Recently, some netizens posted**, a Wenjie M7 owner turned on automatic driving and slept on the highway. Passing vehicles honked their horns many times to wake up the owner of the M7 car, but to no avail.
There is also an UP master who released**, saying that he had a cold and was drowsy in the car, and he almost let the M7 autonomous driving for the whole 200 kilometers, and proudly showed off**.
First of all, in terms of ability, Huawei's intelligent driving system is undoubtedly the first echelon at present, from the various Huawei intelligent driving that has gone viral on the Internet, challenging nameless paths, mountain roads, village roads, Chongqing overpasses, etc., we can see that Huawei's intelligent driving system can indeed replace manual drivers to a certain extent, and take over driving operations in some scenarios, but this does not mean that drivers can sleep in the car and completely hand over the driving rights of the vehicle to the intelligent driving system.
The first reason is that it can't do it in terms of capabilities. Intelligent driver assistance systems can achieve more reliable driving than human drivers, and may help the vehicle avoid accidents when the driver makes a mistake and does not notice an abnormality, but it does not mean that it is better than the driver's manual control in any situation. Huawei's intelligent driving system has strong obstacle avoidance capabilities, but when encountering traffic rules in special scenarios, the original route is disrupted and the surrounding environment is unfamiliar, even human drivers may be messy, let alone machines. To put it simply, at present, the intelligent driving system of any company cannot respond well to all emergencies on the road, so the driver sleeps in the car and lets the vehicle drive by itself, which is not responsible for his own life and is not responsible for others.
The second reason is that domestic regulations do not currently support full autonomous driving, and at present, each car company does not care about L29 or l299 or not, it is still a L2 automatic driving assistance system, and this level is controlled by the driver and the system together, and the main body is the driver. Although the current laws and regulations do not explicitly stipulate that drivers are not allowed to take their hands off the steering wheel, the "Regulations for the Implementation of the Road Traffic Safety Law" stipulate that dialing and answering handheld**, television, etc. are behaviors that hinder safe driving.
Zhu Xichan, a professor and doctoral supervisor at the School of Automotive Engineering of Tongji University, based on the complex road traffic situation in China, the technology of L2 assisted driving level can only be carried out by holding the steering wheel.
The intelligent driving system of various car companies will also stipulate how long the driver of the vehicle must keep his hands on the steering wheel, otherwise he will withdraw from the intelligent driving system, but there are all kinds of strange things, which will deceive the vehicle by adding lead blocks under the steering wheel and so on, so as to achieve the purpose of sleeping while driving.
In such a situation, once the vehicle is involved in an accident, the driver is first responsible for the accident.
This is not the case at L3, where L3 autonomous driving refers to "the continuous execution of all dynamic driving tasks within the operating conditions for which it was designed, and the takeover of dynamic driving tasks enables the user to perform dynamic driving tasks in an appropriate manner." "Under this level of autonomous driving, if an accident occurs, the driver has the right to hold the car company responsible, that is, the car company also has to bear a certain amount of responsibility for the accident. It is reported that L3 national regulations and standards may be released around June, but before that, the intelligent driving systems of all car companies have not yet reached L3 level.
Of course, the driver is responsible for the car company, which is also a confused account, how to hold accountable, how to divide the responsibility? Whether the car company will be responsible is a question mark, and it is also possible that the warranty company will have a special intelligent driving insurance to provide insurance services under intelligent driving accidents for this type of model.
All in all, we still want to say, don't really equate assisted driving and automatic driving, intelligent driving is not equal to self-driving, at least at this stage, human beings are still the main body of driving, intelligent driving system is only an auxiliary role, like this practice of sleeping while driving, may be identified as dangerous driving and accept criminal punishment.