Chapter 319 Fermentation
“Everyone, today is my fifth day in Shenhai. Shenhai is really a magical place. There are not only terminators here, but also radish run, which is the pronunciation of radish in Chinese. It is very similar to robot, but Luobo Kuaipao is not a driverless robot, but a driverless driver without anything in the driver's seat.
There are Wujie, Ali Express, etc., the whole Shenhai is large and small. There are nearly ten unmanned driving service providers in China.
You heard it right, although I have not personally experienced the Terminator unmanned driving from Guangjia Aerospace, but today I will intensively experience the Radish Run and Carrot Run. Wujie, Alibaba Suxing, Didi and Pony, these five driverless service providers provide driverless services.”
Mike didn’t know about Xianyu, and he called himself Huaguotong. , I have been to China twice, and I haven’t found any tour guide.
Obviously, with scalpers competing for orders, it is too difficult for ordinary people to buy a robot white Jetta, and it is even more impossible for foreigners.
The transit time given by Dongda University to foreigners is only 144 hours, which is six days if converted into days.
So Mike was thinking, he needs to find some new materials on the fifth day. If he can’t defeat the robot’s driverless car, why can’t he experience the most common driverless car in Dongda?
After all, it’s hard to come to Dongda University once, so I still need to take more videos. All these are worth money in exchange for watching.
In this time and space, more and more youtubers like to shoot content related to the University of Tokyo. This change is not because foreigners like to watch it. The proportion of people in developed countries who watch content related to the University of Tokyo. There are no special changes.
The biggest reason for this change is that Indians like to watch.
Asan has a large number of people, and they have always regarded Dongda as the object they need to surpass. However, the gap between Dongda and India has not shortened, but has continued to increase.
This gap can be seen as the gap between Lao China and Lao America at the beginning of the 21st century.
India also believes that it is similar to Tokyo University in many aspects, so Asan people like to watch videos related to Tokyo University and believe that sooner or later India will become like Tokyo University.
That’s right, today’s Asans no longer think that India is stronger than Dongda University, and they no longer think that Mumbai is a more developed city than Shenhai. Instead, they think that Dongda University is very powerful now, but sooner or later India Will catch up.
India has a population of more than 1.4 billion, and the number of views contributed to Dongda-related videos starts at 200,000.
As long as Youtubers don’t belittle India while advocating for Dongda, then they will surely eat the traffic cake.
Under such environmental changes, Mike would shoot more videos to earn traffic no matter what.
“Everyone, what we want to experience first is Carrot Run, which is a self-driving service provider under Dongda search engine company Baidu. Baidu is similar to Google, mainly engaged in search engines and artificial intelligence. Yes. , we need to download the Luobo Kuaipao app first. When I was at the hotel today, I asked the waiter to prepare everything for me, including binding my Visa card.
The next step is to call a taxi. Driverless taxis depart from here to the Bund.”
Compared with robot driverless driving, Mike obviously didn't look forward to it that much. After all, driverless driving is also available in Amerikan, so it's nothing new.
Waymo, owned by Google, is even earlier than Carrot Run. In 2017, it launched 100 vehicles in San Francisco for real road operation.
“My Tesla can also drive autonomously, and its autonomous driving performance is pretty good, so my expectation for Carrot Run is that it can be at the same level as Tesla. ”
Not long after, a white car with a green license plate stopped fifty meters away from Mike, with a carrot logo printed on the body.
“Yes, it’s not very far away from me. I saw a discussion on Quora about Dongda’s self-driving taxi. It said that parking will be some distance away from your actual pick-up point, so you still need to do it yourself. Go for a walk
When I look at it now, I feel pretty good. Compared with real drivers, the gap is very small. "
"As expected, as I knew, there was no driver in the car except me.
Okay, next I will take a taxi, we will completely record the process, and finally edit out some key places for explanation. "I'm very happy to experience Dongda's driverless technology. Let's see how it compares with Tesla's." Just before getting in the car, I discovered that its roof has many components.
