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Tesla will formally sue Chen Zhengang (account name @ Xiaogang senior), an online celebrity with tens of millions of fans on a platform, for defamation for the latter's use of information networks, Sina Automobile reported on Jan. 26, citing insiders. According to this news, Sina Automobile immediately contacted the relevant departments of Tesla, and the relevant departments of Tesla formally responded to "this is true" and formally submitted a lawsuit to the court today.

According to the attention of the automobile industry, "Xiaogang senior" released two test videos on April 29 and 30, 2021, respectively, for Tesla Model 3 and Xiaopeng P7, and installed a paper car and an inflatable dummy on the driveway to test the emergency braking function of the vehicle. The final "test" results show that Tesla Model 3 failed to stop and hit the paper car and the dummy. And Xiaopeng P7 is the perfect emergency brake stop. The results show that the emergency braking performance of Xiaopeng P7 is obviously better than that of Tesla Model 3. According to the data, the two videos received more than 600000 likes.

However, the "testing" process sparked heated discussion when another blogger, Xiao Li Flying car, posted several videos questioning the authenticity of the test content, which continued to ferment and sparked heated discussion. "Xiao Li Flying car" said in the video that the "Xiaogang senior" test Tesla Model 3 secretly stepped on a foot switch, the detail is that Tesla's screen can show the status of stepping on the switch and kinetic energy recovery, while Tesla Model 3 crashed into the paper car, the machine's energy bar still shows that there is still power output.

In response to this query, "Xiaogang seniors" posted a video response on his trumpet "Xiaogang's Daily" in response to "Why click the switch": because the test condition at that time was 50 kilometers per hour, the fuel was collected too early, and kinetic energy recovery would slow down the speed. I stepped on the throttle for rigor. It stressed that Tesla's manual stated that the conditions for emergency braking could not be touched, one of which was to accelerate violently before emergency braking, and he thought that he could not accelerate violently by stepping on the switch, which did not affect his emergency braking intervention.

Judging from the response of "Xiaogang senior", no matter what the purpose, he has admitted to stepping on an extra switch before the collision. From the "Xiaogang senior" released Tesla Model 3 emergency brake test point of view, it is Tesla in the domestic controversial period. On April 19, 2021, a woman wearing a white T-shirt with "brake failure" stood on the roof of a Tesla exhibition car shouting "Tesla brake failure" at the Media Day of the 19th Shanghai International Auto Show. The scene was in chaos. Finally, the woman was carried away from the scene. After the incident, the market was once full of rumors of "Tesla brake failure", and a number of accidents occurred in a very short period of time. In this context, automotive media people have carried out emergency braking tests on Tesla models, but from the test results, it can not actually prove whether Tesla has brake failure, it can only be used as a reference.

"Xiaogang senior" is in this context to output the content. Of course, after the "Xiaogang senior" conducted the emergency braking test on Tesla Model 3 at that time, some netizens actually questioned the test. In response, "Xiaogang senior" released a video entitled "Tesla Test without Editing record" and explained that because in the first test, someone said he stepped on the gas pedal, so he tested it again, but the result still could not stop.

Before the Tesla rights incident, Yanche Di, the auto media of Byte Jump, tested the AEB performance of Audi Q5L, Tesla Model Y and Xilai EC6 at the speeds of 40km, 50km and 60km, respectively, and the results all stopped successfully, but Che Di said that "Tesla Model Y performed best among the three cars". In May 2021, Zhe Di tested the AEB function of Xiaopeng P7 and carried out 30/40/50km/h static frontal collision respectively. The test results show that Xiaopeng P7 failed to brake at the speed of 20km and 30km.

The function of automatic emergency braking, also known as AEB, is to monitor the driving environment in front of the vehicle in real time, and automatically start the vehicle braking system to slow down the vehicle in case of possible collision danger, so as to avoid collision or reduce the consequences of collision. According to C-SCAP, there are special testing standards and methods for AEB testing. General AEB testing obstacles need to consider three points, radar characteristics, reflectivity and visual features. In other words, the testing of vehicles through the use of paper cars is obviously not up to standard, and this method of testing has also been questioned. However, Xiaogang senior also stressed in the video, "these two are my own, just do a simple test, and record it, just have a look."

In response to Tesla's lawsuit, @ Xiaogang senior said on Weibo, "I know." As for Tesla, as of press time, the specific information of the prosecution has not been disclosed yet.

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