Zhang Zhimin: Unmanned taxis should not be allowed to become the second Didi

Recently, the topic of unmanned taxis has been very hot, and there are two factors, one is that because the 144-hour visa exemption has made a large number of foreign self-media flock to China, and foreign countries are very interested in China's advanced unmanned taxis; The second factor is that a large number of unmanned taxis in Wuhan are listed, because the price of their travel is very low, so many people question: this will make more online car-hailing drivers and taxi drivers unemployed, and because the unmanned taxi project is dominated by capital, its income will be obtained by capital, because there is no driver participation, so people as workers do not participate in the sharing of the benefits brought by taxis, therefore, if it becomes the second Didi, that is, through the very low price in the early stage to obtain users, If this trick is used to kill competitors and thus obtain a monopoly market position, there will inevitably be a situation in which the relevant practitioners are seriously unemployed.

This situation of ice and fire has made the current unmanned taxis attract the attention of the world. On the one hand, we lament the advancement of this unmanned taxi, but on the other hand, we are worried that capital will form a monopoly through a model like Didi. And good things netizens found through the equity structure that the equity structure of China's largest unmanned taxi company is very similar to Didi, they think that this is actually equivalent to the money earned in the Chinese market is taken away by the capital behind these complex equity, and the big boss behind these companies want to obtain relevant data, the company can still resist?

Didi has a large number of ride-hailing drivers, but the driverless taxi drivers have eliminated this group, which is counterproductive to maintaining employment, promoting employment growth and increasing people's incomes. This is also the fundamental reason why everyone is disgusted with unmanned taxis this time, after all, this is related to the jobs of low-level professional drivers.

And we also found that since taxis can do this, so can trucks, and because of the operation of the machines, they can operate 24 hours a day, so that human drivers can't compare with them, you know, human truck drivers have to rest when they get there. But the driverless truck can run 3000 kilometers at a time, it takes 30 hours, which is really invincible, because the limitation of time on logistics is very obvious, as long as the time limit can be broken, the value of logistics is very obvious, and then the human driver will drink the northwest wind.

Unmanned taxis and unmanned trucks are actually necessary as a supplement. Because in that way, it can make up for some shortcomings, which is the inevitable result of the diversified development of society. But the problem is that now it is capital that is leading the development, and capital has invested a lot of manpower and material resources in R&D and operation in the early stage, and at the same time, in order to recover the money-burning behavior of a large number of subsidized consumers in the early stage, it will inevitably expand its scale in the future and reach a level like Didi in order to make money through high fees. Therefore, such a result will inevitably lead to its dominance and upset the existing balance. This is where we oppose the most, this trend we must see, now Wuhan online car-hailing and taxi drivers collectively use actions to express their dissatisfaction, before and after several days, these drivers collectively do not work, some work see unmanned taxis do not car, and even private car drivers do not car.

As for the phenomenon that unmanned taxis will lead to a large number of unemployment in society in the future, some people on the Internet use the complaints of horse-drawn carriage drivers about the cars in the past, and they think that our current worries are groundless, and the emergence of more advanced technology and domination of the world is inevitable.

But they only use a simple historical comparison to illustrate the problem, but intentionally or unintentionally ignore a fundamental problem, because in the past, whether it is a horse-drawn carriage or a car, it needs people to operate, and now unmanned taxis do not need to be driven by people. This has caused fundamental damage to the economic model of human participation in production, employment, and consumption, and if it is allowed to develop, then the current problem of the United States is still a minor problem, because it is really subversive and will cause the earth to shake.

In the face of the people's deep concern about the future trend, the unmanned taxi company operating in Wuhan released its background pictures, and everyone also saw that when the unmanned taxi could not be driven by machines, many people drove the car through remote control in the background. This is how this company proves to society that we are not eliminating employment, and that there are still a large number of people who are employed because of unmanned taxis. In this way, they try to calm everyone's doubts, and then they can replicate Didi back then.

