It snowed heavily all night, and when I got up the next day, there was no snow on the roads in the capital, let alone signs of freezing.
Vehicles were driving along the road quickly, and the traffic was not affected at all, but the snow-covered green belts on both sides of the road were still reminding people how the heavy snow last night was raging.
“The capital city has experienced no blizzard in 20 years, and the snow removal artifacts have made a stunning appearance to ensure the safety of the capital’s road traffic.” While having breakfast at the hotel, Hong Tao read the headlines, “These reporters are really good at bragging, isn’t it super The large heater, the news report is good, it has become a miracle.”
Li Moran took a sip of coffee, picked up the sandwich with bacon from the plate, and said slowly, “Although the large heater itself is not a new technology, it is powered by a wireless charging pile, so Trucks can drag heaters all over the street, this simple and crude snow removal method is only used by us, and other countries don’t have the conditions to use it. From this point of view, it is also a bit magical.”
“Simple and rude is not important, the important thing is to be effective!”
“It’s nothing to waste electricity. Anyway, it won’t take long before electricity will become the price of cabbage.”
“What are you talking about?”
When everyone was discussing, Luo Jia came over with a plate.
Breakfast is self-service. Luo Jia seems to have a good appetite today. He took two fried eggs, sliced ham, mushroom seafood soup, and a bowl of udon noodles.
Hong Tao said, “We are discussing the matter of municipal industrial heaters for snow removal.”
Luo Jia smiled, “We are working hard to build power generation arrays, isn’t it for the realization of energy freedom in the future? Let me tell you, it’s nothing to remove snow with heaters. We should install heaters under the roads in the future. When the time comes, turn on the heater, and it’s better to install an air conditioner, heating in winter and cooling in summer, that’s the best way to enjoy it.”
After listening to Luo Jia’s words, everyone burst into laughter again. It would be great if there was such a day.
After breakfast, everyone split up.
The scale of the new energy summit held in Beijing this time is very large, and it is held in many places at the same time.
Star Technology is the flagship in the field of new energy. Their partners are from all walks of life, so no matter where the meeting is held, the participation of Star Technology is indispensable.
According to the schedule, Luo Jia met partners from the tire industry in the morning.
In fact, the large-scale mergers and acquisitions of domestic companies have never stopped. On April 10, 2018, Double Star Group defeated more than a dozen competitors such as Continental Germany, Michelin France, Apollo India, etc., and acquired Kumho Tire of Korea. middle.
So far, Double Star, which acquired Kumho, and Sinochem, which acquired Pirelli, have become the duo in the Chinese tire industry. Another giant headquartered in Singapore, Giti Tire, has actually been controlled by Huaxia Capital.
Today, Xingchen Technology has officially entered the tire field, bringing unprecedented black technology content to the entire industry.
Like most of the previous business activities, Star Technology itself does not manufacture tires, but they provide the world’s most advanced honeycomb solid tire technology and patents. The subsidiary Star Chemical produces synthetic tires that sell for more than 100,000 yuan per kilogram. Rubber synergist.
This approach is obviously smart. Assuming that the net profit of each tire is 50 yuan, Xingchen Technology can also take 25 yuan profit by selling patents and synergists, and it also eliminates the need for mass production Trouble.
Double Star, the tire company headed by Sinochem, officially joined the partner camp of Star Technology.
Although entering this camp requires a large portion of profits to be given to Xingchen Technology, Sinochem and Double Star are willing, because if Xingchen Technology makes its own tires, they will go out of business.
If it is not necessary, Luo Jia seldom does things to kill them all, and always leads everyone to make money together. As time goes by, the strategy of win-win cooperation makes Luo Jia have more and more friends in this world , and even the Huaxia military firmly supported him behind his back.
In the afternoon, Luo Jia came to Chang’an Hotel again, where he was going to explain the safety of autonomous driving technology to the transportation department.
Large-scale testing of autonomous driving technology requires the approval of the transportation department and cannot be done casually. Luo Jia’s personal testimony will help the approval.
To put it simply, Luo Jia needs to issue a military order to the transportation department to ensure that his technology will not cause major traffic accidents.
Dealing with higher authorities, although some procedures are cumbersome and boring, they have to be done.
Appearing with Luo Jia are the bosses of the three major automobile groups, as well as the bosses of Pacific Insurance and PICC, who will provide insurance services for test vehicles.
As soon as he arrived at the Great Wall Hotel, Luo Jia met Professor Ouyang.
“Luo Jia, let me introduce you. This is Zhang Qimin, the research and development director of Baidu Group. He is in charge of the Apollo program.” Professor Ouyang introduced Zhang Qimin who was beside him to Luo Jia.
Luo Jia has always been easy-going in life, and he shook hands with Zhang Qimin cordially.
“There is still some time before the meeting starts, let’s have a cup of coffee.” Professor Ouyang suggested.
The three sat down in the corner of the coffee shop. Professor Ouyang and Zhang Qimin ordered two cups of Blue Mountain. Luo Jia felt that the lunch was a bit greasy, so he ordered a cup of black tea and a fruit platter.
