The German Anti-Unfair Competition Center filed a lawsuit. The center believes that Tesla used the slogan of "completely automatic driving" when promoting to customers, but in the event of an accident, it particularly emphasized Tesla's "automatic assisted driving" function, which is only an auxiliary function and still needs the driver to pay attention to the driving state of the vehicle.
Speaking of publicity, the first death case caused by Tesla's "autonomous driving" function in China was triggered by this.
20 16 1.20, a serious rear-end collision occurred in Handan section of Beijing-Hong Kong-Macao Expressway. White Tesla model? When the S car was driving in the first lane on the left, it hit a road sweeper that was working ahead. No brake marks were found at the scene, and the accident caused the death of a Tesla driver.
After the accident, Tesla admitted the model involved? S started the so-called "automatic driving" at that time. Later, all the function propaganda of "automatic driving" in China was changed to "automatic assisted driving" to remind drivers not to leave the steering wheel at any time.
According to Tesla's publicity, Tesla's new car currently on sale is equipped with 8 cameras, 12 ultrasonic sensor and 1 enhanced millimeter wave radar. Eight cameras can provide a 360-degree view with a detection radius of 250 meters. At the same time, the new car also comes standard with the basic version of Autopilot automatic assisted driving functions, such as emergency braking, collision warning and blind spot monitoring.
But in fact, the camera has congenital defects, especially in strong light or white-dominated objects, and Tesla's scheme defects are more obvious. In addition, even if Tesla is equipped with millimeter-wave radar, it is limited by the short sensing distance. If the vehicle speed is too fast, the system cannot respond quickly.
However, the industry-recognized autopilot scheme is to use lidar, but Tesla chose to give up because of cost. CEO Musk even publicly stated that he would never use lidar. Compared with millimeter-wave radar and camera, lidar has the characteristics of high resolution, long distance and wide viewing angle, but it also has a very obvious advantage that long-distance lidar sensors can effectively identify long-distance non-metallic objects such as stones on the road.
For example, a high-speed motorcycle approaches a self-driving car at an intersection. In this case, it may be difficult for traditional radar to detect the narrow outline of motorcycle and its plastic fairing, and it is also difficult for camera to capture the picture clearly under strong light. But in this case, lidar is fully competent.
20 16 an American model? S got into the bottom of a white heavy truck that was turning, and a model in Taiwan Province Province not long ago? 3 It is because of the large area of white body under strong light that the system judgment is affected when you directly hit the large white truck box that has been turned over at high speed. In this case, it is possible to misjudge the camera or millimeter wave radar.
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