

SAIC-GM Buick Yinglang

Manufacturer guidance price: 11.99 ~ 125,900

Body wheelbase: 2640mm powertrain: 1.5L (113Ps) + 6-stop hand automatic / 1.3T (163Ps) + 6-stop hand-in-one

A big reason why domestic car companies and communication companies began to develop E-Call is that around 2009, Toyota's G-book and GM's OnSatr entered the country, stimulating the investment of domestic manufacturers. However, Toyota is too "mad" in terms of reduction, and on the general model, Onstar is almost standard, so for a long time before the popularization of new energy, Onstar is also synonymous with car remote control and roadside rescue calls. Searching online for "automatic alarm after a car accident", most of the content is related to general.

Due to the shortage of chips, some of GM's low-profit models have gradually cancelled Onstar, such as the Chevrolet Cruze, which has a landing price of less than 80,000 yuan after the discount, and its 22 models have all canceled Onstar, but on the GM A-class car "shoulder handle" Buick Yinglang, GM does not dare to cancel it directly.

Although it has not been cancelled directly, the OnStar on the 21 Yinglang models has also been reduced to only two functions, positioning and emergency rescue, and the function of remote control of vehicles has been reduced. Even the 1.5L Model Elite produced after October 2021 has even removed these two functions, leaving only 100GB of free traffic per year.

As for Yinglang itself, or that sentence, Yinglang this 1.5L top with less than 90,000 landing is worth this price, the most cost-effective is 1.3T elite, GM this 1.3T three-cylinder engine whether it is power output, or vibration suppression is very good, plus 48V light mix system, 1.3T version not only good fuel consumption performance, urban mobility is also very brisk.