HONG KONG: China’s Xiaomi said on Tuesday ( Apr 1 ) that it was actively cooperating with police after a fatal accident involving a SU7 electric vehicle on Mar 29 and that it had handed over driving and system data.
The event marks the first big incident involving the SU7 hatchback, which Xiaomi launched in March last year and since December has surpassed Tesla’s Model 3 on a monthly basis.
Xiaomi’s securities, which had risen by 34.8 per share time to time, closed down 5.5 per share on Wednesday, underperforming a 0.2 per share get in the Hang Seng Tech score.
Xiaomi did not disclose the number of deaths but said preliminary data showed the vehicle was in the Navigate on Autopilot intelligent-assisted leading setting before the incident and was moving at 116kmh.
A vehicle inside the vehicle took over and tried to slow it down but subsequently collided with a concrete pole at a rate of 97 km, Xiaomi said.
The incident in Tongling in the northeast Chinese province of Anhui killed the pilot and two people, Chinese economic release Caixin reported on Tuesday citing companions of the patients.
In a rundown of the data submitted to local police posted on a Weibo account of the company, Xiaomi said NOA issued a risk warning of obstacles ahead and its subsequent immediate takeover only happened seconds before the collision.
Local media reported that the car caught fire after the collision. Xiaomi did not mention the fire in the statement.
Xiaomi began manufacturing EVs last year with the launch of the SU7 sedan after selling smartphones, household appliances and smart gadgets for most of its 15-year history.
The company has two versions of smart driving systems on its SU7 EVs. The higher-end LiDAR-mounted version, as opposed to the pure vision version, enables urban navigation features such as collision avoidance and special vehicle recognition.
Xiaomi said the car involved in the accident was a so-called standard version of the SU7, which has the less-advanced smart driving technology without LiDAR.  ,