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Yesterday, a car owner, Ms. Ning, reflected to the media that a ModelY she bought suddenly hit the guardrail twice on the highway. According to the "1818 Golden Eye" media report, Ms. Ning's ModelY was bought in May last year. Two months ago, it suddenly veered off on the highway, hit the guardrail, bounced off and then deviated again and hit again. Ms. Ning stressed that she was sure that she had turned on autopilot by turning on two lower gear bars.

According to the picture of the traffic recorder provided by Ms. Ning, "at first the vehicle was driving normally, then suddenly deviated to the left, hit the left guardrail and bounced off, and then the direction turned left again and hit the left guardrail again." The accident caused serious rubbing on the left front fender and damage to the left front wheel hub, but fortunately, there were no casualties, and the car was towed to Tesla 4S store in Hangzhou. After testing, the background data given by Tesla showed that the AP (autopilot) was not turned on before the accident, but the ACC (adaptive cruise) function was turned on, only the active cruise function was turned on.

Ms. Ning described that there is a gear lever to press down is ACC, press twice is AP, press twice, there will be a sound prompt, and she did press twice while driving. This Tesla ModelY is only five or six thousand kilometers away, basically driving on its own. It usually drives more highways, and it is often used by autopilot, while adaptive cruising itself has never been used once. At the scene, Ms. Ning's husband also took the reporter to experience ACC and AP. After entering the ACC (adaptive cruise) mode, the car could drive normally without stepping on the accelerator, but the driver needed to control the vehicle through the steering wheel. After that, Ms. Ning's husband moved the gear lever twice. After the vehicle entered the AP (automatic driving) function, the vehicle could drive automatically according to its lane and turn automatically in the corner. After detecting the vehicles and traffic lights in front, the vehicles will also automatically slow down and stop. In this regard, Ms. Ning's appeal is to find out what happened at the time of the accident.

The staff of Tesla's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that through the data viewing and analysis in the background, Ms. Ning turned on the ACC (adaptive cruise) function before the accident, but did not turn on the auxiliary steering function, so in this scenario, all steering operations should be done by the driver. In addition, the staff of Tesla's Ministry of Foreign Affairs also said that before the accident, the vehicle did not receive any alarm about the failure of the AP (automatic driving assist) system. For Ms. Ning's statement that she "definitely set two lower gear bars and turned on autopilot", the staff of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Tesla said it may be operational uncertainty, and said that she would continue to communicate with Ms. Ning in the future. assist Ms. Ning to complete the insurance claim.

It is understood that Tesla's AP function is automatic driving assist. Before opening the AP, the vehicle needs to dial down the shift lever to open the ACC adaptive cruise, and when the system recognizes the lane line, then dial down twice, so as to turn on the AP function. After turning on the AP function, the lane line and the steering wheel on the left will turn blue. It should be noted that whether it is to turn on ACC or AP-assisted driving, it is not really driverless, and drivers must still actively carry out supervision in the process of driving.

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