I think it should be a radar-related signal receiving device. ”
“Although I have experienced driverless cars many times in the past, this is the first time I have taken a driverless taxi. ”
"Before boarding the bus, we need to enter the last four digits of our phone number. This is for identity verification to prevent non-passengers from riding. Fortunately, I got a Dongda phone card."
"A password , the car door opened, we’re getting in the car now!” Mike got a little excited after getting in the car.
“Get in the car, we can set off,
There is no driver, the only voice in the whole car is me holding the microphone talking, this feeling is very good, very good, it seems that I need to order this Confirm button to start our journey
“Okay, we’re off now, great, it doesn’t start abruptly, it’s very linear. ”
"The speed is not very fast. I looked at it and found that the approximate speed can only be maintained at about 60 kilometers per hour. This speed is not fast. Compared with the speed of people or the Terminator I saw, it is obviously incomparable. .
But considering that he has no driver and is completely unmanned, this speed is acceptable.
If all Shenhai's vehicles are operated by such unmanned vehicles. If it is composed of cars, then I would think this is very science fiction. The future transportation mode is nothing more than this highly unmanned composition.
But if it is all like the Terminator, with robots driving for us, That kind of future is a bit too sci-fi.
How rich does our society have to be to have a robot driver in every car?
It's hard for me to imagine that Dongda's productivity might be able to do it, but is this necessary?
There is a small camera here that can be used to observe passengers. If I didn't fasten my seat belt just now, there will be a voice reminder here. ”
“I’m used to driverless cars, so I don’t feel too nervous, but it’s still a little too quiet.
I like to play some music when I drive by myself, but now I am recording, so I can’t play music. Youtube’s copyright management measures are very strict.
Compared with traditional cars, its noise reduction effect is really good. No wonder I saw Chinese people talking about driverless cars on quora and said that when they were at Tokyo University, they took the driverless car. It is easy for people to fall asleep while driving a taxi.
Such a quiet environment makes it easy to fall asleep, especially when you get up in the morning and go to work. "
Mike experienced the driverless technology of three manufacturers during the whole process. After the experience, he stood on the edge of the Bund, with his back against the Huangpu River and the buildings in Lujiazui.
" Well, after the above self-driving experience, I was really surprised.
What surprised me is that all three self-driving cars are very good. Among them, Luobo Kuaishou is very quiet and has a good riding experience. There are almost no bumps on the road and the seats are spacious and comfortable. It is more radical than the driverless taxis I know about American. Both the location accuracy of picking up and dropping off passengers and the speed on the road are better than American's.
I think this is probably due to the intensive launch of optical satellites by the manufacturers behind it in the past. These optical satellites helped them improve their precise control of geographical location.
If I were to rate it, I would give it an 8.
The second company is Wujie, which is a driverless taxi company jointly established by Huawei and a Dongda automaker that focuses on low-price strategies. What shocked me most about it is the price. Carrot Run 5 The price per kilometer converted into U.S. dollars is 3 U.S. dollars, which is less than 1 U.S. dollar per kilometer.
The price of Unbounded is US$0.5, that’s right, the price of five kilometers is only US$0.5.
It provides a total of four positions. They have changed the traditional driving position into a passenger position. Passengers need to fasten their seat belts after getting on the bus. It will continuously pick up guests and put them down.
So it's not a car for you, but its price is really amazingly low, even cheaper than the New York subway.
Although CNN or Fox have been publicizing Dongda’s overcapacity problem, I have never believed in the propaganda of these media because it contains a very strong purpose.
But I came to Dongda in person and saw such prices, and I began to believe this statement.
Because how much overcapacity must be to allow them to offer such a low price.
I also understand why Tesla, Honda, Toyota, or Volkswagen will gradually lose the Dongda market.
