Rebirth 08: Rise from copycat phones

Chapter 466 The sea-blue car goes to the hospital automatically!

In late May, when various news about Hailan cars were still emerging, a middle-aged man was speeding on a highway in a Hailan SLMC.

Suddenly, the middle-aged man who was driving felt a severe chest pain and cold sweat broke out instantly.

He seemed to realize something, and he struggled with his last bit of strength to speak: "Xiao Hai!"

Suddenly, a gentle female electronic voice sounded in the car: "Xiao Hai is here!"

The middle-aged man struggled and said, "Take me to the hospital quickly, quickly, I have a heart attack..."

As soon as he finished speaking, he collapsed on the driver's seat without making a sound, as if he had lost all his strength.

On the central control screen inside the car, the blue cartoon man answered: "The nearest hospital has been searched, and it is fifteen kilometers away. The navigation target has been switched. Do you need Xiaohai to call 120?"

However, there was no one in the car who could respond to it.

A few seconds later, the cartoon character on the central control screen seemed to be talking to himself, and the electronic voice continued to sound: "An emergency medical event has been detected. The owner has not responded. It will automatically enter emergency medical mode in three seconds!"

"3, 2, 1"

"Testing pre-authorization, in-car video and audio surveillance authorized, emergency medical alarm call authorized, emergency contact authorized!"

At the same time, a call was received at the police center in the nearest city. After the operator received the call, a sweet electronic female voice came from the other end of the phone: "Hello, I am Xiaolan, the in-car voice assistant of ***. My master's license plate number is ***. My master said he had a heart attack and is currently unable to respond. The in-car monitoring shows that my master has fallen into a coma and he urgently needs emergency medical assistance."

"I am currently navigating to *** Hospital. The navigation route shows that there are a total of eight red lights along the way. It is currently the rush hour after get off work. I request traffic guidance and temporary speeding authorization in emergency medical situations!"

After hearing this, the operator was stunned for a moment... What's going on? A robot calling the police?

But her professionalism made her calm down instantly: "Xiao Hai, right? Where are you now?"

The electronic voice continued: "I am at ** kilometers of ** Highway. It is expected to exit the ** Highway at the ** Highway exit in three minutes and twenty-five seconds!"

The operator said, "Okay, I have arranged for a motorcycle rider to wait for you at the highway intersection to provide you with traffic guidance!"

As for the speeding authorization... She didn't dare to say it, but turned around and quickly consulted her boss. After hesitating for a while, the boss said: "This is a matter of life and death, handle it according to the ambulance principle!"

Then, the operator replied to Xiao Haidao: "We have approved your temporary speeding authorization, but in order to ensure the safety of pedestrians and other vehicles, you must follow the motorcycle after getting off the highway!"

Xiao Haidao: "The temporary speeding authorization has been obtained!"

Almost instantly, the sea-blue SLMC on the highway accelerated instantly, soaring from about 110 kilometers to over 180 kilometers.

So, some other vehicles saw this scene: a blue SLMC was speeding on the highway like a blue ghost... Some people muttered after seeing it: "You are risking your life, driving so fast!"

The most shocked people were not the passers-by, but the toll collectors at the highway toll station... They had just received a call saying that a car with special circumstances would get off their bus, and there were people in the car who urgently needed medical assistance, so they had to provide a medical channel in advance.

At the same time, a nearby traffic police motorcycle also received an emergency order and rushed to the highway intersection. While instructing the people at the toll booth to open an emergency medical channel, he was also talking on a mobile phone...but the voice on the phone was an electronic female voice!
"I'm just outside the highway exit toll booth. I'm on a blue and white police motorcycle with license plate number ****. Just follow me!"

The electronic female voice on the other end of the phone said: "According to the emergency medical mode pre-authorization, Xiao Hai has officially transferred the authority to you temporarily."

"Xiao Hai will obey your traffic instructions!"

Just two minutes later, a sea-blue SLMC came speeding down the highway. At this moment, both the toll booth staff and the traffic police who came to pick people up felt very strange!
Because no one is driving the car...the driver is currently slumped in the driver's seat and unconscious.

The cavalryman went up to take a look, and without delay, he stepped on the accelerator and set off quickly, guiding the Hailan SLMC behind him to follow.

The Hailan SLMC behind him was very smart and just followed the high-powered police motorcycle of the Iron Cavalry.

