Chapter 17: Ignition
These days, Zhou You focuses most of his energy on how to get home and prepare for it.
He also placed his hopes on Shen Ling to transform the vehicle, but at the same time, he never gave up his expectations for the country.
What he is waiting for is the support from the power of the state.
With the national and cultural characteristics of our motherland, as long as people do not die on the spot, they will never give up lightly.
Over the past two decades, the country has suffered more than one disaster.
The Great Flood of '98, the Great Earthquake of '08, and the Pandemic of '20......
The onset of these disasters is not without ferocity.
But this country has never been knocked down.
Zhou You believes that this time is the same.
Perhaps this is the most terrible catastrophe in history, because this incident is completely beyond the logic of modern science, and it is impossible for the state to have a plan.
However, it is only the size of the person that has shrunk, and the wisdom of the person is still there, and the spirit is still there.
The will of this country and nation that has been precipitated over 5,000 years is still there.
However, most of the survival guidelines released by the state in the past few days are just some general survival guidelines, which may be useful to others, but they are not of much practical significance to people who have made enough preparations to travel around.
The vehicle transformation technology announced this time is different, no longer retreating, but steadily and ruthlessly implemented.
The whole set of technology includes the overall cockpit and component design drawings suitable for the new human body type, as well as a complete set of master control programs and PCB integrated circuit board design schemes, as well as supporting master control program file packages.
In addition to the above-mentioned general technology, there is also a large list of vehicle brands and models listed in the annex of the entire technical solution, and you can also see the detailed plan of the specific model by clicking on the hyperlink on the model name.
These detailed plans are the powertrain modification plans for their respective brands and models that have been sorted out by engineers from many automobile companies for several days.
The scheme is specific to which wire on the miniature cockpit is connected to which soldering joint on the integrated circuit board of the vehicle host computer.
The list of vehicles announced so far is not complete, and most of them are domestically produced cars that have only been launched in recent years.
But this is just the first list, and the list will continue to be improved and grown.
Of course, even if the technology is mature enough, not everyone can achieve it.
The purpose of the state's technical guidance is to hope that all automobile manufacturers, 4S shops, auto repair shops, and other enterprises and individuals with relevant capabilities will take voluntary action first, with a view to resuming basic traffic and transportation as soon as possible.
There are technicians who travel around here, as well as 3D printers, mini machine tools, and various blank integrated circuit boards, as well as a complete set of tools, and are fully capable of making the cockpit and installing it in the car.
The hybrid off-road vehicle also has L2 level assisted driving functions, which just meets the current minimum standard for retrofittable vehicles, and is also in the first batch of updated lists of suitable retrofit vehicles, with complete technical guidance and ready to start construction.
Originally, there was no hurry in this matter, after all, it was already past eight o'clock in the evening, and it was getting late, so Zhou You was preparing to rest all night first, and then gradually start work tomorrow morning.
But just as Zhou You was about to send Yuan Yi home, his father Zhou Lingsheng received a phone call.
It was the uncle who called.
Before traveling around, I knew that my grandparents and my uncle's family who stayed in my hometown had converged.
The uncle's two sons and one daughter are all out of town, and the only family is the uncle and his wife and two grandchildren.
On the night of the upheaval, the uncle had already picked up his grandparents and was about to drive into the city, but for various reasons, he delayed his departure.
As soon as the car drove out of the countryside, it encountered a rapid reduction in size.
Because it was a county road with relatively complicated road conditions, the uncle and his wife did not have the courage and ability to cooperate with driving like Zhou You and Shen Ling, or late at night, the vision was not good, so they could only park the car on the side of the road, planning to wait for dawn to find a way.
I never thought that this delay would lead to a complete loss of movement, and I would be trapped in place and unable to move.
Fortunately, there were some snacks such as yogurt, potato chips, dried red lettuce and beef jerky in the car, so it was not so bad that the supplies would be cut off, and there was even a good time eating and drinking, but it was a little difficult after the sun came out during the day.
After all, it was the height of summer, and the car could not be parked in the shade of the trees, and if the sun was high at noon, the car had to be lit and the air conditioner had to be turned on.