In the face of no interface, they really have no room for survival. You only need to pay 0.5 US dollars to ride a 5-kilometer taxi. With such a low-price taxi, would you still want to buy a car?
After I played Unbounded, the waiting time was only five minutes, which is completely acceptable.
The cost is really, really amazing.
Its riding experience is obviously not very good. It only provides you with a seat. Compared with the carrot that can exclusively enjoy the entire rear space, the unbounded space is small and the noise during driving is obviously louder. many.
Because you have to constantly drop off passengers and pick them up, the speed will be slower than that of a carrot. The constant acceleration and deceleration will cause a bad riding experience.
But in the face of this price, these are not shortcomings. I will give Unbounded 9 points.
Finally, there is Alibaba Suixing. As a self-driving car owned by Alibaba, its experience is very close to that of Luobo Kuaipao, and its price is also close, but its accuracy in picking up and dropping off passengers is not as good as that of Luobo.
The driving strategy should obviously be more conservative, and the speed should be less than 60 kilometers. Another very important point is that the waiting time for taking a taxi will be longer, probably because the vehicle distribution is not as good as the previous two.
I can only give it six points.
Finally, to summarize, the scores of these three companies are Alibaba Express with 6 points, Luobo with 8 points, and Wujie with 9 points.
There are two left, namely Didi and Pony. I will continue to shoot test videos tomorrow. After shooting, I will return to San Francisco. Finally, I hope I can beat the Terminator tomorrow.
Wish me good luck. ”
The night after the shooting, Mike edited the video and put it on Youtube.
The cyberpunk-style photos Mike took a few days ago sucked him hard. A wave of fans has led to a lot of viewers on his Youtube channel.
Especially when talking about Dongda’s autonomous driving, the data of the entire video is growing rapidly.
“China is already more advanced than America.”
“While we are still debating whether Waymo should be on the road, China already has so many driverless taxi service providers. ”
“As an American born in the 1970s, I feel very sad. From the 1990s to the first decade of this century, the innovation in the entire world was led by American. Innovation The birth of large-scale companies has never stopped.
20 years later, the technological development of American seems to have stagnated. Innovation from small and medium-sized enterprises has changed to innovation among giants. I haven’t heard of it for a long time. I have said that innovations that are not led by big7 are almost monopolized by giants.
If Google has done autonomous driving, then other companies will not do it again. When you see that there are so many companies in Dongda. I feel truly envious as autonomous taxi companies compete with each other, proving that Tokyo University’s innovation environment is still vibrant.”
"Shenhai is more cyberpunk than I thought. Wujie made me realize that this model can make our earth more environmentally friendly, instead of everyone having to drive."
"If Musk If he really wants to turn Tesla into a money-making tool in his spare time and a taxi for him to run on the road, he'd better go to Dongda
It's simply not realistic in America. ”
Tesla’s stock price has experienced a sharp rise and fall. During the plummeting process, Musk held a conference call and stated that Tesla is not a car company, but an artificial intelligence company, and their core competitiveness is Driverless technology.
The Tesla of the future should automatically help car owners make money.
When car owners are not using Tesla, they can use Tesla's driverless technology to pick up passengers and become a driverless taxi.
Tesla will pay dividends out of this profit.
Therefore, the number of Teslas in the world will be the market size of Tesla brand driverless taxis in the future.
If the valuation is based on this logic, Tesla's valuation is not overvalued, but undervalued, because at that time, Tesla was the only one in the world who could do this business.
Two years have passed, Tesla has not done it, Huawei is about to do it.
It’s not because the technology can’t do it, but because of the environment, the general environment.
In blue states like California, the government does not stop them, and Uber drivers can smash Waymo without being punished. The government has no way to punish these Uber drivers.
In red states like Texas, drivers dare not do this because they will really be punished. However, driverless taxis have no way to obtain administrative licenses because they need to protect jobs.
Both ends are blocked, neither red states nor blue states can do it.
(End of this chapter)