Chapter 375: Terrible Car Sharing
Many people may not know what autonomous driving means and think that it sounds lofty, but the president of Toyota Motor Corporation, the world's number one automobile manufacturer and the development of various new concept cars, understands what it means to be self-driving. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
Affecting people's desire to buy and drive a car is not only the price of the car, but also the cost of fuel and insurance, which need to be paid on the surface, and more importantly, its necessity and the penetration rate of the corresponding urban supporting facilities.
As modern cities grow in size, people living in all parts of the city cannot walk to work every day, and they need a vehicle that can move quickly to help them get to their destination. This is also the reason why most people buy a car, which can save a lot of unnecessary time and energy in the process.
But the advent of public transportation such as subways and trams has given people more choices.
They are more efficient, faster, less expensive, and operate in a safer environment than driving their own cars, without requiring passengers to spend extra time on maintenance.
This makes more and more people in the city choose public transportation, especially now that the urban traffic environment is becoming more and more congested, most of the cities with concentrated scale are facing such a problem - the relatively backward urbanization construction situation can not meet the massive travel demand brought about by the rapid population growth, and with the increase of population, the crazy increase in the number of personal cars after exceeding a certain limit, and further lead to the urban traffic environment to become bad and deteriorate.
That's why today's wealthy people want to live more in the suburbs.
After all, no one wants to experience the horrors of a traffic jam of more than a few kilometers during rush hour.
The ultra-high vacancy rate of car seats, the insufficient number of parking spaces, and the abnormal concentration of traffic travel time have become a stubborn problem that restricts people from buying and driving cars after the purchase and maintenance costs of cars are no longer enough to constitute an obstacle to most people's consumption.
If it weren't for the greater freedom of use of private cars, the vast majority of people would not choose a car as an alternative to public transport.
However, autonomous driving can change these conditions.
In fact, Toyota Xiong Eryi has long realized that the most suitable sharing economy model is not what is shared bicycles and shared charging treasures, but shared cars. Many years before the popularity of bike-sharing in China, Japan introduced the concept of public cars.
Compared with the disadvantages of underutilization of private cars, public cars can undoubtedly meet the needs of maximizing travel rates.
As soon as it was proposed, it was supported by many Japanese people who were aware of the lack of resources in the country, and it was also tried on a small scale in Tokyo. It's a pity that due to the backward network information technology at that time, it was impossible to achieve timely feedback, coupled with the selfishness that everyone has, it was difficult to rest assured that their safety was handed over to others, and it was not good to delineate the distance of the route and the order of delivery of personnel.
However, with unmanned driving technology, not only the safety is guaranteed, there is no need to worry about the bad things of private to public use, and under the current developed network information technology, real-time demand feedback and route arrangement can also be achieved.
In terms of utilization, it is far better than the fact that many people buy cars nowadays and just leave them in the garage and on the road occasionally.
Not to mention, some of the stubborn diseases related to urban road construction and supporting facilities and services are effectively alleviated.
There is no doubt that not only the general public who are facing the problem of difficulty in getting around, but also the vast majority of city administrators, including car manufacturers, will be happy to see this happen, driving the popularity of driverless cars.
Because, according to the market research of many automobile manufacturers in many countries, the vast majority of private cars will not travel more than 30,000 kilometers a year. In addition to the normal frequency of use, it is difficult to touch the service life of parts before the marked life expectancy is reached, and almost more than 60% of scrapped vehicles are facing the situation of being able to continue to use, which forces many countries to change the scrapping regulations from the maximum service life to the mileage.
In other words, as long as the unmanned car in the video can be put on the market, it can benefit all levels of society in terms of safety performance, use efficiency, traffic pressure, and car replacement frequency. Not to mention, the global auto industry, which has fallen into a weak market and weak sales growth, will usher in an unprecedented outbreak, and those car manufacturers without driverless technology will inevitably be eliminated under this tide.
If they don't hug the thighs of the Chinese, it won't take a few years for Japanese cars like Toyota to lose market share, and worst of all, they don't even know anything about such important news, until China has mature and perfect driverless car products.
Such a little time is simply not enough for major automobile manufacturers to make appropriate responses, and for the automotive industry chain with complex and systematic systems, even targeted research and development may not be completed.
His face changed drastically a few times, and the Toyota Xiong Er, who woke up, couldn't help but kneel on the ground again, smack.... The previous "most respectful" action was done again, only this time, his voice was unprecedented with respect and gratitude.
"Yusang, thank you very much for telling this news in advance, please ask if there is anything we need from Toyota Motor Company to serve, as long as it is useful, we will never refuse!"
Toyota Kumaji already knew this was their last chance.
If it is missed, Toyota will not only lose its status as the world's No. 1 car manufacturer, but also likely to become a historical term.
Seeing that Toyota Xiong Er bowed his head on behalf of Toyota, Liang Yu finally smiled and said their request.
"Well, there is no need to make such a heavy gift, this is just a driverless car that we have recently successfully developed in China, and in addition to this, there are two other companies that have the same project. However, after specific tests, we found that in addition to the software functions such as the unmanned driving system, safety factor feedback, and remote control terminals, which meet expectations, there are still many deficiencies in hardware performance. As a high-tech product that has invested our countless efforts, it is not enough to be safe and reliable, and we also hope to carry out a full range of technical cooperation with Toyota to make this epoch-making product more perfect. ā