I asked you to save a bankrupt factory and you became the richest man in the world.

Chapter 507: 319-320: What, you are planning to develop driverless cars? (4000 words)
After the meeting, the Hillhouse Tang project team immediately entered a state of high alert.

All those who are currently on annual leave will have their annual leave cancelled immediately. Except for those on maternity leave, all weekend rest will be cancelled immediately and they will directly enter a 997 work state!
The so-called 997 means working from 9 am to 9 pm, and working seven days a week without rest.

If an ordinary company were to maintain this kind of working condition, it would naturally be unsustainable.

However, after Hillhouse's successful listing, basically everyone will receive a bonus for major projects ranging from 30% to 70% of their monthly salary.

This extremely crazy reward model is the core driving force for each project team to achieve ultimate R&D capabilities almost every year.

Gao Huaijun understands human nature very well. He knows how to make this group of people work overtime to the best of their ability, and at the same time make them work overtime voluntarily.

The carrot and the stick go hand in hand!
If you do well, you can easily become a young model in the club and gain financial freedom.

Can’t do it well? Sorry, Hillhouse R&D has about 5% of D-level performance evaluations every year.

Moreover, not all groups have a ratio of 5%.

For the group with poor overall assessment and the group whose product sales do not meet expectations, this proportion will directly increase to 10% or even more!

If your group performs well, this ratio can hover between 0%-5%.

Yes, if your teammates are god-level teammates, they can also take you flying directly!
This evaluation is also called the death evaluation within Hillhouse.

Basically, people who are evaluated as D will either be transferred to sales or directly dismissed with severance pay.

Like those foreign companies, Hillhouse does not play tricks when it comes to firing employees. It treats everyone equally and all are given N+2.

We will not negotiate your resignation.

Give it directly.

Children and old men are not deceived!

This ratio is distributed across all job levels. If you are a P5, you will be compared with P5s, and P9 will be compared with P9s. There is no repeated cross-over to use the lower levels as cannon fodder.

It is under this dual incentive of death and reward that no one dares to slack off!
Generally, those who have weak psychological qualities will leave their jobs one after another within one or two years.

Those with poor communication skills and high expectations but low skills were mostly given a D and eliminated.

Those who stay must be a group of ferocious wolves!

because.

Hillhouse has only one core indicator to evaluate its employees, which is performance!

The carrots given by Gao Huaijun are much better than those given by those bosses who are reluctant to give even a blade of grass.

Now each project team is only responsible for the work related to its own project team, and the middle platform has been greatly weakened.

It can be said that within Hillhouse’s R&D team, this interest-driven system, which has evolved into N versions, has forced this group of people to fight for it!

You have to know that a few years ago, those automobile companies that did not work overtime and took advantage of the situation every day would basically take three years to develop a new model, especially a minor facelift new model.

Now, Hillhouse’s various project teams have basically compressed this time to six to twelve months!
The time pressure is so horrible that we can only say that the R&D personnel of those big foreign companies are just trash, producing only useless things.

This is just like the Ubisoft games in Gao Huaijun’s previous life.

For a game company with 200 employees, the work distribution is roughly as follows: 200 programmers are responsible for coding, 200 modelers are responsible for modeling, 19400 animators are responsible for animation, and the remaining planners are responsible for thinking about how to add more DEI elements to the game.

In fact, major manufacturers like Phoenix, Volt, and General Motors are in a similar situation.

With the nourishment of capital, they have been comfortable for too long and have forgotten the difficulties their ancestors faced in finding food in the Middle Ages.

What kind of fighting power can a group of people who get off work at three in the afternoon have?

It is no exaggeration to say that for Hillhouse employees, one can easily do the work of three people!
“This is difficult.”

"Indeed, the body length is 5230mm, the width is 1999mm, the height is 1800mm, and the wheelbase reaches 3110mm. The height of the car provides convenience for entering the third row, as well as intelligent equipment configuration. This car is a little bigger than the original Tang, and the cost is estimated to have risen sharply."

"The boss is addicted to making big cars. I wonder if he wants to make a land cruiser?"

