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Who would have thought that the new car that had just been picked up for three days was "violently unboxed" by the cement tanker before he could post it o
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Who would have thought that the new car that had just been picked up for three days was "violently unboxed" by the cement tanker before he could post it on his Moments to show off? On August 19, Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia staged a realistic version of the "iron-packed meat" escape, comparable to the Hollywood disaster film. An out-of-control cement tanker crashed into multiple cars in the two-way lane. One of the gem green Xiaomi YU7, which had just been picked up for 3 days, was hit and rotated 180 degrees, and was pushed more than ten meters. As a result, the owner and his wife had only broken their fingers. The plot reversed more than the movie!
1. Three days of picking up the car becomes "Escape from Doomsday": The owner's terror is 24 hours a day
"This car is planned for my son. It's too hard to ride a bike for more than ten kilometers every day." Mr. Li, a 50-year-old Anhui car owner, was still trembling in an interview. On August 16, he had just picked up the Xiaomi YU7, which had been in line for three months at the Fuyang Xiaomi Delivery Center. He also planned to drive to Inner Mongolia to see the grasslands. At 2:34 pm on the 19th, fate played a black joke on them in a two-way lane in Chifeng City.
The dash recorder video shows that the convoy was lined up in an orderly manner at that time, and a cement tanker suddenly rushed from behind to the opposite lane. Mr. Li's Xiaomi YU7 was the first to be hit by the tanker. After being hit head-on, the body instantly rotated 180 degrees, and then was pushed for more than ten meters. "My brain was blank at that time, and my ears were buzzing when the airbag bounced open. I didn't know what was happening outside." Mr. Li recalled that when he and his wife crawled out of the seriously deformed car, they found that their new car had become "scrapped iron" - the front of the car was severely corroded, and the rear hit the bus. The airbags of the whole car exploded, but the door could be opened normally and the A-pillar was intact.
What's even more thrilling is that after the tanker crashed into the Xiaomi YU7, it crashed into another white SUV, causing it to roll on the side and down the roadbed. "If the driver of the rear vehicle hadn't shouted 'Reversing', we might have been directly crushed by the tanker." Mr. Li said in fear. The white SUV that was hit downhill has not been updated with the injury so far. The tragic situation of the vehicle facing the sky in the picture made netizens exclaim, "The small car is like paper in front of the big goods."
2. Xiaomi YU7 "hard core to save lives": 2200MPa super-strong steel has made contributions?
The most dramatic reversal of this accident is the magical reality of "scrapped cars save lives." Judging from the photos on the scene, the front of the Xiaomi YU7 was almost "flattened", and the anti-collision beam was seriously deformed, but the crew cabin was as complete as before, which is in sharp contrast to the first public accident of the model in June this year - at that time, a white YU7 was rear-ended by the Aion Y rear-end, the trunk was only partially dented, and the anti-collision beam did not collapse structurally, while the front of the Aion Y rear-end was seriously damaged.
"The quality of this car is really good. If it weren't for it, I would have been really cold." Mr. Li choked in the video. Netizens have found the safety configuration of Xiaomi YU7: the body frame uses 2200MPa super-strong steel (the mainstream industry is 1500MPa), and the tensile strength is increased by 40%; the load-bearing capacity of the front and rear door anti-collision beams is increased by 52.4% and 37.6% respectively; the A-pillar is embedded with 2200MPa steel through the hot gas inflation process, and the load-bearing capacity is increased by 35%. These data were brutally verified in the accident - when the tanker hits with dozens of tons of weight, the YU7's energy-absorbing structure effectively disperses the impact force to prevent the crew cabin from being squeezed.
But the controversy also followed: some netizens questioned whether the door can be opened is lucky because of the impact angle, while some engineers pointed out that "although super-strong steel is hard, the maintenance cost may soar." What’s even more interesting is that some sharp-eyed netizens discovered that Mr. Li’s Douyin account had previously posted a video of picking up a car. Someone in the comment area once joked that “the new car has been driven for three days and the car insurance is used all.” Now it’s a prophecy, but it has unexpectedly become a “live advertisement” for Xiaomi’s safety.
3. Behind the tanker’s out-of-control: Brake failure or operational error?
Another focus of the accident is the reason why the cement tanker lost control. Preliminary investigation by Chifeng Traffic Police showed that the tanker was suspected to have lost control on the downhill section due to brake failure. In order to avoid the passenger bus in front, it turned to the opposite lane, and eventually hit seven or eight vehicles in a row. But netizens did not buy it: "Can the brake failure be able to accurately avoid passenger cars? This operation is even more amazing than the Akima Mountain bike god!" "Can the tank truck driver be playing with his mobile phone, right?"
Looking back at similar cases, in a 19-car crash on the Qinglian Expressway in Guangdong in 2017, the cement tanker caused the accident was also accused of "braking failure", resulting in 6 deaths and 16 injuries; while the fatal accident on the Anhui Expressway in March 2025 exposed the defect of the pure visual solution to insufficient distance recognition at night. Although the YU7 accident did not involve intelligent driving, it once again sounded the safety alarm for big trucks. According to statistics, accidents caused by truck brake failure in my country account for more than 30% of the year, and the driving principle of "giving speed but not giving way" has obviously become a "dilemma" for tankers.
4. Will car owners still buy Xiaomi? Netizens are quarreling
"This car owner will definitely repurchase!" "I'm scared to death!" In the accident video, netizens quarreled over "Will Mr. Li continue to choose Xiaomi?" Supporters believe: "A car that saves life at critical moments will have to be bought again if anyone changes!" "Xiaomi saves 1 billion in this wave of advertising fees!" The opposition joked: "Picking up the car for three days will turn into scrap iron. This experience is so sour. Who dares to come back?"
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In fact, Mr. Li's choice has given an answer - he clearly stated in an interview: "If you change the same model, you will have to wait for a few more months, but being fine is the best result." Xiaomi Auto's reaction is also textbook-level: after the accident, the staff will be sent to the local area to assist in the handling, and retrieve the dash recorder video to cooperate with the investigation. This attitude of "not passing the blame or being silent" is in sharp contrast to the tragic situation where Xiaomi's stock price plummeted by 33% after the SU7 accident in March this year. Perhaps it is Lei Jun's confidence in "making cars with engineers' minds."
5. Safety is the hard truth: When "iron-packed meat" becomes a compulsory course
What is most worth pondering about in this accident is that it tore open the fig leaf of the "performance inversion" of new energy vehicles - when car companies are busy competing for zero-hundred acceleration and intelligent driving, is the safety of passengers put first? YU7 uses a "passive safety test" to prove: 2200MPa super-strength steel, multi-layer energy absorption design, hot gas inflation process... These seemingly boring technical parameters are the last line of defense in life at critical moments.
As netizens said: "Cars can be repaired, but people must live. This is the greatest meaning of buying a car." When Mr. Li and his wife climb out of the scrap iron car, they may remember the promise of "I want to take you to the prairie" when picking up the car - although the new car is scrapped, their lives are still there, and there will still be countless prairie sunrises waiting for them in the future. For each of us, the most important thing to leave behind in this accident is to fasten seat belts, keep the distance between vehicles, and stay away from large trucks.
After all, in front of the steel giant beast, no matter how cool a car is, it is not as realistic as the word "live". What do you think?
