Rebirth Starts at 7 Million

The next day, after Su Qing came to the company, she always felt that people around her looked at her strangely, which made Su Qing feel very strange.

She walked into Luo Fan's office with a puzzled expression, but it turned out that Luo Fan also had the same expression.

"Boss, what am I wearing wrong today?" Su Qing asked.

Luo Fan shook his head and said, "It's okay if you don't wear clothes."

"Then why are so many people staring at me?"

"This...maybe because of your live broadcast last night!"

"My live broadcast?"

"That's right, your dirty jokes are pretty good."

Su Qing's face turned red instantly when she heard the words. For some reason, Su Qing felt that she could do anything by hiding behind Xiao Qi, and she would definitely not dare to say those words when she came to the stage.

For example, now, hearing Luo Fan mention the dirty jokes from last night, Su Qing can't wait to find a crack in the ground and sneak in right now.

Su Qing forced herself to calm down, and then forced herself not to change the subject: "Boss, yesterday I received a message that Disney in Shanghai wants to cooperate with our company."

"Disney cooperates with our company? Are there any projects that we can cooperate with?"

“To be precise, it’s Douyin. They want to hold an event with us on Douyin. The general content of this event is that users shoot and upload Douyin in Disney in Shanghai.

Then they will conduct a selection and select the most outstanding works to distribute some prizes.

We need to cooperate with them and support this short video promotion. "

After listening to Su Qing's words, Luo Fan curled his lips and said: "What kind of bullshit activity, isn't this just trying to prostitute our traffic for nothing?

Disney doesn't think that their amusement park can bring new users to Douyin, right? "

"Then boss, what do you mean..."

"Tell Disney directly, if you want to cooperate, just spend money to buy traffic obediently and don't engage in those things that are available."

"But haven't we just reached a cooperation with Marvel? Is it not good to sweep the face of Marvel's parent company like this?"

"What's wrong? Do we still need to kneel and lick Disney in our current size? We can even block Disney in China. It should be them kneeling and licking us."

"I understand what you mean. I'll go and tell Mr. Zhou right now."

Luo Fan nodded to indicate that Su Qing can go out.

Not long after Su Qing went out, Xiao Qi appeared on the phone screen.

"Mr. Luo Fan, Mr. Lei of Rice is in trouble."

"What's wrong?" Luo Fan asked.

"Xiaoqi reproduced the best autopilot technology on the market before, and sent it to Mr. Lei. Mr. Lei wanted to conduct a road test on this technology to understand how far the most advanced autopilot technology on the market is. But applying for a road test requires the approval of Department Z, Mr. Lei has applied many times but failed."

After hearing Xiao Qi's words, Luo Fan frowned. He didn't expect his superiors to have such a bad sense of automatic driving at this stage, and they didn't even give him a chance to take a road test.

Now it's troublesome!

Just as Luo Fan was thinking about countermeasures, Mr. Lei called.

He also told Luo Fan about the rejection of the road test.

"Could it be because Mr. Lei you applied in the imperial capital, and you were rejected? The situation in the imperial capital is more complicated. Have you tried to apply in another place?" Luo Fan asked.

"I tried to apply to sjz, but I was rejected. This should be the unified attitude of the higher-ups." Mr. Lei said.

Luo Fan sighed when he heard the words. He also knew that no matter which country the laws are, the traffic laws are very strict. Before any type of new car goes on the market, it needs a lot of road tests.

As a representative of new high-tech, unmanned driving must have stricter conditions in this regard, and it is normal for the higher authorities not to approve it.

"In this case, it seems that there is only one way." Luo Fan said after a long thought.

"What way?" Mr. Lei asked quickly.

"Let's bypass the road test directly."

"Go around?" Boss Lei was stunned for a moment but didn't react.

"That's right, since you can't pass the road test application, let's not do it for now. We will simulate all the procedures on the computer.

The technology you tested is l3's pure vision unmanned driving! Only rely on the surrounding optical video instead of various sensors. Except for a few necessary sensors related to safety, all other sensors used to assist driverless driving are thrown away.

