Chapter 267 Putting the Problem on the Table
“Next, let us invite Ms. Lin Jia, President of Guangjia Aerospace, to say a few words.”
This can be regarded as the highlight of this press conference. Come on, find the Linjia platform.
Baidu internally calls this time a time of life and death. All unnecessary internal projects are being cut, and all are concentrated on two product businesses.
One is an artificial intelligence search engine that competes with Hornbill AI, and the other is autonomous driving.
There is little hope for the former. Even if it is done, Baidu will not be able to return to its previous position of monopolizing the entire search engine industry in the face of competition from Tencent.
Being able to share the entire market equally with Tencent is already the limit.
Tencent has a natural traffic portal like WeChat, and it is difficult for Baidu to compete. The impact of the backwardness of the mobile Internet era continues to this day.
The latter is considered internally by Baidu to be the foundation for its ability to continue to stand at the forefront of domestic Internet companies.
Please come to the Linjia platform and cooperate with Guangjia Aerospace. This is a very critical step.
"Thank you Robin for sharing just now. Guangjia Aerospace is honored and excited to be able to work with Baidu to develop a new future of autonomous driving.
The progress of autonomous driving has been very rapid in the past few years, Baidu's carrot is fast Paogen is the leading driverless brand in the industry
I admire Baidu’s pursuit of technological excellence. The cooperation between Baidu and Guangjia Aerospace to build the Tianqing optical satellite network can help Baidu’s driverless driving increase its user base again.
I have never experienced Carrot Run before. I only saw it often in the news. This time Robin came to Shanghai to take me to experience it, and it really brought me a lot of experience. The experience is very close to that of a human driver.
There are still some shortcomings in terms of speed, target positioning, and logical judgment of the user's exit location, but I believe that this judgment logic is supported by the Tianqing optical satellite network. can be improved very quickly
Guangjia Aerospace will be committed to helping companies engaged in autonomous driving across the country improve their technical level and help you build satellite networks through low-cost satellite launches.”
Essentially, the emergence of satellite networks can greatly reduce the number of Manual intervention reduces the labor cost of driverless vehicles
It is true that Baidu’s Carrot Run is driverless, but there are still a large number of employees monitoring these driverless vehicles in the background to detect abnormalities. Vehicles are manually taken over.
In 2024, the frequency of one person monitoring three vehicles will be maintained. After entering 2026, one person will still be required to monitor three vehicles.
Such labor and the heavy assets of vehicles determine that Baidu cannot have an advantage over traditional online ride-hailing from the cost side
Baidu borrowed Geely's satellite network for internal calculations. If there is a complete satellite network, they can reduce it to one person monitoring 2,000 vehicles, or even more.
You must know that Geely's satellite network only has 3 satellites, and Baidu plans to launch 1,000 micro-satellites. This is the explosive growth in number brought about by the reduction in launch costs, forming a crushing advantage.
At the same time, with the construction of optical monitoring networks, the accuracy of driverless driving will only become higher and higher.
The online ride-hailing industry will be completely disrupted. For Baidu, building such a satellite network can not only be used by itself, but also sell real-time data to car companies for a fee.
The better the autonomous driving performance of Luobo Kuaipao is, the more companies will be willing to buy Tianqing data, and the lower the cost of launching so many satellites will be.
Of course, Baidu can launch satellites, and so can other companies. Huawei is also negotiating with Guangjia Aerospace.
Compared with Baidu, Huawei has even gone one step further and plans to acquire a satellite company to reduce launch costs.
Almost all companies that are interested in taking a share of the autonomous driving field are gearing up.
For capital, the most helpless thing is that Guangjia Aerospace is ahead. As a result, everyone knows that rocket launch is a good business, but there is only such a company in the entire field that has wrapped up the entire market.
Before the emergence of Guangjia Aerospace, there were many companies in the entire market, and everyone was dividing the cake, and everyone worked together to make the cake bigger.
