Many people who have no concept of industrial production only stay in the manual workshop, such as welding electronic boards on the production line of the electronics factory, the hard workers of the textile factory operate the machine, hold the hammer to manually forge mechanical parts, and the production and assembly of the real high-elite equipment are almost all automated production lines, such as the production of automobiles, the life of the power battery pack of new energy vehicles, etc. Why should we achieve automated production? There are only three reasons: reduce labor costs, improve production efficiency, improve yield, and return to the automotive field.
Automated production lines do not need so many workers, and the machines that can reduce the manufacturing costs of the factory will not be "tired" as long as they are normally maintained, and can be "horsepower" and "overtime" production. This is something that cannot be done by manual production. After all, people's strength and physical strength are limited. In addition, if the machine is executed in the set order, it will not go wrong and will not faint due to fatigue, so the probability of problems with the products produced is also very low. Similarly, the driving of the manual transmission car needs to consume physical strength, and the smooth operation requires a certain amount of technology, which requires people to drive, but if the clutch and the transmission are controlled manually at the same time, the higher the probability of operation error, the longer the operation time, the higher the damage rate of the equipment for the car. So, if it is possible to automatically change gears, won't the probability of both be reduced? But that's not the most important thing.
What was the original intent of automotive shift automation? It can be said that the original purpose is to realize the autonomous driving of cars one day! Don't discuss the impact of shift automation on the quality of the run, just the running intensity. Driving a large truck or bus can be tiring. Especially trucks. The manual transmission used on the truck often has more than a dozen forward gears (distinguishing between high and low speeds), and high frequency shifts in driving, so such high-intensity operations are "high price", the remuneration of truck drivers is still very high, and generally white-collar workers are trucks. However, the bus's manual transmission does not have several forward gears. Because the operation is simple and the driving environment of the vehicle is better, the bus driver's income is average, in fact, it is not as good as the front-line workers in the factory.
The lowest paid bus driver who drives the same bus is still very low, as low as the average monthly salary of 4 to 6k in the north, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen, but why is it so low for a long time and has not grown? Because it was easy to drive. Nowadays, buses almost always stop automatically. If it is a green number, it is automatically stopped. It can be said that people who can drive private cars normally can drive buses. As long as there is a concept of the vehicle dimensions and the precautions for turning. Any feelings?
Giving and rewarding are always proportional. One day trucks also stop almost automatically, truck driving becomes very easy, and truck drivers are no longer a high-paying industry. One day the truck achieved automatic driving, and the profession of truck driver was gone. At the same time, the "fatigue driving" rule has affected truck restrictions. Since the premise of trucks to achieve automatic driving is always electric, there are no restrictions on the safe operation of zero emissions. At this time, the truck can achieve more efficient transportation, the focus is that the labor cost is no longer needed, and the labor cost in the realization process is gradually decreasing; eventually the transaction pass accident rate is greatly reduced, and there is no longer a fear of "parallel with the truck".
In summary, car automation looks like it is only to facilitate the driving of the car, but in fact, this is a conclusion drawn from the perspective of the car, there is no mistake, just one-sided. The original intention of autonomous vehicles, like the automation of industrial production, is to "liberate productivity", but it will inevitably lead to the disappearance of some occupations. Once a professional driver was very strong, but now there are 450 million driver's licenses, anyone can change the role to become a professional driver, so few people mention the word professional driver.
However, will the maintenance cost of automatic transmission cars be higher? It seems that many people say that automatic transmissions are fragile and the maintenance costs are high, it's just that you don't understand the electric drive system. The electric drive system does not have a transmission, and the motor can be used to drive the wheels directly, or the wheels can be made into motors. The motor is a kind of engine, the same as the internal combustion engine, external combustion engine and other machinery; the motor can run at ultra-high speed without wear, vibration and noise, and the loss in the process of mechanical energy conversion is extremely low, even if it runs at high speed, it can effectively suppress power consumption. Therefore, the motor can directly adjust the speed of the wheel (speed) with the speed, so that the car does not have a real "automatic shift, "shift"). Whether such a car is used for home oem or production and transportation, ultra-low maintenance costs and ultra-low failure rates determine the realization of accelerated automatic driving.
Even if the high standards cannot be met in the short term, remote operation can be achieved as required by national standards. This is also a major step forward in liberating the productive forces. So the automatic gear must be eliminated from the manual. This is the inevitable result of technological development, and fate does not change due to "emotion".