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The thousands of seats in the auditorium were almost full, and the scene was extremely lively. In addition to journalists and media people, there are also some loyal users of Reda Technology and fans of Qiao Reda, who were also invited to the press conference. In addition, the press conference was broadcast live on the official website of Reda Technology. At this time, the number of people online in the live broadcast room has exceeded 10 million.

Although it was afternoon time, the sky was clear outside, and the sun was very bright, but the blackout curtains were drawn and the door was closed in the auditorium, making the interior very dark. There were also some scattered spotlights in the seating area to keep visibility to a minimum. The stage was truly pitch black and nothing could be seen.

As the time reached one o'clock in the afternoon, the press conference officially began. Sweet music came from the speakers, and a beam of light came down from the ceiling and shone at the entrance of the stage. A Roadster drove out from the entrance and drove to the center of the stage before stopping. The burgundy paint of the car was shining brightly under the light. Qiao Ruida opened the car door and walked out of the Roadster. Before she could say anything, there was a burst of warm applause from the audience.

Qiao Ruida shrugged helplessly and had to wait for a moment. When the applause from the audience subsided a little, she turned on the switch of the wireless microphone and said: "Gentlemen, ladies, and friends from the media, welcome to Ruida Automobile Factory. Participate in this new car launch. Good afternoon to all the netizens who are watching the live broadcast on their computers or mobile phones. When I was very young, I had a dream to drive a sports car designed and produced by myself. When I got older, I realized how complicated it was to build a car, how backward the domestic automobile industry was, and how difficult it was to realize my dream. But I did not give up and started working hard to learn about machinery. Knowledge, create a business, work hard to make money, and reserve knowledge and funds to realize your dreams and build cars.”

The large LED screen at the back of the stage lit up at the right time, displaying some domestically produced cars from the beginning of the century. They were really stupid, big, dark, and ugly. Not to mention sports cars, even some sedans have very abstract shapes, and the quality is still very problematic. There are many small problems, and the materials are not up to standard. After three or four years of use, rust problems will occur. The big screen displayed some domestic cars that have been used since the beginning of the century. The paint is mottled, the frames are rusted, the internal parts are seriously aged, oil leakage and oil burning are not too common. Such cars are not much better than scraps. .

"Fortunately, I have a pretty good business acumen, and I caught up with the good times. I seized the opportunity of online shopping, founded Ruida Mall, and ran the company until it was listed on the stock market. I also became the richest man in the country by luck." When I got money, the first thing I thought of was not luxury yachts or beauties in swimsuits, but to realize my dreams. So I spent a huge amount of money to acquire a number of automobile-related companies, integrated them together, and established Ruida Automobile Company, and started to attack everywhere. , looking for automobile-related talents to form a strong new car research and development team. In the past year, I personally led the team to carry out research and development of new cars. The total investment reached an exaggerated amount of more than 5 billion, and this is how we got this car. Roadster sports car. Today I brought this dream car to the launch event to share it with everyone.”

As Qiao Ruida spoke, a VLOG began to play on the big screen. The first thing that appeared was a concept drawing of a Roadster sports car, followed by renderings, structural drawings, component drawings, circuit diagrams, clay models, etc. Then the first test car was built from scratch by a group of researchers using manual methods. Finally, the Roadster sports car took shape, and the test driver drove it on the track for the first time. Afterwards, it went through improvements and optimizations again and again, and finally evolved and matured, finalized and mass-produced, and was finally driven to the press conference by Qiao Ruida.

Seeing this, the audience burst into warm applause again. Most people who know Qiao Ruida have heard of his three dreams. The first is to use a mobile phone developed by himself, the second is to drive a sports car designed and manufactured by himself, and the third is to drive a spaceship developed by himself. Go and have a look outside the solar system. The first of these dreams has long been realized. Ruida mobile phones have already been mass-produced and sold. Even if they are not ranked as the number one mobile phone brand in China, they will definitely be among the top three. The second dream also came true today, that is the very cool sports car on stage. As for the third dream, it is very difficult to realize it. Now in 12, domestic private aerospace companies have not yet started, and policies have not been liberalized. No matter how rich Qiao Ruida is, it will be difficult for her to make efforts in aerospace. What's more, with the current technological level of mankind on earth, it is very difficult to send a spacecraft out of the solar system, let alone sending astronauts out of the solar system. If it is to be realized, it may take a series of lifetimes.

