{"id":1599,"date":"2025-07-26T14:43:59","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T14:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eautomobiliai.lt\/index.php\/2025\/07\/26\/36-cars-216-crashes-with-tesla-on-top\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T14:43:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T14:43:59","slug":"36-cars-216-crashes-with-tesla-on-top","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eautomobiliai.lt\/index.php\/2025\/07\/26\/36-cars-216-crashes-with-tesla-on-top\/","title":{"rendered":"36 cars, 216 crashes, with Tesla on top"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Chinese media outlet Dongchedi closed down a real highway for a multi-day test of 36 different car driver assist systems in complicated, dangerous real-world driving situations, and most came up severely lacking \u2013 though Tesla escaped the tests relatively unscathed.<\/p>\n
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Over the years, we\u2019ve seen our fair share of crash tests, often conducted in labs to detect the severity of a crash and the probability of injury to occupants. These tests focus on how well a car\u2019s physical crash structures protect occupants, and occasionally other road-users, in the event of a crash.<\/p>\n
Then there are \u201creal-world\u201d tests, like the famous \u201cmoose test\u201d where a driver has to do a rapid direction change to avoid an intruding object in the road, testing vehicle dynamics and whether a car is able to handle quick changes in direction at high speed without rolling over.<\/p>\n
More recently, crash tests have started to incorporate systems like Automatic Emergency Braking (AEB), which is intended to apply the brakes when a crash is imminent to reduce severity of the crash, or even more recently, advanced driver aids collectively known as Advanced Driver Assist Systems or ADAS.<\/p>\n
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You\u2019ve likely heard of these ADAS systems before, usually offered and branded by individual automakers, like Tesla\u2019s Full Self-Driving, BYD\u2019s God\u2019s Eye, or Mercedes\u2019 Drive Pilot. They\u2019re not actually<\/em> self-driving (well, Drive Pilot can drive you in certain circumstances, and Tesla says unsupervised FSD is Coming This Time Next Year\u2122\u2026 for about the tenth year running), but they can fully control the vehicle on highways.<\/p>\n
All of these fit under a common umbrella of SAE Level 2 systems that are meant to take some<\/em> of the responsibilities of driving away from a human driver and let a computer handle them. This can help reduce driving fatigue, but more importantly, could<\/em> also lead to safer driving as computers don\u2019t lose attention or get tired and can theoretically make decisions much faster than a human could \u2013 or at least, that\u2019s what auto industry marketing would like you to believe.<\/p>\n
Despite the theoretical superiority of these computer systems, in the real world, anyone who has had experience with them knows that they can be strangely indecisive, and will often make different decisions even when encountering the same situation multiple times. That applies to these level 2 systems, and also to true self-driving systems like Waymo\u2019s level 4 system.<\/p>\n
Even if you haven\u2019t driven in one, you\u2019re probably skeptical. By now, we\u2019ve all seen the Tesla Robotaxi fail videos, and heard about Autopilot deaths (including ones that get wrongly credited to Autopilot despite just being pedal confusion).<\/p>\n
We\u2019ve also seen that Tesla Wile E. Coyote video, where American Youtuber Mark Rober tested Tesla\u2019s vision-only approach versus the vision+LiDAR approach \u2013 the latter of which most professionals agree is a more robust solution.<\/p>\n
But there have been some real tests missing, among all this: a real-world, on-highway comparative test of several brands of car, in various complicated but plausible situations, with other cars driving around nearby, with full ADAS system activation, by an independent source.<\/p>\n
Well, in comes Dongchedi with a test that beats the scale of any we\u2019ve seen yet, which it posted on its youtube channel, DCARSTUDIO.<\/p>\n\n