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The reason why Tesla has become a benchmark in the electric car industry is not only its ultra-high range, but also related to its excellent autopilot system Autopilot, but Tesla has recently been denounced by US consumer safety organizations for its autopilot system.

When it comes to the reasons why Tesla was condemned, we should also start from the frequent car accidents of his models. A Tesla car rear-ended a road sweeper while driving from Beijing-Hong Kong-Macao Expressway to Handan, Hebei Province in January 2016, killing the driver on the spot. After the accident, Tesla admitted that the car was on autopilot at the time of the accident, which is also the first autopilot fatal accident in the world. In May of the same year, a Model S crashed into a turning truck while on autopilot, killing the driver. In March 2018, an autopilot Model X crashed into an unclosed exclusion zone on a California highway, killing the driver when the Model X caught fire. In May, another autopilot Model 3 crashed into a semi-trailer in Florida, causing the roof to fall off and killing a driver.

Several fatal car accidents related to the autopilot system have led US consumer safety organizations to question the reliability of Tesla's autopilot system Autopilot and called on US federal agencies to investigate Tesla's autopilot technology.

And the head of the US CAS, Jason Levin (Jason Levine), said that Tesla's propaganda was fraudulent in nature. As early as the debut of the Autopilot autopilot system, Max posted a picture of him waving his hand outside the window while driving a Tesla, suggesting that the system could be fully autopilot. In the subsequent publicity of its company, its autopilot system Autopilot was vigorously promoted. To some extent, this move has misled consumers and made them have high expectations for autopilot.

In response, Tesla argued that his company did not make a commitment that the autopilot system could be completely free from manual control, and Tesla has also made every effort to make consumers aware of the limitations of the autopilot system in places such as his car's user manual and website.

There is no doubt that, as a subverter of the automobile industry, Tesla is indeed at the forefront in the field of self-driving, but in terms of its current safety and reliability, it is a bit early to call it an autopilot system. The auxiliary driving system is more in line with the current stage of the system. After all, in the sensor world, either 0 or 1, the ability to prevent and deal with emergencies is not as good as the real person's judgment. With the advent of the 5G era, autopilot technology will be qualitatively improved, and perhaps autopilot will really be realized at that time.

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