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Recently, Tesla was ordered by a court in Munich, Germany, to compensate customers 112000 euros (about 763000 yuan) for the risk of assisted driving.

It is understood that a customer paid 112000 euros (762977 yuan) for a Model X electric SUV. Subsequently, in the process of use, it is found that the vehicle can not reliably identify the narrow sections of the construction site and other obstacles, and sometimes start the brakes unnecessarily. A German court ruled that this could cause "great danger" in the city center and lead to car accidents. Lawyer Tesla defended this, saying that the Autopilot system was not designed for urban traffic. The court in Munich, Germany, said that it was impractical for drivers to turn on and off this function manually in different driving environments, which would distract drivers.

It is worth noting that Tesla's AutoPilot function has always been controversial. In the American market, Tesla is also under investigation. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said on July 8 that it would launch a special investigation into a recent Tesla accident in Florida and it was not known whether it was on autopilot at the time of the accident. According to incomplete media reports, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has launched 36 special investigations into Tesla cars since 2016, suspected of using advanced driving assistance systems such as self-driving at the time of accidents. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said it had been following up on Tesla's FSD system, and its chairman also pointed out that Tesla's use of the word "fully autonomous driving" was "misleading and irresponsible" because consumers paid more attention to marketing than warnings on car manuals or the company's website, and the publicity of fully autonomous driving misled many people into misusing and abusing the technology. FSD may have caused a number of accidents, so Tesla was asked to elaborate on how vehicles respond to emergencies in autopilot mode.

As a major selling point of Tesla's vehicle publicity, AutoPilot can achieve basic navigation assistance. At present, subscription services are only available in the American market, while in the Chinese market, two autopilot paid packages, enhanced autopilot function EAP and full autopilot capability FSD, are available at prices of 32000 and 64000 respectively. Both of them can realize automatic lane change, automatic parking, intelligent summoning, navigation on autopilot and other functions, while FSD not only includes the above functions. It can also identify and respond to traffic lights and stop signs as well as assist driving in city streets.

Vehicles have the function of "autopilot", which can indeed bring a lot of convenience in daily driving, and to a certain extent, it can also reduce the driving burden of drivers. However, from the current point of view, the safety and reliability of "autopilot" is not very high, for some complex road conditions, the computer response is not as good as that of the human brain. Although the current technology research and development has reached a certain height, there are still many years to go before computers replace the human brain, and it is obviously unrealistic to realize "fully autonomous driving" in a few years. Autopilot technology for users, can only improve driving convenience, not a complete replacement, the steering wheel needs to be in their own hands at all times.

At present, self-driving is the selling point publicized by many electric car enterprises, but it is worth noting that the self-driving adopted by most mainstream car companies is L2-level auxiliary driving, and there is still some room for improvement in terms of intelligent and automatic driving. Most of the vehicles are equipped with auxiliary driving functions, which are only used for auxiliary driving, and can not be fully self-driving. Tesla has also said that the Autopilot system allows vehicles to brake and follow automatically in the driveway, but not self-driving.

NHTSA of the United States also warned: "so far, there is no car on sale to achieve autopilot, each car needs to be controlled by the driver." Although advanced driving aids can help drivers avoid collisions or traffic accidents, drivers must pay attention to driving conditions and road conditions at all times. " As for the autopilot system, Cui Dongshu, secretary general of the passenger Union, also said that "it is necessary to educate consumers and take more measures to prevent over-reliance on autopilot."

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