I asked you to save a bankrupt factory and you became the richest man in the world.

Chapter 542: 389-390: Get it out for me now! (4000 words)
Smart driving without pictures...

And it was put in a taxi...

When the senior executives of Hillhouse Automotive heard Gao Huaijun's request, they immediately felt a headache.

Why is the L3 level unmanned driving system placed on Hillhouse Wenjie? Isn’t it because this thing is extremely expensive? Only a product like Hillhouse Wenjie, which costs yuan, can spread the cost of using so many high-precision radars?

Since it's a taxi, you can't buy a car worth 500,000 yuan.

For a car that expensive, isn't it just giving money to consumers and doing a business that is bound to lose money?
Gao Huaijun is very ambitious now, just like the old fairy in the little sweet potato in later generations, who wants this and that!

"Our first step is not to pursue something grand, a package, or comprehensive."

"The most important thing to do in this first step is safety!"

"Your car must be safe during the experiment, so that consumers can trust you, understand you, and finally get used to it."

"Don't worry, just roll up your sleeves and get to work!"

"I have applied to the government for a driverless pilot in Xicheng. The core is in the urban core area, so there is no need to leave the city."

“In this postcard-sized area, the problems encountered can be easily solved and controlled within a certain range.”

Gao Huaijun commented.

The executives present nodded.

Isn’t this the pilot project that China often conducts?
Conduct a pilot project in a small area first, and then expand it if it is successful.

Moreover, compared with the many tourist attractions in Gusu City, Xicheng is not considered a tourist city.

Although this city has industrial production capacity of all sizes, and even has leading companies like Hillhouse Capital, in comparison, the numerous tourism resources presented by Suzhou City are something that Xicheng is jealous of.

If there is such a gimmick, it can be used as a gimmick for driverless car companies, and it can also attract a small group of people to travel.

So Xicheng is now very happy to cooperate!

Of course, he must cooperate.

Companies like Hillhouse Capital are the number one taxpayer in Xicheng.

Basically, Hillhouse will meet all of our requests.

What about the chaos caused by driverless cars?
What does it mean to increase the number of police officers and police force?

In the face of this so-called new quality of productivity, everything must give way!

"In terms of traffic rule compliance and passenger behavior management, our advice from Hillhouse AI is to follow the strictest traffic regulations and avoid excessive competitive behavior based on underlying logic."

Andrew Ng continued to add to his answer.

Gao Huaijun nodded, "Okay!"

In fact, what Andrew Ng meant behind this is: Don’t drive a competitive car on the road.

Anyone who can be courteous will certainly be courteous.

Where there is a speed limit, there will be a speed limit.

Now, Hillhouse Map has been online for many years, and it has basically arranged the speed limits and restricted lanes within Xicheng.

This can be considered a combination between having pictures and not having pictures.

As for traffic lights, that's even simpler.

In fact, it is not the traffic signal command system that is involved in Hillhouse Map, but Hillhouse Map uses big data to calculate how long each car will wait at the intersection.

After a month of regular measurements, you can easily know the operation status of the traffic lights.

This is also the advantage of Hillhouse’s built-in large model!

The technical difficulties of promoting driverless taxis now will be much smaller.

"How do we deal with certain behaviors of passengers, such as vomiting on the bus or falling asleep and refusing to get off the bus?" asked a middle-level manager of Hillhouse Vehicles.

Because this small taxi company will become a subsidiary of Hillhouse Vehicle BG, these detailed rules need to be finalized.

Otherwise there will be endless troubles and worries later.

"In the early stage, we need to recruit auxiliary personnel to intervene. At first, we recruit one auxiliary personnel for every three vehicles, and the auxiliary personnel are mainly experienced drivers."

“The remote monitoring center can monitor the vehicle status in real time, and detect and handle problems and faults in a timely manner.”

"Also, there should be an emergency team in each district, because in the early days of vehicle operation, you don't know what will happen, and it is normal for disorderly incidents to occur."

“We will make personnel adjustments later.”

“Be prepared.”

Andrew Ng talked about his ideas.

The unmanned driving system is not a universal system.

Problems such as "vomiting on the car" and "falling asleep and not getting off the car" cannot be solved at all.

In such cases, human intervention is still needed.

