The metaphor of the traffic jam on the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge
I don't know when it started, the traffic jam on the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge has become a hot topic on the Internet.
I still remember that during the November holiday last year, the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge, which was once criticized for "not having enough to eat", rarely had a large traffic jam, and the total number of vehicles entering and exiting through the Zhuhai Highway Port ranked first in the country.
Today's Qingming holiday, the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge once again had a traffic jam, and the passenger flow continued to hit a record high.
For a time, the voice of "the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge is jammed, and 120 billion yuan has not been spent in vain" spread all over the land of China, and the pride of the infrastructure of a big country once again ignited the national mood.
According to the report of "China Communications News", with the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge to shorten the traffic distance, the "Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao one-hour living circle" is becoming a reality, drinking Guangzhou morning tea in the morning, tasting Zhongshan roast pigeon in the afternoon, and enjoying the romantic Victoria Harbour at night.
Looking at the world, the development of the bay area is the standard configuration of major countries, and the degree of development of transportation will undoubtedly have a significant impact on the development level of the integration of the bay area.
While admiring the convenient transportation of the Greater Bay Area, we should also be careful not to repeat the daily congestion of the Bay Area in developed countries.
For example, in the San Francisco Bay Area, a survey found that the entire Bay Area ranked 15th in the world in terms of traffic congestion, with each driver spending an average of 97 hours stuck in traffic last year.
The best way to avoid this is to plan ahead for a variety of travel options.
On April 25, at the Beijing Auto Show, GAC Group released the "Zhixing 2027" action plan, proposing that by 2027, GAC will take the lead in building a "one-hour Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area living circle" with the whole chain of three-dimensional smart travel.
First of all, in terms of concept, GAC Group believes that it must be a full-scene and three-dimensional mode covering from individual travel to group travel, from private travel to shared travel, and from land travel to low-altitude travel.
"GAC has taken the lead in carrying out a comprehensive layout. According to Feng Xingya, general manager of GAC Group, GAC is moving in two directions:
One direction is to enrich land travel scenarios with intelligent travel services and group travel on the ground;
One direction is the combination of land and air to build a three-dimensional intelligent transportation vehicle matrix including flying cars, Roboxi, and Robobus.
From the perspective of GAC's layout, the human travel mode is on the eve of change, and the travel scene represented by unmanned and flying cars is rising from the competition in the industrial dimension to the competition in the national strategy.
Driverless racing
Recently, Musk made a big news, almost giving up on making a lower-priced Model 2 and going all out on Robotaxi (driverless taxi).
On April 5, local time in the United States, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said on social media that he would release Robotaxi on August 8, and its operating area is San Francisco, the core of the Bay Area in the United States.
There is a basic consensus to change the way of travel and alleviate traffic congestion through Robotaxi.
The safety and efficiency that Robotaxi intelligence can bring. According to the self-driving data released by Waymo, the accident rate of self-driving cars is 75% lower than that of human driving, which will greatly reduce the traffic accident rate.
In terms of traffic efficiency, Robotaxi's built-in sensors can not only monitor road conditions in real time, but also identify various traffic participants such as pedestrians, vehicles, and traffic signals, ensuring that vehicles can drive stably and efficiently in various complex scenarios.
In China, Robotaxi is also in rapid development, and Musk's opponents have emerged.
Also in the Greater Bay Area, GAC Group's Ruqi Mobility has begun to carry out L4 demonstration operations, and GAC Aion, a subsidiary of GAC Aion, announced that it will jointly launch a Robotaxi production car with Didi, and the joint venture company Andi Technology has been approved for an industrial and commercial license on April 7.
The joint venture's first model is already in the development phase, with plans to launch its first Level 4 autonomous vehicle in 2025.
In addition to driverless taxis, GAC is rapidly advancing the R&D process of Robobus, an intelligent small- and medium-sized bus with L4 functions, and plans to start mass production by the end of 2024.
This undoubtedly further enriches the land travel scene, and Robobus has a larger passenger capacity, which in turn means that there are fewer private cars on the road, and the road traffic is more efficient, which can more effectively alleviate traffic congestion and provide a more convenient, efficient and intelligent travel experience.
