During these days, Zhou You focused most of his energy on how to get home and preparing to go home.
He also placed his hopes on Shen Ling to transform his vehicles, but at the same time, he never gave up hope for this country.
What he is waiting for is the support from national power.
Based on the national and cultural characteristics of our motherland, as long as people do not die on the spot, they will never give up easily.
In the past two decades, this country has suffered more than one disaster.
The great flood of 1998, the great earthquake of 2008, the pandemic of 2000...
The impact of these disasters cannot be described as ferocious.
But this country has never been knocked down.
Zhou You believes that it will be the same this time.
Perhaps this is the most terrifying catastrophe in history, because this event completely exceeds the logic of modern science, and it is impossible for the country to have a plan.
However, only the human body has shrunk, but the human wisdom and spirit are still there.
The will that this country and nation has accumulated over five thousand years is still there.
However, most of what the country has announced in the past few days are just general survival guides, which may be useful to others, but for people like Zhou You who have made adequate preparations, they have little practical significance.
The vehicle modification technology announced this time is different. It is no longer theoretical, but has been firmly implemented.
The complete set of technology includes the overall cockpit and component design drawings suitable for the new human body shape, as well as a complete set of main control program and PCB integrated circuit board design plans, as well as the supporting main control program file package.
In addition to the above-mentioned general technologies, there is also a large list of vehicle brands and models listed in the attachment of the entire technical plan. Click on the hyperlink on the model name to see detailed plans for specific models.
These detailed plans are powertrain modification plans for their respective brands and models that engineers from many automobile companies took several days to compile.
The plan specifies which wire on the miniature cockpit should be connected to which soldering point on the vehicle's host integrated circuit board.
The list of vehicles currently announced is not complete, and most of them are domestically produced cars that have only been launched in recent years.
But this is just the first list, and the list will continue to be improved and added.
Of course, even if the technology is mature enough, not everyone can achieve it.
The purpose of the country's technical guidance is to hope that automobile manufacturers, 4S stores, auto repair shops and other companies and individuals with relevant capabilities will take action first, with a view to restoring basic traffic and transportation as soon as possible.
There are technicians here, including 3D printers, mini machine tools, various blank integrated circuit boards, and a complete set of tools. They are fully capable of making the cockpit independently and installing it on the car.
The hybrid off-road vehicle also has L2 assisted driving functions, which just meets the current minimum standards for retrofittable vehicles. It is also among the first updated list of vehicles suitable for retrofitting. It has complete technical guidance and can be started at any time.
Originally, there was no rush for this matter. After all, it was already past eight o'clock in the evening and it was getting late. Zhou You planned to have a good night's rest before gradually starting work tomorrow morning.
But just as Zhou You was about to send Yuan Yike home, his father Zhou Lingsheng received a call.
The caller was my uncle.
Before traveling around, I knew that my grandparents and my uncle’s family who stayed in their hometown had already reunited.
The uncle's two sons and one daughter are out of town, and there are only the uncle, his wife and two grandchildren at home.
On the night when the dramatic change occurred, my uncle had already picked up his grandparents and was preparing to drive into the city, but his departure was delayed due to various reasons.
As soon as the car left the countryside, it encountered an accident that caused it to shrink rapidly.
Since it was a county road with relatively complicated road conditions, the uncle and his wife did not have the courage and ability to drive like Zhou You and Shen Ling. It was still late at night and the visibility was not good, so they could only park the car on the side of the road and planned to wait until dawn.
Find a way.
I never thought that after this delay, I would be completely unable to leave, and would be trapped in place, unable to move.
Fortunately, there were some snacks such as yogurt, potato chips, sweet potato chips, and beef jerky prepared in the car, so we didn’t run out of supplies. We even had food and drink and had a good time, but it was a little uncomfortable after the sun came out during the day.
After all, it is midsummer now, and the car cannot be parked under the shade of a tree. If the sun is high at noon, the air conditioner must be turned on in the car.
Originally, the reserve resources in the uncle's car were enough to last for another seven or eight days. It was not a critical situation and could be taken care of slowly. However, two things happened one after another in the evening.
