To cool down the trend of autonomous driving, the founder of WM Motor said frankly: Before fully autonomous driving, the driver is still the main body

In recent years, many car companies and technology companies have invested heavily in the research and development of autonomous driving, and models equipped with L2 and even L4 autonomous driving have been mass-produced. However, on the evening of August 18, Shen Hui, the founder of WM Motor, published a Weibo post titled "Who Misled Assisted Driving?" to cool down the trend of autonomous driving.

Shen Hui said that he has experienced the assisted driving functions of all competing models, but at this stage no one has the ability to achieve full-scenario autonomous driving, so the driver is still the main operator and monitor. For autonomous driving manufacturers, the first principle to be followed is to respect life.

Shen Hui's text is undoubtedly related to the recent frequent autonomous driving accidents.

On August 14, Lin Wenqin, an entrepreneur in the catering industry, died in a car accident after activating the autonomous driving function of the NIO ES8. Although NIO later stated that NOP was only a navigation assist, some netizens later pointed out that NIO had emphasized its autonomous driving capabilities in its previous publicity.

Tesla, the leading company in the field of autonomous driving, is also not reassuring in terms of safety. Last July, a Tesla lost control while using the autopilot function to avoid a maintenance section on the South Fourth Ring Road in Beijing and crashed into a road maintenance vehicle, causing the vehicle to be scrapped and four people to be injured. On August 16 this year, the US government announced that it had officially launched an investigation into Tesla's autopilot system. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said that since 2018, the department has confirmed 11 car accidents related to Tesla's automatic assisted driving system (Autopilot) or "Traffic Aware Cruise Control" (TACC) system.

During this year's World Artificial Intelligence Conference, Huawei's autonomous driving executive Su Qing said that an autonomous driving accident could be equivalent to murder. Although he was later punished internally by the company for his radical remarks, the safety of autonomous driving does need to be put first by all manufacturers.

As a winner of Toutiao's Qingyun Plan and Baijiahao's Bai+ Plan, the 2019 Baidu Digital Author of the Year, the Baijiahao's Most Popular Author in the Technology Field, the 2019 Sogou Technology and Culture Author, and the 2021 Baijiahao Quarterly Influential Creator, he has won many awards, including the 2013 Sohu Best Industry Media Person, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Beijing Third Place, the 2015 Guangmang Experience Award, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Finals Third Place, and the 2018 Baidu Dynamic Annual Powerful Celebrity.