Chapter 316: Very Special Unmanned Driving
The media is deeply influenced by foreign countries, which is determined by history.

After all, in the fields of science and engineering, facts must speak for themselves. Whether it is science or engineering, there is basically no way it can be influenced by ideology.

Whether it is the church's insistence on geocentrism or Lysenko's insistence on acquired inheritance of biological organisms, these scientific theories that rely on special means to violate facts will eventually be overthrown by the truth.

However, it is different in the humanities and social sciences. You need to obtain the endorsement of the mainstream Western academic circles to endorse your academic level. There is no objective standard to say that you are good. You only know that you are good if the West says so.

This naturally leads to the fact that you have to adhere to the Western set of values. Even professors of journalism follow this set of values, not to mention the disciples they teach.

It is precisely because of this preference that even the local Chinese media hope that the country can make robot technology open source.

No one knows what the core of this underlying technology is yet, and most people just think it is robot-based unmanned driving technology.

If foreign experts and scholars knew about the underlying technology, this wave of public opinion would be even more intense.

It’s already pretty awesome now, and the underlying technical core is even more powerful than the outside world imagines.

So the bigwigs who attended the Global New Energy Vehicle Conference held in Haikou this time were asked similar questions.

Of course, everyone picked out what was in their favor, but Lei Jun's answer pointed out two points:

The first point is that Chen Yuanguang and I have a very good relationship, and they considered Xiaomi for their experimental car.

The second point is that Xiaomi is too intelligent, and the experiment requires a non-intelligent car.

It even implies that Volkswagen's level of intelligence is not good enough.

Although Jetta is a gasoline car that was born many years ago.

Robin is no exception.

Baidu owns Jiyue Automobile, a joint venture with Geely, but its presence is too weak. In order to attract public attention, it has been bombarded with various criticisms in public opinion and criticized Lei Jun in the circle of friends for losing money by selling cars and having no sense of public morality.

Later, they came up with Carrot Run, which is essentially also a new energy source.

Robin was also surrounded by the media for interviews at the conference, and his answers naturally had to be in line with Baidu's interests:
“We have a strategic partnership with Guangjia Aerospace, and Mr. Lin and I have had many discussions on robot unmanned driving.

Guangjia Aerospace's main business is still commercial aerospace. All their energy is focused on fields related to commercial aerospace. The development of unmanned robots is also a preparatory research for subsequent robotic space operations.

The probability of Guangjia Aerospace entering the unmanned driving industry is very small.”

Robin obviously wants to give confidence to the capital market and boost Baidu's stock price.

Because the open source of this technology is a highly uncertain thing, even if foreign media say this is a foregone conclusion, people still don't quite believe it.

After all, the Chinese have always been in a catching-up position in the field of technology. Now they have finally developed leading technology and opened it up to the world for use. It is very difficult to overcome this psychological barrier.

Well, if optical armor companies don't enter this field, the technology will have to be utilized. Don't these domestic companies have a chance?

Baidu is no exception.

This is what Robin is thinking, and investors can naturally understand what he means.

When Lin Jia arrived at the convention and exhibition center, almost all reporters were there, chasing her and asking questions, trying to get first-hand information.

"Boss Lin, can you accept the interview?"

"Mr. Lin, I would like to ask whether the robot driverless technology will be open source?"

"Mr. Lin."

Even with security personnel, Lin Jia had no way of breaking through the numerous obstructions and entering the convention and exhibition center.

"Everyone, please make way." The security personnel wanted to fulfill their duties and get Lin Jia in safely.

Lin Jia stopped and said, "Everyone, I'm sorry that the meeting will start soon. I will answer three questions that everyone is most concerned about. After I finish answering, please let me go in first."

There were good sounds all around.

The media people present had dealt with Lin Jia many times, whether he was a senior executive of Guangjia Aerospace or the former vice president of marketing for Xiaomi Auto. There were many reporters who interviewed Lin Jia.

As for foreign journalists, they have even less to say.

"I know that the issue that everyone is most concerned about is whether the technology is open source. Sorry, I don't know this either. Yuan Guang never mentioned to me whether the future technology will be open source or how it will be used."

