According to CCTV News, some time ago, a man in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, used a so-called "smart driving artifact" to drive while drunk, while he slept in the passenger seat, causing heated discussion. The "smart driving" artifact used by the man also attracted the attention of netizens. The reporter entered the words "intelligent driving artifact" on the shopping platform and found no related items. Subsequently, the reporter entered the words "steering wheel auxiliary artifact", and multiple product links appeared on the platform, such as "steering wheel decoration" and "direction return mark", with prices ranging from 60 to 100 yuan.
In order to avoid risks, some businesses will use homophones to tell reporters during the chat process. The function is "smart driving without prompts", which means that the car will not issue a prompt and alarm when hands are removed from the steering wheel.It turns out that in order to avoid the risk of being investigated, the previous "smart driving artifact" was changed to another name on the sales platform.
The reporter purchased two different styles of products and came to the Road Traffic Safety Research Center of the Ministry of Public Security to ask experts to explore how "magical" the so-called "intelligent driving assistance artifact" is.
During the actual test, a car equipped with L2-level assisted driving function, after 20 seconds without holding the steering wheel with both hands, the words "Please hold the steering wheel" appeared on the vehicle screen, and a takeover reminder was issued. If the car does not take over, the car will directly prompt "Intelligent driving has exited, please take over immediately", and exit the vehicle cruise function, prompting the driver to "Please take over the vehicle."
However, after this artifact is installed on the vehicle steering wheel, if the driver takes his hands off the steering wheel, the vehicle's intelligent system will no longer be able to sense it and will not issue any prompts, which is quite dangerous.
Experts said that "assisted driving cheat devices" sold on some e-commerce platforms,Commonly known as the "intelligent driving artifact", it uses physical counterweights, strong magnetic adsorption and other technical means to deliberately deceive the driver monitoring system (DMS) of the vehicle's assisted driving system, causing it to misjudge that the driver is in a normal supervision state, thereby achieving illegal operations without the steering wheel and line of sight for a long time.
In other words, the so-called "intelligent driving artifacts" are actually some backdoor cheating tools that bypass vehicle safety detection.
Zhao Sicong, deputy director of the Traffic Management Regulations Research Department of the Road Traffic Safety Research Center of the Ministry of Public Security: For producers and sellers, according to the provisions of Article 146 of the Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China.
The product "Smart Driving Artifact" does not meet the requirements of international standards or industry standards for protecting personal and property safety (such as interfering with vehicle safety monitoring systems).
If serious consequences are caused (such as a traffic accident causing casualties), the person may be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of less than 5 years or criminal detention, and a fine of 50% to 2 times the sales amount.
If the circumstances are particularly serious (such as multiple casualties), a prison term of more than 5 years may be imposed, and the fine is the same as above.
If during the design or promotion process of this product, it directly induces drivers to directly escape supervision,For example, if there are some words such as "free hands, no need to take over" and cause a major traffic accident, the behavior may be deemed to endanger public safety, and a more serious penalty will be imposed.
At the same time, if an e-commerce platform operator fails to fulfill its obligation to review the qualifications of operators on the platform, or fails to fulfill its safety guarantee obligations to consumers, causing damage to consumers, it shall bear corresponding responsibilities according to law.
