On September 27, at the 2021 World Internet Conference, Tesla vice president Tao Lin said in a discussion on how to help special people eliminate the digital divide that the future of smart car product design, the more "idiot" and "fool" the better. That is to say, smart cars should use "smart" to serve people, rather than invisibly increasing the burden of use by the word "smart".
Tao Lin said that Tesla has always insisted on improving the digital literacy of users through technical means. With the popularity of pure electric vehicles, the technology of intelligent driving has gradually attracted the attention of the public, and Tesla's fully automatic auxiliary driving FSD can also be used as a performance of smart cars to serve people.
As an excellent representative of full automatic driving, Tesla's FSD has always been the focus of attention of many users. At present, the Tesla FSD's fully automatic driver assistance mechanism has been quite perfect, realizing a number of urban road assistance functions, such as turning, changing lanes or helping drivers detect obstacles in front. In addition, even if fully automatic assisted driving is used, Musk also requires users with driver's licenses to use it, because "fully automatic assistance" does not mean "absolute safety".
However, Xiao Lei believes that full automatic driving is still not very practical, although the driver is very relaxed, but completely give the right to drive the car to the computer, no doubt to give up the safety of life, even if it is one in ten thousand, full automatic driving is a chance to "overturn", the steering wheel is still in their own hands more reliable.
What Tao Lin calls "idiots" and "fools" is in fact a description of "high intelligence", not necessarily public ridicule. Highly intelligent intelligent car products face more audiences, and the learning cost of products should be further reduced. These "intelligences" are not only reflected in assisted driving, but also in the control of electrical appliances in the car, the automatic regulation of the vehicle and other aspects.
Of course, metaphors like "fools" and "idiots" are not quite right at such a formal convention. With the acceleration of the process of informatization and intelligence, products related to intelligence are inseparable from "automated operation", such as cameras. In the past, cameras always had to adjust the basic parameters of ISO, aperture, shutter, etc., in order to take a good photo. However, users who do not understand these parameters may spend a lot of time learning and practicing. The camera algorithm on the smartphone is actually the embodiment of "automation".
In the future, cars will gradually get rid of the "tool" label with travel as the core and become a large collection of intelligent technology. Highly intelligent automotive products will also become a part of consumers' convenient lives like smart cameras.