Summary: Relevant departments can make a difference (welcome to pay attention to leveraged games)
Written by Zhang Yinyin & Editor | Xin Xinran
It's a sad thing.
On April 26, 2024, a traffic accident occurred in a Wenjie M7 vehicle in Yuncheng, Shanxi, and three drivers and passengers were killed.
On April 27, relevant people posted news on social platforms that at around 15 o'clock on April 26, his younger brother drove a newly purchased Huawei Wenjie M7 on a highway in Shanxi Province when he rear-ended a watering truck, and her husband, younger brother and 2-year-old son were unfortunately killed.
Screenshot source: Online video (thanks in advance)
After the news fermented, there was a lot of discussion about whether the airbag should be deployed, whether the AEB emergency braking and other functions should respond, and whether the hidden handle could be opened. The core of all this is the word "security", if you want to add it, it probably is:
The safety of new energy intelligent vehicles must be paid attention to.
On April 28, Wenjie said that the vehicle was traveling at a speed of 115km/h at the time of the accident, the airbags were opened normally, and the characteristics of the power battery pack were normal. At present, the cause of the accident is pending further investigation by the relevant parties.
In the view of the leveraged game, the biggest mourning for the deceased is that all car companies, including new energy vehicle companies, pay more attention to safety issues, safety and leadership are equally important, or even more important, there is safety to lead, otherwise everything is empty talk.
At the same time, it is hoped that the relevant departments will make a difference.
1. Throw the pot Rashomon
Regarding the issue of airbags, as mentioned in the leverage game above, AITO's official Weibo responded at noon on April 28 that according to the national platform data access management regulations, it was learned that the vehicle was operating at a speed of 115km/h when the accident occurred, the airbags were opened normally, and the characteristics of the power battery pack were normal.
According to the screenshots of the family and the media's verification, the accident vehicle is the 5-seater (24 models) of the M7Plus rear-wheel drive version, with a landing price of about 250,000 yuan, which is an entry-level non-intelligent driving version, and is also equipped with functions such as automatic emergency braking (AEB) and forward collision warning (FCW).
Why can't I brake urgently?
The question industry responded that the model involved in the incident was an entry-level non-intelligent driving version, which was not equipped with Huawei's high-end intelligent driving assistance system, but used the Bosch solution.
At the same time, the operating range of the Bosch AEB scheme is 4-85 km/h, and the speed of 115 km/h in the event of a collision is far beyond the trigger range of the Bosch AEB.
On the afternoon of April 28, Bosch issued a statement saying that the vehicle involved was not equipped with the Bosch Intelligent Driving System (including AEB), and expressed deep condolences to the victims.
One says that Bosch supplies it, and Bosch says that it is not its own, so who is telling the truth?
The 21st Century Business Herald said that it was reported that the entire set of ADAS solutions equipped with the accident vehicle was not from Bosch, but from FreeTech, both of which are equipped with M7 Plus and belong to AB.
Fans should remember that at the end of 2023, Huawei's Yu Chengdong and Xiaopeng Motors CEO He Xiaopeng once exchanged views on the AEB issue, giving the public the impression that Huawei and Wenjie must be "far ahead" in this regard.
According to the information of the new M7 press conference, the new M7 launched in September 2023 has a maximum braking speed of 90 km/h with its AEB system, and the M9 launched in December has a further AEB capability, supporting active braking at a maximum speed of 120 km/h.
But it's all based on Huawei ADS. So neither Bosch nor FreeTech can do it. And if the speed of the vehicle at that time was 115 km/h, no one would be able to achieve emergency braking.
In addition, when the normal operation of the sensor is affected by factors such as the speed of the detected object is too fast or the obstruction of large vehicles, the forward AEB may not work or exit.
When there was no accident, everyone thought it was very powerful, but in fact, there was a rigorous engineering and technical problem behind it, and it was not so easy to know when the accident happened.
2. Safety and leadership are equally important, and relevant departments can make a difference
In addition to clarifying the facts, about this accident, Leverage Game mainly wants to say two points:
1) Any car company, while boasting about how powerful its intelligent driving is, must tell the driver and passengers very clearly and bluntly like "smoking is harmful to health" that the driver/driver is the first person responsible for their own safety, and any existing driving system cannot and is not allowed to replace the role of the driver.
