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   Chapter 770

The name of the world's first electric car is already loud enough, there is no need to use those fancy things, as long as the first car of Siebel electric car is manufactured, passes the road test, and can go on the road normally, plus some automatic reversing Gadgets like warehousing, on-board sensors, that's enough.

   As for the other things, 100km acceleration and crushing supercars, one charge to run hundreds of kilometers, autopilot and other things are all things, and that's all things to do in the future.

   "Siebel Automobile Club, you can form an F1 team and participate in the F1 competition!

  Siebel Electric Vehicle, can join hands with Bell Labs to hold a global autonomous driving challenge competition every year, and the first place can get a cash reward of three million dollars.

  The rest of the winning teams and technicians can get the support of Siebel Electric Vehicles, or be recruited into the Siebel Electric Vehicles team! "

   Now, for the brand Siebel, the most lacking thing is fame. If you can participate in the F1 competition, if you can win a championship, it will be a huge improvement for the reputation.

   A F1 championship, of course, cannot prove that this car brand is the best in the world, but it is enough to fool the leeks.

  For brands like Toyota, BMW, and Mercedes-Benz, they no longer need the fame that F1 brings. Because of the problem of revenue sharing, they have had a lot of trouble with the F1 race company, and even clamored to withdraw from the F1 race.

  F1 races are actually very lucrative. Every year, a lot of advertisers and sponsors send money to F1, but most of this money goes to the account of Bernie Eccles, president of the F1 race company.

Wealthy teams like Ferrari are fine, with their own traffic and topics, and a lot of advertisers are willing to invest, but for small and medium-sized teams, life is hard haha. Many small and medium-sized teams even make money to develop new cars I can't even dig it out, let alone train and dig out talented racing players.

Teams like BMW and Mercedes-Benz don’t need F1 fame, but Sibel lacks it. If they can win an F1 championship and keep their popularity, Sibel can fool the VCs and Wall Street institutions in Silicon Valley and be generous to Sibel’s electric cars. Unpack.

Anduran was overjoyed to hear that he was going to form an F1 team for the Siebel Automobile Club. As a sports car maker, who wouldn't want their own brand to be able to compete with Ferrari and Aston Martin on the extreme track like F1. Even overwhelmed the opponent.

   At this time, Anduran suddenly felt, it seemed, that it was not a bad thing for Siebel to separate out an electric car brand...

   In the past, Siebel cars were not talked about by anyone, but at least they didn’t get much attention, that is, they only made a splash at the Italian auto show, and it was basically impossible to form an F1 team.

   Now, Song Yang is willing to spend money on Siebel Automobile Club, F1 team can be formed, and more talented engineers can be recruited, and the reputation of Siebel Automobile Club will become more and more famous in the future!

   Mark Anderson couldn't help showing a surprised look on Song Yang's request for Siebel to hold the Global Autonomous Driving Challenge.

  I don’t care about the millions of dollars in prize money, but to hold this competition and bring something to Siebel Electric Vehicles, not just to use the competition to promote a wave of Siebel’s electric cars. How powerful the autonomous driving technology is!

Think about it, if the world's top self-driving technology gurus and self-driving teams from major universities all participate in this competition, then Siebel electric vehicles will only need to spend a few million dollars to see the world's most advanced cars. Advanced autonomous driving ideas, technologies, and talented engineers can all be recruited under the banner!

   This is almost all the genius of the autonomous driving industry into Siebel, and the things you get are almost nothing compared to the money spent.

   This is similar to the current Internet giants, including Microsoft, ICQ, AOL, Yahoo, IBM, PayPal, etc., who are planning to hold the world's first hacker contest. The major Internet giants have the same purpose.

It’s really tiring for the big Internet giants to compete with those energetic hackers. Now many Internet geniuses want to prove that they are the best technical geniuses in the world. The websites of big Internet giants and even banks and federal municipal departments are proud to do things every day.

  The major Internet companies are not afraid of these hackers. The key is that there is only a thousand days of thieves, and there is no reason to prevent thieves for a thousand days. As long as you think about it, those hackers can always find a loophole.

  The unbearable Internet industry has come up with a trick called "Internet Martial Arts Competition", so that the hackers can get together to compete and decide the winner and loser, so as not to mess around.

On the one hand, it is a place to give these hackers their strength and prevent them from tossing the Internet industry casually. On the other hand, it is actually a wishful thinking. When encountering such a genius hacker, major Internet companies will recruit them. .

The   Global Internet Hacking Contest is essentially the same as the self-driving challenge contest held by Song Yang for Siebel Electric Vehicles.

   "Global Autonomous Driving Challenge, I will personally organize it!"

Anderson said eagerly, he was going to take the opportunity to recruit a bunch of geniuses to fight him, and he was also going to take the opportunity to show Siebel's autopilot to the outside world, and let the people who questioned him see if he was still or not. That Silicon Valley genius!

"boom!"

   A bottle of champagne was opened and the drinks were scattered. Song Yang raised his glass and touched Anderson, Anduran, Marcus and others.

   "Mark, if you need it, Netscape's headquarters building, Siebel Electric Vehicles can be purchased and used as Siebel's software development base, which will be managed by you in the future!"

  Song Yang took a sip and said to Anderson that Siebel Electric Vehicle, the nominal headquarters, is in Houston, and the future production base is also located in Texas.

   Where the R&D base is located, there is a saying that the software department is definitely the most advantageous place in Silicon Valley. At least for more than ten years, the status of Silicon Valley cannot be completely replaced.

   Since Netscape was acquired, most of the thousands of employees before it were dismissed, and the headquarters building that witnessed the miracle of Netscape was also vacant.

   Now I heard that Song Yang was going to buy Netscape's headquarters building as Anderson's new office space.

   Even Anderson, who was accustomed to routines, changed his expression at this time. That building was not only of great significance to Netscape, but also to Anderson.

   "Song, I assure you that the driving system of Siebel's electric car will be the best driving system in the world, and the first self-driving car will also be born in Siebel!"

   "America's first electric car, Siebel Electric Vehicle officially announced its establishment. Bruno Song, Mark Anderson, and Anduran became the co-founders of Siebel Electric Car, with a registered capital of more than one billion dollars!"

  ICNC TV station, once again reported the news, announcing the official establishment of the Siebel electric car, the scene showed Song Yang and Anderson holding champagne together, so that Internet personnel who saw this scene could not help but feel embarrassed.

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