Professor Ouyang and Luo Jia have a very good relationship. He didn’t go around in circles, and said directly to Luo Jia: “Although I know that you have a competitive relationship with Baidu Group, but for the project of automatic driving, Baidu’s Abo Luo has been doing this for many years and has accumulated a lot of road test data, so he is very experienced in this area.”
“The project of electric vehicles has a lot to do with it. Both Star Technology and Baidu Group are our Huaxia companies. It would be great if you could cooperate.”
After Professor Ouyang finished speaking, he looked at Luo Jia with questioning eyes, and Zhang Qimin was also full of expectation.
Luo Jia understands Professor Ouyang’s feelings. He is a top expert in the field of electric vehicles. He often walks in the upper study room. The national team has spent a lot of money on new energy and electric vehicles. Now the pressure is very high. This battle is absolutely impossible to lose rise.
And according to the rumors, when Baidu was able to push Google out of Huaxia, they also had support in the study room. From the eyes of the big shots, it seems that Star Technology and Baidu have the possibility of cooperation.
Luo Jia started to make love with each other, talking about him from left to right.
Cooperation is to share profits. Luo Jia doesn’t think it is necessary to share profits with others, and Star Technology doesn’t need Apollo’s technology.
According to the original direction of the matter, Luo Jia made a fuss and it passed. Professor Ouyang is not a person without eyesight and can understand Luo Jia’s thoughts.
Unfortunately, An Ran came at this time.
He was discussing cooperation with the motor company in the morning. Seeing that the ultrasonic motor project is about to be completed, the production of ultrasonic motors beyond the times requires partners to purchase new equipment.
“So you are here.”
An Ran walked over and naturally sat next to Luo Jia. Seeing that Zhang Qimin was relatively unfamiliar, he asked curiously, “Who is this?”
“I am the person in charge of the Baidu Group’s Apollo project, and today I made a special trip to find Mr. Luo to talk about cooperation.” Zhang Qimin said.
Luo Jia suddenly had a bad premonition in his heart. An Ran’s character is pure and straight.
So Luo Jia hurried to pull An Ran, telling him not to talk nonsense.
It’s a pity that An Ran’s thinking and speaking speed are too fast, Luo Jia didn’t hold her back, and An Ran blurted out, “Your system has more than a thousand loopholes at least, is it necessary to cooperate?”
Puff~
Everyone was dumbfounded, and Zhang Qimin’s face turned red.
Apollo is an open system, and nearly one million lines of source code have been released.
The disadvantage of an open system is that there is no place to hide, and everyone can see how well the code is written and whether each module is designed ingeniously.
Zhang Qimin did not expect that An Ran would be so disrespectful, he managed to suppress the anger in his heart, and said angrily, “Mr. An, don’t talk nonsense. As far as I know, you are a student of mechanics and electromechanics. You are a complete layman when it comes to writing code, and you comment on things you don’t understand, don’t you think you think too highly of yourself?”
“We have hundreds of partners around the world, and we have conducted large-scale road tests in North America and China. If there are really so many loopholes, I’m afraid something will go wrong.”
It’s over…
Luo Jia mourned for Zhang Qimin in her heart, she can’t provoke anyone, why did you provoke An Ran?
This man is absolutely untouchable by you!
After hearing what Zhang Qimin said, An Ran raised her eyebrows and said with a sneer, “I forgot that you didn’t mention North America. In 2017, you only had four test cars in California, with a cumulative driving of 1972 miles and 48 manual interventions. times, with an average of 41.08 miles, an intervention is required, creating the worst record for autonomous driving.”
“Also in 2017, WAYMO, a subsidiary of Google, put in 75 test vehicles and drove a total of 352,545 miles ~ Soverse.com ~ 63 manual interventions, with an average of every 5,595.95 miles before they made manual intervention on the automatic driving system , 136.2207 times more reliable than yours.”
“However, Google still felt that WAYMO’s self-driving technology could not meet the standards, and voluntarily withdrew from the competition. As you, who are 136.2207 times worse than Google, how dare you say that the technology is mature?”
An Ran is worthy of being An Ran, the most hard-core steel straight man of Xingchen Technology, directly taking the data accurate to four decimal places, Zhang Qimin was speechless, his whole face turned green.
Unfortunately, this steel straight man not only has an upright personality, but also speaks extremely fast. The revelation of Apollo’s poor test data in North America is not the end, but the beginning.
After a short pause, An Ran continued to speak fast: “In the positioning module, you used RTKGPS and IMU, but I didn’t see the KalmanFilter plug-in from the source code. It didn’t meet the standard, so I didn’t dare to release it.”
“The idea of open source is very good, but it must have enough technology to support it. Just find an open source project in the field of robotics, ROS, Drake, etc. and compare the source code. It is not you who give a framework. Provide a low-level hardware driver to support a large open source community.”
“In addition, the starting price of the velodyne 64-line lidar recommended by you is as high as 75,000 US dollars. As a Silicon Valley start-up company, velodyne’s technology is at most second-tier in the world. Second-line products are sold at sky-high prices? I doubt it, do you want to do technology, or do you want to make money as crazy as you did in search?”