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According to relevant media, Dr. Shen Fei, vice president of Lulai Automobile, posted a short video on the social platform, personally demonstrating how to drive with both hands off the steering wheel while turning on the NIO Pilot function. However, it was condemned by the majority of netizens. Shen Fei has deleted the Weibo a few days ago.

"NIO Pilot is becoming more and more addictive," his caption wrote. "the meeting ends at 01:30 and leaves, with the help of autopilot, safely eating while driving."

Judging from the released video, the video is only 7 seconds long. Shen Fei is driving an ES8 that turns on the NIO Pilot function and is speeding on the highway at the speed of 100km/h. But what can be seen is that the steering wheel of the Fulai ES8 is not clenched in both hands. In addition, there was a food bag on the steering wheel, and only a few seconds later, the NIO Pilot sounded the alarm, and the dashboard also said, "Please hold the steering wheel," confirming that the driver is not holding the steering wheel.

Perhaps Dr. Shen Fei wanted to "show" how mature the function of an ES8 NIO Pilot is, but it was condemned by many netizens.

As an upgraded car-assisted driving system launched by Ulai in 2019, NIO Pilot initially had only basic functions such as ACC adaptive cruise. In June this year, "NIO Pilot" updated seven functions and launched them as version 2.0, adding functions such as autopilot (pilot), turn light control lane change (ALC), automatic road maintenance (LKA), front car warning (CTA-F), road sign recognition (TSR) and so on.

However, for the still immature autopilot system, in order to avoid unnecessary accountability, NIO Pilot also issued a statement in the OTA update document saying that driving assistance and parking assistance are not equal to autopilot, and drivers always have the ultimate responsibility to control the vehicle.

Similarly, Tesla has received at least five subpoenas from US auto safety regulators since last year. Because of the autopilot system, there have been a number of accidents involving car owners.

Subsequently, Tesla translated the Autopilot system Tesla from "autopilot" to "autopilot" in Chinese, and asked the sales staff to strictly describe the system as a driving assistance system. In addition, Tesla has also updated the system in an attempt to make users focus when using the system.

Although Dr. NIO Shen Fei tried hard to show NIO's "high performance" to let NIO bring back some positive response, he was cheated by himself. However, for the current autopilot technology is still a transitional period, far from fully autopilot, there is still a big gap with people's imagination of autopilot.

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