At the beginning, the traffic police were worried that the automatic driving of the Hailan SLMC behind them would not be able to keep up. After all, in order to save time, the traffic police would honk the horn to clear the way in front, while also walking on the side or weaving in and out of the car at a very fast speed.

But the Hailan SLMC behind was following closely, and even maintained a relatively fixed distance.

Damn, this car’s autonomous driving is too exaggerated, it’s even more experienced than an experienced driver... Is Hailan Automobile’s L4 autonomous driving so awesome now?

Thinking of this, the traffic police felt relieved, and then he stepped on the accelerator and increased the speed again!

It didn't take long before they sped all the way to the emergency room of a hospital.

The medical staff who had received the notification in advance quickly opened the door and moved the owner out as soon as the car stopped, and then rushed to provide emergency treatment with the patient on the bed.

At this time, the traffic policeman got off the motorcycle, looked at the Hailan SLMC on the side, and then tried to say to the inside of the car: "Xiao Hai? It was you who talked to me on the phone just now, right?"

An electronic female voice came from inside the car: "Yes!"

The traffic policeman thought for a moment and said, "You did a good job. Your master didn't waste money buying you!"

An electronic voice inside the car said, "Thank you for the compliment. This is what I should do!"

The traffic police said: "You are quite polite. By the way, please park your car in the parking lot. This is an emergency passage and you can't park for too long. By the way, can you find a parking space to park your car?"

The car's electronic voice said, "I can do it!"

Afterwards, the empty Hailan SLMC automatically closed its door, then slowly drove to the parking lot nearby, reversed into the parking space in one go, and after parking, the lights went out, and it stayed there quietly like other vehicles in the parking lot.

The traffic policeman looked at this scene and said: "The technology nowadays is so magical... I have been working for so many years, but this is the first time I have led the way for autonomous driving!"

At this time, a man who was watching the fun nearby and was probably a family member of the patient came over and asked, "This car is amazing, it drove all the way here by itself?"

The traffic police said: "Yes, the owner of the car had a heart attack, so it drove all the way to the hospital by itself and even called the police on the way. I went to escort it after receiving its call!"

The man next to him said, "Awesome! This should be the L4 level autonomous driving of Hailan Automobile. I have heard that it is very powerful. Today I have learned a lot!"

The next day, a short video of the incident appeared on the Internet.

This video was obviously shot by onlookers at the entrance of the hospital's emergency room. It captured medical staff carrying the unconscious car owner out, and then the empty car slowly left to find a parking space.

The video itself is nothing. The key is the commentary in the video: "Yesterday evening, the owner of a Hailan SLMC had a sudden heart attack. The automatic driving system drove the owner directly to the hospital and saved his life!"

However, many people are still skeptical.

But soon other videos were released one after another, especially a scene captured by passers-by of an unmanned sea-blue SLMC following a traffic police motorcycle and quickly weaving in and out of traffic.

The local authorities also took the initiative to announce the news: "Yesterday evening, our police center received an alarm call from the onboard artificial intelligence system of a Hailan car, saying that the owner had a sudden heart attack and fell into a coma. Our bureau quickly organized motorcycles to rush to the scene to guide traffic, and contacted the highway toll station and the hospital in advance to send the owner to the hospital in the shortest possible time. According to the hospital, the owner has been rescued and is now safe!"

The news spread quickly, and the head of Hailan Automobile's publicity department also released a message later that day: "According to what we have learned, the owner of the car turned on the emergency medical mode in advance. Here, I suggest that all owners of Hailan cars equipped with the 'Advanced Intelligent Assisted Driving 4.0 System' should turn on the emergency medical mode!"

The reason why this emergency medical mode is not turned on by default is that it involves many sensitive issues, especially privacy issues.

This requires granting many sensitive permissions, including in-vehicle monitoring permissions, automatic alarm, calling 120, etc. Not everyone is willing to authorize these sensitive permissions to the system.

Therefore, although Hailan cars have emergency medical permissions, they are all closed by default. Car owners can decide whether to turn them on based on their own circumstances. If they want to turn them on, they will need to authorize multiple sensitive permissions and sign a waiver agreement.

The car owner authorizes and signs the waiver agreement himself and bears all responsibilities... Otherwise, if the car owner gets sick and drives the car to the hospital by himself, what if someone is killed on the road?
Don’t think that this situation is impossible to happen, in fact, the probability is still there! In order to avoid many legal troubles, Hailan Automobile has always been very cautious in these matters.

