According to foreign media CNBC, the US Center for Automotive Safety (CAS) hopes to join forces with another security organization, ConsumerWatchdog, to jointly investigate the Tesla autonomous driving technology with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the California Automobile Authority. They believe that Tesla violated Article 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act and California Consumer Law.
Editor’s note: This article is from “Daily Economic News”< / a>, author: Pei Jian, such as Li Jia Lu.
Recently, Tesla seems to have some bad fortune. Just after experiencing the wave of talent turnover, Model3 was suspected of “cutting the work” and “failed” in the second quarter, Tesla’s headaches were still coming.
According to CNBC, the US Center for Automotive Safety (CAS) hopes to join forces with another security organization, ConsumerWatchdog, to jointly investigate the Tesla autonomous driving technology with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the California Automobile Authority. They believe that Tesla violated Article 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act and California Consumer Law.
Know that Tesla CEO Elon Musk has always been interested in autonomous driving. He even said that Tesla’s fully automatic auxiliary system should be at its peak. In a conference call in July this year, Musk said that autonomous driving technology will be the way for the company to get a lot of revenue in the future, and plans to launch the driverless team as soon as 2020.
Will this survey affect the development and development plan for Tesla’s autonomous driving technology?
Automatic driving is guilty?
Tesla’s Autopilot technology was first introduced in October 2015. It allows the driver’s hand to leave the steering wheel for a short time under limited conditions, but in an emergency it needs to have a steering wheel. ability.
In fact, the Tesla Autopilot system has been controversial since its launch, and everyone is always concerned about its safety. Today, agencies such as the US Center for Automotive Safety (CAS) are asking for an investigation into Tesla’s autonomous driving technology, as well as several major traffic accidents associated with autonomous driving systems in Tesla.
In May 2016, a model of autonomous driving was hit by a truck on the Williston Highway in Florida, USA, and the owner died on the spot. Coincidentally, in March 2018, a Tesla Model3 crashed on a roadblock in California, killing a 38-year-old man.
In May of this year, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) released an investigation report showing that the accident occurred in the Tesla electric vehicle.The autopilot system is activated. Subsequently, Tesla responded in a statement that the driver had violated Autopilot’s usage requirements. In mid-October 2018, Tesla temporarily removed the “automatic driving” option for all vehicle booking interfaces on the official website, leaving only “enhanced automatic assisted driving” for selection.
In fact, Tesla’s first “autopilot” death in the world occurred in China. On January 20, 2016, when a Tesla ModelS was driving in the Beijing-Hong Kong-Macau Expressway, there was a rear-end collision with the road sweeper in front, and the driver was killed. One year after the accident, Tesla admitted that the vehicle was in an automatic driving state at the time of the incident. The accident was also considered to be the world’s first “autopilot” fatal car accident.
This controversial technology is bullish all the way. In May of this year, Tesla increased the price of FullSelf-Driving from $5,000 to $6,000.
The reason why Tesla’s autonomous driving technology is frequent is related to its development and not taking the usual path. It is understood that in the development of autonomous driving technology, Tesla did not test the self-driving cars on social roads in California and other places, but through the shadow mode of thousands of electric vehicles of existing owners (shadow- Mode) function to collect road data and continuously improve driving skills.
The insiders believe that Tesla is too radical in the field of automatic driving. The L4 to L5 automatic driving should not be put on the mass production vehicle on a large scale. When the technology is not mature, the trial and error costs will be pushed to It is unfair for consumers to bear.
Shanghai factory becomes a life-saving straw
When Musk’s proud autopilot technology was criticized, Tesla also faced a loss performance report.
Tesla’s second-quarter earnings report for 2019, released on July 24, showed that the company’s car delivery volume was a record, but it still lost $408 million. In the second-quarter earnings report, Tesla disclosed the progress of the Shanghai super factory, and some manufacturing equipment has begun to enter the factory to prepare for the “first phase of mass production”.
According to the letter from Tesla to investors, the Shanghai Super Factory will start production of Model3 first. If the plant can be put into production in the beginning of the fourth quarter of this year, it will produce about 3,000 units per week in the initial stage. Model3, then Tesla’s global annual production will climb to 500,000 units after it is fully operational.
