China's Xiaomi To Remotely Fix Assisted Driving Flaw in 110,000 SU7 Cars (koreatimes.co.kr)
- Reference: 0179373654
- News link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/09/19/1710228/chinas-xiaomi-to-remotely-fix-assisted-driving-flaw-in-110000-su7-cars
- Source link: https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/world/20250919/chinas-xiaomi-to-remotely-fix-assisted-driving-flaw-in-110000-su7-cars
> China's tech companies and automakers have poured billions of dollars into smart-driving technology, a new battleground in the country's cutthroat domestic car market. But Beijing has moved to tighten safety rules after a Xiaomi SU7 in assisted driving mode crashed and killed three college students this year. It also raised concerns over the advertising of cars as being capable of autonomous driving. On Friday, the State Administration for Market Regulation said Xiaomi's highway assisted driving system showed insufficient recognition, warning and handling ability in some extreme driving conditions.
[1] https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/world/20250919/chinas-xiaomi-to-remotely-fix-assisted-driving-flaw-in-110000-su7-cars
Murdercars (Score:2)
Every time I see a story like this, I think about Daniel Suarez's book Daemon .
It isn't a great book - fairly disposable scifi that requires TV-style disbelief-suspension and eventually devolves into weird techno-utopianism. But has great bits of scene-setting mind candy that is frighteningly believable.
Like the fleets of robot cars used as weapons.
Re: (Score:2)
I think the opposite. I think this is an example of why human drivers will be easily surpassed by automated systems. When a problem is fixed by a vendor they can roll out a fix that fixes everyone. We've been trying to fix human behaviour for a century and have failed at doing so.
Re: (Score:2)
> When a problem is fixed by a vendor they can roll out a fix that fixes everyone.
Or if the fix itself is flawed (CrowdStrike anyone ?) then the roll out screws everyone. Probably with catastrophic results.
Technology will not fix all the world's problems. I thought that kind of mindset died with Gene Rodenberry. Technology will never fix anything because it is created by humans, or AI, which is itself created by humans. It's unfixable humans all the way down.
A chain is never stronger than its weakest link, and you cannot take the human link out of the chain. There will always be incompet
Re: (Score:2)
> I think the opposite. I think this is an example of why human drivers will be easily surpassed by automated systems. When a problem is fixed by a vendor they can roll out a fix that fixes everyone. We've been trying to fix human behaviour for a century and have failed at doing so.
As long as the cars are using machine learning, there is never going to be a fix that actually fixes all of the instances of even a single problem. The whole idea of being able to have a conclusive fix in an "AI" system is nonsense.
Re: (Score:2)
So far technology has been fixing things and making life a lot better for everyone. Before the year 2000, zero US presidents had ever live past age 92. Now it's 4 (Reagan, Ford, GHW Bush, Carter). You can't tell me that's not advances in medical technology. 200 years ago, it would take 3 days to get from Berlin to Munich. Now you can go from New York City to Beijing, China in less than a day .. and much safer than that trip from Berlin to Munich btw. Anyway, a lot of people died in the early days of aviatio
Re: (Score:2)
> So far technology has been fixing things and making life a lot better for everyone.
Moving the goalposts. Also, learn where the enter key is located. Once you do that I might consider reading your manifesto.
they were going to be rebranded SU7 (Score:2)
One of the engineers pointed out that rebadging them to SU X for Xiaomi would definitely so not work for the Western market
Re: they were going to be rebranded SU7 (Score:2)
Yeah, I hear the 6000 SUX gets really shitty mileage, and you even have to pay extra for a Blaupunkt stereo!
So? (Score:2)
The headline sounds very sensationalist, it's just an update, like Tesla and any other car manufacturer does these days. Especially self driving systems will get many updates in the lifetime of a car. It would be actual news if it didn't get any updates, like in the past with many cars.
At least they're fixing it (Score:2)
Whereas Teslas have randomly jammed their brakes on when detecting a suspicious shadow for 12 years now. I had it happen twice in one trip when passing trucks.
Re: (Score:2)
The SU7 has long-range LIDAR. Teslers have no LIDAR. It's actually possible for Xiaomi to fix their cars, unlike Tesla.
Re: (Score:1)
Then, just don't buy Chinese cars. Or, be ready to take responsibility for using a car with known safety problems.
Re: (Score:2)
Tesla started doing it, now everyone is at it. At least with Xiaomi they don't change the behaviour of the system unless it's actually broken. It's not like Tesla were one week it does a stretch of road perfectly and lulls you into a false sense of security, then the next week it's broken and you die in a firey wreck.
Re: lol, no thanks (Score:2)
Then you shouldn't buy a new car, as ALL manufacturers do it these days. I wouldn't buy a new car that wouldn't get any software updates, as that's all that this is.