The Chinese manufacturer Xiaomi will correct more than 110,000 electric cars that are already on the market for a defect in the management help system, the national regulator announced this Friday, September 19, a few months after a fatal accident.
Remote update
“The system could present an insufficiency in the recognition, alert or management of extreme scenarios,” the market regulation administration wrote in a press release. She specifies that Xiaomi “will carry out a free Software update from OTA (remotely) to eliminate this defect.”
Chinese car manufacturers are launched in a career for driving aid technologies, a new battlefield of an ultra competitive market.
But these technologies were subject to animated debates after a fatal accident that involved a SU7 vehicle in March. Su7 is Xiaomi’s flagship model. Its driving help mode, offered under the name “Autopilote” (navigate in autopilot – NaO), was activated at the time of the accident.
The car detected an obstacle in a section under construction of the road and issued a warning before returning to the driver, Xiaomi said in a report.
A few seconds later, the vehicle hit a barrier at the speed of 97 km/h, killing the three failing young people.
The semi -autonomous management system proposed by SLE7 “increased the risk of collision (…) in the absence of rapid intervention by the driver,” the Chinese regulator said on Friday.
Almost 117,000 updated vehicles
Xiaomi will carry out a remote and free update of 116,887 vehicles produced between February 2024 and August 2025, the company announced on the Weibo platform, a social network similar to X (Ex-Twitter).
Remote software corrections, without return to the dealership, are a common practice among car manufacturers.
But the news of the software update has relaunched the public debate about the March accident: a hashtag linked to this announcement had been consulted more than 70 million times in Weibo on Friday afternoon.
Source: BFM TV