Even HaiLan Automobile has never explicitly stated that its intelligent driving is "autonomous driving", but has always called it "advanced intelligent assisted driving".

Moreover, if the car owner wants to activate this series, he must sign a lot of waiver agreements in advance and bear various responsibilities on his own. Hailan Automobile Company will not be responsible for any accidents.

The 'Advanced Intelligent Assisted Driving' provided by Hailan Automobile to users has a lot of disclaimers. In some countries, such as Europe and the United States, the disclaimer agreement for this assisted driving is hundreds of pages long... thicker than a book!

In fact, HaiLian Auto and Zhiyun Group are very cautious about many things involving artificial intelligence. Before any function or service is launched on the market, legal experts will conduct various risk assessments and formulate various corresponding exemption agreements to avoid legal risks.

Zhiyun Group has a world-class team of legal experts. It not only maintains a professional and large legal team, but is also a major client of many of the world's leading law firms.

When it comes to legal matters, top multinational companies like Zhiyun are also top-notch, and their level is actually more professional than that of judicial practitioners in many countries...

Moreover, top multinational companies like Zhiyun Group also attach great importance to legal affairs...The executives in charge of legal affairs are generally senior core management of the company.

Liang Yongan, the chief legal officer of Zhiyun Group, is the senior vice president of Zhiyun Group. He is one of the decision-makers in Zhiyun Group. Although his voice within the group is not as strong as that of Gu Zhiming and Ji Chenghe, he is also one of the top bosses.

It’s just that the outside world doesn’t know much about this person.

After all, as the chief legal officer, Liang Yongan does not deal with ordinary business affairs. His core job is to prevent Zhiyun Group from encountering legal problems in markets around the world...

His main job is not only to protect himself with the law, but also to find various legal loopholes and exploit them.

For example, Zhiyun Group’s various tax avoidance measures around the world... were actually created by him and a group of legal experts and a group of tax and financial experts.

This global tax avoidance measure can save Zhiyun Group at least tens of billions of dollars or even more in tax costs every year...it's exaggerated.

Don’t think that this is illegal. In fact, it is not illegal... This is a reasonable use of different legal standards in different countries, and it can be used cleverly to reduce the overall tax burden.

Of course, sometimes some countries are unhappy with a multinational company for tax evasion, so they will pull the multinational company out for tax investigation and prosecution... and take the opportunity to impose a fine. Most of the time, the company will also reach a settlement with them and pay some fines.

These are all normal.

Circumventing the laws of various countries and engaging in international tax avoidance are essential skills for multinational corporations. This is why positions such as chief legal officer and chief financial officer in multinational corporations are generally held by core senior executives of the group.

The legal team of Zhiyun Group is absolutely world-class. It not only serves its own company, but also provides paid legal services to some sister companies.

So few people know that Zhiyun Group actually has a subsidiary that also provides legal consulting services...

In the field of artificial intelligence, Zhiyun Group and HaiLian Automobile are extremely cautious and have prepared a large number of various disclaimer agreements in advance, just to be safe.

Of course, ordinary people don’t pay attention to these things.

What ordinary people are concerned about is that the autonomous driving of this Hailan car is really amazing. It can even send the owner to the hospital after the owner falls ill.

After discovering these videos, the publicity department of Hailan Automobile also tried to stop them and spent money to buy traffic and hot searches, which added a wave of popularity to the matter and sparked more widespread discussion.

This stimulated further growth in the sales of Hailan Automobile.

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When HaiLan Automobile was booming, Xu Shenxue came to the headquarters of Weiku Industry in a low-key manner. He came here today not only to see the S18 series of mobile phones that have entered the mass production and stocking mode, but also to finalize the final listing of Weiku Industry.

At the headquarters manufacturing base of Wecoo Industrial, Xu Shenxue saw the first batch of S18 mobile phones rolling off the trial production line.

This year's S18 mobile phone is similar to last year's S17 in appearance. The screen is still an OLED screen, and it uses the smart capsule mode to deploy 3D face recognition.

However, the screen size has changed this year.

The S18 standard version and S18 Pro are the classic six inches and six point five inches. This screen is based on the second-generation OLED screen technology, and uses some third-generation technologies that do not significantly increase costs. Overall, it can be regarded as a second-generation improved technology.

