Lantu Auto's Lu Fang responds to the controversy over "crash cars": short development time does not equal crash cars

In response to the recent controversy in the automotive industry about "crash cars", Lu Fang, Chairman of Lantu Automobile, publicly stated on August 12th that a short development time does not equal a crash car. It points out that the concept of "crash car" is severely misunderstood. The only criterion for determining whether a car is a "crash course" is not the length of time, but whether all necessary verification processes have been completed completely. If a vehicle violates rules, cuts corners, and reduces testing during development, that is the true 'crash car'. If a vehicle has a shortened cycle but meticulously completes every test in regulations and industry standards, it should be called an "efficient vehicle". Lu Fang explained that the faster development speed of new energy vehicles nowadays is ultimately a systematic leap in technology, rather than a compromise on quality: Firstly, in terms of platformization and modularization, mature driver architectures and three electric systems can be efficiently reused across vehicle models without the need for trial and error. In addition, with the maturity of simulation testing technology, car companies can complete millions of kilometers of extreme condition verification in the virtual world, greatly reducing the cycle of pure physical testing. Lu Fang emphasized that the strictness of verification and testing is the key to truly defining quality. Speed is never the standard, and whether there is cutting corners or compromising safety is the watershed of judgment.