To be honest, recently I have been using reading to follow up, change sources, read aloud with many timbres, and both Android and Apple can be used. 】

This kind of technology is too advanced in the eyes of the above, and it is expected that it will be rejected.

After all, the core safety of unmanned electric vehicles on the market today relies on a large number of signal sensors around the car, including microwave, ultrasonic, laser and optical sensors.

When there is an abnormality in these sensors, the car will be quickly controlled to stop.

In theory, the more sensors there are, the safer the car will be.

The technology you want to test, completely abandoning these sensors, looks like you are playing with fire. "

"Playing with fire? What do you mean?" Mr. Lei asked.

"I just said that the more sensors there are in current unmanned electric vehicles, the safer they are. If you abandon the sensors, it seems from the top that it is irresponsible for the safety of users to be reluctant to add sensors to the vehicle. .

The higher-ups should also be clear that the most sensitive laser sensor among the sensors costs several thousand dollars. Why don't you just stop installing it to save costs?

The most taboo thing now is that businessmen abandon product safety for their own benefit. "

Hearing this, Mr. Lei suddenly realized that he is also a fan of the authorities, and he has never figured out such a simple matter.

The higher-ups are worried that he will build cars, and they have been controlling costs from the very beginning, ignoring safety issues.

After all, the cost has a great influence on the sales of cars and the choices of consumers.

No matter how good the quality of a car is, once the cost is too high, it can only become a luxury in the end, and it can only serve a small number of users and cannot be popularized.

The new energy vehicle Mr. Lei wants to make is obviously not a luxury.

From the establishment of the Xiaomi brand to the present, it has never thought of being a luxury product.

The higher-ups should know Xiaomi very well, so the higher-ups will definitely not pass a road test like Mr. Lei's.

But now such a test is necessary. Luo Fan explained to Mr. Lei before that this is the most advanced autonomous driving technology for civilian use in the world, and Tesla is using it.

Once this technology matures, Tesla will start to remove sensors.

At present, there are millions of Teslas in the world, driving around the world, and each car will collect driving data and upload the data to Tesla's server.

And Musk hired an unknown number of engineers to improve Tesla's vision algorithm through these data.

According to the progress of the previous life, at most two months of freedom, Tesla will be able to realize pure vision unmanned driving.

Since he can't pass the road test here, Luo Fan can't delay the time. He plans to let Xiaoqi prostitute the data from Tesla for nothing, and at the same time check the data in the computer through the operation of the supercomputer, at least It is necessary to achieve pure vision autonomous driving simultaneously with Tesla.

Then use this driving program as a blueprint to start the next stage of research on the automatic driving program.

In the previous life, Tesla invested a lot of money and a lot of talents in researching the algorithm of pure vision autonomous driving.

There is also a large amount of driving video data of Teslas around the world.

The three-pronged approach allowed Tesla's engineers to slowly improve the visual algorithm.

In this life, Xiaoqi can also master this technology at Xingyuan, and rely on the extraordinary programming ability of artificial intelligence to create a more intelligent automatic driving system.

In addition, Xingyuan has also established a chip industrial park before, and a fab is also under construction.

When l4's self-driving technology matures, the lithography machines in the chip industrial park should have been manufactured.

The chip used for core computing can be produced by itself, which means that rice's new energy vehicles can completely get rid of the constraints of foreign countries and be completely popularized all over the world.

Of course, Luo Fan does not intend to completely "derail" Rice's new energy from the international market.

Rice's new energy vehicles will still use semi-solid lithium batteries from Germany's Lion Battery Company in the future.

Nominally relying on foreign countries in terms of batteries can make foreign countries relax their vigilance against rice cars.

At least it can give a chance to compete fairly with Tesla.

Luo Fan didn't point out this part of the plan to Mr. Lei, and Mr. Lei didn't know that Luo Fan was still working on semi-solid lithium batteries. He thought that Luo Fan was focusing on the breakthrough of autonomous driving technology.

"Mr. Luo, is it really possible to rely solely on computer calculations?" Mr. Lei asked.

"Don't worry! It's okay, and we won't always reject pure vision unmanned driving, because Tesla will launch this technology soon, once Tesla's road test situation is known to the country.

The same technology will not be rejected when applying for a road test, and there will be plenty of opportunities to test it at that time.

