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With the development of intelligent automobile era, more and more automobile companies begin to increase their investment in self-driving technology, which makes the competition in self-driving technology become fierce. However, Volvo, which opened the field of autonomous driving earlier, has announced that it will redefine self-driving technology, which means Volvo will abandon its current radical goal.

According to foreign media reports, Volvo will launch a new generation of XC90 in 2022 and is expected to introduce Level 4 self-driving technology to liberate the eyes or hands on the highway where conditions permit, while the most advanced self-driving technology currently available on the market has reached the Level 3 level.

According to Volvo CEO Samuelson (Hakan Samuelsson), they improve the vehicle's self-driving technology every year and repeatedly test it through a variety of environments and speeds to achieve higher speeds on more roads. But it found that, in any case, the test will not have a 100% secure system. Because the current autopilot technology still can not achieve better control and prediction. Unless the system can anticipate more possibilities in advance, rather than being affected by the complex environment.

In order to prevent self-driving cars from getting out of control, Volvo has also designed a number of backup systems and backup power sources for self-driving technology, mainly for vehicle braking and steering.

Volvo is a world leader in the development of active safety and self-driving technology, and has an unparalleled safety reputation, such as Volvo, which is famous for its safety.

With the rapid development of electric vehicles and intelligent vehicles in recent years, more and more models have joined the self-driving technology, but whether the technology is safe or not has also become a concern for many consumers.

According to the level of self-driving technology, it is currently divided into five levels at home and abroad, namely L1~L5. At present, most cars in the world are at level L1, only a few cars, such as Tesla, can already be at level L2, while Volvo's latest model is at level L3.

Although Tesla's self-driving skills are not as good as Volvo cars in terms of hierarchy, Tesla is so confident about his driving skills that even after receiving a subpoena from the US auto safety regulator, he still insists that his Model 3 model is "designed to be the safest car ever". However, judging from the recent accidents in Truss's models, it is suspected that the failure of Tesla's Autopilot advanced driving assistance system led to the accident, including the Model 3 model.

Tesla changed the description of the Autopilot system from "autopilot" to "autopilot", and asked the sales staff to strictly describe the system as a driving assistance system. In addition, Tesla has also updated the system in an attempt to make users focus when using the system.

From the specific description of the levels of L2 and L3, the driver's license needs to be vigilant at all times and be ready to intervene in the manipulation at any time. Therefore, according to the current autopilot technology, autopilot technology is only a transitional period for the realization of comprehensive autopilot technology, far from being fully autopilot. However, when a car with automation technology is considered by the system that self-driving is no longer safe, it can only be equivalent to an ordinary vehicle that needs to be operated by the driver.

In addition, when self-driving cars became popular seven or eight years ago, many people believed that even if the technical obstacles to self-driving could be overcome, given so many road networks around the world and their randomness and diversity, there will be many legislative, infrastructure and even moral concerns.

While it is not part of the reason for Volvo to abandon its current radical goal, it is clearly unrealistic for the system to achieve more predictions in terms of current technology. So much so that Volvo doesn't think the outside world should expect too much of Volvo cars.

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