Hi, everybody. Welcome to Shift, a podcast about mobility. I'm Pete Bigelow, your host and reporter at the automotive news.

My guest on the podcast this week is To Lee, founder and managing director of Sino Auto Insights.

We'll be talking about BYD's big announcement

regarding its God's Eye driver assistance system this week and what that means for the ever-growing

competition in the global automotive market. I think everyone in the West believes that

the legacy OEMs want to be Tesla, but Tesla wants to be B-YD.

First, I'm going to take a solo spin through this week's headlines.

And since this week's podcast centers around the big BYD driver assistance news,

I'm going to start with some other driver assistance-related developments.

Stalantis said this week that it's ready to deploy its

auto-drive system, the company's first automated driving system that's developed in-house,

and it's capable of achieving SAE level three driving, meaning that its system can be

responsible for the vehicle operation when it's engaged. But, and this is a big butt, the human driver has to be ready to retake control

when the system demands they do so.

Stalanta says, and I quote,

AutoDrive will allow drivers to temporarily engage non-driving tasks,

such as watching a movie, catching up on emails, reading a book,

or simply looking out the window, reclaiming valuable time, end quote.

That statement's interesting because it goes beyond what Mercedes-Benz said in terms of what

its level three driver system can do last year, which was about taking your attention away from the road,

but they were very careful to not specify some of the activities

that a driver might engage in while they're not driving.

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