Chapter 316: Very Special Unmanned Driving
The media is deeply influenced by foreign countries, which is determined by history.
After all, in the field of science and engineering, we still have to rely on facts. Whether it is science or engineering, there is basically no way to be affected by ideology.
Whether it is the church’s insistence on geocentrism or Lysenko’s insistence on biologically acquired inheritance, these scientific theories that rely on special means to violate the facts will eventually be overturned by the truth.
The field of humanities and social sciences is different. You need to be endorsed by mainstream Western academic circles to endorse your academic level. There is no set of objective standards to say you can do it. You have to get the West to say you can do it.
This naturally leads to you having to follow the Western set of values. Journalism professors still follow this set of values, let alone the disciples they teach.
It is precisely because of this bias that even the local media in Laos and China hope that robotics technology can be open sourced in China.
No one knows yet what the core of this underlying technology is. Most people only think it is unmanned driving technology based on robots.
If foreign experts and scholars knew the underlying technology, this wave of public opinion would be even more intense.
It is already very good now, and the underlying technical core is even more powerful than outsiders imagine.
So the big guys attending the Global New Energy Vehicle Conference held in Haikou were all asked similar questions.
Of course, everyone chooses what is beneficial to them. Lei Jun’s answer made two points clear:
The first point is that Chen Yuanguang and I have a very good relationship, and their experimental use Che has considered Xiaomi.
The second point is that Xiaomi’s level of intelligence is too high, and the experiment requires an unintelligent car.
It even implies that the public is not intelligent enough.
Although the Jetta is a petrol car that was born many years ago.
Robin is no exception.
Baidu owns Jiyue Automobile, a joint venture with Geely. Its presence is too weak. In order to attract public attention, it has been bombarded in public opinion. In the circle of friends, Lei Jun is losing money by selling cars and has no moral integrity. .
Later, Carrot Run was launched, which is essentially a new energy source.
Robin was also surrounded by the media for interviews at the conference. The content of his answers must naturally be in line with Baidu’s interests:
"We have a strategic partnership with Guangjia Aerospace. Mr. Lin and I have had many communications around robot unmanned driving.
Guangjia Aerospace's main business is still commercial aerospace, and all their energy is focused on it. In the field of commercial aerospace, doing robot unmanned driving is also a preparation for subsequent robot space operations.
The probability of Guangjia Aerospace entering the unmanned driving industry is very small.”
Robin. We need to give confidence to the capital market and boost Baidu’s stock price.
Because the technology is open source, it is a matter of high uncertainty. Even if the foreign media says it is certain, everyone still doesn’t believe it.
After all, Lao and China have always been in a catching-up position in the technology field. It is difficult for them to finally have leading technologies and open source them for global use. This is a very difficult psychological situation.
Then if light armor companies do not enter this field, technology will always have to be utilized. Wouldn’t there be opportunities for these domestic companies?
Baidu is no exception.
This is what Robin had in mind, and investors can naturally understand this meaning.
When Lin Jia arrived at the convention and exhibition center, almost all the reporters were there, chasing her and asking questions, trying to get first-hand information.
"Mr. Lin, can you accept an interview?"
"Mr. Lin, I would like to ask whether the robot driverless technology will be open source?"
"Mr. Lin."
Even if there were security personnel, Lin Jia could not break through the obstacles and enter the convention and exhibition center.
"Everyone, please give way." The security personnel wanted to fulfill their duties and send Lin Jia in safely.
Lin Jia stopped and said: "Everyone, I'm sorry that the meeting will start soon. I will pick three questions that everyone is most concerned about to answer. After answering, please let me go in first."
There were good cheers all around. sound.
The media present had a lot of dealings with Lin Jia. Whether he was an executive of Guangjia Aerospace or the past vice president of marketing of Xiaomi Motors, there were many reporters who interviewed Lin Jia.
As for foreign reporters, they have even less to say.
“I know that the issue you are most concerned about is whether the technology is open source. Sorry, I don’t know about this either. This Yuan Guang has not mentioned to me whether the future technology will be open source or how to use it.”
