Unmanned takeout trucks and unmanned delivery trucks can only grab some good orders that don’t need to be sent upstairs or delivered to your door.
But for those "troublesome orders" that need to be sent upstairs and delivered to your home, riders and couriers still need to be responsible.
But driverless taxis are different.
With the continuous improvement of map accuracy, Carrot Run can run orders that taxi drivers can run for several generations, and it also has some advantages!
For example, unmanned taxis will not take malicious detours or refuse rides. No matter how far or near the taxi is, or how bad the weather is, they will pick you up after accepting the order.
It's not like some drivers who take orders and don't want to make money because of the short distance, so they deliberately don't pick up the order, forcing the passengers to cancel or increase the fare.
It’s not like some drivers who take a fixed-price order and feel bad about not making money, so they feel weird all the way, don’t turn on the air conditioner on a hot day, and make passengers disgusted.
There is no need to worry about encountering unscrupulous drivers and personal danger. After all, there are no drivers and the prices are cheaper.
Some people may worry that once Carrot Run overtakes taxis, online ride-hailing, and monopolizes the industry, prices will quickly rise to start harvesting, and it may even be more expensive than licensed taxis and online ride-hailing!
In fact, there is no need to worry about this at all.
The unmanned taxi industry cannot be monopolized, and it is inherently profitable. Baidu can do it in the first grade, and companies such as Huawei and BYD can do it in the fifteenth grade.
By then, multiple brands of unmanned taxis on the market will be operating simultaneously, all operating at low cost. It would be nice not to engage in price wars in order to grab customers. How could prices be increased like crazy?
It is conceivable that once driverless taxis become popular, the future of traditional taxis and online ride-hailing will be uncertain.
Seven million taxi drivers are also at risk of losing their jobs.
But there is no way, the wheel of the times is moving forward inexorably, and will only crush everything ruthlessly. No one can use a mantis as a chariot.
Just like in the previous life, even if Baidu didn't do Carrot Run, other companies would.
Even if domestic companies don’t make driverless taxis, foreign companies will.
This cannot be changed or prevented.
The ultimate benefit is hundreds of millions of passengers, who can use better services and take taxis at lower prices. They can even save money compared to driving a gas car to work. After all, gas and parking fees are high.
The tragedy is that seven million taxi drivers will face collective unemployment!
And Gaode Taxi is on the verge of bankruptcy!
What everyone often says is that if you lose your job, you can go to Didi at worst.
It is this sentence that has led to oversaturation in the online ride-hailing field.
Even without Luobo Kuaipao, online ride-hailing services are oversaturated, revenue is declining, and people keep joining!
The emergence of driverless taxis has dealt a critical blow to online ride-hailing. Once popularized, this retreat will be completely ended.
But when the tree is removed, it dies, and when people are removed, it lives.
If you can no longer do online ride-hailing, you can go into other industries. There is always a way out.
After all, many industries are still short of people.
For example, in the construction industry, if you go to any construction site, the average age is over 45 years old, and many of them are migrant workers in their fifties or even sixties!
Not to mention that they are overage... There is no pension for migrant workers, and there is no talk of retirement. It is normal to work until they are over sixty.
Young people in their twenties and thirties would rather go to Didi and deliver food than go to construction sites, leading to a labor shortage.
Once these old migrant workers in their 50s and 60s retire and young people stop working on construction sites, things will be completely different.
After all, cities need renovation and development now, they will need renovation ten years from now, and they will still need it twenty years from now.
And all this requires migrant workers.
The emergence of unmanned taxis has cut off the way to operate online ride-hailing services. The emergence of unmanned express delivery vehicles and take-out trucks has reduced the demand for couriers and riders, which can be regarded as forcing some young people to return to the construction site.
Although it is cruel, there is no way.
You can get 8,000 yuan if you work hard at the construction site, or you can get 4,000 yuan if you work overtime in the office until you are bald. You have to choose one.
Currently, Baidu is already deploying autonomous driving research and development.
More than ten years later, Baidu’s Carrot Kuaishou has developed rapidly and continued to gain popularity, while Wang Yi’s AutoNavi taxi-hailing company has gone bankrupt!
The times are developing like this, and Wang Yi is unable to compete.
