’s new car launch invitation media test drive is generally one of the ways for manufacturers to promote their models, but it is not without sparks during the test drive. A few days ago, someone in the media was enforced for violating traffic regulations during a test drive of a new car. The reason was that the temporary license plate of the new car for the test drive expired.
A few days ago, some netizens posted screenshots on social networks. Some media were accidentally detected by traffic police during the test drive of the Volvo XC40 pure electric model. At that time, the temporary license for the test drive expired. Therefore, the traffic police also imposed penalties for violations of traffic regulations, deducting 12 points and fines, which also means that the person concerned cannot drive until the license plate is retaken. New car test drives are generally divided into collective test drives by the media and long-term test vehicles provided to the media. It is temporarily unknown whether this test-drive vehicle is a long-term test vehicle provided for use by the automotive media. The picture of
shows that the expiration time of the vehicle license is December 5, and it was stopped and punished by traffic police at 21:00 on the 6th. After the incident was posted on the Internet, it was heatedly discussed by many netizens. Some of the netizens believe that it is mainly caused by the lack of rigor in the work of the auto media. Whether or not a professional car critic should check the condition of the vehicle before driving. Of course, there are other netizens who said that when a manufacturer seeks a test drive from the media, the organizer should handle the license issue, and the media does not conduct inspections based on trust.
However, this is not the first time that such "unlicensed driving" has occurred. When Leap Motor used a fake license to organize a media test drive last year, many auto media professionals were arrested by traffic police and the media professionals who drove were also caught. As a result, penalty points were deducted.
Zhao Gang, vice president of Zero Run, rushed to the scene immediately after the accident, and responded, and issued a long post to apologize to the media teacher in response to the "test drive fake license" incident. Z1z
Zero Run Auto stated that it will be responsible for this matter, and promised to provide the editor with a dedicated car travel service when the editor has not re-obtained his driver's license, as well as compensation for all expenses in the process of re-examination and obtaining a driver's license. Zhao Gang also explained that the trial driving event was “approved by a service provider”. He said that he “apologizes” for not fully verifying the license, and will deal with relevant parties seriously afterwards.
Therefore, in response to the "zero-run incident", some netizens believe that the media should pay more attention to it. If the media is more difficult to identify because of the use of fake license plates, it is understandable, but it is not very good because of negligence. After all, "professional auto media teacher" "It is more professional to drive on the road.
According to the Traffic Law, the use of a fake temporary number plate on the road by a motor vehicle is regarded as using a forged or altered motor vehicle number plate. The motor vehicle is detained, 12 points are deducted, a fine of not less than 2,000 yuan but not more than 5,000 yuan, and 15 Penalties for detention below days, and the circumstances are serious enough to constitute a crime, criminal responsibility shall be investigated according to law.
has an unshirkable responsibility for the test drive organizer and the parties involved. According to regulations, the driver’s license will be detained after 12 points have been detained to participate in the study again. In addition to the fine, the media teacher can no longer drive during this period. This also reminds more media teachers and test drive organizers to check the various conditions of the vehicle before the test drive to avoid similar things from happening again.
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