The orders for the radish run are crazy, and the era of unmanned driving is really coming?

There is no phase

2024-07-08 16:11Published in Anhui

The speed at which the times subvert an industry is getting faster and faster.

According to the news released by Hubei, recently, the number of unmanned orders for Radish Express in Wuhan City has ushered in explosive growth, with a peak of more than 20 single-day bicycles.

As a comparison, the average number of orders a taxi driver has a day is about 20.

In other words, in Wuhan, the momentum of driverless taxis has caught up with traditional taxis.

Moreover, the data shows that Wuhan citizens are generally satisfied with the travel service of fully driverless cars, and the user satisfaction evaluation of the Radish Express APP reaches 4.9 points, of which 5 points are full of praise, accounting for 94.19%.

Below the related news, it is also rave reviews.

Will unmanned taxis become mainstream in the future?

With the rapid development of AI technology and intelligent driving, this trend has become clearer.

Not long ago, Kai-Fu Lee, chairman of Sinovation Works, said that machine learning will surpass humans in many fields, and predicted that "fully autonomous driving" will be popularized within 10 years.

Can machines drive safer than humans?

Technically, yes.

Back in 2016, the Go robot "Alpha Go" defeated Lee Sedol, a world champion and professional nine-dan player.

In recent years, AI machine learning has surpassed humans in many fields.

As far as the carrot run is concerned, the data security is more than 10 times higher than that of human drivers.

Data show that more than 200,000 road traffic accidents occur in the country every year, of which more than ninety percent of traffic accidents are caused by human factors.

The three most common causes are: fatigue driving, drunk driving, and speeding at a red light.

And these violations of laws and regulations, unmanned vehicles, are none.

And compared to the natural reactions of human beings who are prone to fatigue, road rage, emotions, and emergency panic, "ruthless" machines naturally do not have these burdens.

In particular, the sixth-generation unmanned vehicle of Radish Express has fully applied the new Baidu Apollo ADFM program, and from Baidu's introduction, the safety level of the program has been close to that of the domestic large aircraft C919.

Of course, the unmanned car of Radish Express is not a family car, compared with a family car, the roof of the unmanned car generally carries a "baggage", which is a variety of dense sensors.

This also explains why the same is driverless, but there are occasional accidents in the unmanned driving of family cars, but there are few accidents in the rental online car-hailing service.

Judging from the data of insurance companies, the accident rate of unmanned vehicles of Radish Express is only 1/14 of that of human driving.

One fact is that the Carrot Run has traveled more than 100 million kilometers safely without a single serious casualty.

And from the perspective of the taxi riding experience, the advantages of unmanned driving are also very obvious.

The back row is KTV, whether customers indulge in singing or watching movies, they don't have to worry about the driver's side eyes, and there will be no privacy embarrassment.

Due to the unification of the model, the experience and comfort are full.

This is also why Wuhan citizens will set off a craze for taking fully driverless cars, comfortable + cheap, is the last word in travel.

Some experts pointed out that in the next 10 years, artificial intelligence will replace 90% of the current jobs, including drivers, translators, journalists, etc., especially autonomous driving, which may be the most powerful engine to promote economic growth.

In fact, this trend has been confirmed abroad.

As early as April 2016, the International Bar Association predicted that the "Industrial Revolution 4.0" led by artificial intelligence and robotics will sweep the world, and at least one-third of the world's entry-level jobs will be replaced by artificial intelligence in the future...... To keep up with increasing automation, we urgently need new labor and employment laws.

By the end of August, the American ride-hailing platform Uber launched its first self-driving car service in Pittsburgh, and planned to replace human driving with autonomous driving.

In 2018, in order to verify the cybersecurity problems of autonomous driving, three researchers from China's 360, Zhejiang University, and the University of South Carolina (USC) in the United States hacked into the self-driving system and "tricked" the on-board radar to make Tesla unable to detect obstacles ahead, and announced the results at the DefCon hacking conference in Las Vegas, which closed in Las Vegas:

Tesla drove more than 130 million miles (208 million kilometers) on self-driving with its first fatal crash.

By comparison, in the United States, a motor vehicle travels an average of 94 million miles (150 million kilometers) in a fatal crash.

Globally, on average, there is one fatal crash every 60 million miles (96 million kilometers) driven by motor vehicles.

In other words, six years ago, the safety of autonomous driving surpassed that of humans in terms of data verification.

In 2021, Tesla also launched FSD, which is an evolved version of the intelligent driving assistance system, and then stepped up the layout of "Robotaxi" (driverless taxi).

I remember that an expert said before: if you don't have a job, you can use a private car to work.

According to Musk's vision, Robotaxi is the ultimate version of Tesla's economy cars, because users can make money by renting them out when they are not in use - they don't have to work on their own, and the car can go out and make money on its own.

In August 2023, San Francisco, the United States, approved the commercial operation of driverless Robotaxi around the clock in the region.

Nowadays, in order to seize the commanding heights of the unmanned driving track, many domestic autonomous driving companies are also investing in R&D, among which Baidu Apollo ranks first in the world with more than 5,000 patent families.

According to Kai-Fu Lee, the process of introducing unmanned vehicles and autonomous driving in China will be faster than that in the United States, because compared with the United States, China's legal improvement and industrial iteration are faster, and commercial applications will be the highest priority for unmanned vehicles to enter the market.

In Wu Xiangjun's view, today's technical and regulatory issues are no longer the difficulty of the popularization of unmanned driving.

The difficulty lies in the high-precision map.

Before Uber launched its driverless taxi, it recruited dozens of engineers and roboticists from Carnegie Mellon University, and later acquired deCarta, a mapping and location software company, and some of Microsoft's mapping business.

At the same time, Uber also signed an agreement with Digital Globe to take advantage of its high-resolution maps.

Looking at the industry as a whole, all companies that are working in the field of driverless cars will work street view mapping.

For example, the acquisition group of German automakers (including BMW, Audi and Mercedes-Benz) has acquired Here Maps.

Why Maps?

Because there is not much difference between sensors and algorithms, models equipped with driverless vehicles can be replaced at any time.

But the final landing experience is very dependent on the accuracy of the map.

That's because, when the action of driving shifts from humans to machines, the role of digital maps goes beyond navigation.

Traditional GPS navigation solutions are difficult to keep up with driverless cars and cannot provide enough dynamic and accurate data for driverless cars.

To achieve a high-quality driverless experience, ultra-high-resolution maps with centimeter-level accuracy are required, so that driverless cars can map their precise location with their surroundings in real time and accurately reproduce the state of the road.

At present, various smart car manufacturers and navigation technology companies in the country are publishing their own maps in a proprietary format.

If you want to make high-precision maps, you must also invest in a large number of R&D personnel and data collection.

Therefore, at this stage, whoever can come up with high-quality products for high-precision maps will be able to occupy the unmanned highland.

For example, Xpeng, Xiaomi, etc., will update the OTA upgrade package of the map every once in a while.

At present, the leading one in the industry is Baidu Zhitu, because Baidu has realized the unmanned operation of Robotaxi in 30 cities, and it has its own map products, whether it is a multi-source data ecology or investment focus, it is more leading.

At present, Radish Express has been operated in more than 10 cities such as Wuhan, Hangzhou, Beijing, Hefei and Yangquan.

Although routes and operations are subject to strict regulations, in the long run, autonomous driving will eventually become widespread in all cities.

Overall, the singularity of the era of autonomous driving has arrived, and many people may not be aware of it, but they are taking over the technology of all your lives.

And at that point, humanity may really need to redouble its efforts to avoid being replaced.

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