Reinforcement Panel: Tech Wars

Chapter 18 The wolf is here!
"Did you see the news? Tesla just released a self-driving taxi! Unbelievable."

"What's so strange about this? Didn't Qiandu do this a few years ago? I remember telling Luobo to run away."

"Hahahaha, this is hilarious. The stuff Baidu is doing is just a graduation project. Tesla's is a product that is going to be commercialized on a large scale. There is no comparison."

"How big an area? One city or all of North America?"

"At the press conference, they said that the Ugly Eagle will be gradually rolled out in major cities across China. I have to say that Tesla's move is a bit big."

"That's really amazing. I wonder when domestic manufacturers will be able to produce products of the same level."

"Speaking of China, it was confirmed at yesterday's press conference that FSD will be pushed in the first wave in China in a week. Tesla owners are in luck."

Wei Jiang put a box of sliced ​​beef in front of him into the shopping cart. Two men next to him, who looked not much older than him, were also selecting beef.

Although it was unclear why two young men in casual clothes came to the supermarket arm in arm to buy groceries, their conversation still attracted Wei Jiang's attention.

If I remember correctly, Musk in North America said in the first half of the year that he would launch the driverless taxi Robotaxi. At that time, the media speculated that it was to collect road data for optimizing the training of Tesla's large-scale autonomous driving model.

Now it seems that Ma Dazui was not bragging about the timing.

Wei Jiang believes that if Tesla FSD can be officially launched in the country, it would be a good thing.

At least the tragic situation he saw in the hospital in the first half of the night should reduce its frequency. Of course, it may also make some Tesla owners more lax and cause new traffic safety problems.

After checking the shopping cart to make sure that everything on the shopping list was purchased, Wei Jiang queued up to check out and prepared to leave.

In the supermarket parking lot, Wei Jiang put the purchased food into the Wuling mini.

The car door opened automatically and I got in.

"Car owner, are you going home now?"

The in-car smart terminal had a sweet voice and Wei Jiang fastened his seat belt.

"go home."

"Okay, the travel mission planning is complete, and the vehicle is started."

Listening to the sweet female voice on the in-car smart terminal, Wei Jiang nodded with satisfaction.

He found this voice on the Internet, a fairly famous actress.

If anyone asked him if he had other fantasies about the actress, Wei Jiang would never admit it.

The Wuling mini drove out of the parking space and turned towards the exit.

At this time, a gray car with a green license plate was coming towards them. Wei Jiang was eating the banana he had just bought.

There was no one in the driver's seat of the oncoming car, and the car was driving very fast. It only slowed down when it was about to meet the Wuling mini.

“This valet parking feature looks good, but it’s not quite there yet.”

Zhijie S7 is also a new energy vehicle launched by Huawei in cooperation with other manufacturers.

Valet parking is a major selling point of Huaweiche, and it can indeed provide convenience to users to a certain extent.

“I just don’t know how big of an impact FSD will have on domestic automakers.”

Thinking about the L4 autonomous driving technology he obtained from the panel, Wei Jiang has been thinking about how to deal with it recently.

It would be too difficult for him to devote all his energy to implementing this system.

Without considering the workload of code implementation, just building large-scale computing power, he, the owner of a small auto repair shop, simply does not have the ability to do so.

Currently, only a few companies in Southeast University have the ability to obtain computing chips and are willing to invest huge amounts of money to build computing centers.

Let’s wait and see and we’ll tell you when the time comes.

Wei Jiang doesn't like to be in the spotlight, so he hasn't figured out how to hand over his technology reasonably and safely.

The Wuling mini merged into the traffic flow, and except for a few careful observers who looked at it curiously, basically no one paid attention to it.

Tesla's press conference attracted the attention and discussion of fans around the world. Of course, the group that really paid attention to the technical details of the press conference must be practitioners related to Tesla's business.

Domestic new energy has made rapid progress in the past five years, and a large number of outstanding enterprises and technical personnel have emerged.

Tesla is undoubtedly the leading company in the global electric vehicle industry, but domestic companies are still catching up.

FSD enters Dongda!
Robotaxi released!

Ordinary people think that these two things are a big melon and they just watch the fun.

But no one dares to underestimate the domestic car companies. It can even be said that everyone's nerves are immediately tense.

At a time when computing power chips are limited, domestic companies have a significant gap with Tesla in terms of the speed of training large intelligent driving models.

Facing Tesla, a powerful opponent with advantages in computing power and data volume, the pressure on senior executives of various companies is definitely not small!

Pengcheng is the innovation city of Dongda University, where the headquarters of Huawei and BYD are located.

Tesla’s press conference was held yesterday, and Huawei’s headquarters welcomed many domestic car company bosses today.

Before the hungry wolf came in, everyone tacitly chose to prioritize unified steps.

"Boss Lei, how is it? Are you feeling stressed?"

The rice leader, who is extremely popular on the Internet, turned and looked at the questioner next to him.

Ideal helmsman, in the Dongda market, are competitors, but now they have reached a certain degree of alliance.

"Just a little bit. Although FSD is powerful, Rice is not particularly afraid of it."

Li Xiang, the ideal helmsman, smiled and replied:
"It seems that Da Mi's recent model training has been fruitful. Congratulations."

The two talked all the way and finally came to the meeting room that had been prepared long ago.

Today's meeting is a closed-door meeting, and those who come are leaders who can truly control a force.

There is no other choice but to come to Huawei for the meeting. Huawei is the most powerful domestic computing chip supplier.

Of course other companies also have it, but if we consider the resources invested in intelligent driving, Huawei is definitely number one.

In the conference room, dozens of well-known industry leaders gathered in groups of three or five to discuss their own issues.

The waiting time was not long as everyone was very time-conscious because what we were going to discuss today was very critical.

In the foreseeable few years, the training progress of Tesla's autonomous driving model will continue to accelerate with the launch of Robotaxi. How can domestic companies ensure that they are not left behind?

There were no idle people in the meeting room. The big guys who used to need to maintain their reputation in the outside world were smoking or cursing.

The meeting was a little quiet at the beginning, but it became lively after a few minutes.

Everyone present represents a company with thousands or even tens of thousands of employees, and also represents their hundreds of thousands of vehicle users.

Various pre-prepared ideas were thrown out one after another.

Establish a data sharing mechanism for model training, where all parties can purchase data from each other and the data pricing can be negotiated later.

When this proposal was made, only a few people at the scene gave positive feedback.

The data collected by every car company’s vehicles can be said to be one of the most important assets of the company’s intelligent driving business.

Even if there is cash compensation, not many people are willing to do it.

You have to know that in addition to competing with external hungry wolves, companies are also in competition with each other.

Based on this reality, during the meeting, the debate forms in which one person challenges a group include:
There are also groups fighting against each other, and of course there will also be two big guys fighting one-on-one.

It is obvious that under the objective conditions of limited resources and insufficient technical strength, it is difficult for all parties present to work together as one.

(End of this chapter)