Chapter 80: Flying Iron
Of course, Tesla also has their killer feature, automatic driving, Juchen appreciates the self-driving ability of electric vehicles very much, because every detail of the car can be easily controlled through electric energy, and through rapid iteration of software development, Tesla's automatic driving is the best, so Musk still has the power to fight in the face of the subverted energy industry.
But...... Due to the extremely complex road conditions caused by human reasons, autonomous driving has not yet become the mainstream, and it is a big problem in China, and the traffic violations are too serious to be improved in a short period of time.
Juchen has come up with a bad idea for his hometown - to become the first city in the world that can only let self-driving cars on the road! This plan is exposed, Juchen will definitely be scolded to death by the people of his hometown, because it means that their cars will become illegal!
I'm afraid it's impossible for someone else to lead this matter, but Juchen is different, his influence has surpassed that of the rich or something, maybe the local government is really hot and has a shock.
Therefore, car dealers in small counties have gone bankrupt, and cars cannot be sold!
First of all, Juchen donated 20 electric buses with automatic driving capabilities to his hometown, the body is from BYD, the automatic driving system is from Bosch, and the county implements intelligent traffic restrictions.
The intelligent identification system can record almost all the license plates of the car, and if the illegal car is on the road, the ticket will be delivered to the owner's mobile phone within almost five minutes.
If there is a car accident during the test, it will be determined that the self-driving bus is responsible, and the insurance company created by Juchen will be responsible for compensation.
This is a real driverless test, and even after running for a period of time, there is no driver in the car, and there is no test engineer, do you dare to get into the car? I'm afraid that some people won't get into the car even if they "don't have time to explain".
But this is the first time in the world that there is really no one to test a self-driving car, I didn't expect it to be implemented in a small county, since the professor dared to set up an insurance company to do things, the county government dared to risk the world's condemnation.
After the news came out, Shangfeng did not stop, and the county government became even bolder.
A large number of reporters and self-media came here specifically to experience the world's first truly driverless city to eat crabs.
In addition to Juchen's donation, many "no driving" companies are ready to come to this small county town to try it, and the people in the city have benefits, because the taxis and buses for these tests are free.
In order to organize these various driverless companies, Juchen organized people to develop an interface for sharing driving data between cars, and driverless companies must share data through the interface to ensure the overall orderly operation. In addition to the ability of the car to drive autonomously, it must also comply with a no-driving treaty, which stipulates how to deal with various situations, avoid, stop, and so on.
If Juchen's insurance company wants to guarantee it, it is necessary for the driverless company to submit relevant data, which are valuable company assets, and Juchen has become an authority for integrating data.
Later, it evolved into a carless company that was not guaranteed by an insurance company to enter, which was equivalent to Juchen monopolizing the relevant data in disguise, so Google, Tesla and other companies still gave up the idea of coming here to test.
The small county town has gathered a large number of driverless companies, which is a spectacle, and it is a pity that the big guy is absent.
Nearby large cities 60 kilometers away are also said to be ready to join the ranks of test cities, which is amazing. Incredibly, the tractor's orbit has been successfully built and the first flight has been practiced.
The tests used were helicopters of modifications. The helicopter was towed inefficiently, but it was safe enough, and the test proved that it could fully achieve the predetermined goal, and the helicopter flew a distance of 60 kilometers with zero energy consumption, connecting the county and the big city.
Helicopters can indeed be towed and flown because there is an aircraft called a gyroplane, the rotor itself has no power at all, and completely relies on a small propeller to provide forward propulsion, the rotor only plays a strong wing effect, and the gas flowing at high speed produces a pressure difference because of the different flow speeds up and down, and the pressure difference is the source of lift.
An unprecedented means of transportation, the orbital plane, was born, affectionately called "flying iron" by netizens.
Juchen has found a gimmick for the U.S.-Mexico border wall, no matter when the first serious flying iron is approved to be built, he has obtained the right to operate it, and has been entrusted by the Mexican Tourism Agency to serve as the president of tourism affairs of the border wall, on which a flying iron will be built, 3,000 kilometers, at a cost of about $5 billion, and he is already planning to invest and is applying for approval from the governments of the United States and Mexico.
Because it is a sightseeing route, this border wall flying iron is mainly based on cheap gyroplanes, as long as 30 kilometers per hour can get enough lift to fly, with such a slow speed quietly flying in the sky, like a retro airship at ease.
The two U.S. cities on the U.S.-Mexico border, San Diego, California, and Houston and San Antonio, Texas, as well as cities in between, can choose to fly rail in the future, and you can also stop by sightseeing.
Juchen called the 3,000-kilometer flying iron with an investment of 5 billion US dollars as the "technical verification route", and the scale of this technical verification is really not small. There is no way, the territory he can call the shots, and this border wall is still recognized by both the United States and Mexico.
If it's deserted, you can use it to transport future grapes, haha.
Countries interested in high-speed rail came to talk about cooperation, but Juchen never expected that it would be ...... Russia.
Officials from the Russian Ministry of Transport came, and they said that the once commanding Trans-Siberian Railway is now seriously underrun, and in order to save money, the freight speed has generally been reduced to the level of 50 kilometers, and even the same as 100,000-ton container ships, 30 kilometers!
The concept of flying iron has aroused the enthusiasm of the fighting people, can we transform the Trans-Siberian Railway, open the flying iron on a wild route, do not require subsonic speed, 300 to 500 kilometers is always possible.
Indeed, if the requirements are reduced to 300 to 500, the cost can be quickly reduced, and even magnetic levitation is not necessary, this thing is very expensive.
Juchen is very interested in this project, because it is an epic route of 9,300 kilometers. Of course, because it is too long, the degree of electrification is not high, and there are no wires in many areas, so solar power supply must be launched.
The requirements of the Russian side are that at least once they can transport 50 tons of cargo, which is about the same as their heavy transport helicopter Mi-26.
The cruising speed of the Mi-26 is only 255 km/h, which requires the transformation of the entire Trans-Siberian Railway into a zero-energy Mi-26 route.
Done, cooperating with the Mir Moscow Helicopter Plant, Juchen found a strange partner again.
Ju Chen's initial idea was to transform the landing gear of the gyroplane into something that could fly and take off and land on the rails, and then take off directly after a while without a special platform for a third party.
In the future, with the blessing of the towing nose, the modified aircraft will be able to fly on the rails.
On both sides of the aircraft, small shark-fin-like fixed wings are also installed to improve stability and lift, and the preliminary design allows three Mi-26 sized aircraft to form a small-scale air train.
However, the three units must take off separately and then slowly splice together, otherwise the power will not be enough.
Russia needs to keep its budget within $15 billion, which means a maximum cost of $1.6 million per kilometer.
It doesn't matter, it is okay to renovate according to this budget, you can build a charging station every other section, with a second charging station of 100 kilometers, 93 second charging stations can be completed, 1 million one, but it is only 100 million US dollars.
The flight system, get 1,000 rotorcraft, one cost 1 million US dollars, about 1 billion US dollars to build the aircraft, which is about 3 times the number of all the Mi-26 production, all of which are run, and the capacity is 50,000 tons.
The $1.1 billion is the approximate cost, and the remaining $13.9 billion can be counted as profits, hoping not to be discovered and beaten by the fighting peoples.