At this time, the number of online viewers in the official live broadcast room has reached more than 20 million, once again breaking the record of online viewers in the online live broadcast industry. Many of these netizens who watched the live broadcast were newcomers attracted by various publicity channels. They had not watched Qiao Ruida’s new car winter test live broadcast some time ago. This was the first time they saw the Roadster sports car. They immediately The cool shape attracted all the attention.

"Wow, this sports car is so beautiful. It's no worse than those million-dollar supercars abroad. Let's not say anything else. The aesthetics of our richest man, Qiao, are really unbeatable."

"How's the performance of this car? It's not just an ordinary car, is it?"

"At first glance, you seem to be new here. During Mr. Qiao's last live broadcast, he did a performance test of this Roadster sports car. It accelerated from 0 to 100 kilometers in just over two seconds, which is better than many supercars with tens of millions of dollars."

"I am an engineer at a car factory. Based on my experience, if a new car is developed from scratch, it will require an investment of at least 500 million to produce a basically mature car. If the research and development is The model is a sports car and has certain performance requirements, so the research and development funds will be at least doubled, which is about one billion. Of course, if you are shameless and find a best-selling foreign model and copy it, you can save more than half of the research and development funds. There are quite a few hidden dangers in doing this. The Roadster sports car at the press conference has cool styling and top-notch performance. It is also a pure electric sports car. It is not comparable to any foreign sports car. It is undoubtedly a pure original. Research and development The capital is at least one billion. The five billion that Mr. Qiao mentioned may include the money to acquire automobile factories and parts factories.”

"Don't stop me. I must buy such a beautiful sports car. This is my dream car, DreamCar!"

"Really or not, the research and development of just such a car cost 5 billion, why should it be so exaggerated?"

"I'm worried that cars are easy to buy but hard to charge. I live in a second-tier city and there are not many public charging piles at all. There is only an underground parking lot in the community where I live, no garage, and there is no home charging installed at all. pile conditions.”

"Now the country is vigorously promoting new energy vehicles, and various policies are being tilted, including car purchase subsidies, direct green cards, no odd and even number restrictions, etc. With the above support, I think more charging piles will be built. To meet the rapidly growing charging needs of new energy vehicles.”

"The shape of this car is so exaggerated, the performance is not bad, and the price is only a few million dollars higher. It is simply not something that working-class people like me can afford." "After all, this is a domestic sports car. No matter how powerful the performance is, no matter how good-looking the appearance is, it is impossible. It’s too expensive to sell.”

"Mr. Qiao said in a previous live broadcast that the price of this Roadster sports car is just over one million, and successful people with slightly higher incomes can basically afford it."

At the press conference, Qiao Ruida stood on the stage and talked eloquently, introducing the performance parameters of the Roadster sports car in detail, combined with the test video displayed on the big screen, which surprised the audience and the netizens in the live broadcast room.

"As shown in the video, the four-wheel drive version of the Roadster can easily accelerate from zero to 2.5 kilometers within 2.1 seconds. The limit number can reach 400 seconds, which is already the ceiling of a mass-produced sports car. And the limit of the Roadster sports car After our repeated testing, the speed can reach more than kilometers per hour. Of course, this is the data obtained by professional test drivers on professional racing tracks. I don’t recommend that you try it on ordinary roads. It is too dangerous.

Of course, as my dream car, the advantage of the Roadster sports car is not just that it runs fast. We have also integrated many advanced and practical functions into the car, including autonomous driving, automatic parking, voice assistant, car-computer interconnection and so on. Next, let me focus on the automatic driving function of the Roadster sports car.