However, the S18 Max adopts a new 18-inch size, while the S Max Pro is a larger -inch one, and the screen is the latest fourth-generation OLED screen... Strictly speaking, this screen is actually an improved version of the third generation, which has been improved compared to the third generation, but the improvement is not obvious.

In fact, the biggest change and the most core upgrade of the entire S18 series is the chip upgrade!

This year's S18 mobile phone will use the S903 chip produced using an equivalent seven-nanometer process.

Coupled with the latest generation of running memory and flash memory chips, the overall performance has been greatly improved compared to last year!
Whether it is daily use or playing games, there is a huge improvement over last year's S17!
And this is the power of the equivalent seven-nanometer process!
Stronger, faster, and the flagship model has a larger screen. These are the main features of this year's S18 mobile phones. As for other changes, there are not many.

If there is anything to be said, it is that this year a more powerful fast charging technology has been applied, using 25-watt fast charging technology... This is a rare improvement in fast charging speed for Zhiyun mobile phones. Before this, it was only 15 watts.

Other mobile phone manufacturers have also followed suit with fast charging technology, and generally achieved 18 watts to 25 watts. In addition, some manufacturers have announced 40 to 50 watts of fast charging technology, which has surpassed Zhiyun's 15 watt fast charging technology.

Zhiyun Group also chose to follow suit and developed a 25-watt fast charging technology this year!
It is not much ahead of its competitors, but just maintains a mainstream level.

Mainly because Zhiyun Group has been very conservative in its follow-up in this regard for the ultimate safety of charging. The current 25-watt fast charging technology has only been put into use after undergoing extremely stringent safety tests.

As for higher-level fast-charging technology, it is not unavailable, but Zhiyun Group would rather wait a little longer than take risks.

Otherwise, it would not be a problem to come up with 40W fast charging technology this year. Even more extreme, 60W fast charging would be fine.

But this does not meet Zhiyun Group's stringent safety standards in the field of batteries and charging...

It hasn’t been long since the four-star battery explosion. Zhiyun Group doesn’t want to make global news headlines about its own fast-charging fire and explosion due to its reckless advancement in fast-charging technology.

Of course, Zhiyun Group claims to be conservative in fast charging technology... but in fact it is still world-class and is among the first batch of companies that currently use the most advanced fast charging technology.

Xu Shenxue pays more attention to the S18 mobile phone on a daily basis. He has been paying close attention to it since the prototype stage. After all, this is the core product of Zhiyun Group. He will pay close attention to it from beginning to end to prevent any problems from arising.

Today, we are not here to see the S18 phone itself, but to see its production situation.

The current S18 mobile phone has entered the mass production and stocking stage in multiple production bases of the three major foundries. The production capacity is currently being gradually increased and is expected to reach its peak in July, with a monthly production capacity of million units.

Then prepare for the official launch of the S18 mobile phone in August!
After seeing the production line of the S18 mobile phone, Xu Shenxue went to the small conference room of Weiku Industrial's headquarters building and held a special meeting with the senior executives of Weiku Industrial.

The meeting was not about the production of the S18 mobile phone, but about the listing of Weiku Industrial.

Weiku Industrial has decided early on to go public on the domestic and Hong Kong stock markets. Now all preparations have been completed. If nothing unexpected happens, it will be officially listed in September this year, taking advantage of the surge in S18 mobile phone orders and the good overall revenue situation.

The problem now is the market value of OEM companies such as Wecoo Industrial. Currently, there are still some differences between Wecoo Industrial and investors regarding the valuation of Wecoo Industrial.

How should I put it? You say that Weiku Industry is a manufacturing industry, but they actually have various high-tech technologies, a large number of automated equipment, the research and development and manufacturing capabilities of intelligent equipment, and they also engage in intelligent manufacturing.

Its dark factory is also well-known, representing the world's first-class intelligent manufacturing level.

If we don’t have this level, we won’t be able to manufacture so many high-tech products for Zhiyun Group... For example, the robots of Zhiyun Group are not easy to manufacture, and the manufacturing technology content is very high.

But you say it is a high-tech enterprise, and it is indeed a very typical labor-intensive OEM enterprise, with a total number of more than one million employees... Which high-tech enterprise has so many workers!

Therefore, the positioning is rather awkward, which in turn leads to differences in market value estimates!
(End of this chapter)