The first thing is that the uncle brought his two grandchildren, one is six years old and the other is four years old. The younger one seemed to have blown the air conditioner too hard that afternoon, and he started to have a fever half an hour ago. Even now, I feel some fever when I touch my forehead.
It's hot.
The second thing is that my uncle kept a native dog at home and used it as a housekeeper. He is usually very affectionate and very smart.
This was an advantage in the past tense.
But today, the native dog has been kept alone at home for too long. Maybe he is too hungry and can't bear it, or maybe he has never seen his owner and is worried.
In short, this local dog actually jumped over the wall and ran out, and then chased the uncle along the road he used to drive into the city. Now he has found the uncle's car and is jumping up and down around the car in excitement, saying that he also wants to get in the car.
My uncle used to tease this dog a lot.
But now the uncle looks through the glass at the dog's huge mouth that can swallow itself whole, and he only feels fear. The average weight of humans today is about 0.25 kilograms. The average weight of native dogs is more than 15 kilograms, which is
Sixty times that of humans, just like humans in the past faced ferocious carnivores the size of elephants, it goes without saying that it is terrifying.
The grandson's fever and the dog's squatting are two things that come together, which can be described as internal and external troubles. The situation suddenly worsens a lot, and rescue operations are imminent.
At that time, Zhou You considered not taking a break but returning directly.
But after a short discussion, he changed his mind.
The distance from the county seat to Guangming Township is thirty kilometers, but there is a section of provincial road and a section of county road and mountain road.
The county road is very narrow and can barely accommodate two cars crossing each other.
There are steep hills on one side of the road in some sections.
This road is very difficult to walk in the past tense, and you need to be very energetic.
Nowadays, there may be vehicles breaking down or causing accidents on the road at any time, so it will definitely be more difficult to leave.
In the morning, I started my tour from Rongcheng and drove continuously for more than fifteen hours. Although I took a short break, the feeling of fatigue was objective.
Even if you can rely on willpower to travel around, if you still use your mobile phone to drive, it will take at least seven or eight hours to get to Guangming Township, and you may even not be able to get there at all due to insufficient power output.
After thinking about it, Zhou You decided to send Yuan Yike away first, and then go home and sleep for more than two hours.
During these two hours, the silent father and his daughter will lead others to make a simplified version of the cockpit and install it on the car.
Theoretically, it would take at least two or three days to complete the manufacturing of a sufficiently standardized cockpit, but after seeing the design drawings, Shen Ling proposed that some other parts could be used as emergency replacements, which could significantly shorten the completion time.
Silence Xin acknowledged this.
Zhou You chose to trust the judgment of this tech geek father and daughter.
Taking this opportunity, relatives and friends will also make some convenient modifications to the car.
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Two and a half hours later, Zhou You woke up on his own and ran to the courtyard.
At this time, the installation work of the cockpit has entered the final stage.
In order to shorten the construction period, Silent Motor has cut off almost all standard comfort configurations and only focused on the four key components of the steering wheel, accelerator, brake, and shift lever.
He fixed these four core components on a bent plastic plate, and then glued the plastic plate to the upper left corner of the front windshield with strong glue.
The steering wheel's dial is made by 3D printing.
The steering column transmission rod comes from mini machine tools and is made of all metal.
The most important electronic wheel used to convert the rotation angle into an electrical signal is a wheel encoder from a disassembled mouse.
This is certainly not in line with national standards, but we should follow the authority when the situation arises.
Silent News also rewrote part of the program so that the rotation ratio of this miniature steering wheel is basically the same as that of the car steering wheel below.
A slight error can be tolerated.
The throttle and brake also use mouse wheel encoders, which cannot be adjusted as steplessly as a real throttle, but they can be used.
As for the gear lever, there are three buttons transformed from mouse micro switches, representing P gear (parking gear), D gear (forward gear), and R gear (reverse gear).
As for the chairs, they are also from 3D printing.
In addition to the cockpit, Zhou Lingsheng also led others to install many simple rope ladders around the car to facilitate climbing up and down.
After the installation was completed, the first test run of the vehicle was carried out by Zhou You personally.