1991 Starting from the core

On September 29, the news that Tianju Automotive Research Institute took the lead in realizing driverless car technology appeared on the news broadcast. An hour later, a detailed graphic report with "Yuanxin Tianju Automotive Research Institute Leads a New Era of AI Driving" also appeared on the front pages of major Internet news sections and the headlines of the technology section.

In just one night, the news quickly spread on the Internet and then spread throughout the entire Internet world.

The most intuitive impact of this news on Yuanxin is that countless customers who have reserved Mosana SUVs have called to ask when autonomous driving technology will be used and whether the Mosana 04 they ordered can be upgraded to autonomous driving...

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After seeing off the two R\u0026D teams who came to report on their work, Su Yuanshan returned to his desk.

He switched to the latest version of Hive software - NEWBEE laboratory often had to synchronize codes and projects with foreign research bases, and could not find good remote collaboration software on the market, so he set up a project on his own out of anger. , developed an internal software specifically for online project office and code management, and named it Hive.

——Hive means NEWbee’s engineers and scientists are as hard-working as bees.

After many iterations, the hive management software was successfully given to the entire group by Li Yinan, and then launched into the market as commercial software. According to the latest market feedback, Hive's market response is quite good. Everyone All recognized...

After Su Yuanshan got used to it, he thought Hive's various settings were very considerate. In addition to managing multiple projects, it can also set up multiple project clusters. It also added an interface with GitHub, making it easy to view the project team's information. code situation.

Of course, Su Yuanshan no longer uses these functions. What he uses most is the management group and review system - Yuanxin has been promoting paperless office for more than ten years. Unless there are absolutely necessary signatures and archives, it is usually Use electronic documents and encrypted signatures to transfer and communicate information and decisions.

The benefits of this are obvious. In addition to environmental protection and saving, everyone's permissions and operation records are also clear at a glance. Moreover, it has already played its due "function" - for example, Su Yuanshan knows who has exceeded their authority.

Opening the information bar, Su Yuanshan continued to read the daily briefing - from the beginning, Wen Xiaoqian organized and printed it into a file, then organized it into a document and sent it through the file transfer system, and now it can be directly displayed in the Hive information bar, fully reflecting The progress of science and technology makes people "easy".

A new message popped up, which was a link, and before Su Yuanshan opened it, the office door was pushed open by Wen Xiaoqian.

"Mr. Shan, the new link is a discussion on the Youcar Forum. Many engineers in Tianju are diving there. It is a relatively high-quality forum..."

"Oh, I understand." Su Yuanshan nodded. Unless otherwise specified, his office computer will generally not open external links that he is not familiar with: "Is this forum discussing autonomous driving?"

“Not only is it being discussed, but it’s also flooding the screen.”

"Oh?" Su Yuanshan laughed: "Then I'll take a look later."

After a pause, Su Yuanshan asked curiously: "But this Youcar is a car forum, right? Logically speaking, autonomous driving should be mixed into the AI ​​forum."

According to experience, this kind of car forum is generally populated by car owners. Even now in the era of elite forums, in a place where car owners gather together, I am afraid you can only listen to complaints and demands...

But...it's understandable that a bunch of automotive engineers dive into user forums.

Wen Xiaoqian shrugged: "Who knows." Then she looked at her watch again: "Mr. Wang Chuanfu just called and said that he had got off the plane and would be arriving in half an hour."

"OK."

Wen Xiaoqian closed the door and Su Yuanshan clicked on the link.

Sure enough, if you look around, everyone is discussing the autonomous driving technology released by Yuanxin.

——After yesterday’s news broadcast, Tianju quietly released a three-minute short video on ivideo. The video was shot by an in-car camera, almost perfectly showing the entire process of autonomous driving equipped with AI from a first-person wide-angle vision.

There was no one in the driving seat during the entire process, but the steering wheel could automatically adjust its direction. Although the brakes could not be seen, you can clearly see from the video that the driverless car encountered simulated traffic lights and a fixed position ahead. Braking and early turning when encountering obstacles.

