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Smart driving artifact? Exploring on the brink of illegality is very dangerous

2025-09-28   

On the highway, vehicles are speeding, but drivers are leaving the steering wheel with both hands, burying their heads in their phones, or dozing off while looking up - this is not a sci-fi scene of future intelligent driving, but a thrilling scene created by some "smart" car owners using so-called "intelligent driving tools". Recently, media investigations have found that some car owners deliberately deceive DMS (Driver Monitoring System) monitoring by using capacitive sensing velvet, counterweight rings, etc., making the system mistakenly believe that the driver's hands have never left the steering wheel, while the car owners themselves lower their heads to play with their phones, rest with their eyes closed, and even lie flat to sleep. Online, some merchants openly sell such "auxiliary tools" and attach "cracking tutorials". Cases of tragedies caused by treating vehicle assisted driving functions as "autonomous driving" have emerged one after another, while "ambitious" car owners continue to move forward, which is regrettable. Life safety is greater than heaven. The so-called 'smart driving artifact' is neither wise nor magical. It is clearly a deadly tool that wanders on the edge of illegal driving and provides assistance for dangerous driving. It is a 'nail' inserted into the safety defense line of intelligent driving. Behind it lies the risk of driving safety and the cognitive misunderstandings of car owners, which deserves high vigilance. The "artifact" in the eyes of a few car owners is actually a dual challenge to traffic safety and legal regulations. At present, the vast majority of intelligent assisted driving systems on the Chinese market are still at the L2 level of assistance, far from reaching the level where they can be fully "managed". Once the driver relaxes their vigilance after activating the system, the consequences are unimaginable. This not only violates road traffic safety laws and regulations, but also poses a threat to oneself and public safety. Most of the vehicles with assisted driving functions on the current market in our country require drivers not to take their hands off the steering wheel for a long time, and the DMS system is an important technical guarantee for this safety bottom line. The deliberate destruction of this safety monitoring by the 'intelligent driving artifact' is suspected of violating the law. So, why does the gray "artifact" have a market? The reflection behind it is that in the early stage of the popularization of intelligent driving technology, car companies had promotional misconceptions and car owners had cognitive blind spots. Some manufacturers overemphasize the "automation" level of assisted driving in their marketing campaigns, using vague or excessive slogans such as "autonomous driving", which can easily lead consumers to misunderstand that "vehicles can drive completely autonomously". In addition, some users have insufficient understanding of the limitations of intelligent driving technology, and some car owners mistakenly equate L2 level partially automated driving and assisted driving with autonomous driving and unmanned driving. This cognitive misalignment makes it easy for them to take risks. There have been precedents for behaviors similar to cleverly "cracking" car safety systems. From the early use of "seat belt inserts" to deceive drivers into not fastening their seat belts and alert them, to the later use of "strong interference electronic dogs" to evade speeding monitoring, all of these reflect the indifference of some drivers to rules and their numbness towards safety boundaries. Faced with the new risks brought by the abuse of intelligent assisted driving, institutional norms and technological prevention are urgent tasks. It is reported that the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology is actively promoting the development of national standards related to assisted driving, including DMS systems, and expects the "new national standard" to strengthen the safety norms of intelligent driving from the source; How to 'elevate the demon by one foot, elevate the road by one zhang' also tests whether various car companies can have preventive design in technology to make the intelligent monitoring of drivers effective and reliable; For businesses that openly sell tools used to deceive car safety systems and promote dangerous driving behavior, they should be cleaned up and cracked down on in accordance with laws and regulations, and their distribution channels should be cut off; Drivers themselves should also enhance their awareness of rules and reduce their mentality of taking chances. In the era of technology and intelligence advancing towards goodness, no matter how technology evolves, the responsibility behind the steering wheel always belongs to humans. (New Society)

Edit:Luo yu Responsible editor:Wang xiao jing

Source:workercn.cn

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