No matter how good Amap does in taxi-hailing, it cannot withstand Baidu’s self-driving taxis that run 24 hours a day.
There is only one solution, and that is for Xingyi Technology to develop its own AI driverless algorithm and do the "Carrot Run" by itself!
We must plan early and start planning now.
The main task of the Xingyi AI algorithm department is to develop autonomous driving and large AI models.
In a few years, the accuracy of the Amap map will improve to a terrifying level. Wang Yi will also launch driverless cars, but he will not directly destroy the jobs of online ride-hailing and taxis.
After all, AutoNavi's taxi-hailing business is also its own business. Wang Yi will not directly let the online taxi-hailing drivers who have worked with AutoNavi for many years lose their jobs collectively.
On the contrary, Wang Yi will take out the first batch of online taxis and sell them to experienced car owners of AutoNavi, so that they can have income and security for the rest of their lives.
By then, Gaode will give half of the money earned by autonomous taxis every day, and the other half will be given to the driver.
Perhaps the commission will be lower than before when driving every day, but fortunately they can get money without driving every day, which is also a good thing.
With this after-sleep income, whether those online ride-hailing drivers retire early or do some other work, they will be more secure and will not lose their jobs instantly.
Of course, this discount is only available to experienced AutoNavi drivers with more than five years of experience, and does not apply to new drivers who have just joined the company, Wang Yi.
Otherwise, there will inevitably be a large number of people who originally did not want to drive an online ride-hailing service. In order to earn this "after-sleep income", they will temporarily join AutoNavi as a driver.
That would be a mess.
What Wang Yi does is just to provide benefits to the old employees so that they will not collectively lose their jobs and become homeless. This is not charity.
In addition, a five-year contract will be signed with the old employees before this. The content of the contract is that the driver needs to help Xingyi Technology train a large autonomous driving model and draw accurate map data!
Autonomous driving is done by algorithms, but this algorithm is not done once and for all, but is a large model that has been trained and upgraded over many years!
For example, is Baidu’s Carrot Kuaishou really only launched in 2024?
No, as early as 2020, Luobo Kuaipao started operating in some areas such as Imperial Capital and Changsha.
As early as 2017, Baidu launched Apollo, the world's first open platform for autonomous driving.
As early as 2013, Baidu began research and development of autonomous driving!
Although Baidu's autonomous driving and Luobo Kuaipao had little presence in the past few years, they are very powerful. In the field of L4 autonomous driving, they are among the best in the world and can be said to be far ahead.
Huawei, Tesla, Xpeng and other companies all provide L2 level conditional autonomous driving, that is, assisted driving.
Of course, this does not mean that Baidu will beat Huawei and Tesla. It can only be said that there are two tracks.
What Baidu is directly doing is L4 level autonomous driving. The advantage is that it is truly driverless and not half-assed assisted driving. However, the disadvantage is equally obvious. It can only operate within a high-precision map area. Once it goes out of this range, it will be blinded instantly.
Although the L2 level autonomous driving of Huawei, Tesla and other companies is assisted driving and cannot be separated from people, it cannot truly drive fully autonomously like Carrot Run. However, with the combination of powerful software and hardware, it can adapt to more
The road conditions are not restricted by the map.
Even when driving on a small road in the countryside without a map, it can assist driving.
There is no way to say who is stronger or weaker between the two, nor can we say who has taken a detour. We can only say that the tracks are different and the groups they target are different.
Baidu's L4 autonomous driving can drive unmanned, but it cannot be separated from accurate maps. It is destined to be suitable for B-end commercial use, and it can be used as autonomous taxis in limited areas.
Huawei and Tesla's L2 assisted driving can adapt to all road conditions and is not restricted by maps, but it cannot be separated from people and is more suitable for assisted driving by C-end consumers.
The same thing is that both Baidu and Huawei began to develop autonomous driving research and development in 2012-2013.
Yes, this industry requires ten years of hard work!
Similarly, Xingyi Technology also has to plan and prepare in advance.
Wang Yi acquired Xiaoi Robot and established the Xingyi AI algorithm department just for this purpose.
At present, we are investing heavily in developing AI algorithms and self-driving algorithms.
As for the direction? L2 assisted driving or L4 autonomous driving?
Only children make choices, and Wang Yi wants them all.