"What do you know? This car is going to be equipped with the top-level intelligent driving, the ULTRA version. With the top-level intelligent driving, there will be several more laser radars and several more cameras. If the car body is not larger, we don't know how much more effort we will have to put into optimizing the space. Now that the car body is larger, it is much better."

"According to the above design requirements, in terms of wind resistance, compared with traditional products, the front of this product is relatively low, and the posture it presents needs to ensure the air flow of the third row of heads. The low wind resistance design has reached the level of 0.26cd, making it a leader among similar SUVs. In addition, in the pursuit of low air resistance design, the third row of head space design must not be sacrificed. OMG, spare me!"

"The company has now built a new low-speed wind tunnel in Guizhou Province, which is specially used to blow the shape of new cars. It has invested hundreds of millions of yuan. This Xintang should be the first new car to be blown in. Lao Wen, you have to withstand the pressure and be the guinea pig!"

"The headlight group is not doing well now. It is estimated that this car will upgrade the latest Pixel 2.0 intelligent architecture of Hillhouse AI, which is similar to the Pixel 1.0 of the old Tang in terms of styling. A social interaction matrix is ​​designed on the lower layer, and aerodynamic air curtains are integrated to integrate the entire design element, and the front and rear faces also echo each other."

"Yes, more intelligent scene applications, through laser radar scanning to the use of scenes, and then intelligent feedback, is it necessary for Hillhouse to do this? Now other friendly companies can't even do our old Tang Pixel 1.0 smart headlights. The so-called headlight factory of Audi has become a joke. Is it necessary for us to do this?"

"Combined with the new Hillhouse operating system, multi-person, multi-screen, and multi-device interaction is easily achieved. The new Xiaoling Smart Assistant is equipped with an AI big model for the first time. Relying on the Hillhouse big model as a basis, AI+data conducts business interaction. Hillhouse is not trying to crush its peers, it is trying to kill them directly!"

"The entire product is almost a completely new creation, with a completely subversive design concept. The R&D costs have skyrocketed. Boss Gao is not afraid of spending money."

"Now that the Gaoling AI team has mastered the most core R&D requirements, they naturally need to work very hard. I am afraid of this group of lunatics!"

"That's not it!"

When the requirements for the research and development of the new Gaoling Tang model reached the Gaoling Tang team, there was a heated discussion for a while.

In addition to being shocked by the high-tech of Hillhouse's artificial intelligence team, which has raised the technology of driverless cars to the L3 level, this technology finally has the possibility of being released to the public.

What is more is the fear that Hillhouse's artificial intelligence team is superior to Hillhouse's Tang team!
This group of PhDs seem to have a strong sense of idealism and a crazy pursuit of product research and development, so they have a lot of requirements for product research and development.

When it was just TIER1, no one in Hillhouse Tang’s team knew who the client was.

Compared to them, this group of Party B is more like Party A!
Now, we have legitimately become TIER0 and are the true Party A.

They don't know how to deal with it.

Fortunately, they know that with such a group of idealistic lunatics pushing the issue, L3 driverless cars will not have too many problems landing. Without mentioning other things like the size of the car, new headlights, upgraded sound quality, etc., this car will become an iconic product in the history of automobiles if it is done with just this thing!

This will determine the future direction of automobile development!
If such a product is successful, they will definitely benefit from it!

However, although they are also very excited about such a product, the research and development of driverless cars faces many difficulties that need to be solved by this group of people.

Everyone is walking on thin ice!
One is to perceive and understand the environment: self-driving cars need to perceive the surrounding environment in real time through sensors such as radar, lidar and cameras. These sensors need to be highly accurate and reliable to identify pedestrians, other vehicles, traffic signals and obstacles.

In complex and dynamic traffic environments, cars must make decisions quickly, determine driving paths, and handle unexpected situations, which involves complex algorithm design and large amounts of data processing.

Self-driving cars must operate safely in a variety of environments and conditions, including extreme weather and complex urban traffic. This requires the system to be extremely reliable and able to effectively respond to unexpected situations.

As long as there is a problem with these sensors, it will be a huge public relations crisis!