“Secondly, regarding the ownership of the technology, I see that many people are discussing that the Natural Science Foundation is involved in this technology, and how the specific ownership is distributed. I can tell you very clearly that there is a clear “Management Measures for Research Results of Projects Funded by the Natural Science Foundation”.

Before the project started, Guangjia Aerospace reached an agreement with the National Natural Science Foundation of China based on the management method. We own 75% of the intellectual property rights, while the National Natural Science Foundation of China owns 25%. "

This is a question that the public is concerned about: who owns the property rights?

For a mature organization like Guangjia Aerospace that has been operating for more than five years, the robot part is manufactured by Guangjia Aerospace, so there was an agreement before the project started.

As mentioned earlier, Guangjia Aerospace acquired eight robotics companies at one time for future unmanned space mining.

At that time, no one thought that the first person to be made would be the car driver.

"The last answer is about the future application of technology. I don't know the specific application, but I can tell you with certainty that Guangjia Aerospace itself will not do unmanned driving. We have no intention or ability to do so. In addition, Space Company will not have the exclusive rights to the relevant unmanned driving technology. We will definitely discuss specific cooperation with relevant companies."

The meeting will be held on Friday. After Lin Jia’s statement was announced, the A-share and Hong Kong-listed companies affected by the news saw a surge in their share prices.

BAIC Blue Valley said that as the eldest son of Yanjing’s automobile industry, it is natural for them to cooperate with me.

NIO and Baidu said that we have a strategic partnership with Guangjia Aerospace, and we definitely have a leading advantage in technical cooperation.

Xiaomi believes that thanks to the personal relationship between Lei Jun and Guangshen, Xiaomi will surely get a share of the pie.

Level 4 autonomous driving does not require infrastructure investment or satellite networking. Considering that it was created by Chen Yuanguang, there is still a lot of room for improvement in the future. This imagination space is enough for car companies with exclusive technology to share a huge market pie.

Huawei is great with its intelligent driving, but it can only be said to be close to L3. Other car companies can surpass Huawei in its strengths, so the number of consumers brought by it will at least increase exponentially.

Not to mention its application in other fields.

Of course, what the major automakers mentioned above think is not what they say themselves, but what the retail investors (leeks) who hold these companies think.

When various media outlets rushed to edit Lin Jia's statement on Weibo and posted it, it also caused heated discussion in the public opinion.

"After reading Lin Jia's speech, I feel that Guangjia Aerospace is much more sober than Huawei. Previously, Huawei was wavering between making cars and being a supplier. It said it would not make cars, but it was almost the same as making cars itself. However, its slogan was to become a top supplier like Bosch. These two are very contradictory.

If you build your own car, how dare others use your technology? It was not until after selling Seres to Xiaokang that the company decided to focus on building cars.

Guangjia Aerospace has been determined from the beginning that no matter how advanced our unmanned driving technology is, we will not monopolize the technology. We will license the technology to related companies and focus on R&D and commercial aerospace business.

Although Guang Shen and Musk also started Space, as the soul of Light Armor Aerospace, Guang Shen has never interfered with the operation of Space, not even holding a position there. It is obvious that the strategic goal of Light Armor Aerospace is very clear. "

There are many similar long speeches, so I won’t go into details here. Most people still hold a positive attitude.

At Dongda, new energy is a rare sunrise industry. Even facing various protection barriers from local enterprises, it is not easy for Dongda's new energy vehicles to enter the global market.

However, the opening of relevant technologies will still greatly benefit Dongda's new energy vehicle companies' overseas expansion.

Unique technology like this can make the difference between Dongda's new energy vehicle companies and Japanese and German car companies at the brand level.

At the conference, Lin Jia once again made a similar statement about the openness of technology, which aroused thunderous applause from the audience.

Lin Jia did not attend the forum after the speech. The chairman of Volkswagen China, Bared, said:
"I watched the video. My colleagues in the R&D department asked me to test drive the car after defeating the Terminator. We are honored that Wright chose Volkswagen as the test car, which just shows the stability of Volkswagen.

It was so incredible, everything I saw from the back seat and everything I saw on social media.

