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Chapter 545: 395-396: The news of making driverless taxis has come out! (4000 words)
Autonomous driving has always been a new quality productivity direction that China has focused on.

Since the new quality productivity was proposed by Hillhouse Capital, this concept has been increasingly recognized by the Chinese people.

This is actually a choice of direction!

The technology tree has developed to this point, and there are many branches that can be developed.

If there is no difference at all and everyone moves up at the same time, no country can do this.

However, selecting some of the key tracks that have the potential for industrialization and providing key support is also a reasonable choice for hot money and government vision.

It is precisely because of the guidance of Hillhouse, a company that occupies a certain position, or even a very important voice, in China's science and technology field.

Today's China, intentionally or unintentionally.

We also chose these core tracks where Hillhouse is focusing its efforts, including solid-state batteries, unmanned driving, robotics, wet lithography machines, etc.

These directions will become the core tracks for the future development of science and technology.

In this direction, Hillhouse, as the leader, is naturally the most qualified one.

Their every move will attract great attention from society.

I don’t know where the news and the essay came from.

At this time, when the news came out that Hillhouse was about to jointly launch an experimental driverless taxi model Hillhouse A1 with the Xicheng government, it immediately attracted widespread attention in China.

Since Hillhouse Capital was forced to fire itself, it has been under tremendous pressure, but it has also been taking frequent actions.

However, those actions are basically to lay out the future, and they are basically just a lot of noise but little action.

However, the news that is coming out now is different.

In the past, Hillhouse’s driverless cars were more conceptual than practical.

The main total price range of Hillhouse Wenjie's product is above 50.

This means that this kind of driverless technology is basically not available to ordinary people.

Therefore, ordinary people may discuss, debate, comment, and be enthusiastic about the future technological development of the world, but they do not think that these things will become a part of their lives in the near future.

After all, this thing looks like high-end black technology.

I have never heard of lidar, map-free intelligent driving, large model algorithms, etc., let alone understand them.

This feels like something from the next era.

However, now that we heard that Hillhouse is going to make a new car, and a new car specifically designed to match the taxi market, the Hillhouse A1, we were instantly excited!

Almost in an instant, this news rushed to the top of the Weibo hot search list, and at the same time became a hot topic among major bloggers on the Xiaoling APP.

When they heard that Hillhouse was going to develop a new car, the A1, they knew the news was reliable.

Is it possible that the new era of driverless cars has finally arrived?
#Recruiting experienced drivers to train driverless cars, Hillhouse Motors is racing towards Xicheng# Such a short article on Weibo almost blew up the entire Weibo in just a few days.

In this short essay.

A source revealed to reporters that Hillhouse will start to deploy and test the waters in Xicheng next.

Recently, there was news that Hillhouse Vehicle has established a new wholly-owned subsidiary called Hillhouse Travel, which has started recruiting "driving artificial intelligence training specialists" in Xicheng. Applicants must hold a valid driver's license for at least 5 years and more than 3 years of driving experience. They will be mainly responsible for autonomous driving vehicle data tracking and collection, problem recording and feedback, emergency handling, etc. In addition, applicants must also have good comprehension, language organization and problem-solving skills, be able to judge vehicle failures and perform simple repairs and replace parts.

The reporter learned that Hillhouse has officially submitted an application for autonomous vehicle (private car) testing to the Xicheng Transportation Department and relevant Chinese departments. It plans to carry out autonomous vehicle testing in the core urban area of ​​Xicheng in stages, regions, and steps. The application is still under review.

Just recently, well-informed sources have confirmed the application and said that strict controls will be implemented to ensure that the testing of autonomous vehicles in Tin City is carried out in an orderly and safe manner.

In Xicheng, the application for a pilot license for an autonomous vehicle requires filling out information including the intended test location and route, time, vehicle, etc.

At a previous secret government work meeting, relevant personnel from Hillhouse Travel detailed its testing plan, including a proposed test route starting from the Jiangnan Airport parking lot, passing through several streets and then returning.

