One-click SOS is not exclusive to luxury cars, these 80,000 cars also have road assistance calls

According to the Southeast County Public Security Bureau of Hechi City, Guangxi Province (ID: Southeast Public Security Bureau), on March 28, a man drove his car into a 200-meter cliff and was unable to call the police due to a broken mobile phone. After being trapped in the wild for five days, he was discovered by villagers who went into the mountains to do farm work.

From the scene pictures released by the Southeast Public Security Bureau, the man was driving a blue Changan CS35PLUS. Although it is only a small SUV that starts at less than 70,000, the body quality of the CS35PLUS is still unknown.

However, what makes me curious is that when the CS35PLUS was launched in 2018, its top model with vehicle to everything had a "road rescue call" configuration, and there was a "SOS" button behind the reading light. Press this button, or when the vehicle detects a collision, the Changan backstage will contact the owner and send the owner’s location to the police to help the owner call the police. It seems that the owner’s CS35PLUS is not a top model.

"Roadside Call" is almost standard on luxury brand models, such as Volvo’s On Call (on-board housekeeper) and Mercedes-Benz’s Mercedes me. After a Mercedes-Benz owner had a drunk driving collision, because the Mercedes-Benz background could not contact the owner directly to the police, the traffic police found the owner’s drunk driving anecdote.

Of course, safety has never been the exclusive preserve of the wealthy. These vehicles are also equipped with roadside assistance calls, making them the last step in safeguarding safety.

Manufacturer guide price: 6.99~ 107,900

Body wheelbase: 2710mm Powertrain: 1.6L (128Ps) + 5-speed manual/1.6L (128Ps) + CVT/1.5T (180Ps) + 7-speed wet dual clutch

When seeing the Changan Auchan X5, many people may wonder why not write about the Changan CS35PLUS directly? This is because for a long time, I have been writing shopping guide articles not only about specific models, but also about a way of thinking about car selection.

Behind the configuration of "road rescue call" is actually a technology called E-Call (the abbreviation of emergency call, which is literally translated into Chinese as car emergency rescue call system). Whether it is Volvo’s On Call or Lexus’s Gbook, it is behind this system. In 2013, Huawei, Yuanmeng, Changan Automobile, BYD Automobile and other car companies and communication companies established the "E-Call Standard Working Group". In 2018, the MIIT website publicly solicited opinions on the mandatory national standard plan project of "Vehicle Accident Emergency Call System". That is, after this year, "road rescue call" began to be equipped on self-owned brand models.

Therefore, within Changan Group, the "road rescue call" of Changan, Changan Auchan, and Changan Kaicheng uses the same background. However, on Changan models, this configuration is not called "road rescue call" but directly called "road rescue". For Changan models, as long as they have the function of vehicle to everything, they generally support "road rescue call".

On the X5, the most popular model sold by Changan Auchan, the 1.6L CVT premium model with the guide price 85,900 is equipped with a road rescue call. There is an "SOS" button in the middle of the reading light on the roof. Press the button to call the background of Changan Auchan. In order to prevent accidental touch, Changan Auchan also set a transparent protective cover for this button.

Back to the X5 itself, the 128 horsepower 1.6L engine matches the powertrain of the CVT gearbox, which is really sorry for this sporty design, so the version of the 180 horsepower 1.5T engine matching the 7-speed wet dual-clutch gearbox is more worth buying. However, if the 1.5T model wants the roadside rescue call configuration, the landing budget needs to be increased to 110,000. Only the 1.5T DCT premium model and above with the guide price 95,900 has this configuration.

Manufacturer guide price: 7.58~ 119,800

Body wheelbase: 2600mm Powertrain: 1.4T (141Ps) + 6-speed manual/1.4T (141Ps) + 6-speed wet double clutch/1.5T (177Ps) + 7-speed wet double clutch

Earlier, I mentioned that "as long as it has the function of vehicle to everything, it generally supports road rescue calls", so when we see that in Geely Binyue’s configuration table, platinum, diamond, and Xingyao are "GKUI Jike Intelligent Ecosystem", and the second top and top are "New Digital Intelligent Cockpit System", we know that the second top and top support "road rescue calls".

However, in Geely, the name of "road rescue call" has become "E-CAII intelligent emergency rescue". In addition, due to the versatility of technology, models that generally support E-CAII also support functions such as remote control of vehicles and finding vehicles.

Geely Binyue is not a small SUV that focuses on household use. The second top and top are equipped with a 177 horsepower three-cylinder 1.5T engine, which is matched with a 7-speed wet dual-clutch gearbox. The official nominal zero-hundred acceleration time is 7.9 seconds, but the starting price is only 109,800. Coupled with the L2-level auxiliary driving support active braking, lane departure warning and other functions, Binyue really achieves fast and safe.

However, this three-cylinder engine may become a concern for many consumers. Fortunately, the 1.5T four-cylinder engine has appeared in MIIT’s declaration list and is expected to be available in the middle of the year. This part of the consumer can wait a little longer.

Manufacturer guide price: 11.99~ 125,900

Body wheelbase: 2640mm Powertrain: 1.5L (113Ps) + 6-speed automatic hand/1.3T (163Ps) + 6-speed automatic hand

Domestic car companies and communication companies began to develop E-Call, a big reason is that around 2009, Toyota’s G-book and General Motors’ OnSatr entered the country, which stimulated the investment of domestic manufacturers. However, Toyota is too "crazy" in reducing distribution, and in General Motors models, OnSatr is almost standard, so for a long time before the popularization of new energy, OnSatr was also synonymous with car remote control and road rescue calls. Search for "automatic alarm after a car accident" on the Internet, and most of the content is related to General Motors.

Due to the shortage of chips, some of GM’s less profitable models have gradually cancelled the Onji Star, such as the Chevrolet Cruze with a landing price of less than 80,000 yuan after the discount, and its 22 models have all cancelled the Onji Star. However, on the GM A-class car "carrying the handle" Buick Yinglang, GM did not dare to cancel it directly.

Although there was no direct cancellation, the Anji Star on the 21 models of Yinglang had been reduced to only two functions: positioning and emergency rescue, and all the functions of remote control vehicles had been reduced. Even the 1.5L model elite models produced after October 2021 had even removed these two functions, leaving only 100GB of free data per year.

As for Yinglang itself, or that sentence, Yinglang’s 1.5L top 90,000 is worth the price, the most cost-effective is the 1.3T elite type, the general 1.3T three-cylinder engine, whether it is power output, or vibration suppression are very good, plus 48V light mixing system, 1.3T version not only fuel consumption performance is good, urban transportation is also very fast.