BYD’s Free Self-Driving Tech Might Not Be Such a Boon After All
WiredNot only has China’s largest EV maker BYD unveiled good, better, and best tiers for its advanced driver-assistance system, it announced last week that the tech—marketed somewhat immodestly as “God’s Eye”—will now be fitted as standard to 21 of BYD’s 30 cars split across four brands. Even the $9,500 Seagull hatchback, the cheapest of BYD’s EVs, will ship with the base level of God’s Eye at no extra cost, while the $233,500 Yangwang U9 electric supercar will get the top-tier iteration. Careful not to describe God’s Eye as fully autonomous, BYD’s billionaire founder and CEO Wang Chuanfu boasted during a lavish launch event at the company’s headquarters in Shenzhen last week that intelligent driving capabilities would soon become as ubiquitous as seat belts and airbags. BYD's moniker may suggest its in-house L2+ ADAS is omniscient, but Shanghai-based automotive commentator Mark Rainford of Inside China Auto has test-driven several Chinese L2+ cars, and he is more impressed with Huawei's Qiankun system than God’s Eye.
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