The Black Technology Era of Xueba

Yanjing, Baidu headquarters, autonomous driving project headquarters.

The small car that had just completed the unmanned test returned to the parking lot. A tripod stood on the roof of the small experimental car. The tripod was equipped with a somewhat cumbersome camera and sensing equipment, which was the core of the whiteness driverless technology.

After nearly ten years of research and development, Baidu's driverless technology has made many breakthroughs, but it has also encountered bottlenecks.

The test vehicle that just came back completed the same task as the past hundreds of experiments, driving slowly on the road to collect road conditions.

The collected information will be aggregated into the whiteness server, and the data will be analyzed by a professional technical team. The purpose of the analysis is to get the eyes of the car—the overhead cameras—to millimeter-level resolution of obstacles.

Baidu's technical analysis team is not all domestic technicians, and many of them are employees of the acquired Finnish company.

"How far are we from the real driverless technology?" Xiao Li, a clerk who had just joined the job, registered the entry time of the experimental car and asked the technical director a little bored.

The same question, Xiao Li has been working ten times since she went to work, because her task for the past six months is to register the entry and exit of the experimental car, which is very boring.

Technical director Ma Jun said: "Real driverless technology? It's still early!"

Xiao Li was speechless and said, "It's still early? How come it's still early. I remember hearing that our company had launched a driverless car several years ago."

"That's news." Ma Jun said: "How simple is a driverless car? Letting the car be equipped with the corresponding equipment to drive autonomously on a road without people is unmanned, but the real driverless technology requires the car to be on the road. It can be used independently on complex road conditions, and can quickly make judgments in the process of high-speed driving, not to mention the driverless technology of Baidu and Bidi, even the driverless technology of BBA and Tesla in the United States cannot meet this requirement.”

"Think about it." Ma Jun said: "Humans can drive cars safely because we have senses to see what's going on outside, our brains to deal with emergencies, and our limbs to deal with situations immediately according to our brains. Now we have to do The driverless car is to completely transplant these three functions of humans into the car.

The most important thing for a car to drive on the road is safety, which is almost impossible. Therefore, launching a driverless car and launching a driverless car are two different concepts, and it will take time. "

"But just now I read the news that Pangu Technology may have launched a complete driverless new energy vehicle,

The kind that can drive on the road autonomously. "

After speaking, Xiaoli showed Ma Jun the news on her phone.

Ma Jun smiled and said: "Our technical department has studied this matter. First, there is no definite news that Pangu Technology is working on new energy driverless vehicles. Second, driverless technology is not so easy to study. ? Now these self-media, for the sake of traffic and profit, will break any news."

This is the view of Baidu's internal technicians on Pangu Technology's unmanned new energy.

"Baowo?" Xiao Ming said, "Why did you choose it?"

At Pangu Technology Headquarters, Xiao Ming and Qian Yi are talking with Xiaochu.

Xiaochu said: "The main reason is that they have a complete R\u0026D team and a complete production chain."

Xiao Ming's Qinghe equipment appeared on Baowo's relevant information. Combined with the information, Xiaochu introduced:

"As one of the top three German automakers and a world-renowned luxury brand, Borgward also has its glorious history. But for various reasons, Borgward lost in the competition in the automobile industry and disappeared in this automobile market. Ten years. If Borgward hadn't failed, what I see on the street today is either a B in BBA or Borgward instead of BMW.

Within a few decades of disappearing, Borgward will not disappear completely, but will help other car companies design and produce body, chassis and even assembly to survive. "

"During this period, it was not easy for Borgward to retain its own production chain and R\u0026D team. A few years ago, the Borgward Group announced its revival at the Ribewa Auto Show, among which was the shadow of Xiaguo Capital. Yanjing Foton Motor said: The capital injection of Borgward is the main reason for Borgward to regain the market.”

"The resurrected Borgward has production lines in Yanjing and Germany. Several models on sale are designed in Germany, produced in Yanjing and Berlin, and sold to Xiaguo, Germany, India and Brazil."

Xiaochu gave Xiao Ming the sales data of Baowo in the past few years. Xiao Ming couldn't bear it after reading it, because it was rather miserable.

First of all, as an old luxury brand, Borgward’s price cannot see the word luxury, and the price has reached the 100,000+ level that competes with domestic cars and a large number of joint venture cars.

Secondly, it is sales volume. Baowo's sales in Xiaguo have been hovering between three and four digits in recent years, and no monthly sales have exceeded 10,000.

With such a bleak market sales, Xiaguo Yanjing Automobile Foton Company, which has been investing in Baowo in the early stage, is also more than enough.

Futian Company, which transfused tens of billions of soft sister coins with Baowo blood, finally let go and sold all 67% of the shares in its hands.

The sale price is only 4.1 billion soft sister coins, which is not comparable to the 10 billion soft sister coins that Futian had transfused.

This is definitely a loss-making business for Foton.

After Tianxing UCAR, who was born as a rental car, acquired Baowo, it is to enter the automobile industry and complete its own industrial closed loop.

Xiaochu said: "From 2019 to 2021, we found an important change - Baowo began to launch new energy vehicles under the control of Tianxing UCAR, completing the layout of Tianxing UCAR in Xiaguo's new energy vehicles."

Xiaochu also realised a set of data, "After the acquisition of Baowo, Tianxing UCAR is no longer worried that its car source supply chain will be cut off by competitors, because they have their own car production chain. Since 2019, Tianxing UCAR has Its car rental company has changed most of the rental cars to Borgward. Self-production and self-sale can be regarded as a way to save Borgward, while maintaining the production chain of Borgward.”

Xiao Ming quickly discovered the problem of Tianxing UCAR from the data provided by He Xiaochu.

Xiao Ming said: "This should be a capital company rather than an entity company."

"Yes!" Qian Yi was born in finance next to Xiao Ming, and she also saw the problem: "Like all the start-up companies in Xia Guo, the main business of car rental companies without technical content may be car rental and online appointments. car, but the bigger purpose is to spend money to promote the concept, so as to achieve the purpose of capital appreciation.”

"A few years ago, Tianxing UCAR became a unicorn company with an estimated market value of 64.3 billion soft sister coins. At the same time, in the past three years, Tianxing UCAR has lost money every year, and the annual loss amounted to 3 billion soft sister coins."