Originally, the reserve resources in the uncle's car were enough to last for another seven or eight days, which was not critical, and it could be slowly figured out, but two things happened in the evening one after another.
First things first. Uncle and his two grandchildren, one is six years old and the other is four years old, and the younger one seems to have blown the air conditioner too much that afternoon, and he started to have a fever half an hour ago. Until now, my forehead is a little hot when I touch it.
The second thing. The uncle has a local dog at home to watch the door, and he is usually very close and smart.
This is a merit in the past tense.
But even today, the earth dog has been locked up at home alone for too long, maybe he is too hungry to stand it, or he may not have seen his owner's worries.
In short, this earth dog actually ran out of the wall by himself, and then chased after the uncle who drove into the city in the past, and now he has found the uncle's car, and is jumping up and down around the car excitedly, saying that he also wants to get in the car.
Uncle used to tease the dog a lot.
But now the uncle looked through the glass and watched the dog open and swallow the blood that he swallowed, and he only felt fear.
The two things of the grandson's fever and the dog's squatting are piled up, which can be described as internal and external troubles, and the situation has deteriorated a lot at once, and the rescue operation is imminent.
At that time, Zhou You thought about it without resting and went back directly.
But after a brief discussion, he changed his mind.
The distance from the county seat to Guangming Township is thirty kilometers, but there is a section of provincial highway and a section of county road mountain road.
The county road is very narrow, and it can barely accommodate two wrong cars.
Some sections also have steep hills on the side of the road.
In the past, this road was difficult to walk, and it was necessary to be mentally minded.
Nowadays, there may be broken down or accident vehicles on this road at any time, and it is bound to be more difficult to walk.
In the morning, I started from Rongcheng and drove for more than 15 hours in a row, although I had a short rest, but the feeling of fatigue was objective.
Even if Zhou You can rely on willpower to support, if you still use your mobile phone to drive, it will take at least seven or eight hours to get to Guangming Township, and you may not even be able to get there at all because of insufficient power output.
After thinking about it, Zhou You decided to send Yuan Yi away first, and then go home and sleep for more than two hours.
For more than two hours, the silent new father and daughter would lead the others to build a simplified version of the cockpit and install it in the car.
Theoretically, it would take at least two or three days to complete the manufacture of a sufficiently standardized cockpit, but after looking at the design drawings, Shen Ling proposed that some other parts could be used to replace them in an emergency, which could greatly shorten the completion time.
Shen Moxin agreed.
Zhou You chooses to trust the judgment of this pair of technical nerds.
Taking this opportunity, friends and family will also make some convenient changes to the car.
……
Two and a half hours later, Zhou You woke up on his own and ran to the courtyard.
At this point, the cockpit installation is in the final stages of completion.
In order to rush the construction period, Shen Moxin cut almost all the standard comfort configurations, and only focused on the four key components of the steering wheel, accelerator, brake, and gear lever.
He fastened the four core components to a bent plastic sheet, which he then superglued to the upper left corner of the front windshield.
The turntable of the steering wheel is made of 3D printing.
The steering column drive rod comes from a mini machine and is made of all metal.
The most important electronic roulette wheel used to convert the angle of rotation into an electrical signal is a wheel encoder from the disassembled mouse.
Of course, this does not meet the national standards, but it is urgent.
Shen Moxin also rewrote part of the program, so that the rotation ratio of this miniature steering wheel is basically the same as that of the car steering wheel below.
Slight errors can be tolerated.
The accelerator and brake also use a mouse wheel encoder, which cannot be infinitely adjusted like a real throttle, but it can be used.
As for the gear lever, it is three buttons that are changed by using the mouse micro switch, which represent P gear (parking gear), D gear (forward gear), and R gear (reverse gear).
As for the chair, it is also from 3D printing.
In addition to the cockpit, Zhou Lingsheng also took others to install a lot of simple rope ladders around the car to facilitate climbing up and down.
After the installation is completed, the first test run of the vehicle is to travel around and go into battle in person.
There's no time to delay.
"Dad! Fire! ”
Zhou You, who was sitting in a chair, shouted.