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On August 12, the tragic death of the founder of a well-known brand driving ES8 caused a heated discussion on the Internet, and the safety of autopilot has also become a hot topic. Or affected by the news, as of the close of trading on Aug. 16, the share price of Xilai Motor plunged 5.87%, with a total market capitalization of 63.28 billion.

According to an obituary issued on Meiyihao official account on Aug. 12, Lin Wenqin, founder of Meiyihao brand management company, died at the age of 31 after driving an ES8 car with self-driving function (NOP pilot state) in the high-speed Hanjiang section of Shen Hai.

Yesterday, Lin Mouqin's family entrusted an agent, lawyer Lin Lihong, saying: it is illegal for the technical personnel of the company to contact the vehicles involved without the consent of the traffic police. In response, Xilai also issued a statement saying that the company had not done anything to delete the data and that no employees had been summoned by the police. A user, Mr. Lin, was killed in a collision with an engineering truck working on the Hanjiang section of the Shenhai Expressway at more than 14:00 on August 12, the company said. In order to ensure the battery safety of the accident car after the high-speed collision, more than 17:00 on the same day, the service personnel of Lulai carried out a power-off operation in the parking lot of the accident car, which itself will not cause data loss. NIO Motor also said that since the accident occurred, NIO has been actively cooperating with relevant departments in the accident investigation work to submit the required information according to the procedures. The company did not delete any data, and no employees were subpoenaed by the police.

It is worth noting that on the evening of August 16, Lin Wenqin's relatives and friends Lin Weiwei questioned this, according to the @ Finance Network Science and Technology report. According to the information provided by Mr. Lin, he went to the parking lot designated by the Putian traffic police on the afternoon of August 16. the parking lot staff told him that on the day of the incident on August 12, the faulty car was consigned to the traffic police parking lot. NIO quickly found the faulty vehicle through the background location. The parking lot staff saw two NIO staff pulling wires connected to the back of the trunk to recharge the faulty car wiring, which is not what NIO said: power off the vehicle.

Mr. Lin said that this was the operation of the vehicle without the knowledge of the police and the Lin family. The lawyer for the Lin Wenqin case has formally put forward a request to the police who handled the Lin Wenqin case to deal with the private contact with the personnel of the faulty vehicle.

In response to the accident, the controversial point is that Lin Wenqin used the autopilot function (NOP pilot state) to have a traffic accident. NIO said that its NOP is not autopilot, only navigation aids. The safety of autopilot has also been pushed to the forefront. And many car owners said that they do not know the specific difference between self-driving and auxiliary driving, and many netizens also said: when enterprises publicize, they often praise the self-driving of cars. If something goes wrong, it is auxiliary driving, not self-driving. If there were not so many accidents, I would really believe that the driver could eat and play with his mobile phone while driving and leave the initiative to the system. Of course, in the explanation manual of its NOP (Navigate on Pilot) navigation assistance function, it is also mentioned that "NOP can not respond to static obstacles (such as triangle warning signs, etc.), if you encounter an accident or construction area, you should immediately take over the direction and speed of the vehicle." But most users say that if there is no special reminder after buying a car, they generally will not take the initiative to read the relevant manual, let alone how to distinguish the various levels of self-driving.

Yesterday, ideal car CEO Li Xiang also posted on moments that he suggested a unified name for self-driving, such as L2 = auxiliary driving, L3 = autopilot, L4 = self-driving and L5 = self-driving. It is best for enterprises not to have a single extra word to avoid misunderstanding caused by exaggerated publicity. Subsequently, 360 Zhou Hongyi agreed with Li Xiang's view of "autopilot"! Nashi Automobile also posted a related Weibo saying: users should not be misled by marketing.

According to the incomplete statistics of Beijing Intelligent Automobile Federation Industrial Innovation Center, Tesla has had hundreds of traffic accidents worldwide from April 2, 2013 to April 17, 2021, resulting in a total of 175 deaths. the causes of the accident are sudden acceleration / deceleration, brake failure, autopilot system and so on. In terms of corporate publicity, Tesla often calls himself "FSD fully autopilot", which has left many users with the illusion of "autopilot." when users trust the autopilot system too much and give up control of the car, once the danger occurs, there is no way to recover it. In March this year, Tesla made it clear that the FSD "does not belong to the autopilot system", but only the "intelligent auxiliary driving system".

On the other hand, the navigation assistant function of NOP (Navigate on Pilot) is only based on the functions of adaptive cruise and lane deviation suppression, and through the navigation system, it can automatically change lanes and overtake, enter / leave the ramp, and realize the function of automatic assistant driving according to the navigation route under the specified path. Even if the NOP is turned on, the vehicle can make its own decision on lane merging and lane change without the need for the driver to turn on the steering lever, but it is still an L2-level auxiliary driving function in essence. To put it simply, it is the ADAS function, which can complete some simple operations such as following cars straight on the highway, but the safety of the vehicle still needs to be guaranteed by the driver.

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