The test time is scheduled from 10 am to 6 pm and from 1 am to 5 am three months later, and the specific time can be adjusted flexibly.

After the testing work is completed, Hillhouse Mobility will mass-produce 1000 Hillhouse A1s and will start a large number of driverless taxi tests in the core urban area of ​​Xicheng.

This short essay is full of details, and it can basically be said to have brought out the relevant context of Hillhouse's travel.

The core point lies in Hillhouse’s recruitment of “driving artificial intelligence training specialists”!

This is simply a well-organized existence.

This short essay also sparked heated discussions among netizens.

[This sounds very true, I will believe your statement for now. ]

[This essay seems to be true, and Hillhouse did not deny it immediately. ]

[I actually found the job posting for “Driving AI Training Specialist” on 51job.com. Check it out! ]

【Unmanned driving is the trend, especially for long-distance freight. 】

[Long-distance freight transportation can really be unmanned. The road conditions are relatively simple, and human driving is boring, so it is very appropriate to let the machine run on its own. ]

[This technology can be applied to RVs. Buying or renting a house can allow you to go to remote places. You can brush your teeth, wash your face, cook and eat in the car when you go to work. After work, you can take a rest, take a shower and wash clothes (with washing machine) in the car. When you get to your residence, take out the clothes and hang them at home. The RV is used to drain dirty water and replenish domestic water.]

[It's an interesting idea. I think it will be a better travel experience. ]

[It’s not just about travel. Will this have a revolutionary impact in first- and second-tier cities, that is, will the entire rental market collapse? Will some employees no longer rent houses, but choose to buy RVs? ]

[It is possible, but the probability is not particularly high, because if there are really many people who choose RVs, then even without driverless cars, they will actually choose RVs to live in. Now we see that there are people who buy RVs in big cities, but they are a minority after all.]

【As for driverless cars, as long as the price is a few yuan cheaper than real people, 80% of people will choose driverless cars. This is the reality. As long as the cost of AI is lower than that of real people, then relying on 24-hour continuous work, it is inevitable that AI will replace real people in all walks of life.】【As I said before, the more self-driving cars on the road, the safer the driving will be. When the road is full of self-driving cars, it can even use the Internet of Things technology to allow vehicles within a certain range to network with each other. Each car can instantly know the actions of more than a dozen surrounding cars, and there will be no more traffic accidents on the road from now on.】

[Indeed, tens of thousands of people die in traffic accidents in China every year. If everyone drives a driverless car, it would be easy to avoid such tragedies.]

[It feels more reliable than people. Look at the many car accidents that happen every day. Most of them are caused by human factors. Those drivers seem to be driving with emotions. When encountering emergencies, their brains can't react at all. There are also drunk driving, drug driving, road rage, and those so-called old drivers who think they are experienced, but accidents will happen anyway. People who are dismissive of driverless cars are like the coachmen in the past who laughed at cars. They will be slapped in the face in the end.]

[I agree. Ordinary drivers are too emotional and easily explode. They say "buy a horse" on the left and "fuck your mother" on the right. Especially taxi drivers and Didi drivers who are on the road every day, they are all impatient and drive recklessly. This kind of situation accounts for 70% to 80% of the accidents on the road. And it is because of these bad people that congestion often occurs. If all are unmanned, the probability of congestion will definitely be greatly reduced. ]

[“Driving AI training specialist” means remote control, which saves the driver, but does not mean that the driver is not needed. 】

[One operator is responsible for 50 vehicles. If there are complicated situations, the alarm will be raised and the backend will take over. Imagine that the drivers are sitting in a comfortable office instead of being exposed to the sun. This is actually a kind of social progress.]

[Indeed, many road conditions can be driven with hands, and only some emergencies really test the driver.]

