A Chinese motorist claims that his new Xiaomi SU7 Max driver fatigue warning keeps triggering because of his really small eyes.
Mr. Li, a young driver from China’s Zhejiang Province, recently bought the luxurious Xiaomi SU7 Max, a beautiful EV sedan powered by a powerful motor capable of taking the car from 0 to 60 mph in just 2.78 seconds. It’s one of the most coveted electric cars in the world right now, but for Li, it has been a pain to drive. Soon after taking his new ride out for a drive, the Chinese man started hearing the “Please focus on driving” warning sound, even though he was not distracted and was watching the road in front of him. The message “Focus on driving, pay attention to safety” kept showing up on the car’s digital display as well, and it took him a while to figure out that his eyes were the problem.

“I opened my eyes wide, and then I didn’t hear the warning sound,” Mr. Li said in a video that has gone viral on social media. “But when I opened my eyes normally, I heard the warning sound again. Apparently, my eyes are so small that the car thinks I am about to fall asleep.” In his video, Li complained that the car’s fatigue warning triggered about 20 times during a short drive, which he found very annoying and distracting. Interestingly, many of the comments on his clip were from Chinese motorists who claimed to have experienced similar problems with other Chinese cars from brands like Lynk & Co, Deepal, and others. Other Xiaomi SU7 owners claimed to have reported this same issue to the manufacturer.

https://www.odditycentral.com/news/chinese-man-with-small-eyes-keeps-triggering-cars-asleep-at-the-wheel-warning.html

After Li’s video went viral, Xiaomi came out with a statement, claiming that the motorist had experienced the SU7’s ‘fatigue monitoring’ function. The system detects the driver’s condition through a camera mounted on the vehicle’s steering wheel, and if it detects that they are distracted or tired, it sends out audio and written warnings on the car’s display. If the driver does not respond to these warnings, the car begins to decelerate until it stops completely. The Chinese automaker clarified that the fatigue monitoring app can be turned off in the settings, but doing so is not recommended because of obvious safety concerns.

>>28469167 (OP)
Why are companies willingly putting nanny cameras in consumer vehicles?

>>28469169
So that they can
>Charge you more
>Comply to the state asking for higher safety standards (more control)
This feature will be coming in all 2025 EU cars afaik and to the USA soon too. It's one of the reasons why the GR86 got killed in the EU as toyota didnt want to re-engineer the top of the windshield to include even more shit.

>>28469169
They're mandatory in the US in less than a year. The shit show is about to begin.

I bet the chinese used european subjects when designing their tech in the xiaomi car.
They are huge self haters and despise their features.

>>28469167 (OP)
you'd think a chinese car designed and built in china for chinese people to drive would recognize what chinese people's eyes look like

>>28469455
They are obsessed with whites in east asia.
Look at how japanese bugmen gooks draw people in cartoons, they always look white. They hate their natural appearance a lot.

>>28469169
Just wait untill a breathalyser is mandatory before starting the car
>Yes this is what your govt is lobbying for

>>28469447
>I bet the chinese stole european training data when designing their tech in the xiaomi car.
Fix'd

>>28469169
>opportunity to record and sell your information for extra profit literally at your direct expense both initially and ongoing
I'm astonished it hasn't been ubiquitous for decades already.
>and now the government says we HAVE to do it oh noes~ *jewish handwringing noises intensify*
Yeah.

>>28469169
It's for your Safety (tm)

>>28470114
governments dont lobby, retard. corporations lobby to the government. thats also not how greentexts work tourist

>>28469447
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7TacvYrnjI

>>28470243
>Who go you think owns the corporations
>Greentext ur mom idc

>>28469167 (OP)
Does Xiaomi pay people to inform them about complaints so they can sue the complainer for slander/defamation like BYD does? This seems risky.

>>28469167 (OP)
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>>28469169
With how retarded 90% of drivers are, I am all for turbo-pozzed 1984 dystopia self driving pod-cars. Anyone who wants to opt out has to pass yearly driving tests.

>>28471349
big brain hours, those driving tests need to include rev matching, left foot braking, basic wrenching knowledge, and a vision tests.

>>28469169
>Why-
jews

>>28471349
at 0:40 you can see someone hop over the jersey barrier just in time.
the guy in the fj cruiser survived that hit too, off duty paramedic. crawled out and started helping people lol. toyota found out he used to work at one of their dealers, got a reference from his old boss and gave him a free 4runner trd pro

>>28469169
>nanny cameras

There's a lot of connected bullshit going in to cars, but if this doesn't spy for ~the cloud~ and the data stays local I'm all for this. I can't imagine anyone who hasn't driven when tired not being thankful for something like this. And, you can turn it off, at least on the Xiaomi discussed.

If it does upload to the cloud? Then fuck whatever it's doing with that, but at least if I'm being spied on anyway I might as well get a safety feature out of it.

>>28471833
At least the EU regs on attention monitoring specify that the system must be closed-loop and function without retaining any captured data for any longer than absolutely necessary to implement the feature.
The system must also work without requiring any biometric profiles or individual facial recognition.

I don't think there's anything in the regulation to prohibit the car from using the cameras for some other purpose, such as recognizing the driver and personalizing the car or its services, but those would definitely fall under EU personal data protection laws, and you can generally opt out of extra crap like that.
Those EU opt-outs and restrictions on data processing are actually a huge headache for some US companies that have their entire software stack written with the assumption that everything gathered goes into the "data lake" and can be used for nearly any purpose from there.