But we must see that this is actually the 1.0 version of the unmanned taxi, and in the future, with the iteration of technology and the addition of massive data, the unmanned taxi will increasingly need to intervene in the background. Now the company's technical iteration and data are not enough for us to see that it is awesome, but Huawei's intelligent driving makes us find that in terms of unmanned driving, as long as there is enough technical content and massive data to train, unmanned driving will become more and more intelligent and better. Therefore, in the future, there will be less and less manual background remote control, so the unemployment problem caused by unmanned taxis is an inevitable development direction.

In contrast, I think Huawei's development is the way forward, on the one hand, we can make full use of the extremely advanced autonomous driving and artificial intelligence technology, and on the other hand, it will not cause a large number of people to lose their jobs. This is because Huawei uses its intelligent driving on private cars and official cars, which frees people's hands and feet, and in the future, it will liberate people's minds and eyes and will not cause people to lose their jobs. Because it is used in the context of personal and family use of cars. And even if it is an official car, in fact, the current driver is not only a driver, but also a secretary and a waiter.

Huawei's development of driverless trucks will also be in line with Huawei's consistent ecological thinking, and it will not kill truck drivers, and Huawei will only apply driverless technology to make truck drivers more comfortable and safer to drive. In fact, Huawei's current intelligent driving has allowed it to cooperate with related companies to develop driverless taxis, but it has not done so. From the beginning, Huawei focused on the huge group of private cars and official cars, and practice has proved that it is in the right direction and very successful. Artificial intelligence helps people to serve better, but it does not revolutionize the economic model of human participation in employment and consumption, and only such development can be sustainable.

Online ride-hailing platforms such as Didi are also charging expensive fees, and many netizens have reported that the money they pay is very different from the money received by drivers, and some have even more than doubled. This is actually the embodiment of the evil done by capital, so the unmanned taxis controlled by capital will inevitably repeat the mistakes of their predecessors in the near future, which is definitely not what we want to see. The United States, deeply controlled by capital, is now in trouble, and we can no longer repeat this history.

Yes, we are not against unmanned taxis, we are against the revolution of the economic model of employment and consumption under the leadership of capital, because this will lead to the collapse of the sky. Because the logic behind it is that capital will never compensate idlers and the unemployed, therefore, in capitalist society, such development is absolutely a black hole. But in the socialist society, this is actually the liberation of human beings, because the wealth created by the whole society can be shared by the whole people, and common prosperity avoids the tragedy caused by the complete de-artificialization of capital to the people, because in the end, capital will inevitably eliminate the so-called garbage population because of the complete de-artificialization, and at that time, it will inevitably be the tragedy of the entire human race, and it will also make the evolution of biology come to an end, and finally it will not be able to play. Therefore, we absolutely cannot let capitalism end history, and only by constantly metabolizing, the fittest can ensure the long-term development of the world, and only by letting socialism lead the development is the fundamental way out and direction.

Of course, some people will ask, if the machine helps the people to do a lot of things, the people will be comfortable, and this will also lead to a situation of dying in peace. As a matter of fact, socialism will be able to integrate with advanced technology very well in the future, and a very good model will be developed to avoid this problem. In the future, we will use digital technology and artificial intelligence technology to establish a super system, and use it to fully understand people's contributions to society and behavioral values (including people's healthy and reasonable life, work, study, etc.), and then let everyone share social wealth with these, so that everyone will not be comfortable, and will strive to be a valuable and useful person to the society. This makes this society healthy and sustainable.

Yes, it is fundamental that advanced technology should be applied by young and energetic people, otherwise, it will be a big trouble for people who are about to enter the ground. Only when advanced artificial intelligence is used by socialism can it play the greatest value and role, and when it is used by capitalism, which is now in the sunset, it will only drag society into a bottomless abyss. For the sake of the future of humanity, we must choose socialism.

(The author is a special commentator for Kunlunce; Source: Kunlun Ce Network [Author's Authorization], recompiled from the WeChat public account of "House of Communism", with deletion, revision and release; The picture comes from the Internet, invaded and deleted)