To ensure Jing Mingqiu had no excuse to deny, and to completely cripple the industrial software developed by Dragon Country, Forté Group specifically arranged for several reporters to board the car for a close-up live broadcast.
"Good evening, everyone," a blonde beauty with a large bust and long legs, sitting in the passenger seat, flashed a brilliant smile at the camera. "I am Alice, a reporter from Pengpai News, and I am now in a Tesla electric vehicle, broadcasting live."
"According to the software predictions from Dragon Country, Tesla electric vehicles will experience brake failure and loss of control when driving at high speeds on rainy nights. Practice yields truth, and to expose their lies, Forté Company has specially prepared this live test."
"To prevent Dragon Country from reneging, we have prepared three experimental sites for synchronized testing. Viewers who believe in the quality of Forté automobiles can also drive their own cars and test along with us."
As she spoke, Alice deliberately put on a pained expression: "Plagiarism is not scary; everyone makes mistakes. As long as they correct their mistakes, compensate actively, and guarantee they won't repeat them, we can all forgive them."
"But to be unable to plagiarize properly, yet deliberately feign profundity, spread all sorts of dangerous rhetoric to disrupt world order, and thereby promote their own software. This behavior is despicable, and we must resolutely resist it and make them pay the price they deserve."
The joint sanctions imposed by Western powers on Dragon Country, and Jing Mingqiu's defiance on behalf of Dragon Country, had already captured the world's attention. Tonight's test was like adding fuel to the fire.
In the blink of an eye, tens of millions of viewers flocked to the livestream. If not for Pengpai News urgently allocating all its computing power and spending a large sum of money to temporarily increase its server capacity, the Pengpai News livestream room would have long been overwhelmed by the immense traffic.
As a special correspondent who had been paid, Alice first praised the Tesla electric vehicle as agreed, and simultaneously disparaged Dragon Country. Only after most viewers had entered the livestream room did she officially announce the start of the test.
With the hum of the engine, the Tesla electric vehicle slowly started.
Alice directed the cameraman to focus the lens on the receding scenery outside the window, her voice filled with emotion: "Dear viewers, our speed has now reached forty kilometers per hour, but the vehicle's operation is still very stable, with no sense of bumpiness."
"Oh, no. It's fifty now, sixty..."
"Wow! I can hardly believe my eyes. In such terrible weather, a car can actually drive at eighty kilometers per hour."
Seeing the Tesla car driving safely in the rain at high speed, the long-lurking internet trolls immediately began to stir up trouble.
"Jing Mingqiu, come out and apologize quickly! Your prediction failed. The Tesla electric vehicle has no safety issues driving in the rain. Your so-called industrial testing software is just trash!"
"Jing Mingqiu is a big liar. Dragon Country is a country made up entirely of liars. Dragon Country needs to apologize to all countries and compensate them..."
For a time, the bullet screen was filled with condemnation of Dragon Country.
Seeing that the task assigned by her superiors had been successfully completed, and with the viewership exceeding one billion, Alice prepared to reap some benefits for herself.
"The rain is really heavy today, but the car's power is strong and the air conditioning is powerful. I'm not cold at all; in fact, I'm a little hot."
As she spoke, Alice slowly took off her jacket, revealing a skimpy tank top and her ample cleavage.
"So big, so white!"
"Miss Alice, I'm your dog..."
Just as Alice was showing off her figure and seizing the opportunity to attract fans, the car suddenly began to shake violently.
Alice, busy showing off her figure, was not seated firmly. The car shook violently, causing her to lose her balance and slam into the camera.
"How are you driving? Can't you drive more steadily!"
Alice raised her head, clutching her head, and cast a fierce glance at the driver. Just as she was about to scold him further, she suddenly noticed that the driver was covered in sweat and staring ahead with extreme terror.
"What, what is this?" Alice followed the driver's gaze and saw that a heavy truck had inexplicably stopped in front of them. Her Tesla electric vehicle, traveling at a speed of one hundred kilometers per hour, was hurtling towards it.
"Watch out, watch out for the front! Brakes! Step on the brakes quickly!" Seeing the heavy truck getting closer and closer, Alice forgot about her image and screamed in terror.
"I did! I stepped on them! I can't move them!" The driver was drenched in sweat, his right foot firmly planted on the brake pedal. He stood in a pose like a golden rooster standing on one leg, leaning his entire body onto the small brake pedal.
However, all of this was useless.
The Tesla electric vehicle did not use traditional mechanical brakes but an electronic braking system for its sole power.
Under the incorrect judgment of the Tesla assistance system, it determined that braking was not allowed at this moment. To avoid incorrect operation, it forcibly locked the brake pedal under the driver's foot.
Being unable to brake meant being unable to decelerate. To save his life, the driver could only frantically turn the steering wheel in an attempt to avoid the heavy truck blocking the road.
At this moment, something even more desperate happened to the driver.
The Tesla assisted driving system mistook the sides of the road for cliffs. To prevent passenger injury, it forcibly locked the steering wheel.
Unable to decelerate or swerve, and in the desperate eyes of Alice, the driver, and the cameraman, the Tesla electric vehicle they were in violently crashed into the rear of the heavy truck ahead.
Accompanied by a massive fireball, the three of them, along with the camera, were reduced to charred remains.
The livestream was thus interrupted, but the last images transmitted by the camera before its destruction clearly recorded the entire process.
The livestream room, which had been incredibly lively just moments before, instantly became eerily quiet.
"My God! What did I just see? The brakes really failed! The prediction from Dragon Country came true."
"The quality of Tesla electric vehicles is terrible! I don't want to die; I must return my car immediately."
"Dragon Country's industrial software is truly powerful. The problems that our country's software couldn't detect, they detected with such ease..."
Seeing the public opinion shifting, Andrew Forté quickly stepped forward and issued a statement: "This was an accident and has nothing to do with the quality of the Tesla electric vehicle. It's all the fault of the driver for not paying attention, being distracted by that female reporter."
"Here, I want to solemnly remind everyone that driving requires focus and one must not be distracted..."
"So that's how it is. I was wondering why it suddenly flipped over when everything was fine ahead."
"Indeed. Otherwise, there's no explanation for why he wouldn't brake when he was about to crash into it."
"Alas, I suspect that Alice might have been a spy from Dragon Country? She deliberately took off her jacket and acted seductively just to distract the driver."
Andrew Forté spent a lot of effort, and just when he thought he had successfully blamed all the problems on the driver, two pieces of bad news arrived simultaneously.