Coupled with the emergency braking footage in CCTV, this means that Yuanxin’s AI driving system already seems to be capable of “all” dangerous situations on ideal roads.

——At least, that’s what it seems on the surface.

Su Yuanshan glanced at the title and clicked on the post with the most replies. He found that in addition to being amazed, more voices expressed that he was afraid that he would not be able to hit the road in a short time.

One netizen had a particularly sharp point of view.

"I bet that Yuanxin is just here to reveal the progress this time. It's still very early for it to hit the road. Because the venue is so large, Yuanxin doesn't dare to join other sports vehicles."

"After you hit the road, in addition to evaluating the speed of other vehicles, you also need to predict behavior - this is not as simple as throwing a dummy out in an experiment. Experienced drivers all know it, and no one knows how many idiots there are on the road. .”

"In addition, I looked at the reaction to traffic lights almost frame by frame - very early on, the AI ​​started to slow down, which is definitely a problem. Everyone knows that there is a traffic light, which means there is a traffic light. Urban areas. When driving in urban areas, how can there be so much time for you to slow down? I’m afraid that just when you want to slow down, there will be a lot of cars in front of you. "

"And the traffic light also means an intersection, and there are cars coming from both sides - what should you do if you encounter someone running a red light?"

"Anyway, I have a pessimistic view. Judging from the test results released by Yuanxin this time, I can only say that the big guy who blinded them in Pandora cannot deserve such praise. Just find a guy who does pattern recognition and add two This so-called autonomous driving can be developed every day."

There are people below who support it, and there are people who are against it.

Those who oppose this view say, "If you dare to get on the car and test it, you will at least be at the forefront of the world. You must have confidence in Yuanxin."

Those who support this view say, "Since Yuanxin has always prided itself on being a leader in technology, it must show its true capabilities."

Of course, some even said, "Maybe someone is holding the remote control..."

In the end, the fight turned into "You can do it, go ahead and see if you can get Pandora's offer."

Su Yuanshan watched with gusto.

I have to say that there is nothing wrong with what this person is complaining about.

Even though Su Yuanshan believes that technology also requires the launch of satellites, he also believes that food must be eaten one bite at a time and the road must be walked step by step. First, start from simple scenes, then to complex scenes, then to real scenes, and finally get on the car. Even after getting on the car, strict restrictions must be added to give people the opportunity to feel the magic of technology, but they must be wary of technology. Danger when not yet fully mature.

Yuanxin is not a company that only deals with cars, so there is no need to compromise on safety issues.

As someone pointed out in a reply - "Autonomous driving has extremely strict safety requirements. Although the proportion of accidents in manual driving is much higher, hundreds of millions of people share the responsibility. Once autonomous driving makes a mistake, it is The company that launches the technology should bear this responsibility. As long as there are a few more accidents, the company will be finished." (By Xingyue Guanghui).

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After opening a few more live discussion links sent by Wen Xiaoqian, and then going to ivideo to take a look at the video posted by Tianju Research Institute, Su Yuanshan had a rough understanding of the public's first reaction - this In fact, it was he who asked Wen Xiaoqian to help him pay attention.

The reason is simple, he doesn't want to be that person in the information cocoon.

In his previous life, when he returned to China full of enthusiasm and "diddles" in the X-core project, it was also the time when he spent the most time on the Internet and was the most "ordinary". As he changed jobs one after another, his job and identity became increasingly important. Coupled with his age, he didn't have much time to brag online - even bilibili, he heard about it from his daughter.

In his previous life, he had no time, but in this life, even if Su Yuanshan was crowded, he still had to find time to look at Yuanxin and the world from the perspective of an "outsider".

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Time passed quickly, and Wang Chuanfu arrived at Su Yuanshan's office five minutes early, suspending his few "surfing" time.

"What do you think Old Lake looked like when he heard the news last night?"

After entering the room, Wang Chuanfu laughed loudly and told interesting things about last night.

"What's your expression?" Su Yuanshan stood up and poured Wang Chuanfu a cup of tea, then sat across from him with a smile.

——Old Lake, the American person in charge of the GM Far Core joint venture plant.

