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Chapter 553: Chapter 411-412: Driverless taxi shocks the world! (4000 words)
As the car in front accelerated, the whole car drove steadily, without the sudden braking and bumping feeling of an ordinary taxi driver.

The young couple found it a little unbelievable.

This doesn't feel at all like a new, immature technology.

The driving experience of this car is just like that of an experienced driver, it feels very stable.

Although the driving speed is not as fast as that of a taxi driver, it gives people a good sense of security.

It can be seen that the driverless technology developed by Hillhouse Capital is already relatively mature.

"Can this company's driverless technology reach the level of Hillhouse Dolphin? We can buy one when we have time. The experience is really great." The boy's girlfriend exclaimed.

As a woman, she actually doesn't like driving.

To get a driver's license, I had to take the third subject four times before I passed.

The key is that you got your driver’s license before 2010!

So for a woman like her, driving a car is basically no driving experience at all.

It would be perfect if there was a small car that could be driven unmanned in the city.

What a driving experience! It’s better than not having to drive yourself!
"Not really! Their driverless system is too expensive. As far as I know, this car is cheap, probably less than 100,000 yuan, but this driverless system is not cheap at all. It costs more than 100,000 yuan in total, almost the same as a better B-class car." Her boyfriend shook his head and replied.

The girl was dumbfounded after hearing this.

This is really too expensive!

It is indeed technology that changes the times.

What she learned was that the current automobile market is very competitive, and people can fight tooth and nail for a car on the market just for a few thousand dollars.

Now the driverless system of this car can be sold for tens of thousands of dollars, which is really expensive!
"Even though it's expensive, people will buy it. Many people don't like to drive themselves. Isn't this a demand? There's nothing we can do. We have to wait for it to become popular!" said the boy with a wry smile.

As he spoke, there was a hint of envy in his eyes.

He graduated from an ordinary university, Jiangnan University.

Although Hillhouse is in Xicheng, there are very few job vacancies available for Jiangnan University.

Even if there are some, it is to give face to the Xicheng government and allocate some vacancies in some functional departments such as finance and personnel.

As for the R&D department, there is no hope for the entire Jiangnan University.

At this time, the vehicle in front is moving slowly.

He noticed there was a crosswalk ahead and the yellow light was flashing.

"Hey, it actually stopped when the light turned yellow. It didn't rush to catch the yellow light. Oh, no, it actually noticed that there was a passerby running a red light." The man's girlfriend said in surprise.

She observed that the car was about to run a yellow light, but it must have noticed a pedestrian nearby trying to run a red light, so it stopped.

This kind of dynamic game while driving is really good.

However, the man standing by vaguely sensed that this should be a relatively complicated large-scale model operation process.

It involves the mapping principle in topology.

It belongs to the category of AGI which is very popular recently.

To be more specific, if you give me one foot, I will invade one zhang.

Cars are constantly invading the reaction processes of different people, and establishing complex reaction models through the changes and reactions of different people, different cars, and different moving objects.

This kind of large strain model performs better than ordinary people.

In later generations, Wenjie M9 performed quite well, while Luobo Kuaipao performed poorly.

Baidu invested hundreds of billions of dollars, but ended up with a piece of junk.

Now, Hillhouse's taxi actually has L4 level unmanned driving capabilities, which is quite good.

All kinds of responses are really the best.

At this time, pedestrians on the road seemed to have noticed that there was no driver in the car, and they were pointing and talking.

For some reason, the man in the car felt secretly happy.

Anyway, he and his girlfriend are really keeping up with the trend.

"Are these pedestrians going to move? If they don't, the car won't move either." said the girlfriend at the side in a soft voice.

"This way I can feel at ease! If you drive dangerously like some drivers, then this kind of driverless taxi will be dangerous too," responded her boyfriend.

Wait until all the pedestrians have left.

The car started up again.

When I reached an intersection ahead, I turned on the right turn signal.

There is a red light ahead.

If the car is identified by the car street lights, it will most likely stop directly.

but. . .