This thing is not an airplane. There are only hundreds of thousands of airplanes flying in the sky, but there are tens of billions of cars running on the ground!

Any low-probability problem may trigger a chain reaction, so they also know that it is right to entrust the development of such a product to Hillhouse's artificial intelligence team.

Only they know how such a product can reduce the occurrence of low-probability accidents!

The second is that driverless cars require a well-designed human-computer interface so that passengers can understand and trust the system's decisions and intervene when necessary.

At the critical moment, is it people who control the machines, or is it the machines that control the cars?
This is a difficult point to grasp.

In fact, they have no so-called experience to rely on.

Therefore, we can only rely on the graphics algorithm chip under this product to train and optimize massive amounts of data, effectively utilize this data and continuously improve system performance.

The last and more critical one is the legal and ethical issues.

The promotion of driverless technology involves ethical issues such as the formulation of laws and regulations and the division of responsibilities. How to ensure the attribution of responsibility when an accident occurs is an important issue.

The Hillhouse Tang project team was unable to solve these problems, and even Wang Fengying was unable to provide a corresponding solution!
For such a big problem, Gao Huaijun had to step in personally and ask for policies from higher authorities.

. . . . . .

"What! You said you are planning to develop driverless cars?" Deputy Leader Zhang of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology was shocked when he heard what Gao Huaijun said.

Hillhouse has been working on 'ALL IN AI' for a long time, but has not yet produced any iconic products in this field.

However, as they progressed step by step, a lot of black technologies emerged, so the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology is very supportive of them.

only. . .

Now this news is too shocking.

What is the concept of driverless driving?
This is a revolutionary product that can directly subvert human life scenes!
In his opinion, the emergence of this product indicates that the automotive industry has gradually moved closer to the electronic technology industry!
When driverless technology matures, cars in the future will no longer be mere means of transportation, but mobile spaces that carry a variety of services. There will be no more anxiety about commuting, no more hassles from traffic jams.

For example, the self-driving startup PIX has built various "small room"-like cabins on a general self-driving chassis, freely switching between logistics vehicles, retail vehicles, cleaning and disinfection vehicles, and security patrol vehicles; there are also self-driving mobile hotels, coffee shops, gyms, offices and other mobile spaces.

When users need help, they can make an appointment via mobile phone and these driverless cars will automatically come to their side to provide services.

Users no longer need to look for services, but services will look for users.

Not to mention the drivers of various service vehicles, even the waiters who provide daily necessities will be greatly affected!

Did Hillhouse really come up with this kind of black technology?

Tough!

So powerful!

"We have just started, and we don't know whether we can succeed or not." Gao Huaijun smiled modestly.

Leader Zhang shook his head, struggling to digest the information given by Gao Huaijun.

This news is explosive.

This is even a super technology that can change the power comparison between Dongda and Xida.

He couldn't help but be careless!
You know, Xi’an University is also concentrating its efforts on having some top companies engage in public relations and research and development of top AI products.

Now both countries are in a race to see which one runs faster.

Unexpectedly!

did not expect!
A company that was unknown ten years ago now gave him a big surprise.

"Don't say that. Other Chinese automobile companies have not even started planning, let alone started. Hillhouse's strength is respectable enough." Leader Zhang said as he stood up and suddenly made a gesture for a handshake.

He sighed a little.

If China had a hundred companies like Hillhouse.

Why worry about China’s not revitalizing!
Gao Huaijun was somewhat flattered and shook hands with Leader Zhang.

He also didn't expect Leader Zhang to react so strongly.

But it’s normal if you think about it.

Compared with Gao Huaijun's previous life, the current L3 level of autonomous driving technology has been released several years earlier, which can be said to have brought a very rich time advantage to Southeast University.

China's top leadership had not yet realized that China could suddenly make a breakthrough in this top field.

Directly leading the world!

This kind of impact would overwhelm anyone!
"Mr. Gao, I don't think you come here for no reason. You wouldn't just come to give me, Mr. Zhang, a surprise!" Leader Zhang has dealt with Gao Huaijun many times, and he said casually with a relaxed look on his face.

(End of this chapter)