The significance of Tesla's launch of Full Self-Driving (FSD) in China

According to various media reports, on April 29, Tesla CEO Elon Musk made a surprise visit to Beijing and was received by senior leaders in mainland China. Musk told mainland leaders that Tesla is willing to further deepen cooperation with China and achieve more win-win results. Afterwards, depart by private jet, a journey that takes less than 24 hours.

It's a short time, but it's very interesting.

According to people familiar with the matter, the visit may be related to Tesla's launch of Full Self-Driving (FSD) in China. Local EV makers in China are promoting their advanced driver assistance systems as a selling point, and Tesla's launch of FSD in China could bring a new wave of catfish effects to mainland EV makers.

In fact, the catfish effect has already appeared.

The latest news is that Hangzhou has made a big move since May 1. "Zhejiang Daily" reported that on April 25, Hangzhou issued the "Hangzhou Intelligent Connected Vehicle Testing and Application Promotion Regulations", which will be implemented on May 1; This is the aggressive seizure of the autonomous car position.

Beijing, on the other hand, has used the Yizhuang Economic and Technological Development Zone as a pilot area for the development of autonomous driving technology.

However, there is no doubt that Musk's visit this time is a huge crisis and a huge stimulus for the domestic autonomous driving technology research and development industry and related enterprises. Naturally, it is also a historical opportunity for the development of fully automatic unmanned driving technology in the mainland. This means that the development of this technology in the mainland will be accelerated.

What do we think?

If you only look at it from the perspective of driving technology or the automobile industry, you can't see its huge influence. Marx once said an extremely important sentence that transportation is an extension of industry. Today, driverless cars are actually an extension of our contemporary industry.

This is of great play for the production system with artificial intelligence characteristics that we have begun to build on a large scale of the industrial Internet of Things.

Once driverless cars start running on the country's highways, it means that all the roads in the mainland will become a conveyor belt of fully automated industrial products. In the past, this situation was only seen at the Yangshan Port Pier in Shanghai, for example, where unmanned transport vehicles automatically loaded and unloaded goods back and forth on the dock. In the future, this will be the case throughout the country.

First of all, the delay due to manual labor in the transportation process will be basically eliminated. Although there will certainly be traffic accidents and vehicle damage, the accident rate will be greatly reduced. This has a great guarantee for the timely completion of production across the country, thus greatly improving production efficiency. It greatly reduces the situation that the production line is waiting because the raw materials do not come.

Secondly, since people are no longer employed, driverless cars can run 24 hours a day to ensure production, so that the mainland's industrial machines can run 24 hours a day. In traditional cars, the driver must rest, so 24-hour operation cannot be guaranteed. Even if there are several drivers driving together, then it is quite intense labor.

The third point, and most importantly, will be the completion of the final key link in the formation of a unified network of industrial Internet of things in the mainland. The previous Industrial Internet of Things could link raw materials, machine tools, production processes, products produced, and much more through networks. However, the transportation of products is a physical process. If there is no autonomous driving technology, if people still drive the car, then this industrial Internet of Things is incomplete and has huge flaws. Because network technology, information technology, can not complete the physical movement of the product. Today, with clear goals and active action towards fully autonomous driving technology, the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is one of the most important parts of the vast production network.

In short, China's industrial Internet of Things has finally taken shape. It has become a huge and inseparable production system with no loopholes, efficient and high-speed movement - this is the latest production tool and the latest production method that human beings have developed to this day.

The development of the system is integrated inside and outside. Internally, externally. Once the construction of our production system is completed, it will inevitably have a huge radiation effect in the surrounding areas, absorbing the production systems of the surrounding countries, so that our production system will snowball. You can not join, and if you don't join, you will be completely uncompetitive. You must know that at this time, road transportation is completely inlaid with production, factories and machine tools, just like the conveyor belt on the factory. If you don't join this system, but the production efficiency can't be compared, and naturally it will be conquered very quickly. We see that Vietnam is still awkward with us because of the construction of their high-speed railway, delaying their own time. We are not in a hurry, and we should not be in a hurry about our external infrastructure. Once our driverless cars run wild on our roads, the transportation problems of other bordering countries and ours will be solved.

The life that joins the system and the death that deviates from the system.

In the long run, our production system will inevitably have a far-reaching impact on the mainland's international relations.

The future of China is a complete 24-hour efficient operation of intelligent production machines that do not rely on people. It's no longer a metaphor, it's a fact. And it's just a machine, there is no second.

In this way, if you look at our large number of highways, they are no longer a burden, because they become the "conveyor belts" inside this huge machine. All roads in China are conveyor belts.

Taking Guizhou as an example, the production of a large number of crops in Guizhou will be produced under the agricultural Internet of Things, which will be closely connected with our highways and driverless cars, and a large number of agricultural products and other manufactured products in Guizhou will continue to walk on this conveyor belt.

In addition, because unmanned production will soon become the main mode of production in the mainland, a large number of people accumulated in Guangdong and other industrially developed areas will also be evacuated to other places, a large number of technology, capital, and population are very likely to be evacuated to Guizhou and other regions, so that the efficiency of highways in remote areas such as Guizhou will be greatly improved, and it will no longer be a burden on the local finances, but the treasure of the local government.

We can look forward to the future of the country's highways are running 24 hours a day with driverless cars to transport various products, which should be a scene of prosperity and prosperity!

If we refer to the speed of the HarmonyOS system and look at the equipment update that we are currently undergoing mass production, we should know that the arrival of such a sight is not far away. In fact, fully autonomous driving technology is coming into reality at a much faster pace than we expected, isn't it?

This will be the last link in the industrial Internet of Things with artificial intelligence features, and the last link in the competition between China and the United States in this field. Whoever finishes it first will have the commanding heights of the crushing position of the production system.

This commanding heights is a struggle for national fortunes, a competition that cannot be delayed day and night, and the speed is beyond our imagination, but it is actually logical. We should not be surprised when we look at the black-eyed relationship between China and the United States.

Musk can come to participate in our important construction, of course, we are welcome, the more the merrier!

As an intelligent industrial Internet of Things, there must be more advanced features, but driverless car technology will be the last module to complete the basic form of this network. There is no doubt about it.

Of course, this will inevitably lead to a great change in our domestic relations of production, and it goes without saying. I won't say much here.