Amid the two people's exclamations, the car rushed out and turned right without hesitation.

"Wow! This car has a great ability to identify traffic lights," the man's girlfriend praised.

"It's not that the car has a strong ability to identify traffic lights, but the underlying logic of this car is very good. It can identify specific situations and give specific analysis. This is no longer in the category of ordinary weak artificial intelligence, but a field that only strong artificial intelligence involves. Hillhouse is indeed a god-level company!" A man on the side exclaimed.

This experience was just for him to try something new.

I guess I won’t take a driverless taxi in the future.

Wait until others have served as guinea pigs and they have matured, then use them again.

However, this experience is really amazing.

The experience is no less than that of driving your own car.

There is no driver there to chat with you. You just need to do your own thing quietly, and you can also listen to music and watch movies. It is really comfortable.

After waiting for about five minutes, the driverless taxi finally slowly stopped to the right.

"Be careful!" the man warned as he got off the car from the right.

"Don't worry! The left door of the car was already locked when I got in, and there was no chance for me to get out at all. You are underestimating high technology." His girlfriend flipped over a sanitary ball and said coquettishly.

After the two people got off the car, many passers-by saw this recently popular driverless taxi and lined up to take photos.

After all, as the leading enterprise in Xicheng, Hillhouse's every move is naturally attracting much attention.

"Wow! Bye! Look how it goes." The man paid on his phone. But then he said, "I'll take the test."

He found that the taxi fare for this distance was only five dollars!
Although these are just the starting prices, five dollars is really cheap!

You know, the starting price in Xicheng is five yuan. If you go to a farther place, the price will easily be twenty or thirty yuan.

This can really be used as a private car, and it is really cheap.

"Hey, buddy, how's the ride?" a passerby couldn't help but ask.

When he saw the price on the man's phone, he couldn't help but say "I'll take the test".

This price is simply going to kill taxi drivers.

A self-driving taxi costs five dollars. It’s surprisingly cheap.

"It's very good, the air conditioning is great, you can watch movies and listen to music inside, and it's very clean. There must be someone cleaning it every day. It's much cleaner than ordinary taxis." The man next to him exclaimed.

Several passers-by on the side couldn't help but gasp.

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five yuan.

You can also watch movies and listen to music inside.

And it's very clean.

The air conditioning was very good.

If these were gathered together, they would be almost the same as private cars.

The taxi fare is about 30 yuan a day.

At the end of the month, it’s less than a thousand yuan.

In a year, it’s estimated to be only about 10,000 yuan.

A car, if the purchase price is one hundred thousand.

Including insurance and other things, it is estimated that the cost will be at least 50,000 to 100,000 yuan more over five years.

If you only live in the city and take taxis when you go to other places, it would be too much money!
"Wow! That's awesome!"

“This car is so powerful!”

“Hillhouse is changing our lives once again!”

"I want to take a taxi and experience this feeling too."

. . . . .

Soon, the first experience video of this car was circulated on major websites.

The click rate instantly skyrocketed to over 3000 million.

From this we can see how much attention people pay to such hot products and hot information.

In addition, there are many related hot comments.

[I go to school in Xicheng. When I was walking from the supermarket to the school gate, I met a Hillhouse Run. I met it at the crosswalk. Among the endless stream of vehicles, it was the only one that chose to give way to us pedestrians. Hahahahahaha. I support Hillhouse Run in managing Xicheng’s traffic! ]

[The biggest advantage of this car is that it can turn on the turn signal and give way to other vehicles and pedestrians. This is really good. It seems that this is a heresy in China. Hahahaha, so interesting.]

[The starting price is only five yuan? It's really too cheap! I'm most afraid that they will squeeze the market with low prices at the beginning and then forcefully raise prices later, just like Meituan. ]

[It was originally a low price, but the government said it is now subsidized, and the original price is more expensive than a taxi. ]

[Don't listen to the official, people are the most expensive. In a year, if a taxi driver doesn't make more than 70,000 yuan, he won't make any money at all. Do you think the operating income of this car can't be that much? As long as it cuts the driver's expenses, it will make money very easily.]