That’s right, Wang Yi does both L2 assisted driving and L4 autonomous driving.
There is no way. In the future, Xingyi Technology will develop new energy sources, and assisted driving is indispensable and has to be done.
Similarly, Xingyi Technology owns AutoNavi. If it does not implement L4 autonomous driving, once Baidu’s autonomous driving is launched and the streets are full of carrot-running unmanned taxis, then AutoNavi will completely collapse and it will go bankrupt!
Its millions of online ride-hailing drivers will collectively lose their jobs.
In order to give these people some way out, Wang Yi has to do L4 autonomous driving!
After all, Baidu’s Carrot Kuaipao leaves no room for survival, and Wang Yi’s L4 autonomous driving can be sold to experienced drivers of AutoNavi, giving them a stable income!
Let Amap take a taxi against Baidu’s Carrot Run!
Therefore, Wang Yi has to do both L2 and L4.
The advantage is that Wang Yi has Amap Navigation and Amap Taxi. It has advantages in database and driverless algorithm training that Huawei and Baidu do not have.
The simplest one is that in order to train self-driving algorithms, Baidu and Huawei need to get a lot of cars, run around every day, collect data, train algorithms, and iteratively update them from generation to generation.
Not just algorithm updates, but also device updates.
Xingyi Technology is much simpler. Millions of AutoNavi taxi drivers travel all over the country. They are simply millions of walking drawing cars!
It is fully capable of achieving the most accurate and rapid real-time update of the map.
There is also the precise map blessing of Amap, no matter it is L2, L3 or L4, there is no pressure.
As for building cars?
You have to do it yourself!
In the previous life, even Huawei, when cooperating with third parties, encountered obstacles and was cheated everywhere. It was not until it finally joined hands with Xiaokang Automobile, which was on the verge of bankruptcy, that it finally found its way out.
Wang Yi didn't want to suffer from this cowardice, so he went to work on the Xingyi brand and built the car himself.
And car manufacturing qualifications have become a big problem!
There are two qualifications for new energy vehicle manufacturing, one is the major qualification from the National Development and Reform Commission, and the other is the minor qualification from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.
Both of these qualifications are difficult to obtain.
For example, the major qualifications of the National Development and Reform Commission require financing capabilities, R&D capabilities, production capabilities, quality assurance and service capabilities, as well as positive R&D capabilities, relevant invention patents, and mastery of vehicle control systems, power battery systems, vehicle integration and integration.
Vehicle lightweighting and other design and development, testing and monitoring capabilities.
In addition, the factory will be built within two years and vehicles will be sold within three years.
However, from 2015 to 2017, the official relaxed the qualification conditions and issued a full 15 new force qualifications.
But it was tightened rapidly after 2017. If you want to build a car in the future, just like an OTT license, you can only spend money to acquire it.
Wang Yi plans to start the layout as soon as possible, invest heavily, and try to establish a team within two years and reserve technology patents.
Qualifications were obtained within three years, the factory was built, and sales started within four years, that is, around 2016, Xingyi Automobile was launched.
This time is just right.
After all, if the cost of new energy batteries cannot be reduced in the early stage, the technology cannot be broken through, and the battery life is short, it will not make much sense to launch efforts too early.
In previous lives, new energy has gone through three stages of development.
The first stage, before 2017, is the exploration period of new energy, mainly replacing oil with electricity, mainly mini-cars, and cheating on subsidies.
The second stage, from 2018 to 2020, is the industry reshuffle and clearing period. With the decline of subsidies, mini cars have suffered a critical blow, pure electric and plug-in hybrids have begun to develop, Tesla has been introduced, and the catfish effect has begun.
The third stage, after 2021, is a period of competition and explosion. Domestic new energy sources will usher in a big explosion, with technology, quality, and experience all-round improved, and they will crazily devour the oil truck market.
As for the fourth stage, it must be the shift from electric vehicles to electric vehicles. The range of electric vehicles and hybrid vehicles has been greatly improved, the cost has been greatly reduced, and the market share has surpassed that of oil vehicles and replaced oil vehicles.
The most interesting thing is that around 2016, the government provided large subsidies to new energy to strongly support the development of new energy.
As a result, many companies did not cherish the opportunity, but instead manufactured shoddy products and defrauded subsidies.
