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Chapter 554: Chapter 413-414: Driverless taxis subvert foreign imagination! (4000 words)
The emergence of driverless taxis will be a landmark event of this era.

Currently, no one is working on large AI models, including driverless cars, except China and the United States.

The main reason is that the technology requirements are high and it is too expensive.

Also, except for China and the United States, the engineering talent pool in other countries has not kept up.

Old Europe is the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution. Because of this, they have gathered a large number of skilled mechanical engineers, but lack accumulation in the electronics and communications industries.

no way,
If Hillhouse's artificial intelligence BU is really moved to Europe, it may be able to gather talent in the early stages.

But in the case of Western Europe, as soon as it starts to gain momentum, it might be poached or merged with Microsoft or Google.

Moreover, this kind of business in Europe cannot take off without the existence of strong Spanish-speaking companies like Google and Tesla. No country would dare to bet on the success of incubating this industry on its own.

Even in the UK, where generative artificial intelligence has shown some promise, even Hinton came out of Google. Even if the UK treats it as a treasure, it still cannot develop.

As for things like manually driven trams, there are only a few of them and we are short of money, so what can we do?

So even if there really is such a super enterprise out there, it is indeed a treasure, but it is too difficult to raise this treasure.

and so.

Now in the most cutting-edge track of artificial intelligence, it is actually the final between China and the United States.

In the next fifty years, who can occupy the most core level in the world will depend on who can make the biggest breakthrough in this core track.

At such a critical juncture, Hillhouse Capital actually achieved a key breakthrough in driverless taxis.

Although only a circle was drawn in the core urban area of ​​Xicheng, it was enough to attract the attention of the world, especially the counterparts in the United States.

Some videos of people experiencing Hillhouse's driverless taxis are also circulating on Gwai.

This also attracted heated discussions among foreign netizens.

[Those children who are still complaining about the word "China", wake up. ]

[To be honest, China's scientific industry is as advanced as America's. China is a country that is very proud of, haha.]

[China has completed and is testing the autonomous driving urbanization that the United States is trying to achieve, which is a truly threatening technology. 】

[China's development is incredibly fast. Looking back at China 20 years ago, it is really a world apart.]

China is developing new technologies, they are getting better, most of the western countries are lagging behind because they are complacent and lazy.

[Absolutely not in the United States. In the United States, there are money, tires, batteries, etc., which will be stolen within a day and the car will be damaged. 】

[To this day, some traditional TV media in the United States are still saying that China is a backward country. If it weren’t for Gwai, I would still believe their lies. The prejudice and harm caused by their fake news are sad.]

[CNBC should stop promoting Chinese technology now, otherwise the whole world will know that the United States is lagging behind in technology. Stop it, CNBC, promote the technology of the United States! ]

[China has an open attitude towards Tesla and Pingguo, but we have imposed self-imposed sanctions and taxes on Hillhouse and China Electric Vehicles. For a moment, I don’t know which is a developed country and which is a developing country. ]

[I’m glad that some white men in the comment section lost their sense of ‘beautiful country superiority’ because of their frustration, haha! ]

[What is Tesla in China? This is the famous Hillhouse driverless car in China, which has existed for several years. These white men are desperately twisting the facts, saying that China copied Tesla, but the fact is that Hillhouse in China has this sci-fi level of self-driving car technology earlier than Tesla.]

[How did the world become something I couldn't imagine? China's automobile company has created driverless cars that have never been seen before in this era, and China has now achieved global leadership with this technology. It is conceivable that they can use this technology on the moon and other interstellar planets. What happened to the United States? How did it decline into something we don't recognize now? ]

Gao Huaijun also didn't expect that a small Hillhouse driverless taxi would cause such an impact abroad that could be described as a nuclear explosion.

He still underestimated the impact of the inherent filter that foreigners use to view China.

In the Western stereotype.

China is full of intelligent but unethical businessmen who exploit cheap labor, pollute the environment, suppress dissenting voices, and so on in order to sell large quantities of low-quality products to the United States and achieve their own rapid economic development.

Another thing is that the living environment in this country is poor, backward and severely polluted.

In short, there is no hope!

In this era, people in Western countries are trapped in an information cocoon.

China, such a distant country, is accompanied by poverty and backwardness, and there are a lot of stories from people who come from the beautiful country. How good can it be?

But now that Hillhouse has come up with such an awesome thing, it’s really awesome.

It can be said that it directly tore apart the original three views.

How deep was my previous impression of China, how deep is my shock now!

It turns out that there is an account on YouTube that has been specializing in reporting all kinds of negative news about China for several years.

Now let’s look back.

What?

It’s actually different from what I remembered?
It turns out that China has the most advanced driverless technology in the world.

The Chinese streets that appear in the video look very clean, and appear much neater than the background of the beautiful country Xinxiang, which is full of garbage and various flying leaves.

People also seem to be very quiet, without the dangerous biker gangs and Ni brothers like those in the United States.

This country looks really good!

The feeling of breaking the filter was so shocking that many beautiful Chinese people found it unbelievable.

The reputation of Hillhouse Capital is also spreading all over the world.

At this time, on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean.

Musk is repeatedly watching the videos sent from China, while comparing them with the comparison reports made by his company's employees.

The latest version of Tesla's autonomous driving has actually been running in the United States for a long time.