[Autonomous driving is definitely the future. In the future, road infrastructure will definitely be built in the manner of autonomous driving. Wait for these supporting social projects to take off.]

[It’s still a long way off. Our small county town doesn’t even have a non-motorized vehicle lane, so we don’t dare to put shared bicycles and shared electric vehicles on the market.]

[Self-driving cars will probably not be deployed in small counties, after all, the economies of scale are too small.]

[I just got a job at Hillhouse in Xicheng. To be honest, this model is really invincible. It is basically open 24 hours a day, and you won't be unable to get a taxi late at night. It is cheap, and it perfectly solves the problem of social phobia. ]

[As long as a company has developed it, it can be said that the technology has been proven to be feasible and has finished products, so it should not be difficult for other companies to copy this technology (copying answers is much easier than doing it yourself). Personally, I think it is more likely to be a question of cost and profit? ]

[Hillhouse can do it, but other companies can’t. What is Hillhouse’s strength? What is the strength of other companies? No matter what, they can’t do it! ]

[Before Hillhouse was about to run out: taking detours, raising prices, and ripping people off; after Hillhouse was about to run out: we were all living hard. ]

[Actually, you have misunderstood. Taxi drivers are not the bottom class. Compared with workers with a monthly salary of 3,000 yuan, taxi drivers are the ones who have benefited from the times. Take Xicheng as an example. Taxi drivers are all high-income groups. They can buy cars and houses in Xicheng by relying on taxis. Compared with ordinary people like you, they are far behind.]

[Taxi drivers rely on taxi companies, which is what everyone calls "capital". The only ones who are hurt are taxi companies. Taxi drivers, as qualified individuals, had already changed industries when online ride-hailing services hit them in the early years. The remaining taxi drivers are basically locals who make extra money by overcharging passengers. Due to the impact from all aspects, local taxi drivers have a strong revenge mentality. Since their numbers cannot be increased, they can only raise the unit price, especially for non-locals, who are severely overcharged.]

[Yes, I hate taxi drivers who overcharge their passengers. This is the case in Yuzhou, where I live. During rush hour, I often take two people and take detours.]

Although there are only 1000 driverless taxis on the market, the popularity of this market is so high that it would take an investment of million yuan for a company to curb it.

These 1000 vehicles, including their operation, only cost a few hundred million yuan.

This volume of voice means making huge profits in the true sense.

Every business needs constant exposure.

Exposure equals traffic, which equals money!
Some celebrities, in order to gain traffic, even spread rumors to discredit themselves.

After all, black and red are also red!
The headlines of almost every portal website are discussing the future positioning of driverless taxis, and almost everyone is discussing the convenience that driverless cars will bring to life.

In the past few months, they only explored the possibility of driverless cars, but now that it has actually arrived, everyone is still greatly shocked.

Hillhouse is so powerful!

No matter what, the wheel of history is rolling forward and no one can stop it. Apart from venting some emotions, there is no way to stop the arrival of driverless cars.

After all, this saves a lot of human resource costs.

More than a hundred years ago, Camel Xiangzi would never have imagined that rickshaws would run by themselves in the future.

In this heated discussion, some people hope that driverless cars will not be allowed to invade human society. After all, they are too powerful a force for replacing labor.

Another group of people hope that all cars on the roadsides of all cities will be replaced with driverless ones.

Only when all vehicles are replaced with driverless ones can we reduce the occurrence of traffic accidents and prevent hundreds of thousands of people from dying in traffic accidents every year in China.

However, there are also a group of people who think that after the maturity of driverless technology, the transformation of the taxi market has long been inevitable, and the taxi driver industry is already dead. It doesn’t matter whether there is Hillhouse or not, or whether the eye-catching Hillhouse is running fast. Whether you want it or not, whether you believe it or not, it is already dead.

This is what happens when productivity changes like the Industrial Revolution happen, it rushes in like a dam breaking, pouring into everything you can see and can't see, and getting in through every little crack. This thing is impossible to reverse.

(End of this chapter)