BYD Declares It Will Assume Full Responsibility for Safety in Urban Autonomous Driving: 'We Will Take Responsibility for Autonomous Driving Accidents'

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On May 29, 2026, Chinese automaker BYD announced at its intelligence strategy briefing that it is introducing a one-year safety responsibility guarantee system for City Navigation Autonomous Driving (City NOA). This system expands the scope of coverage following the intelligent parking safety guarantee program launched last July.

The new safety responsibility guarantee applies to consumers who receive new vehicles equipped with the God's Eye A or God's Eye B intelligent driving assistance systems between May 29 and within one year, or who have upgraded their existing vehicles to God's Eye 5.0 via over-the-air (OTA) wireless software updates. If a traffic accident occurs due to driver negligence while using the urban autonomous driving function in compliance with regulations, BYD will fully compensate for all direct economic losses the vehicle must bear, including vehicle repair costs, third-party property damage, and personal injury. This service is free of charge. There is no compensation limit. Furthermore, it will not affect the increase in automobile insurance premiums in the following year.

BYD has made the God's Eye B intelligent driving assistance LiDAR edition available as an option for all vehicle models, with an additional option price of 12,000 yuan (approximately 2.6 million won). The higher-tier God's Eye C system is scheduled to be provided via wireless software updates in December this year.

The number of vehicles equipped with BYD's autonomous driving system has exceeded 3.15 million, with over 200 million kilometers of driving data being accumulated daily. The company employs more than 5,000 research and development personnel.

Technologically, the system integrates smart cockpit, autonomous driving, and electrification systems on a central computer-based Xuanji Architecture 2.0, applying physics-based AI large model algorithms. BYD has unveiled and begun mass production of Xuanji A3, China's first self-developed 4nm process autonomous driving chip. This chip supports L3 and L4 level autonomous driving; when three chips are interconnected, they deliver a total computational performance of over 2,100 TOPS. Power consumption per computation is 20% lower than comparable solutions, and computational efficiency has been doubled through proprietary algorithm optimization. In the future, BYD also plans to launch God's Eye Autonomous Driving Editions (L3/L4) featuring a 10-fold redundancy platform architecture.

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