Now the cake is getting bigger. According to financial media estimates, rocket launches can generate tens of billions of RMB in revenue throughout the year. This is based on the premise that launch costs are greatly reduced.
But no one can share such a large piece of cake.
Before the change, AI was being promoted to the sky. When it was at the cusp of the storm, a large number of artificial intelligence experts from Internet companies jumped out to start their own businesses and took a lot of money from investment institutions. Tens of millions was nothing.
But now, commercial aerospace is showing its light, and demand is constantly emerging. It is obvious that there can be a lot of revenue in the rocket launch field now, and the capital does not even have the idea of poaching experts from Guangjia Aerospace to start a business.
Because it makes no sense, some experts from Huaguo Aerospace who are engaged in rocket launches went to the market to inquire about the market situation. When investment institutions heard this, they all asked, what are your advantages over Guangjia Aerospace? How much money do you need to invest? Catching up with Light Armor Aerospace?
Two questions are enough.
Shenzhou-Guangjia is responsible for launching micro satellites, and the Pioneer series of large satellites.
There are also composite power satellites under development. The entire Mars launch market is silent. It is so painful to watch the cake get bigger but not get a share.
Compared with the silence of rocket launches, the field of satellite research and development is very lively. It has been the hottest track for domestic private equity investment since the second half of last year.
Hot money is pouring in rapidly.
"Mr. Lin, what you just said is very good. I also believe that the moment the satellite network is completed, China's unmanned driving technology will grow by leaps and bounds.
Like me sitting on the Carrot Run exists Yes, the drop-off point is still several hundred meters away from where I actually want to go. I still need to walk for a while. Such problems can be solved through high-precision satellite clusters
Including Mr. Li just now. As mentioned before, the number of employees in the backend will also be significantly reduced. One person can monitor and take over two thousand, three thousand or even more driverless cars
Including removing the driver's seat, and then. Providing four locations, it can carry four passengers at a time through route planning, further reducing costs.
I think these are very good. Through such measures, users’ travel costs can be reduced. I have only one question, this. How to solve the unemployment problem caused by it?
The online ride-hailing industry has always been a reservoir for social employment. After the reservoir is demolished, what should the group facing the middle-aged unemployment crisis do? ”
This is a problem that has existed in the past. It aroused widespread discussion after the launch of Carrot Run in 2024. However, Carrot Run soon proved that its progress was not that fast. It has no influence on online dating. The crowding out of cars is limited, and the topic is gradually cooling down.
But now it is obvious that after the major giants are gone, it is foreseeable that the entire industry will accelerate in the future, and online ride-hailing will be banned at the same speed. As fast as a taxi. So this issue was mentioned as a cliché.
At an artificial intelligence summit last year, Robin made a joke about why not eat minced meat. >
The reporter asked him how to find employment as an online ride-hailing driver, and he said he could deliver food.
Afterwards, netizens ridiculed me, as if the delivery boy’s capacity was unlimited, Baidu’s reputation dropped again, falling directly through the floor.
This is also one of the reasons why users abandoned Baidu so quickly after Tencent proposed Hornbill AI. The majority of users have long been unhappy with Baidu. In the past, there were really no substitutes, but now there are alternatives that are better than you. It’s so easy to use that people are abandoning Baidu much faster than Baidu’s own internal estimates.
“I saw this question asked by a journalist friend last year to Robin. Robin said that he could deliver food. I don’t think so, because sooner or later, food delivery will be replaced by unmanned devices.
If autonomous driving can be used in the online ride-hailing industry, it can certainly be used in other fields. Food delivery is also essentially transportation
I don’t think that the emergence of new technologies will create new jobs, and new jobs can solve problems.
Because the employment opportunities brought by artificial intelligence are not suitable for the vast majority of people who can drive online ride-hailing services.
