Chapter 465: Smart Cars (2)
At heart, Duke is a pragmatist, not a fanatical tech-first paranoid. Therefore, when Duke asked his assistants to collect a lot of basic information about the current research progress of smart cars, they soon had a comprehensive understanding of the technical level of this industry, and had a relatively clear direction in their minds for the research and development of smart cars in the next few years.
Duke even put forward a series of requirements for the smart car in his mind, according to his own vision, and then let Kerry simulate a virtual car, with Kerry's super intelligence, he soon generated a new car for Duke Simulation, Duke in order to be able to feel the mystery more, and even asked Kerry to generate a virtual simulation driving application for this smart car, so that Duke can feel all kinds of cāo work.
The smart car, which combines Duke's (or Kerry's) research on speech recognition, drones, and MIT's intelligent robots, has a unique voiceprint encryption system that captures the owner's voice signatures and locks them so that only the owner can turn on the car and start the engine.
The new keyless start system completely abandons the original ignition start method, but completely adopts the electronic ignition under the control of the intelligent core of the car, so that the common car stealing trick of pulling out the wires to ignite in TV movies is completely invalid, and there is a great improvement in safety.
Of course, in order to meet the needs of multiple people, the owner of the car can also temporarily upload the voice of the temporary cāo controller through direct cāo or network cāo as authorization, which is as convenient and simple as opening a user right in the software system.
For those companies engaged in car rental business or buses, this function can be easily integrated into their car rental (bus) management system, greatly improving the manageability of vehicles.
Based on MIT's intelligent robot technology, the unique intelligent obstacle recognition and hazard avoidance system can allow the car to automatically recognize the hazard information, and the car can automatically slow down or take evasive actions to reduce the hazard by enabling the hazard avoidance system while driving.
This feature is obviously a burden for racers, but for most drivers, it is an extremely valuable safety measure, and if activated on the highway, it can greatly reduce the probability of collisions on the highway and greatly reduce the occurrence of traffic accidents. With the installation of this system, the safety of the car will be greatly enhanced.
The on-board information system integrating navigation, entertainment and wireless network information can allow the driver to set the navigation function, obtain the latest broadcast or network information, and facilitate the reception of clothing, food, housing and transportation service stores along the way, including shopping stores and scenic spots recommended according to the driver's living habits, as well as real-time refueling information in long-distance driving, rest service area suggestions, road condition information and other useful information, which can be obtained through simple voice interaction. Let the car no longer be an information island.
Of course, this information system needs back-end data support to be able to play such a powerful function, and some functions are not available at present, but when Duke develops this system, I believe that there will be a discerning third-party service provider to provide a variety of services to meet the needs of drivers.
With these changes, Duke believes that compared with the current car, this new concept car can not be said to be a smart car, but there is no doubt that it has opened a gap with the vast majority of competitors in terms of intelligence, one step ahead of the opponent, if the gap in cost is not large, then it is enough for the current competition.
More importantly, these technologies used above are very mature technologies for Duke, and there is no technical difficulty in the software at all, and what needs to be solved is to combine with various mechanical systems of the car, such as seamless connection with mechanical equipment such as brake system and power system, but for the current technical level, these will not be too difficult.
That is to say, the basic technology of these things is already available, and there is no need to spend huge manpower and material resources to engage in basic research and development for a long time, but it may only take a few months to effectively integrate these things to complete the research and development of new products.
Being able to launch a new product in a short period of time is also a very important consideration for the current situation of Dongfang Qiyang, and Duke's technology choice, which is not an ultra-long-term plan for building the most advanced cars, is undoubtedly very practical.
The next step is to consider how to promote this concept car to the research intelligent car team, he has no research results in this regard, let alone any authority, and in the eyes of everyone, it is completely a new research in the automotive industry.
Although Duke is now a well-known Nobel laureate, but come on, it's a physics prize, not an automotive electronics award, and if the entire automotive R&D team wants to accept his big change in R&D direction from the bottom of his heart instead of duplicity, Duke also needs to use some skills to sell to this team.
So although Duke has the same reputation for computer software, it is still very difficult to convince a group of automotive research experts, although Duke can take out Kerry's simulated car and related simulated driving applications, so that everyone can directly experience the new features of the new car, but although this thing can shock everyone, it is a little too shocking.
Duke was able to take these factors into account, indicating that after such a long period of training, he has grown a lot in emotional intelligence, and it seems that it is impossible to directly subdue this road, even if he is an authority.
For an expert, they usually have some ideas and inherent concepts, it is not easy to convince them, not to mention that Duke is still a layman in this regard, if he relies on his special identity and oppresses people with power rather than reason, even if these experts are temporarily subdued, they will also suppress their dissatisfaction in their hearts and reflect it in the later work.
Although Duke is very sure of his own things, he is not willing to use this crude way to suppress everyone's thoughts and sparks of innovation, he needs a group of energetic experts with the ability to think, not a group of "R&D workers" who will only do what their superiors want, and do not have to think about how to build a better product.
In the past, Duke took the lead in doing the project, and there was no such problem, but now the research on this smart car involves a large number of experts in Qiyang Automobile, and Duke now has to step in halfway to point fingers at the entire research and development, so it has to go to great lengths to minimize some adverse effects.
(Don't forget 918, working hard to strengthen the country and the army is the root of the tragedy that will never recur!) )