Watch: Emergency steering helps China’s BYD EV dodge mock car at 81 mph

BYD’s Seal 07 sedan steered around a stationary mock car at 81 mph during a test in China, demonstrating an emergency feature of the automaker’s God’s Eye B driver-assistance system. The car issued a warning and changed lanes after an SUV ahead moved aside, exposing the obstacle. The high-speed run was one of three tests BYD organized for its second-generation sedan. In two separate runs at 56 mph, the Seal 07 steered around a stationary target with a truck behind it and avoided a child dummy that emerged from behind a parked vehicle. Emergency steering at 81 mph A BYD Sealion 05 SUV led the Seal 07 toward the stationary target in the first test. The SUV switched lanes as it approached the mock car, leaving the sedan closing in on the obstacle. Video from the demonstration shows the Seal 07 driver taking his hands off the wheel before the car steered clear of the target. The warning appeared on the instrument cluster, and the sedan switched on its hazard lights. The footage ends shortly after the Seal 07 passes the mock car, leaving it unclear whether the sedan returned to its original lane. The test speed exceeded mainland China’s usual expressway limit of about 75 mph (120 km/h). A trailing truck and a child dummy BYD added a truck to the second test, placing the Seal 07 between it and the Sealion 05. As in the first run, the SUV moved aside to reveal a stationary target. The sedan changed lanes to avoid it while the truck followed behind. The truck made hard braking a risk of its own. Slowing abruptly could have exposed the Seal 07 to a rear-end collision, so the test showed how the system could steer around the obstacle under those conditions. The third run also took place at 56 mph, this time with a moving target. A child dummy emerged from behind a parked vehicle as the sedan approached. The driver-assistance system detected the dummy and steered the car out of its path. What powers God’s Eye B system The Seal 07 uses a roof-mounted lidar sensor, 12 cameras, 12 ultrasonic sensors and five millimeter-wave radars. The sensors feed data to a single Nvidia Drive Orin X chip capable of up to 254 trillion operations per second. God’s Eye B supports emergency braking, emergency steering, and automated parking. It also offers Navigate on Autopilot, which can guide the car from one address to another while the driver supervises. BYD launched the second-generation Seal 07 in China in November 2026 and offers it in battery-electric and plug-in hybrid versions. The all-electric model has a rated range of up to 775 km on China’s CLTC test cycle. BYD said it can charge from 10% to 97% in nine minutes. The automaker plans to bring God’s Eye to overseas markets. The Denza Z9 GT station wagon is slated to be the first vehicle from BYD to offer the system’s city navigation assistance feature in Europe. Get the latest in engineering, tech, space & science - delivered daily to your inbox.Atharva is a full-time content writer with a post-graduate degree in media & amp; entertainment and a graduate degree in electronics & telecommunications. He has written in the sports and technology domains respectively. In his leisure time, Atharva loves learning about digital marketing and watching soccer matches. His main goal behind joining Interesting Engineering is to learn more about how the recent technological advancements are helping human beings on both societal and individual levels in their daily lives.