Which of the products we make are new energy vehicles? They are obviously Laotou Le!
This forced the authorities to introduce Tesla as a catfish to clean up the market.
But this time, Wang Yi was ready to take action in advance. When his friends were cheating on subsidies, Xingyi Technology acted like a catfish and directly used excellent new energy to kill the friends who were cheating on subsidies.
Xingyi Technology directly built a factory in Shanghai and developed on a large scale.
In this way, there is no need to introduce Tesla.
By then, Xingyi Technology will swallow up all of Tesla’s domestic market!
In 2016, Xingyi Automobile will open up its future with L2 assisted driving.
A few years later, L4’s highly autonomous driving will be used to compete with Baidu’s Carrot Run, giving Amap drivers and Amap taxis a way out.
Wang Yi doesn’t want to be killed by Baidu’s Carrot Run when taking a taxi on Gaode!
The entire research and development process of autonomous driving will take at least ten years, or even more.
In the previous life, Baidu had been researching and developing it for more than ten years, and L4 level highly autonomous driving was only carried out in limited areas.
Similarly, Huawei and Tesla have been engaged in assisted driving for more than ten years, but they have not reached L3 level.
If it really reaches L5 level of fully autonomous driving, which does not even require a steering wheel, Wang Yi feels that fifteen years may not be enough, or even twenty years.
That is, around 2030, there is hope that fully autonomous driving will be possible.
At that time, cars did not have steering wheels, and the driver and passenger were made into sofas.
There is no need to take a driver's license test. After getting in the car, tell the car your destination and just go to the car. The automatic driving will go directly.
And this premise is that Wang Yi starts planning from now on!
For this reason, on the second day after returning to Xingyi Technology from iFlytek, Wang Yi immediately summoned the top management of Xingyi Technology and the AI ​​algorithm department.
Even the person in charge of the Xiaoi Robotics Department arrived at the Imperial Capital in advance for a meeting.
Wang Yi looked around at the crowd: "The first thing is about AI and technology sharing. One of Xiaoi Robot and iFlytek is good at natural language processing, and the other is good at speech recognition and speech synthesis. I have reached an agreement with Director Liu of iFlytek, and both parties share
Core technologies, shared voice, semantic database, and common progress!"
"The second thing is about AI and business division. After sharing voice, semantic technology and database, the AI ​​algorithms and technologies of Xiaoi Robot and iFlytek will improve rapidly, but the business may also conflict."
"To this end, I have negotiated with iFlytek, and both parties have divided the fields and tried their best to cultivate deeply within their respective scopes and sweep away other competitors. There is no need to fight among ourselves."
"In the future, Xiaoi Robot will mainly focus on the B-side business, with AI smart customer service, smart cities, smart finance, and smart medical care as the core, and deeply cultivate the B-side business. At the same time, it will also be a C-side Xiaoai Audio."
"iFlytek will deepen its business in C-side business, including translators, iFlytek input method, iFlytek Hearing and other C-side businesses, as well as B-side AI education."
After saying that, Wang Yi looked at the leader of Xiaoi Robot, who quickly said:
"Okay, Chairman, this kind of technology sharing and database sharing will increase our strength, and business division will help us avoid business conflicts. I fully accept it."
Wang Yi nodded: "Very good, for the follow-up matter, you arrange for the technical team to contact and integrate with iFlytek. Use iFlytek's speech recognition technology and speech synthesis technology as soon as possible to complete the dialect recognition of Xiaoai Audio!"
At present, Xiao Ai's dialect recognition is very poor and Wang Yi has a headache. He can only use iFlytek's technology and dialect database to solve the problem.
"yes!"
Wang Yi continued: "The third thing is that I got definite news that Baidu and Huawei will set up autonomous driving R&D departments and start deploying autonomous driving research and development, and even lay out the research and development of overall solutions for new energy vehicles."
In the previous life, Huawei started its layout in 2012 and Baidu started its layout in 2013.
Although they have been reborn, there is no doubt that the two major companies will continue to advance this big strategy.
So Wang Yi pointed it out directly.
Hearing this, everyone's expressions changed drastically.
No one would have thought that Huawei and Baidu would now begin deploying autonomous driving research and development.
