Lu Beifeng did not disturb Academician Shi. He looked at the runway and cars in the room and sighed in his heart.
Suddenly I remembered the Japanese anime I watched a long time ago, Brothers of Four Wheels. I wonder which boy didn’t want to own such a house when he was a child.
Runway + traffic jam = boy’s paradise.
After waiting for a long time, until the scientific research assistant could not help but remind him, Shi Xianwei saw Lu Beifeng and said hello absently: "Mr. Lu, you are here."
Lu Beifeng smiled and greeted: "Academician Shi, are you still used to life in Tianhu?"
"It's the same everywhere."
Academician Shi has an expressionless face. He has a common problem among scientific researchers and is not good at dealing with people.
However, he also knew the purpose of Lu Beifeng's coming here, so he called his assistant and handed him a report, trying to express it in a more popular way:
"After half a year of painstaking research and development by our team, the autonomous driving technology of the car has been optimized and improved to a great extent."
"On highways with simple road conditions, true driverless driving can be achieved."
"And it incorporates our own honeycomb technology, which is similar to algorithms like drone light shows."
"You can understand that we have successfully developed an in-vehicle chip that combines excellence."
"This chip integrates the Beidou satellite positioning device, 5G communication base station, and intelligent radar detection. Once the vehicle is loaded with this chip, it can be realized that vehicles, vehicles, the Internet, and 5G base stations form a communication bridge with each other.
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Shi Xianwei's face flushed and he became more and more excited as he talked, and the topics and professional terminology involved gradually deepened.
Lu Beifeng was a little confused, but he still nodded and smiled, listened patiently, and read the report.
Even with a little knowledge, I learned some important contents.
Self-driving technology has indeed been developed, but currently it only supports highways with simple road conditions.
If you want to adapt to national highways, county roads, and even rural roads with complex road conditions, you need the cooperation of on-board chips.
It's just that this kind of cooperation cannot be achieved by a single car. Instead, the cars must be equipped with chips so that they can communicate with each other.
In this way, truly driverless driving can be achieved and adapted to various complex road conditions.
There are six levels of autonomous driving technology in the world, with level zero being the lowest and level five being the highest.
Referred to as L, L0 is the oldest manual transmission car without automation and does not have navigation.
L1 is driver assistance.
The vehicle can assist with some functions, but the driver still handles all acceleration, braking and monitoring of the surrounding environment. For example, if you get too close to another car on the highway, the vehicle will automatically brake for you, which is the emergency braking device.
L2 is partially automated.
Most car manufacturers in the world are developing this level of autonomous driving technology.
At this level, the car can assist with steering or acceleration functions and allow the driver to be relieved of some tedious operations.
But the driver is always ready to take control of the vehicle and is responsible for most critical functions and all environmental monitoring.
Tesla's current driverless technology is at this level and is partially automated.
L3 conditional automation.
The driver's attention is still important, but under certain road conditions, safety-critical functions such as braking can be disengaged and left to the on-board system to handle them when conditions are safe.
Expressways with simple road conditions are included in this list.
Without a chip loaded, the technology developed by Shi Xianwei belongs to the L3 level.
If this technology matures and can be put into use, then they have surpassed Tesla in terms of driverless car technology.
L4 is highly automated.
The vehicle is able to steer, brake, accelerate, monitor the vehicle and road and respond to events, determining when to change lanes, turn and use signals.
L5 is fully automated.
This level of autonomous driving does not require human attention, and there is no need to step on the accelerator, brake or hold the steering wheel. The driver only needs to set the route and then do whatever he wants without even sitting in the driving seat.
The system controls all critical tasks, monitors the environment and recognizes unique driving conditions, such as traffic jams or even the wet market.
The chip that Academician Shi mentioned will show its effect here, once all cars running on the road are equipped with this chip.
Then driverless technology will directly skip the L4 level and enter the L5 level, which is fully automated.
But, it's very, very difficult...
The world's recognized monopoly dominant groups, Asan's Tata and Bangzi's Hyundai, cannot achieve an absolute monopoly on the domestic automobile industry.
What's more, there are 120 automobile manufacturers in China, including Sino-foreign joint ventures, almost 150 automobile companies.
It is simply impossible to start with in-vehicle chips and unify them to achieve automated driving!
Even if Lu Beifeng planned to give it away for free, no one else would install this chip.
Once this chip is installed on a self-produced car, it is equivalent to putting your life in someone else's hands.
People are fish and meat, and I am a knife.
Capital is profit-seeking, and they would rather technology regress for decades than sacrifice their own interests.
Lu Beifeng carefully organized his words and reminded him tactfully: "Academician Shi, after hearing what you said, I think this chip is really good. Smart radar and Beidou satellite positioning are all very practical functions."
"I think it's a bit inappropriate to just connect cars to each other. We should start from the actual situation and install chips in every car. It may not be realistic."
"Mr. Lu, I understand what you mean."
Shi Xianwei smiled bitterly, but he didn't know that unification also means monopoly.
No one will allow something as core as automotive chips to be monopolized and controlled by others.
They didn't plan to develop vehicle-mounted chips at the beginning, but scientific research is sometimes so wonderful. It was obvious that their original intention was to develop vehicle-mounted systems.
Through a series of coincidences, it naturally became this automotive chip.
Lu Beifeng couldn't bear to undermine the scientist's self-confidence and said with a smile: "Academician Shi, how long will it take to perfect this chip?"
Academician Shi's eyes lit up, and he realized that things were turning around. He hurriedly expressed his position: "Two months... no, no, it only takes one month at most, and all the details of the vehicle chip can be perfected."
"Don't rush, just take two months to slowly develop it. This kind of technological crystallization should not and cannot be given up just because it cannot be used for practical purposes."
Lu Beifeng smiled brightly. He was not short of money. Now that everything was made, he would perfect it thoroughly. It is not of use now, but who can say for sure what will happen in the future.
Academician Shi was excited beyond words: "On behalf of the 215 people in the scientific research team, I would like to thank Mr. Lu for his support."
It's one thing to develop it without using it, but it's another thing to cut it halfway.
With support and abundant funds, it is his dream to continue to improve this chip.