Our bypass is only a current bypass, not a permanent bypass. "

Mr. Lei nodded and said, "Mr. Luo, I understand what you mean. I will try my best to cooperate with you. By the way, Mr. Luo, can I ask a question?"

"We are partners. If you have any questions, you can ask them directly without hiding them."

"Okay! Then I'll just say it straight, Mr. Luo, did your company buy the Lyon battery?"

"No, it's a friend of mine." Luo Fan replied.

"Countryman?"

"Um."

"Then I can rest assured." After speaking, Mr. Lei hung up the phone.

"Xiaoqi, have you been listening just now?" Luo Fan asked after putting down the phone.

"Yes, Xiaoqi is listening."

"Are you going to get pure vision autonomous driving before Tesla?"

"With the support of driving data, it is theoretically possible. Does Mr. Luo Fan want to register the relevant album in advance?"

"No, I want you to start the research and development of L4's autonomous driving technology as soon as possible on the basis of pure vision driverless technology."

"According to Xiaoqi's estimation, it will take another month to complete the research on pure vision unmanned driving, and then we can continue to develop l4's automatic driving technology."

"How long will it take for l4's autopilot technology to take shape?" Luo Fan continued to ask.

"If there is enough data to support it, it will take 140 days to reach the point where it can be tested."

"Is there not enough data for Tesla?"

"Not enough, and Tesla's data sample is too single."

"What about all the online car-hailing services from Baidu Taxi?"

"This data should be enough." Xiao Qi replied.

Luo Fan nodded when he heard the words. He planned to go to the imperial capital after the Chinese New Year this year to chat with Mr. Li about the safety of online car-hailing.

"Boss, Disney sent people over." Su Qing's words interrupted Luo Fan's thoughts.

"Have people come over so soon? Is Shanghai Disney's business bad?" Luo Fan asked.

"No, their business is very good. It's just that there have been some problems with their operations recently. Disney forbids tourists to bring their own food into the amusement park. .”

Hearing what Su Qing said, Luo Fan recalled that Disney had made such an incident in his previous life, but Luo Fan forgot how it was calmed down later. In short, the voice condemning Disney was quite loud.

"Have you explained everything I said to Mr. Zhou?" Luo Fan asked.

"Boss, don't worry, everything has been explained."

"Well, that's good, just let Mr. Zhou talk to them. In short, it is a principle that it is impossible to get traffic for nothing, so show their sincerity."

In the next two days, people from Disney changed three times to negotiate with Zhou Yuqing's Douyin.

The third wave came from the Disney head office.

They have only one attitude from the beginning to the end, that is, they are unwilling to spend money to buy Douyin's traffic, but they don't mind in-depth cooperation with Douyin.

It just so happens that Douyin is promoting the international version of Douyin recently, and Disney said that they can come forward and invite some celebrities and Internet celebrities to enter the international version of Douyin.

At the same time, it can also turn this Disney event into a global event.

It's just that they can only cooperate with each other and cannot have other names. Disney has not purchased any traffic with Douyin.

After hearing Zhou Yuqing's report, Luo Fan scoffed at Disney's attitude.

To put it bluntly, Disney just couldn't save face and refused to admit that it and China's Internet companies bought traffic.

After all, Disney has a lot of traffic resources abroad, but now it needs to ask others to buy traffic. Disney must not afford to lose this person.

If Disney didn't propose follow-up conditions, Luo Fan would have to let them understand that Huaxia Internet has the final say.

But since Disney offered to help promote the international version of Douyin, Luo Fan has no reason to refuse.

The international version of Douyin is still very important in Xingyuan's expansion map. With Disney's help to invite some stars to settle in, it can help the international version of Douyin to get through the most difficult early stage.

Luo Fan believes that with the presence of these celebrities and attracting the first batch of users, the international version of Douyin will soon become as popular all over the world as in the previous life.

Douyin can do it in the previous life, but the Douyin in this life is better than the previous life in all aspects, there is no reason why it can't be done.

Thinking of this, Luo Fan asked Zhou Yuqing to agree to Disney's conditions.

The two parties carried out this activity in the name of cooperation.