This accident may have nothing to do with this, but the illusion caused by the boast of intelligent driving in recent years to consumers and drivers should indeed be taken seriously.
On this issue, Tesla, which is "far ahead" in the past few years, has had many accidents in the world, and now the same accident has also appeared on our domestic body, which should not have been, because the lesson is not far away.
But humans and corporations are like that, and the only lesson is that the lesson is never learned.
It is hoped that after this accident, the relevant enterprises can have a responsible attitude in the future.
2) The problem of hidden handles must be paid attention to. Red Star News reported that AITO's customer service responded that most vehicles do not have an automatic unlocking function, and the driver and passenger in this accident have lost consciousness and cannot open the door from the car. Regardless of whether it is an invisible door handle or not, external rescue can only smash the car window.
The customer service staff may not be professional, but Red Star News noticed that the M7 owner's manual clearly states that it will be automatically unlocked after a collision.
However, electric technology and circuits always depend on the normal operation of the circuit, and if the power is cut off, any advanced technology and sensing system cannot operate.
So it's not surprising that the handle doesn't pop out when the hidden door is hit hard and the circuit doesn't work.
And that's where the safety hazards come in.
In traditional fuel vehicles, the mechanical handle of most models, even if the inside is locked, it is generally not difficult to find the open button after breaking the glass. Of course, a serious impact causes the doors, handles, and locks to get stuck and cannot be opened, and there is a chance that such a collision will also exist.
The hidden handle of new energy vehicles, even if many are designed to open mechanically, after smashing the glass, if the people in the car are incapacitated, external rescuers often cannot quickly find the place to open.
Some say that the hidden handle reduces the wind resistance, in fact, this itself is not new, the leverage game is not popular, and those who know know that such pseudo-innovation is not needed in my opinion, and safety is the first.
For the above two points about safety, the relevant departments can have an industry norm and standard, which is what the government should do.
3. Sales are soaring, and only when it is stable can it go far
Li Auto's position as the new force sales champion in 2023 has encountered challenges at the beginning of 2024.
The challenger is Wenjie Automobile, which may have been expected in October 2023, when orders for the new M7 skyrocketed, followed by a continuous increase in production and delivery.
Starting from January 2024, the Wenjie series cooperated by Cialis and Huawei will be the first to rank first in the monthly sales of new forces.
Chart source: First Electric Vehicle Network (thanks to this)
In February 2024, the performance of Wenjie is still very good.
In the first quarter, the sales of new energy vehicles (mainly in the Wenjie series) not only surpassed Li Auto, but also won the 8th place in the sales volume of the entire new energy vehicle industry in the mainland, which was completely unimaginable in the past.
As shown in the figure below, let's look at the top 7, which one is not a big coffee.
In the same period in 2023, the sales bottleneck of Sailis Automobile's new energy vehicles at that time was only more than 10,000 units. In the first quarter of 2024, the company will increase by 600% y/y to more than 82,000 units.
Chart source: Passenger Federation (thanks to this)
Immediately ask the world of the new M5 out,Blind booking has begun,It seems that the performance is not bad at least。 In 2024, there are other new models to be launched, such as the M8. It can be said that the challenge of the world to Li Auto has entered a new stage, and perhaps the goal is far more than Li Auto.
We know that the new M7 has been on the market for 7 months, and the cumulative number of Dading has exceeded 174,000, and the cumulative number of Dading has exceeded 70,000 in the 3 months since the launch of the M9.
Some data statistics Obviously, the single-week delivery of the M9 has been on the throne of the first brother of a luxury car with a unit price of more than 500,000 yuan, which is simply stunned.
As a enthusiast and follower of the automobile industry, Leverage Game often says that it is happy to see any company that sincerely makes and sells cars well.
How to characterize this accident remains to wait, regardless of the responsibility of Wenjie, Huawei, and Celis, or whether they are not responsible, and it is expected that they will pay more attention to safety issues.
Again, only with safety can we lead, and only with stability can we go far.
The financial charts and graphs not attributed in this article are all from relevant announcements, and are hereby explained and acknowledged
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