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"Second point, regarding the ownership of the technology, I see many people are discussing that this technology involves the participation of natural funds, and how the specific ownership is distributed. I can tell you very clearly that this has a very clear " Management Measures for Research Results of Natural Science Foundation-funded Projects"
Guangjia Aerospace reached an agreement with the Natural Science Foundation of China before the start of the project. We have 75% of the intellectual property rights. The Science Foundation Committee has 25%.”
This is an issue of public concern, who owns the property rights.
For a mature organization like Guangjia Aerospace, which has been in operation for more than five years, Guangjia Aerospace is responsible for manufacturing the robot part, so there was an agreement before the project was started.
As mentioned earlier, Guangjia Aerospace acquired eight robotics companies at one time for future unmanned mining in space.
No one thought at the time that the first person to make it was the car driver.
“The last answer is about the future application of the technology. I actually don’t know the specific application, but I can tell you with certainty that Light Armor Aerospace itself will not do unmanned driving. We have no such intention. We don’t have this ability. In addition, Space will not exclusively own the relevant unmanned driving technology. We will definitely discuss specific cooperation with relevant companies.”
It will be held on Friday, Lin Jia’s statement was spread. Afterwards, affected companies in A-shares and Hong Kong stocks soared after hearing the news.
BAIC Blue Valley said that I, the eldest son of Yanjing Automobile Industry, would naturally want to cooperate with me.
Nio and Baidu said that we have a strategic partnership with Guangjia Aerospace, and we definitely have a leading advantage in technical cooperation.
Xiaomi believes that with the personal relationship between Mr. Lei and Guangshen, Xiaomi can get a piece of the pie.
L4 autonomous driving does not require infrastructure investment or satellite networking. Considering that it is the work of Chen Yuanguang, there is still a lot of room for improvement in the future. This imagination space is enough for car companies that have exclusive technology to share it. Huge market cake.
Huawei is good at smart driving, but it can only be said to be close to L3. Other car companies can beat Huawei in Huawei's strong points, so the number of consumers it brings will at least double.
Not to mention applications in other fields.
Of course, what the major car companies mentioned above are not what they say, but what the retail investors (leeks) who own these companies think.
When various media jumped the gun on Weibo and simply edited Lin Jia's statement before posting it, it also aroused heated discussion among the public.
“After reading Lin Jia’s speech, I think Guangjia Aerospace is much more sober than Huawei. Previously, Huawei was wavering between building cars and being a supplier. It said it would not build cars, but it was almost in person with itself. There is no difference in building cars, but the slogan is to be a top supplier like Bosch. The two are very contradictory.
If you build your own car, what will happen to others? Dare to use your technology? It wasn’t until after selling Cyrus to Xiaokang that you decided to focus on building cars.
Guangjia Aerospace has been anchored from the beginning, no matter how powerful the unmanned driving technology is. We will not exclusively own the technology. We will license the technology to relevant companies. We focus on R&D and commercial aerospace business
Although Guangshen also started Space with Musk, as the soul of Guangjia Aerospace, Guangshen has never interfered with the operation of Space, not even taking a temporary position. It can be clearly seen that Guangjia Aerospace’s strategic goals are very clear. ”
There are many similar long-winded remarks, so I won’t go into details one by one. Most people still hold a positive attitude.
In Dongda, new energy is a rare sunrise industry. Even in the face of Due to various protection barriers for local companies, it is not easy for Dongda’s new energy vehicles to enter the global market.
But the opening up of relevant technologies will still greatly benefit Dongda’s new energy vehicle companies in going global.
Unique technology like this can make the difference between Dongda new energy vehicle companies and Neon and German car companies at the brand level
At the conference, Lin Jia once again made a statement similar to the opening of the technology conference, which aroused thunderous applause from the venue.
Lin Jia did not participate in the forum after his speech. Bai Ruide, chairman of Volkswagen China, said:
“I watched the video and our colleagues in the R&D department after hitting the terminator Called me for a test drive, we are honored that the test car chosen by Wright is Volkswagen, which just shows the stability of Volkswagen.
It is so incredible, no matter what I saw in the back seat. Everything is still what I saw on social media.
