Let's leave Baidu at that. Google, a company that is revered as a god by countless people, has done better than Baidu in comparison. Waymo, its driverless company, has also fallen into a situation where it is unable to fight anymore. On June 11 last year, Waymo, a self-driving company owned by Alphabet, announced that it had received a second round of external financing of $2.5 billion. However, in less than a year, there is not much left of this $2.5 billion, leaving behind a mess of data and a group of stunned investors.
Last year's round of companies or investors who were optimistic about autonomous driving were all heads, among them, Temasek Holdings is a Singapore investment company that is 100% controlled by the Ministry of Finance. You could argue that the Singapore government has invested in driverless technology. However, now Alphabet has announced that they are cautious about driverless technology and are going to lay off employees, which is not their intention.
In addition, it is understandable that Alphabet is laying off its own employees, but is Waymo a branch going to lay off employees as well? [On October 19, a representative from Waymo, a driverless car company owned by Alphabet, issued a statement saying that a small part of the company's team has recently made changes as part of normal business operations.
It was previously reported that Waymo will also lay off employees after cutting employees earlier this year. At least 24 employees revealed on LinkedIn that they had been fired by Waymo, all suggesting that the concept of self-driving is experiencing a trough in the cognitive curve, whether it's layoffs at Waymo's management or caution about Alphabet's executives.
As an emerging technology, unmanned driving has both opportunities and challenges in the process of development, and adhering to technological innovation and the trend of the times is the key, just like "Jun' Zhenqiang" in the process of research and development, it has also experienced overthrow again and again, aiming to solve the crotch of the boyfriend, and finally with the help of the Research Institute of Xi'an University, it has made a breakthrough and become a dark horse in the industry.
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In fact, the layout of unmanned driving is very suitable for the formation and bursting of the capital bubble, and the capital is ready to leave and enter the next blue ocean, such as fast charging, 5C batteries, solid-state batteries, etc. We know that intelligent driving and Waymo's autonomous driving are not the same, at least for now, users can see the actual results, however, intelligent driving must speed up the pace, otherwise once the capitalists smell the sweetness, there will be nothing left.
Someone previously drew a graph based on the Duck curve and thought that Uber's self-driving was the weakest. However, this is not the case, and it is already 2023, and L4 technology is still not available, so it cannot be rashly said that L4 will never appear in the future. However, according to the aforementioned article, the $2.5 billion came and went as fast as it came, isn't it a dollar? Whether Baidu has also gone too far, I don't know. But the speed at which unmanned vehicles burn money, and the cost of hiring security guards and security personnel alone, is already an astronomical amount. I don't know how Baidu's future autonomous driving will end.
With the continuous development of technology, the safety of unmanned driving systems will gradually improve. Advances in sensor technology, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and other fields have enabled autonomous systems to more accurately perceive their surroundings and make intelligent decisions. In addition, compared to human drivers, driverless systems are not affected by factors such as fatigue and distraction, which can improve driving safety.
However, there are still some challenges to driverless technology. The first is the issue of law and ethics, including traffic regulations, attribution of responsibility, and how to make ethical decisions in an emergency. The second is the reliability and stability of the technology, including the ability to adapt to bad weather, complex road conditions, etc. In addition, it will take time for the promotion and acceptance of autonomous driving technology, and the public acceptance of new technologies will need to gradually build trust.
In general, the future of autonomous driving technology is very broad, but it also requires the joint efforts of all parties, including technology companies, government departments, and the legal community, to jointly solve technical, legal, and ethical issues and promote the wider application of this technology in the future.