As early as the 80s, Raj Reddy, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in China, proposed the concept of self-driving cars and successfully tested the first self-driving car in 1984. Now that thirty years have passed, the autonomous driving functions of cars have become mature. Companies such as Google, Tesla, and Momenta have invested in the research and development of automatic driving systems, and some test vehicles with automatic driving functions have been produced and put on the road for testing. But there has never been a mass-produced car equipped with autonomous driving functions before. Why is this? First, the hardware cost of autonomous driving systems is very high. High-definition cameras and laser radars are expensive. Installing them on mass-produced cars will greatly increase production costs. The second is that the automatic driving system they have mastered is very immature and can only cope with normal road conditions. It cannot identify or handle emergency situations. It has a very low safety factor and does not meet the needs of getting on the car at all.

According to the information we have learned, our Roadster sports car is the world's first mass-produced sports car equipped with an autonomous driving system. We have equipped this sports car with six high-definition cameras, two laser radars, an ultrasonic obstacle avoidance radar, and an extremely powerful car chip, which meets the requirements of autonomous driving from the hardware perspective. On this basis, my team and I carefully programmed a brand new intelligent autonomous driving system, and conducted tens of thousands of hours of simulation optimization and self-learning on supercomputers, basically reaching LV3 level autonomous driving. . After we installed it on the road and tested it, the effect was very good and basically met the design requirements.

Maybe you don’t know much about automatic driving, and you don’t know what level this LV3 level of automatic driving is. Let me give you some popular science here. Autonomous driving is divided into five levels from low to high.

Level 1 is the lowest and is also called partial autonomous driving assistance. Vehicles equipped with this system can provide limited automatic assistance functions, such as adaptive cruise control (ACC) and lane keeping assist (LKA), but the driver needs to monitor the driving situation at all times. Many mass-produced models today are already equipped with these functions.

Level LV2 is also called partial autonomous driving. Under certain conditions, the vehicle can automatically control acceleration, braking and steering, but the driver still needs to pay attention to the road conditions and be ready to take over the vehicle at any time.

Level LV3 is conditional autonomous driving. The vehicle can be controlled automatically under most road conditions. The driver needs to focus on the road conditions, but needs to take over the vehicle when requested by the system.

Level LV4 is a highly automated driving system. The vehicle can drive automatically under certain conditions. Although the driver does not need to monitor the whole process, he still needs to take over when necessary.

Level 5 fully autonomous driving is also the highest form of autonomous driving. The vehicle can achieve fully automated driving under any conditions without driver intervention and has its own intelligent decision-making system. Cars that have reached this level of autonomous driving can already remove the steering wheel and all driving control systems, and leave all driving work to the driving computer.

Our Roadster sports car is equipped with an autonomous driving system that has reached the LV3 level. It can easily cope with highway conditions, help you save a lot of driving energy, avoid fatigue driving, and improve safety to a certain extent. Of course, when the automatic driving function is turned on, your hands still cannot leave the steering wheel, so that you can take over the vehicle in time when a special situation occurs.

In most first- and second-tier cities in China, and a small number of third- and fourth-tier cities, within urban limits, the autonomous driving function can also be turned on to complete most of the driving tasks for you. However, when driving in urban areas, the road conditions are complex and there are many emergencies. The automatic driving function can easily be affected and exit. The driver must be prepared to take over at any time. Due to incomplete high-definition maps, the self-driving function cannot yet be turned on in a small number of first- and second-tier cities, most third-tier and lower-tier cities, and all rural towns. We promise to continuously improve the high-definition maps of small and medium-sized cities in the next few years and upgrade them through OTA free updates to continue to expand the scope of application of autonomous driving functions. "

While Qiao Ruida introduced the automatic driving function, a video of the Roadster sports car automatically finding its way, driving automatically, waiting for red lights, and avoiding pedestrians and vehicles on a busy road in Decheng City was also shown on the big screen. The whole process is smooth and natural, with very little braking, and the response is comparable to that of an experienced driver. (End of chapter)