[However, this thing can easily lead to structural unemployment. ]

【Regarding the unemployment rate, it is actually a false proposition. Machines evolve to create more wealth. Starving people to death is definitely not the fault of machines. It is just like a hundred years ago when people blamed the looms for being too efficient, which caused all the hand-weaving women to be laid off. You have to find the person who designs the distribution system for this. People are alive, but machines are dead. The total productivity of society has increased, and the total wealth has increased. The low-end population has decreased instead of increased yesterday. It must be that the distribution system has not kept up with the pace.】

[Yes, normally the purpose of inventing machine AI is to make people more relaxed, to do easier work, and to improve efficiency. That is, a job that used to take eight hours can now be completed in four hours or even less than four hours. Normally, people should have more time to rest.]

Almost in an instant, the imminent arrival of driverless cars and the replacement of manual labor in the era of driverless cars instantly divided the crowd into two camps.

They just kept arguing about this related topic.

Many people are almost passively involved in this topic.

Gradually, the topic of their discussion is no longer driverless cars, but more about the role of artificial intelligence in replacing humans!

Now that driverless cars are here, artificial intelligence has also emerged as an alternative to administrative and financial offices. The depth and breadth of how artificial intelligence will replace humans in the future is a topic of concern to many people.

After all, most people can’t afford a Hillhouse Wenjie worth 50 yuan.

However, driverless cars and other artificial intelligence that replace humans have actually appeared in front of everyone.

This post has attracted a lot of discussion.

In just a few days, the page views exceeded 100 million, the page shares exceeded 20 million, and the number of comments exceeded several million.

There are hundreds of thousands of replies and discussions on this post.

Weibo has become popular in recent years due to the rise of Xiaoling APP and other media.

Therefore, it can be said that the current mega-enterprise has lost its former glory and can be described as a declining star.

But this post made the meager popularity soar to a height that it could not even imagine now!
Even Sina, the small and medium-sized operator of Weibo, couldn't believe that an ordinary hot search of its own could be so popular.

Subsequently, among the top ten Weibo rankings, seven are closely related to #artificial intelligence# and #driverless driving#.

This can be said to have directly led to dominance of the charts.

You know, Weibo usually sells hot search lists.

Some popular stars have to appear on the Weibo hot search list from time to time, and that makes money.

Now, Hillhouse's #artificial intelligence#, #driverless driving# and other topics have dominated the charts without spending any money, which can be said to be incredibly popular.

It can be clearly seen that this is a topic of discussion at the national level.

Almost everyone from top to bottom, from IT programmers to ordinary migrant workers, is discussing this issue on platforms such as Xiaoling and Weibo.

However, what makes many manual workers happy is that through the intensive discussions in the past few days, they have basically reached a consensus, that is, the probability of artificial intelligence replacing intellectual workers will be relatively higher!
Painting, programming, administration, finance, and other jobs with a strong regularity have a higher probability of being replaced.

However, some relatively irregular or physically demanding jobs are more likely to survive.

For example, football players, lawn mowers, supermarket clerks, etc. will not be at risk of being replaced for a long time.

"Mr. Gao, do you think artificial intelligence will really replace all jobs?" Feng Xiaochen asked Gao Huaijun.

"Haha, this is just a waste of time!"

"The answer is no, it's just a different working mode."

"During the Qing Dynasty, the agricultural population accounted for 95%, which means that 10 out of 9.5 people directly or indirectly farmed at home."

"One person farming can only support 1.05 people."

"This is also the core reason why men were valued more than women in ancient times."

“With male labor, more people will help farm the land!”

"You travel back in time and tell the people of the Qing Dynasty that they can have food to eat without having to farm. One person can feed a hundred people through farming, all with automated machinery."

"People in the Qing Dynasty were horrified and said, does that mean people in the future won't have to work?"

"You don't know what to say for a moment."

“People should not speculate about the world beyond their own cognition, because it is a meaningless thing.”

"There will be a lot of unexpected careers in the future, and I am optimistic about it."

"If our thoughts were restricted, I think we would still be farming like in the Qing Dynasty."

Gao Huaijun said in a relaxed tone.

(End of this chapter)