What other application scenarios are there for autonomous driving? This year, Robin Li published a book called "Intelligent Transportation". The big guy has to look at the book.
In this book, Robin Li said that if intelligent transportation based on vehicle-road coordination is implemented to improve traffic efficiency, within 5 years, China's first-tier cities will no longer need to limit purchases and restrict traffic; within 10 years, the congestion problem will be basically solved. However, what struck me the most was another detail in the book, which is the word "5G cloud driving".
In the past, when I thought of automatic driving, I was drilling into the belly of a robot and going all over the world. But in reality, it's a vision. Because even if the technology is realized, the law will take a long time to improve; even if the law is perfected, the ethical discussion will last a long time. However, you found that no, in the development process of automatic driving, there has actually been such an intermediate station, 5G cloud driving.
What does that mean?
100% of automatic driving can not be done, is not mature now, it does not matter, you can use people to achieve double insurance ah.
If the autonomous vehicle encounters a complicated situation on the road, it will take over manually at the first time, just like your driving school instructor to do an emergency for you.
A car running on the streets of Chengdu late at night may be supervised by an old driver who lives at the foot of Qingcheng Mountain.
The reason why the word "cloud driving" makes me feel open is because it corrects our imagination of technology. An ambitious technological change actually stopped in the middle of a warm pulse.
It turns out that the technology we imagined was born out of nowhere and grew into a giant beast. It benefits people, but it also replaces and squeezes people.
But you see, fully autonomous driving technology is still a vision, the technology that can really be used right away, not a replacement for people, it is a connector between people and people.
You think, if cloud driving is realized, it will create a new profession, so that the old driver who used to eat and sleep can work at home. Even one person can remotely manage hundreds or thousands of vehicles.
And a big city driver, very cheap to enjoy the service, equivalent to having a driver.
And the traffic safety of the whole society, there is also a double insurance.
This is the trend that the previous stories reflect: no matter how tall the technology itself is, it is ultimately a tool for humans, and it has only one mission to make the world better.
Understanding this trend, we can understand Robin Li's sentence: "Artificial intelligence can only reflect the revolutionary significance of technology if it is closely linked to the fate of mankind and faces the complex situation." ”
Just this half an hour shows the process of my own deepening understanding of the word "digital" in the past year.
What I want to say is: digitizing this bus, more important than sooner or later, why are you leaving? More important than fast or slow, what problem are you trying to solve?