It is understood that GAC also has its own exclusive secrets in intelligence, and reserves sufficient technical capabilities in the two key areas of intelligent driving and intelligent cockpit.
Based on ADiGO PILOT intelligent driving technology, GAC has a layout from L2 to L4 levels.
In 2024, the L2++ urban NDA has been installed in Haobo models, and will achieve nationwide coverage within the year, as long as there is navigation.
GAC's L3 autonomous driving technology will be mass-produced in 2025, and L3+ autonomous driving technology with a wider range of use scenarios will be mass-produced in 2026.
In 2027, GAC will launch L4 autonomous driving for users, ushering in a new era of GAC's autonomous driving technology.
In the field of intelligent cockpit, GAC ADiGO SPACE intelligent cockpit is evolving to be more efficient and intelligent.
The industry's first "GAC Device-Cloud Integrated Large Model Intelligent Twin" will be mass-produced this year, and the cockpit will have dual brains on the vehicle and in the cloud, with a three-fold increase in response speed and a two-fold increase in interaction capabilities, bringing a more humanized intelligent interaction experience.
For example, make an appointment for maintenance in one sentence, take the initiative to turn on the fog lights, defrost and defog when the weather is bad, and take the initiative to adjust the temperature, light and volume to the most comfortable state when the child in the back row is asleep.
According to the plan, in 2026, GAC will build a complete operation system covering life and entertainment, car-home interconnection, and health services, and in 2027, it will realize the active emotional interaction of all scenarios and intelligence in the intelligent cockpit.
In Feng Xingya's words, it is to "let GAC Smart Car understand you, for you, and love you more".
Flying cars are here
To solve traffic congestion, smart cars on the ground may not be enough.
According to the research of the Airport Economy Collaborative Innovation Research Center, the current capacity of roads and railways to shorten the distance between time and space has reached its limit. In the vernacular, the roads and railways that can be built are basically completed, and congestion is not something that can be solved by these roads.
Moreover, the cost of highway and railway construction is huge and occupies a large area, and the cost of highway construction is often tens of millions per kilometer, which has become an increasingly unbearable burden for the current local government, and it is not uncommon to cancel the news of road, railway and subway construction in recent years.
In this case, the tendency to pass towards the sky naturally arises.
As early as February 2021, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council issued the "National Comprehensive Three-dimensional Transportation Network Planning Outline", and the concept of "low-altitude economy" was written into the national plan for the first time.
In fact, only when the low-altitude field is connected with the transportation system such as highways, railways, and aviation, can it truly constitute a three-dimensional transportation network.
To this end, GAC launched the flying car GOVE last year, and is currently studying how to better integrate the flight cabin with the car form, accelerate the industrialization of the new model of "flight + car", and plan to launch a flying car demonstration operation plan by 2027, and create an intercity three-dimensional travel model in 2-3 cities in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
So far, GAC Group will use the whole chain of three-dimensional smart travel to help create a "one-hour Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area living circle" blueprint, which has been fully presented in front of our eyes.
In addition, GAC Group is also combining intelligent manufacturing, automotive aftermarket services, smart life and other fields, and working with the world's leading enterprises to explore the bright future application scenarios of humanoid robots and contribute to important national strategic industries.
Through the vertical and horizontal synergy of the industrial chain, GAC Group will gradually complete the super intelligent industrial ecological layout covering autonomous driving, artificial intelligence, data platform, humanoid robots and other technical fields, and make every effort to accelerate the implementation of the intelligent strategy.
"GAC will fully implement the Zhixing 2027 action plan, move towards the goal of unmanned driving, lay eggs along the way, mature one, mass produce one, and achieve the ultimate lead by leading step by step. Feng Xingya's remarks, in a sense, also represent the consensus of the current breakthrough of China's industry.
From a long-term perspective, the development of driverless and flying cars and the development of the transportation system from the traditional two-dimensional mode to three-dimensional and intelligent will not only help the "one-hour Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area living circle" become a relaxed daily life, but also help the industrial structure of the Greater Bay Area to make a huge leap.
A convenient living circle coupled with a leading industrial belt is the ultimate meaning of the development of the Greater Bay Area.
In the future, what options will GAC's "Golden Egg of Technological Innovation" bring to intelligent travel in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area?