{"id":450688,"date":"2026-05-29T06:58:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T06:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/450688\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T06:58:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T06:58:15","slug":"chinas-byd-aims-for-zero-accidents-with-gods-eye-vows-crash-cost-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/450688\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s BYD aims for zero accidents with \u2018God\u2019s Eye\u2019, vows crash cost coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Founder and chairman Wang Chuanfu told a press conference in Shenzhen on Thursday that BYD\u2019s \u201cGod\u2019s Eye\u201d <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/business\/china-business\/article\/3336841\/byd-ups-ante-l3-autonomous-cars-begins-testing-models-mass-production?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">advanced driver-assistance system<\/a> would be priced at just 12,000 yuan (US$1,770). The system allows drivers to go \u201chands off\u201d, with BYD pledging to cover any costs from traffic accidents when the technology is activated.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cThere are roughly 1.19 million people who die in traffic accidents globally every year, and tens of millions more are injured. Our first goal is to achieve zero traffic accidents,\u201d Wang said.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cA car is equipped with more than a dozen cameras, lidar and radar \u2013 the equivalent of dozens of eyes \u2013 monitoring road conditions around the clock without blind spots. Advanced driver-assistance never gets tired.\u201d<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Wang did not disclose a timetable for commercialisation.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The announcement underscores BYD\u2019s push to secure a leading position in the future of mobility, with ambitions to mass-produce smarter cars at lower costs.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Wang said the company had built more than 6,100 flash-charging stations in total, the most among Chinese carmakers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Founder and chairman Wang Chuanfu told a press conference in Shenzhen on Thursday that BYD\u2019s \u201cGod\u2019s Eye\u201d advanced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450689,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[61808,138,4165,229386,111,139,69,157193,229385,229387,116107],"class_list":["post-450688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-adas","tag-business","tag-byd","tag-ev-market","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-price-competition","tag-self-driving-technology","tag-superfast-charging-technology","tag-wang-chuanfu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}