When I saw the robot smoothly complete a series of operations such as turning on the turn signal, pulling the handbrake, stepping on the accelerator and brake, changing gears, it was so smooth. Compared with the robots made by other research teams, the gap was like the gap between a community football team and Bayern.

If I hadn't tried it myself, I would have found it hard to imagine that robots are capable of doing this.

If possible, I would like to ask him to drive for me. It would be a pleasure to just watch the robot driving when I go to and from get off work every day."

Bered made no secret of his admiration for the robot driver.

Talking about the issue of technological openness, Baird said: "Whether China opens up its technology is China's freedom.

If possible, the public is willing to pay a certain price in exchange for the right to use this technology."

Bered has been among the Chinese for a long time and knows very well what they like to hear.

Of course, this is what he thinks in his heart. The public is willing to pay any price.

Even if the old Chinese car companies have this technology, they can only sell a car originally worth 20 yuan for 25 yuan.

Not only will the price not increase, it may even drop. A car that originally cost 20 yuan will only cost you 18 yuan after being equipped with autonomous driving.

As for Volkswagen, the Volkswagen brand cannot sell so many cars, but their luxury brands can.

Volkswagen is a sprawling conglomerate whose luxury brands include Porsche and Lamborghini.

These two don't go well with autonomous driving, but Audi can.

Audi with a robot driver is the perfect match for business elites. With this feature, Audi can easily surpass Mercedes-Benz.

And he has already thought it through. Even if they can get rid of the robots and just buy driverless cars, they will have to add robots, just because of the coolness that the robot butler brings.

An unmanned driving steering wheel turns automatically, which is not as impressive as a robot driver with silver and white embellishments, black as the main color and white gloves.

The designs of luxury brands are often designed to make you fart by taking off your pants.

Volkswagen's Baby Bus can be sold for 6 euros in Europe, so our robot driver Audi will have to sell for euros.

Volkswagen's new electric baby bus is positioned as an MPV. Apart from being made by Volkswagen, it cannot be compared with MPVs of the same price made by domestic new energy vehicle companies.

After Lin Jia finished her speech, almost all the relevant bigwigs wanted to talk to her privately.

"Mr. Lin, your flight to Yanjing is at 10 noon tomorrow. From now until o'clock tomorrow morning, I have arranged private meetings for you according to your wishes.

This is the schedule, would you like to take a look? I have reserved 20 minutes for each person." Lin Xinrui handed Lin Jia a completed form.

There are three columns above, the first is time, the second is name, and the third is specific position.

When making this table, Lin Xinrui reserved sufficient redundancy for Lin Jia.

There is a 30-minute interval between every two conversations to prevent someone from losing control and then interrupting the other person.

"Have you communicated with their secretaries?" Lin Jia asked.

Lin Xinrui nodded and said, "We've discussed it all, and they have no objections."

No one will have any opinions, and whoever has the initiative has the final say.

Like Zhou Hongyi, who has been very popular on Douyin recently, she has an attitude of "I do whatever I want" in front of internet celebrities, and everything is about me.

In front of Pony, even though they had conflicts before and Pony even forced him to fly to Hong Kong overnight, he was still as polite as possible.

"Okay, let's do this first."

The first one was naturally Lei Jun, "Junior sister, after seeing the pilot project you conducted in Shenhai, all the students in our autonomous driving team have lost their appetite.

No one could sleep. The technical director of our team would wake up from nightmares at night because if the technical route of robot driverless driving was correct, all our investments in the field of intelligent driving would be wasted.

I just want to know if this is the most correct technical route.”

Lei Jun looked expectant and anxious. He was looking forward to getting an answer, but was even more afraid that the answer he would get would not be what he wanted.

"Brother, I can only say that it is not as perfect as you think. The implementation cost of this technology is very high, and Xiaomi's target customer group will not even consider buying it." Lin Jia said.

"Is it possible to reduce the cost in the future?" Lei Jun's heart was still hanging in the air.

Lin Jia thought for a moment and said, "Probably not, I don't know much about the specific technical details.

But it is quite different from the driverless car you understand.

It’s a very special kind of driverless car.”

(End of this chapter)