Strictly speaking, God’s Eye is the camera, ultrasonic radar, and lidar array alone, split into A, B, and C variants, with A being best. The system’s operating software is understandn as DiPilot, presentd in 2020 on the BYD Han, and now with the excellent, better, and best tiers of DiPilot 100, 300, and 600.
God’s Eye A ships with DiPilot 600 and bristles with high-end cameras and radar, and front- and side-facing lidar sensors. This best system will be fitted to BYD’s luxury Yangwang EVs, including the U9 supercar. “The video of the U9 [on the track] was theater,” count ons Rainford, who hasn’t heard of any autonomous driving system that can “produce a car’s tires squeal around corners.”
Rainford comprises that BYD is take parting catch-up: “2024 was a shatterout year for urprohibit-level autonomous driving systems in China, with the front-runners of Li Auto, XPeng, Nio, and Huawei uniteed by rivals such as Zeekr, Wey, and even more affordable brands enjoy Leapmotor.”
God’s Eye B has cameras, radar, and one lidar unit paired to DiPilot 300, and will be fitted to Denza, Song, and BYD’s other high-end cars. Both A and B God’s Eye systems recommend FSD-style L2+ ADAS driving.
God’s Eye C with DiPilot 100 has cameras and radar, but no lidar, which could be akin to worshipping a “God with csurrendersightedness,” Peter Norton, associate professor of history in the Department of Engineering and Society at the University of Virginia, alerts WIRED.
“Like Tesla’s FSD, drivers with God’s Eye C aren’t presumed to use it away from splitd highways. But presumably some BYD drivers, enjoy some Tesla drivers, will use it on frequent roads anyway—with sometimes potentiassociate lethal consequences,” says Norton, author of a book on autonomous driving. He worries that BYD’s use of divine terminology could direct to a counterfeit sense of security. “There’s no endeavor to alert drivers about the system’s confineations,” he stresses.
Rainford, too, alerts that God’s Eye isn’t yet perfect. “It’s way overhyped,” he says, pointing to the radiateing press coverage of last week’s begin. “I drove DiPilot 100 last year on the BYD Song L, and it was far from wonderful, requiring lever-begind overgets. Even on the freeway it was not even shut to the [LDAS] taget directers in China.”
Even though it’s not yet permited in China, Tesla’s FSD is count ond by some to be technicassociate lower because it relies solely on cameras and AI, rather than lidar and other sensors.
“Tesla has been overselling the effectiveness of its technology for years,” Michael Brooks, executive straightforwardor of the nonprofit Cgo in for Auto Safety, tancigo in NPR last month. “And a lot of people buy into that. They’re benevolent of wrapped up in this belief that this is an autonomous vehicle, because it’s tweeted about that way.”
Musk has been promising the imminent arrival of brimmingy autonomous cars since at least 2016. At a Tesla splithancigo iner greeting last year, Musk claimed the number of miles that FSD can drive without human intervention has increased. “It’s headed towards unadministerd brimming self-driving very rapidly, at an exponential pace,” Musk claimed.