When I saw the robot smoothly complete a series of operations such as turning on the turn signal, pulling the handbrake, stepping on the accelerator and brake, and changing gears, it was so smooth. Compared with the robots made by other research teams, the gap is like the gap between the community's football team and Bayern
If I hadn't tried it myself, it would be hard for me to imagine that robots could do this.
If possible, I would like to ask him to drive for me. Even just watching the robot drive would be a pleasure when I commute to get off work every day. ”
Brid made no secret of his admiration for the robot driver.
Always talking about the opening up of technology, Bai Ruid said: “Whether China opens up its technology is a matter of China’s freedom.
If possible, the public is willing to pay a certain price in exchange for the right to use this technology. ”
Bai Ruide has stayed in Laozhong for a long time and knows exactly what Laozhong likes to hear.
Of course this is what he thinks in his heart, the public is willing to pay any price.
Even if old and Chinese car companies have this technology, they are just selling cars originally worth 200,000 for 250,000.
Not only will the price not increase, but the price may also drop. A car originally worth 200,000 yuan equipped with driverless driving will only cost you 180,000 yuan.
For Volkswagen, the Volkswagen brand cannot sell so many, but their luxury brands can.
Volkswagen is a huge conglomerate whose luxury brands include Porsche and Lamborghini.
The two are not very compatible with autonomous driving, but Audi can.
Audi with its robot driver is simply a perfect match for business elites. With this blessing, Audi has even worked for Mercedes-Benz.
And he has already thought about it. Even if they can get rid of the robots and just buy driverless cars, they have to add robots, just like the powerful character brought by this robot butler.
A driverless steering wheel turns automatically there. How could a robot driver with silver-white embellishments, black as the main tone and white gloves look so stylish?
The design of luxury brands often pursues the idea of taking off your pants and farting.
Volkswagen’s baby bus can be sold for 60,000 euros in Europe, but our robot driver Audi can’t even sell it for 200,000 euros.
Volkswagen’s newly launched electric baby bus is positioned as an MPV. In addition to being made by Volkswagen, it is incomparable with MPVs made by domestic new energy vehicle companies in the same price range.
After Lin Jia finished her speech, almost all relevant big shots wanted to chat with her privately.
"Mr. Lin, you will fly to Yanjing at 12 noon tomorrow. From now to 12 o'clock tomorrow morning, I have arranged 10 individual meetings for you according to your wishes.
This is the time schedule, would you like to take a look? The time I set aside for each specific person is twenty minutes. "Lin Xinrui handed Lin Jia a completed form.
There are three columns on it. The first column is the time, the second column is the name, and the third column is the specific position.
Lin Xinrui is here When making this list, sufficient redundancy was reserved for Lin Jia.
There is a thirty-minute interval between each two conversations to prevent someone from losing control and interrupting the other person. .
“Have you communicated with their secretary? "Lin Jia asked.
Lin Xinrui nodded and said: "We have communicated with each other and they have no objections."
No one has any objections. It has always been who has the initiative and the final say.
For example, Zhou Hongyi, who has recently become famous on Douyin, has an attitude of "I can do whatever I want" in front of Internet celebrities, and everything is based on me.
In front of Pony, even if they had conflicts before and Pony even forced him to fly to Xiangjiang overnight, he still wanted to be as polite as possible.
“Okay, let’s follow this first.”
The first one was naturally Lei Jun, "Junior sister, after seeing the pilot you conducted in Shenhai, all the students in our autonomous driving team couldn't sleep.
Everyone couldn't sleep. The technical leader of our team wakes up with nightmares at night, because if the technical route of robot driverless driving is correct, all our investment in the field of intelligent driving will be in vain.
I just want to know, Is this the most correct technical route? ”
Lei Jun’s expression was both hopeful and anxious. He was looking forward to getting an answer, and he was even more afraid that the answer he got was not the answer he wanted.
"Brother, I can only say that it is not as perfect as you think it is. The implementation cost of this technology is very high, and Xiaomi's target customer group will not even consider buying it." Lin Jia said.
"Is it possible to reduce the cost in the future?" Lei Jun was still worried.
Lin Jia thought for a while: "Probably not. I don't know much about the specific technical details.
But it is quite different from the autonomous driving you understand.
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(End of this chapter)