Wang Yi continued: "The research and development of new energy vehicles is a three-year process, and we are now starting to lay out the layout. The Human Resources Department quickly recruited R&D experts and talents in the field of new energy vehicles to build the Xingyi Automobile Research Center and carry out the three-electric system
As well as the research and development of complete vehicle solutions and accumulation of patents.”
"We will develop a hybrid solution within two years, obtain new energy qualifications and build a factory within three years, and Xingyi Auto will be launched within four years!"
"Yes!" Everyone responded one after another.
I understand Wang Yi’s determination.
When it came to making mobile phones, there was no mention of a four-year plan, but when it came to making cars, it actually had a four-year plan.
Without him, what Wang Yi wants to do is not to assemble cars, but to develop his own three-electric system, electric motor, power battery, and electronic control system!
Wang Yi continued: "The research and development of autonomous driving is a longer process."
"We will first carry out L2-level assisted driving, and after the accuracy of the Amap map is improved, we will simultaneously promote the research and development of L4-level autonomous driving."
"In the future, hundreds of millions of users of Amap and millions of car owners using Amap will provide data every day. Our self-driving database will be updated the fastest, most timely, and most comprehensively. As long as the algorithm keeps up, it will become
The first company to create L2, L3, and L4 levels!”
"Xingyi Automobile, as the most important strategic core of Xingyi Technology in the future, I will personally take charge of it. Only success is allowed, no failure is allowed!"
"Yes!" Everyone responded one after another.
At present, Xingyi mobile phones have reached the first echelon, and so are Xingyi tablets.
It is reasonable to launch Xingyi Auto at this time and make arrangements in advance.
After all, cars are much more complex than mobile phones. If the car is assembled well, it can be built in two or three years.
But it is difficult to develop the three-electric system by yourself. It will be difficult even if it does not take four or five years.
But someone has to do it.
Huawei did it in the previous life, this time, Xingyi Technology can do it too!
"The Xingyi Automobile R&D Center will be recruited as soon as possible and established as soon as possible. As for the autonomous driving algorithm, we will also deploy elite backbones and put it on the schedule as soon as possible!"
Wang Yi gave instructions one by one.
After the meeting ended, Jian Ziyan was left behind again: "Ziyan, next you will vigorously recruit people. Not just domestic ones, but overseas Tesla, Bosch and the like, anyone you can recruit."
Why can Xingyi Semiconductor develop so rapidly, overtaking Huawei and HiSilicon in a corner?
The reason is very simple. HiSilicon recruits its own people and does it from scratch, with a little bit of trial and error.
Xingyi Semiconductor directly recruited the leaders and team of the semiconductor giant Texas Instruments. Standing on the shoulders of Texas Instruments' giants, Xingyi Semiconductor naturally developed faster and more rapidly.
The same is true for car development.
After investing in BYD, Wang Yi felt embarrassed to poach people from BYD, so he poached people from Tesla and Bosch directly.
There is no doubt that Tesla, like BYD, is a giant in new energy vehicles.
Of course, the so-called disclosure of Tesla’s technology patents has enabled the rapid development of domestic new energy. Even without Tesla’s disclosed patent, domestic new energy cannot be produced. These words are just nonsense.
In fact, Tesla only disclosed more than 200 patents in 2014, while BYD built a hybrid electric vehicle as early as 2003.
In this way, BYD is the originator of new energy.
In addition, the patents disclosed by Tesla are of little value to domestically produced cars. Most of them are mortgaged patents and have extremely strict requirements.
To put it bluntly, if you want to use it, you have to obey Tesla's various restrictions. In the end, it is not as practical as doing it yourself.
More importantly, no fool will disclose the real core patents.
For example, BYD’s DMI technology is impossible to announce!
Therefore, the only valuable thing is to poach some Tesla R&D personnel.
As for Bosch, not to mention, a top automotive supplier.
Although Bosch does not personally build cars, major brands are inseparable from Bosch's products.
Recruiting people from these two directions is undoubtedly the most effective.
"Chairman, don't worry, leave this matter to me." Jian Ziyan responded: "By the way, Director Liu of JD.com will come to visit you tomorrow."
"Yes, there is also Jingdong's matter!" Wang Yi remembered this.
New energy sources are starting to be laid out now and will be on the market in four to five years.
But the current Xingyi Zhijia is advancing rapidly.
Chapter completed!