From what Wang Chuanfu meant, it seemed that he was still having fun with Lake last night.

"Haha, let me learn from you."

"Oh shXt!" Wang Chuanfu was already short-sighted, so he made it even more vivid with such a special shout.

"See ghost!"

"..." Su Yuanshan burst out laughing: "see ghost? What kind of English is this?"

"Chinglish, Old Lake is quite humorous." Wang Chuanfu took a sip of water and said with a smile: "A layman only sees the fun, an expert sees the door. People think we have achieved autonomous driving..."

Su Yuanshan interrupted: "That's not necessarily the case. I was visiting the forum just now, and there were people with sharp eyes among the crowd."

"Oh? I thought the crowd was shocked by us."

"Haha, I guess Pandora's name is too loud - go on."

"Yes, but it is undeniable that experts can still see some clues. Although we have not announced the technical details, colleagues can obviously guess that since we dare to use AI on the car, it means that the sensor system is on the car. All that’s left is AI training.”

"Yes, it is not easy to take this step. Whether it is image recognition, lidar, or other sensors... we have planned five years in advance. Not to mention machine learning, which is even more Our strengths. Even if they start from the same starting line as us, they can still catch up..."

Wang Chuanfu nodded in agreement.

When Su Yuanshan started working on cars, everyone thought he was just for fun... But later, when he jointly established an analog semiconductor company with Texas Instruments and got involved in the sensor and central control fields, everyone realized that Mr. Shan was really not just for fun, but We really need to promote new energy vehicles.

Hence, the year before last, the entire executive board had discussed entering the automobile industry several times.

Now two years have passed, with Yuanxin's unremitting efforts and its judgment on future energy becoming increasingly clear, Yuanxin has received news from various channels - in the next five-year plan, new energy vehicles will be a national focus Support and grow the industry.

And everyone knows that in the automobile industry, one move affects the whole body.

Especially electric vehicles, their emergence, or vigorous promotion, is destined to subvert the original energy system, which will affect the planning of road transportation and supporting facilities - such as charging/swapping stations.

In addition, it will also affect the planning of housing and housing facilities - such as charging piles in parking lots.

It will also affect power plants and power planning...

Such a huge system cannot be promoted unless there is a large enough market, market recognition and sufficient capital. Otherwise... Yuanxin alone will never be able to push it.

Even if the country takes action, not just any country can do it.

Fortunately, this country can do it.

——According to the latest statistics, domestic power generation is about to catch up with the lighthouse.

You must know that a country's power generation is the most intuitive criterion for measuring a country's industrial development. Therefore, someone once proposed that to measure the economy, we need to separate performance from reality and look at the three aspects of power generation, freight volume and bank loans. .

"But the lead cannot just be in public opinion, Mr. Shan. When can I get on the bus?"

Wang Chuanfu's eyes were burning with expectation.

Su Yuanshan was dumbfounded - well, here comes a guy who is more anxious than himself!

"I have nothing to say about this matter. You have to ask Mr. Xi."

"cough……"

"Well, actually Mr. Xi doesn't know the specific time. But we can release the technology step by step."

Su Yuanshan said, got up and walked behind the desk, opened the drawer, got himself a biscuit and stuffed it into his mouth, then motioned to Wang Chuanfu: "Would you like one?"

"No." Wang Chuanfu shook his head in confusion, but he had also heard that putting snacks in his desk was a habit that Xi Xiaoding had started with him. This habit continues to this day. All technical employees from Yuanxin headquarters will put snacks in their desks.

It is said that this has become a common method used by Yuanxin programmers to pick up girls.

"No, look at this." Su Yuanshan took out the document from under the biscuit box, flipped through it and handed it to Wang Chuanfu.

——This is the technology release plan that he, Xi Xiaoding, Sun Xiaochuan, Xiao Can and others discussed after the first test the day before yesterday. Because Wang Chuanfu was about to come back to report on his work, it was not sent to him.

Now that the satellites have been released, there must be some noise.

Netizens have all said that Pandora’s style cannot be underestimated.