Whether it is contacting the uncle in the hat or negotiating with the passengers, these all need to be done manually.

Although self-driving cars are advertised as unmanned, the number of taxi drivers will be reduced accordingly.

However, more importantly, a lot of auxiliary staff will be added.

These increases will be considerable!
"This project requires a lot of money to be spent on subsidies to cultivate user habits. Once the volume is up, it won't be too late to talk about profitability later."

"On the one hand, the driverless experience does have a dimensional impact on some bad urban taxi and Didi drivers, especially in cities like Xicheng, where residents complain a lot about the local taxi experience."

"On the other hand, a large number of users are using driverless cars. With the green light from the government, they will be widely deployed across the country, realizing the smart phone time of driverless cars at least several years ahead of schedule, far ahead of Western University."

"In fact, my country has the advantage of a large land area and a large population. It is not impossible to focus our efforts on promoting Hillhouse driverless taxis. We hope to achieve the transportation system of smart cities first."

"The government's attitude towards this, especially the attitude from above, is supportive!"

"This time, you guys make a taxi version of Gaoling Song, produce a batch of special products, reduce the configuration, and control the cost."

Gao Huaijun said in a calm tone.

Hearing Gao Huaijun say this, the executives off the field all breathed a sigh of relief.

Finally, his boss did not have any unrealistic ideas and directly asked Hillhouse to ask the taxi industry.

Hillhouse Song is also pretty good.

Now this car is about to have a small iteration.

But the old production line has not been replaced yet.

Try to get a batch of cars out before changing, which can save some costs.

Now is the period of reducing costs and increasing efficiency, there are some things that we must guard against!

However, they didn't know that Gao Huaijun's goal for this project was to lose some money first.

Once the project is launched and there are opportunities for operation, we can gradually gain market share.

Not much else.

As long as we can occupy 30%-40% of the taxi market, we can then completely dominate the truck market.

It can open up a trillion-level market!

Nowadays, many truck drivers drive while fatigued, which is very dangerous.

Hillhouse does this in the hope that there will be a very good market alternative in this market.

Let the market operating costs be reduced directly!
The ratio of China's total logistics costs to GDP remains at around 18% and is difficult to decline.

This ratio is about 9.5 percentage points higher than that of the United States, the island nation, and Germany.

This is about 6.5 percentage points higher than the global average.

It is about 5 to 6 percentage points higher than the BRICS countries of Afghanistan and Baxi.

The core reason is that China's inland area is too large, and in many places the only way to transport logistics products to all parts of the country is by trucks, like ants moving house, bit by bit.

There are also some directive policies that lead to high logistics prices.

For example, if goods from other places are transported to the imperial capital, the most efficient way should be to deliver them directly to the imperial capital's wholesale and retail departments. However, since vehicles from other places cannot enter Beijing and cannot enter the urban area, the goods need to be transported outside the Fifth Ring Road first, and then delivered to the destination by local logistics companies in the imperial capital. This will inevitably increase costs, and if the goods are fresh, not only will the loading and unloading costs increase, but the quality of the goods themselves will also be affected.

But it would be much better if there were self-driving trucks!

At each point, big data can actually be used to match products and maximize product transportation efficiency.

However, although the government departments are supportive now.

But this level of support will not last long!

A few years later, it will be a special period.

By then, China’s employment rate will be directly reduced due to the economic recession.

The spit of tens of millions of taxi drivers would drown the leader who made the final decision.

Online ride-hailing drivers are just like couriers. They are getting more and more greedy and earning less and less money, but they have no choice but to do so in order to make a living. After all, it is still a profitable business.

If the government allows companies like Hillhouse Capital to take away their jobs, the consequences will be unpredictable.

Therefore, between realizing the seemingly beautiful driverless smart transportation system and maintaining employment, the relevant departments will ultimately choose temporary stability.

This is actually exactly the same as what happened in the late Qing Dynasty, when the government directed and required wealthy households to burn their looms.

The prospects for looms are very good!
However, the weaving efficiency of the loom was so high that it had to squeeze out the employment opportunities of a large number of small rural handicraftsmen.

You produce a lot of cheap foreign cloth. Although the quality is average, it's cheap!

Then who still uses expensive but high-quality handmade cloth?