However, because it uses camera-based intelligent driving technology, and it is camera-based intelligent driving technology, and it has only two seats and the space is too small, it has never been favored by the capital of the United States, that is, the bigwigs on Wall Street.

Therefore, many bigwigs in the capital sector believe that it will take a long time for the application prospects of driverless technology in the United States.

But, at this critical moment.

Hillhouse Capital, a company that has already been liquidated, has gone against the tide and released its driverless technology before all other automobile companies. And it is the most difficult type of driverless technology. This has surprised the bigwigs in Wall Street.

Because Tesla has promoted its self-driving car many times at the press conference. Basically, it was hyped before the press conference, and then the stock price plummeted, and it fell again after the press conference when there was no profit prospect.

This... is so realistic.

Because these smart people all know that Tesla has been working on L2 for so many years, but has not yet achieved L3.

According to the standards, there is no clear distinction between L2 and L3. The system emergency mechanism of L3 can be completely placed on L2. In fact, Tesla cars have L3 emergency mechanisms, but they do not work because the road condition recognition capability is far from that level.

If you can't reach that level, then Tesla's market value, that is, its stock price, will naturally not go up.

As a comparison.

Hillhouse’s current high-speed growth has far exceeded the L3 level.

And now they even dare to conduct a full-field unmapped test in Xicheng, with thousands of vehicles and a variety of different scenarios, such as the flow of people in the city center, cars weaving in and out, primary school students running around, old people walking at snail speeds, etc. The test is carried out in a city with a population of over a million. This really subverts the imagination of all industry insiders and the bigwigs on Wall Street.

This also...

That’s really awesome!
This has definitely reached the L4 level, which Hillhouse has not publicized but has actually reached!

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What's even worse is.

According to the news from China.

This car is very cheap to build.

Including the cost of the body, this economical five-seater car actually costs less than 200,000 yuan!
This is really scary!

The overflow of human resources of Chinese engineers has reached an astonishing level.

You know, if such a product is sold in the beautiful country, it would be impossible to be launched without 4 to 5 American dollars, which is 28 to 35 Chinese yuan.

But even so, Hillhouse actually cut the price down to around 17?
This really shocked the industrial sector of the United States.

The car you make costs less than half of mine, so how do you want me to play?
"The operating costs of their five-seater cars are actually very high, whether it's electricity usage or daily labor costs," said White, Tesla's product director.

Musk rolled his eyes and looked at him in silence.

"The best driverless taxi is the 2-seater one. The production cost is greatly reduced, the operating cost is also greatly reduced, and it even avoids people messing around in the back seat. We also save on the material cost of the steering wheel in the front seat. This is the ultimate solution for driverless taxis!"

"The car body is 30% lighter. At least, not to mention the manufacturing cost, how much less electricity can be used in a day just by driving?"

"And precisely because they wanted to provide two seats, they removed the steering wheel and brakes. If they were provided, it would be impossible to let the customers sit there, which means that to carry two passengers, there must be a double row of seats (2 people). Only by removing the steering wheel and brakes can the passengers have the opportunity to sit in the original driving position!"

When White saw that Musk was silent, he knew that Musk must be doubting the matter at this time, so he explained.

"White, in reality the cost of 2 seats isn't much lower, it's just a gimmick."

"You also know that in our American super factory, the hard costs cannot be reduced, especially LiDAR!"

Musk pursed his lips and shrugged.

Now the United States is becoming more and more strict on imports from China.

LiDAR is the most sensitive part of it.

In order to achieve the re-industrialization of the United States and make the United States great again, it is required to investigate all Chinese LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging, LiDAR) technology companies to determine whether there are reasons to include them in the three self-sanction lists.

LiDAR uses pulsed lasers to measure the distance, speed, and altitude of physical objects to map the surrounding environment.

The technology is critical to creating navigation capabilities around self-driving cars.

This also raises serious concerns related to data security, cybersecurity and detailed mapping of the United States' infrastructure.

so. . . .

Now even if Musk wants to buy China's lidar to enter the United States, it is basically impossible.

In this era of increasing deglobalization, where every economy is slowly turning into an isolated island, this is the helplessness of businessmen.

"Boss, laser radar is not necessary."

“This is the wrong solution!”

"In complex road driving environments, simulating biological neural networks and the visual system of the eye is the most effective technical path."

White said excitedly.

At this moment, why are you still thinking about lidar?

We don’t want Hillhouse to come up with this and then we pull back from the brink and try to make a 180-degree turn.

That is impossible.

Although Hillhouse's technical route in the field of intelligent driving is to use multi-sensor fusion methods to make decisions, such as millimeter-wave radar, cameras, and lidar to achieve data fusion and processing.

This approach combines multiple sensors to enhance the redundancy and perception capabilities of the system.

However, if this plan is localized in the United States, it will definitely be a dead end.

Hillhouse uses three lidars in even one taxi.

If you use it, how much more will it cost?

A radar costs 2 US dollars. Is that not too much?

This is a battle of routes.

Tesla can't go back!
Otherwise, wouldn’t all the things White had done in the past few years be in vain?
"Okay, White. Don't get excited. Our idea for driverless taxis will still be implemented according to the original plan."

"It is indeed enough for the United States to use intelligent driving with maps."

"As long as we apply it in a few cities and start commercial operations, we will be invincible."

"I just don't believe it. Our Tesla's technology is worse than Hillhouse's!"

Speaking of the latter, Musk gritted his teeth and said with some reluctance.

(End of this chapter)