This will be an even more cruel process in which online car-hailing replaces taxis. Online car-hailing replaces taxis, and everyone can drive online car-hailing. And driverless cars replace online car-hailing, and there is such a high cost. With such efficiency, one person can be responsible for thousands of driverless vehicles, and the number of jobs provided by the entire travel industry will be reduced by thousands of times.
Such technological progress is very cruel to them. I don’t think companies can solve such problems, and I don’t think this responsibility should be given to companies to solve. "
After Lin Jia finished speaking, the audience was in an uproar. In China, it is very rare to separate corporate social responsibilities. Even Jack Ma did not dare to say this during an interview.
When Jack Ma was interviewed, he always said that Ant should take social responsibility and help funds flow faster.
Speeches like Lin Jia's are not a problem in European and American countries, but are absolutely taboo in China.
Robin sitting next to her turned green.
“I think this is a problem that the government should solve, but I don’t think companies have no responsibility. Guangjia Aerospace will donate 1 billion RMB to establish a charity fund to provide free services to online ride-hailing drivers. Training and helping them transform.”
This kind of correction will make the situation different, and everyone will find your words more palatable.
"Actually, you shouldn't have said that. Why bother saying that this is the responsibility of the government, and companies can't solve this problem.
There is no need to mention this, just say that Guangjia Aerospace is willing to donate money to help online appointments It would be nice if the driver changed his position.
He wouldn’t be scolded on the Internet again." Chen Yuanguang felt sorry for Lin Jia.
Marrying him caused Lin Jia to be under great pressure from public opinion.
To a certain extent, he is a flawless god, so the people around him will be victims of public opinion.
"Actually, I don't have to say it, but I don't say it. This is really irresponsible. I don't say that the government will be absent. No one cares about their life and death.
What I said, everyone This matter will be discussed. Regardless of whether everyone agrees with my point of view, it will definitely be put on the public forum and discussed as a very serious issue.
Every time the employment environment brought about by new technologies appears. It’s bad, and the target of the attack is the enterprise.
Why did taxis suffer such a defeat as soon as online ride-hailing appeared? People thought it was due to poor taxi service, poor service attitude, and endless problems. < br>
We can go further and investigate because the taxi license is equivalent to a franchise, and it is a franchise with a particularly high price. Drivers are also an exploited group, and they pass their grievances to passengers after being exploited. < br>
However, after taxis were wiped out by online ride-hailing, the groups that reaped the benefits of selling franchises did not stand up to take responsibility for their unemployment and reduced income.
The benefits and responsibilities are not equal, and no one in the public opinion field points the finger at them.
I think why are ordinary people always hurt? Why is the entire public opinion environment always harming each other between ordinary people and enterprises? The responsible group always disappears.
The Shenhai Pudong Airport online car-hailing company only allowed one company, Airport Travel, to take orders, and other online car-hailing companies were not allowed to enter. In the end, nothing was done about this matter.
This time, it is not just the online ride-hailing business at Pudong Airport that is affected by driverless driving, but the entire online ride-hailing driver population, a total of six million people employed.
This responsibility must be borne by enterprises, and no enterprise can bear such a responsibility. "
Lin Jia finally sighed: "I want to be willful when I can. If I don't say this, then no one will say this and no one will discuss this.
In the end it turned into a conflict between the company and the unemployed driver. "
Chen Yuanguang understood Lin Jia. If he could think of this level, he would have said something similar, at least putting the matter on the surface.
" If If so, then I think you did the right thing. ”
Lin Jia shook his head: "I didn't do anything. I just made everyone realize what the problem is and put the problem up for discussion.
I don't know whether it can be solved in the end."
Lin Jia continued: "In the past few years, China's technology has developed very fast. From the perspective of global competition, we are gaining greater and greater advantages.
I have read some history , I also have some thoughts, I know that Amerikan's momentum in the past is not like a country at all compared to the old age now.
And their momentum from the rainbow to today has passed. For more than thirty years, I have always had a vague feeling that we are becoming as ignorant as the American elites of the interests of the bottom.”
(End of this chapter)