At that time, very few people could wear decent clothes.

How can you beat that?
That group of people didn't have the ability to see through the clouds, so they didn't know that industrialization would become so powerful later on.

Those inconspicuous toys such as steam engines and looms that only serve to improve people's living standards will evolve into highly efficient tools for ruling and building cities in the future.

This is the limitation of the times.

The food and clothing of millions of trough workers depend on it!
With the development of productivity, a job that used to require 100 people can now be done by 10 people.

What will the extra 90 people do?
Social instability factors will threaten Zheng Quan!
So why is Foxconn so popular?

Their company's wages are very low, and the industry is not a high-end one, but they are able to generate huge volume and hire tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people in one go!
Doesn’t this mean reducing unemployment and increasing stability?

Now workers in the United States are on strike, one for a pay raise and the other against automation.

This is to prevent automation from replacing workers. If all the workers are gone, won’t they just jump up?

In fact, what was done was the same as two hundred years ago, when the Ming Dynasty's capital, Didu, needed to transport grain from the south, but the method used was the canal transportation with many drawbacks instead of the more convenient sea transportation.

The concern is that abolishing canal transport and switching to sea transport will lead to the displacement of millions of canal workers who rely on canal transport for their livelihoods, causing social unrest and making the situation difficult to reverse.

In fact, they are exactly the same.

History afternoon news.

Opposition to reform by vested interest groups can indeed be seen everywhere.

In this era of 2018, the same group of people who say that housing prices cannot fall also say that the millions of boatmen depend on their food and clothing.

To put it bluntly, there is no industry that cannot fail. When you start to hijack the national economy and create a burden on people's lives, it is time for it to fail.

If China wants to develop, it naturally needs growth!
And where does the increase come from?
Of course it comes from new technology!

With the first step of driverless driving, there will be subsequent driverless trucks, as well as corresponding logistics costs and even a reduction in national production costs.

Once the cost of this thing is reduced, it can unleash huge productivity.

If we don’t take advantage of the good economy now and push for driverless cars, we will miss the opportunity when the situation changes in 2020!
By then, I don’t know when I can play this card.

So now, no matter whether the time is ripe or not, and whether Hillhouse Capital has committed suicide or not, we will go straight for it.

Because driverless cars are the only industry in China that has surpassed Western China by using the "concentrating resources to accomplish major tasks" model. Only in China can entire regions give the green light to driverless taxis, turn them into pilot projects, political achievements, and smart cities, and provide the greatest and most comprehensive policy, legal, and regulatory support for the driverless commercial revolution.

If Hillhouse's driverless taxi project could be launched ahead of schedule in 2018 and succeed in getting a head start, taking over the top 50 cities in the country and snatching the jobs of online taxi drivers while unemployment is low, the situation would be different.

Once you quantify the unemployment rate, income, food and clothing, and the number of poor people, you will find that the phrase "millions of canal workers depend on their food and clothing" is not that simple.

When you replace old tools of production with new ones, what will happen to the old groups that are left behind?
As for creating new positions, it takes time to digest and funds to guide.

The development of productivity must adapt to the social structure of the time. The more it involves people's livelihood issues, the larger the basic base will be, and the more cautious it must be. Otherwise, it will be easy to fail. Either welfare will be used to cover the unemployed, or new employment opportunities will be created.

Hillhouse hopes to use the latter to fulfill its social responsibilities.

If you don't occupy a position first, but instead try to steal the jobs of tens of millions of taxi drivers, no one would dare to bear that pressure!

Whoever carries it on his back is doomed.

Gao Huaijun didn't dare to touch the reverse scale!

"Are there any problems in launching this project now?" Gao Huaijun continued to ask.

Although it is just a pilot project in Xicheng and he has a small driverless license, he still hopes to be fully prepared.

"The technical issues of this project are not actually a problem. Setting up a small taxi company is a piece of cake for Hillhouse Vehicles."

"The difficulty still lies in public opinion. In this regard, we hope that Xiaoling APP can cooperate with us at any time and do a good job in pre-publicity work, otherwise we will be under great pressure."

Wang Fengying actually foresaw the problem and spoke up in advance.

Gao Huaijun was silent for a moment and nodded heavily.

(End of this chapter)