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Recently, the safety hazard issue of the Xiangjie S9 zero-gravity seat has become a hot topic.

When many people were looking forward to enjoying the experience of lying down like in a space capsule, many knowledge bloggers jumped out to pour cold water on them. Some said that the only vehicles that "lie flat" while driving are ambulances or funeral cars. Some also mentioned that the large screen on the car is a "death warrant" and intelligent driving is a "road killer."

Each of them made a well-reasoned analysis, and the target is no longer limited to the Xiangjie S9, but all the "fancy" domestic new energy vehicles. The conclusion is that the rigorous legal system abroad does not allow these to exist, allowing domestic cars to take advantage of the loophole.

To be honest, what these people said makes sense, and I personally think there are indeed safety risks. But it is a bit too much to ask whether the legal system allows it. Because these technologies were not first developed by domestic cars, domestic cars can only be regarded as "developing and promoting" them.

(1) Are they all “imported products”?

First of all, the concept of zero-gravity chair comes from abroad. Its function is to create a weightless state similar to being in outer space, allowing people to relax more.

Similar products have been available in foreign countries for a long time, and it is generally recognized that the first one to be installed on a car was Nissan.

In 2005, Nissan, known as the "sofa factory", designed the first zero-gravity chair. The entire seat is designed with 14 different pressure points, which can provide full support from the shoulders to the lower back, making consumers feel excited. The SLAB structure plus the special foam structure with high attenuation began to become the "standard" of this new type of seat, which to some extent changed the industry.

After that, many car companies have equipped similar technologies. The most successful one is undoubtedly Maybach. This ultra-luxury brand has long used zero-gravity seats as an important selling point. Lexus' top models are also equipped with zero-gravity seats, and the high-end riding experience has impressed many users.

As for the domestic cars starting to use this technology, it has only been in the past few years. However, before, zero-gravity seats were only used in cars over 500,000 yuan as a high-end option. Ordinary people have little contact with them, so they think that this technology was first used in domestic cars.

As for the large screen and intelligent driving, they are also the leftovers of international brands. In the 1980s, Honda installed a navigation device that combined a gyroscope and a cathode ray tube display. At the 2001 Frankfurt Motor Show, Audi launched the first generation of MMI human-computer interaction system.

Smart driving was also pioneered by foreigners. International car companies were the first to install ACC adaptive cruise control and AEB active braking. Tesla was also the first to implement NOA automatic assisted navigation driving on highways. Domestic cars have only gone further and done more on this basis.

Let’s not talk about anything else. A few years ago, Lexus was still promoting its 55-inch rear-seat color TV. The simple functions, thick frame, and weak display effect were touted as the ultimate luxury at the time. It is really unfair to say that these technologies are exclusive to domestic cars.

(2) If hidden dangers do exist, are the reasons sufficient?

As for the hidden dangers of these new technologies, I think they do exist, including the zero-gravity chair. When I first experienced it, I realized the possible problems.

The existing seat belts do not support the "lying" position. If you must lie down while driving, the seat belt can only be fastened at the waist. Once a collision occurs, the person will slide down, and the seat belt is not only difficult to tie the person, but also easy to strangle the user. At present, there is indeed no seat belt dedicated to zero-gravity seats. After all, everyone likes different lying positions and different heights. This thing itself is also difficult to "tailor-make".

The key is, do traditional seats not have this problem? Take the Toyota Century SUV as an example. Although the new car does not have the so-called zero-gravity seat, the maximum adjustment angle of the seat in the car can reach 77 degrees, which is also close to the angle of lying flat. Doesn't such a seat have the same problem?

As for the so-called safety hazards of large screens in cars, the reason is that there are too many entertainment contents and drivers are easily "distracted". Then, when there is no large screen, can't these people choose to "look at their mobile phones"? Wouldn't that be even more unsafe?

There are also people who say that intelligent driving is prone to problems. This is also a question of whether to use it or not. Previously, when there was only an ACC adaptive cruise control, although it could follow the car, the effect was indeed not very good and manual intervention was often required. Nowadays, domestically produced high-end intelligent driving does not need to intervene frequently. You just need to keep a little eye on it, and generally there will not be too many problems. Isn't this a major technological advancement? Why do we have to accuse and reprimand?

(3) Double standards are too serious, and we need to return to the technology itself

I personally don’t like some over-promotions, such as hyping up L2+ level assisted driving as autonomous driving. Especially some new forces’ sales really dare to demonstrate, which also creates some bad impressions on consumers.

But there is nothing wrong with the technology itself, only the people who use it are wrong.

Take the Hongmeng cockpit of the Enjoy S9 as an example. The three screens in the front and back are really stunning. And the screen resolution reaches 2.8K, which can achieve very delicate picture effects when watching videos and pictures outdoors. This is quite shocking. Of course, the performance is also impeccable. The screen supports a 144Hz refresh rate, and the smoothness of dynamic pictures is quite outstanding. Coupled with the seamless connection function of the Hongmeng smart cockpit, the car experience of Huawei phones equipped with the Hongmeng system is indeed far superior to that of ordinary cars.

The function is good, but if the user is addicted to playing games while driving, or even the front driver and the back seat user play games online together, and then the vehicle is driving with intelligent driving and no one cares, if something goes wrong in this situation, it is absolutely unsympathetic. Technology brings us more convenience, and we must not let this convenience become a hidden danger. For example, a zero-gravity seat is not suitable for use while driving, and it will not be beautiful if there is a problem.

For consumers, they should also focus on the technology itself, rather than the "attributes" of these technologies, such as who invented it, which companies use this technology as a selling point, and then slander each other. If you don't like this technology, just avoid it. In addition to the essential safety of the vehicle, most of the configurations themselves are not "just needed".

For example, if both are intelligent driving, you don’t need to choose the advanced intelligent driving. There is no need to exaggerate the backward technology as safe, or “over-designed” or “fancy”. We should pay more attention to which technology is better.

(4) Kung Fu Clap

Recently, I have seen many big Vs satirizing domestic new energy vehicles, saying that they are only concerned with stuffing high-tech into the cars and doing some "sensational" things.

Perhaps it is because of the different perspectives, what Kungfu Auto sees seems to be different from them. We see more of the progress of technology, from ACC to high-speed NOA, and now the urban NOA. We see that the efficiency of domestic cars has increased from 3.2L/kWh to 3.6L/kWh. We see that in major crash tests, everyone is no longer just passing, but all kinds of five-star, and many are even "super five-star". We see that the driving experience is constantly improving.

In the end, what matters to everyone is the product. If you don't like it, there's no need to denigrate it. Even if you don't accept domestically made cars, please accept their progress, which has driven down the prices of international brands.