About 70 Chinese Xiaomi electric vehicles were damaged in one day due to an automatic parking function error.
According to Hongseong Newspaper on the 22nd (local time), from noon on the 14th to early morning on the 15th, automatic parking function failure occurred in about 70 standard versions of Xiaomi’s electric vehicle ‘SU7’ (Speed Ultra 7, Chinese name Suqi).
Xiaomi’s automatic parking function is a function that allows the vehicle to identify the target location and park on its own when the driver drives the car close to the parking location. It is reported that a problem occurred here and the vehicle crashed into a pillar in a parking lot, causing damage such as deformation and wear to the rear of the vehicle.
A local driver who had an accident on the 14th while driving the SU7 purchased in May of this year said, “The reversing radar did not recognize the obstacle before the collision. “There was no collision warning sound,” he said. “The parking process did not stop even after the collision, so the damage became more serious.”
The driver sent the vehicle to the Xiaomi customer center for data inspection and analysis the day after the accident. The customer center explained, “A Xiaomi system bug (error) caused the automatic parking function to malfunction.”
He then took responsibility for the repair cost and offered to provide 1,500 Xiaomi points (150 yuan, approximately 29,000 won) as compensation for each day during the repair period.
Another driver who had an accident where he collided with another vehicle due to a parking function error reportedly received 10,000 Xiaomi points (1,000 yuan, approximately 190,000 won) per day as compensation.
The SU7 is an electric vehicle that Xiaomi developed in-house and launched for the first time in March in an attempt to catch Tesla. Within 8 months of launch, 100,000 units were produced and sales are explosive. Xiaomi Chairman Lei Jun said in June, “(SU7) is the ‘highest peak’ in parking, at least in the autonomous driving area.”
Hyewon Lee, Donga.com Reporter [email protected]
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