At the 2026 World Intelligent Connected Vehicles Conference in Beijing on Oct. 21, Huawei senior vice president and Yinwang CEO Jin Yuzhi said smart cars are entering a “second half” defined by three shifts: from technology-capability competition to safe-and-trusted competition, from functions to experience, and from single-point capability competition to industrial-system competition. Jin said L2 assisted driving leaves accident responsibility with the driver while L3+ autonomous driving moves it to the system, and he called for the industry to make safety data public and transparent. He also cited Huawei Qiankun figures — 6.8 million potential collisions proactively avoided and, on average, 10.356 million km in ADS assisted driving before each severe collision, 5.75 times the Chinese-driver average — and repeated Yinwang’s “electronic screw” supplier positioning, saying Qiankun works with 25 automaker brands and over 60 models priced from the 150,000-yuan class to the million-yuan class; the safety figures are Huawei’s own and not independently verified.