The ride-hailing industry has shown a continuous growth trend in recent years. According to the data, there are more than 100 million registered online car-hailing drivers in the country, and about 7 million online car-hailing drivers are currently running, and online car-hailing drivers have become one of the industries with the fastest employment growth.
The more drivers come in, the lower the online car-hailing fare, and the more drivers are rolled. Nowadays, in the online car-hailing industry, "staying up time" has almost become the consensus of practitioners. Many drivers said that there is no full-time online car-hailing driver who is not fatigued driving, and it is common to drive 16 hours or 18 hours a day.
Some drivers said that their eyes were so sore that they couldn't open them at three or four o'clock in the afternoon. There are also masters who say that they fall asleep when they open it. But maybe you only close your eyes for a second, or even less than a second, but that could be an irreparable accident.
Some time ago, there was an online car-hailing driver in Dongguan who crashed into the guardrail because of fatigue driving, and the guardrail passed directly through the car, the driver died on the spot, and 2 passengers were seriously injured, and the scene was very tragic.
There are not a few masters who lost their lives, and only around the Qingming Festival, several drivers fell. Before the accident, they all had a common feature - they drove fatigue for many days in a row, and they still couldn't bear it after all!
In order to prevent fatigue driving, online car-hailing platforms have also launched some solutions. For example, the platform will force the driver to take a 20-minute break after 4 hours, and the platform will force the driver to take a 6-hour break when the 10-hour billing time reaches 10 hours. However, the reality is that a driver often registers on several platforms at the same time, so that he can take advantage of the "window period" of mandatory rest on one platform to continue to take orders on other platforms.
After all, the driver is not iron-clad, but unmanned driving can. After the early battle for drivers and users, the growth of enterprises has changed from "dividends" to "compound interest", which requires online car-hailing platforms to enhance their service capabilities to retain and gain customers. In this context, the use of artificial intelligence technology to enhance user experience and improve service quality has become the consensus of enterprise development.
In the past two years, platforms have turned their attention to unmanned driving, just in the past two days, GAC Aion and Didi Autonomous Driving jointly established Guangzhou Andi Technology Co., Ltd., which was approved for industrial and commercial licenses, and announced that the first L4 driverless taxi will be mass-produced in 2025.
Not long ago, Musk also publicly announced: Tesla will release driverless taxi products on August 8 this year.
Since March, Guangzhou Automobile Group's travel platform Ruqi Mobility, which focuses on the concept of autonomous driving and Robotaxi, has once again submitted a prospectus to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, intending to sprint to "the first share of travel technology";
In January this year, T3 Mobility conducted a successful autonomous driving test in the Jiulonghu International Enterprise Headquarters Park in Jiangning Development Zone, Nanjing.
At present, more than 20 cities in mainland China, including Beijing, Wuhan, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen, have issued local policies for autonomous driving testing, and more than 60 companies have obtained autonomous driving test licenses.
At present, the online car-hailing capacity is saturated, and Shenzhen has also issued many reminders that many companies have gradually improved the layout of the driverless travel network, and those who want to engage in online car-hailing need to make a rational choice.
Moreover, the unmanned wind is also blowing into the sky, and hitting "flying" has become a reality.
At the beginning of March, the world's first electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft successfully demonstrated a successful cross-sea and cross-city simulated manned public demonstration flight. Zhuhai's one-way journey from 2.5 to 3 hours on the ground has been shortened to 20 minutes, and it can carry five people, and the aircraft is expected to start manned flights in 2026 after obtaining the airworthiness certificate.
On April 7, the world's first unmanned manned aircraft production license was issued, and "taking a flying taxi" to work is turning from a dream into a reality.
The future of travel is also diversifying, it is foreseeable that it will not be long before commuting to work, and the era of unmanned aircraft waiting when you go out is coming, and many netizens said that there are many taxis and online car-hailing drivers who are going to lose their jobs.
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