Chapter 444: Old nobleman

Yanjing, Baidu Headquarters, Unmanned Project Headquarters.
The small car that has just completed the driverless test returns to the parking lot. On the roof of the small experimental car, a tripod is mounted. The tripod is equipped with a somewhat cumbersome camera and sensing equipment. This is the core of whiteness driverless technology.
After nearly ten years of research and development, Baidu's self-driving technology has made many breakthroughs, but it has also encountered bottlenecks.
The test car that just came back accomplishes the same tasks as the hundreds of experiments in the past, slowly driving 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 resolution of the camera over the obstacle to the millimeter level.
Baidu's technical analysis team is not all domestic technicians, and many of them are employees of acquired Finnish companies.
"How far are we from the real self-driving technology?" Xiaoli, a clerk who has just joined the company, has registered the entrance time of the experimental car, and asked the technical director a little boringly.
The same question, Xiaoli has been ten times from work to now, because in the past six months her task is to register the entrance and exit of the experimental car, which is very boring.
Technical director Ma Jun said, "True driverless technology? It's too early!"
Xiaoli said a little speechlessly: "It's still early? Why is it still early? I remember years ago that we heard that our company has launched driverless cars."
"That's news." Ma Jun said, "How simple is driverless car. It is self-driving to have a car equipped with the corresponding equipment on a road without people, but real driverless technology requires the car to Independently exercise on complex road conditions, and be able to make judgments quickly during high-speed driving, let alone whiteness and bidi ’s driverless technology, even the BBA and Mi Tesla ’s driverless technology cannot Meet this requirement. "
"You think about it." Ma Jun said: "Humans can drive cars safely because we have the senses to see the outside, the brain to deal with emergencies, and the limbs to deal with the situation immediately according to the brain. Now we have to Self-driving cars are the complete transplantation of these three functions of humans into cars.
The most important thing for a car to drive on the road is safety, which is almost impossible, so the introduction of driverless cars and the introduction of driverless cars are two different concepts that take time. "
"But I just read the news that Pangu Technology may have launched a complete self-driving new energy vehicle that can autonomously drive on the road."
After speaking, Xiaoli showed Ma Jun the news on her mobile phone.
Ma Jun said with a smile: "This has been studied by our technology department. The first is that there is no exact news that Pangu Technology is making new energy driverless cars. The second driverless technology is not easy to study. ? Now these self-media, for traffic and profit, any news will break the news. "
This is what Baidu's internal technicians think of Pangu Technology's self-driving new energy.
"Bao Wo?" Xiao Ming said, "Why did you choose it?"
At the Pangu Technology Headquarters, Xiao Ming and Qian Yi were talking to Xiaochu.
Xiao Chu said: "The main reason is that they have a complete R & D team and a complete production chain."
According to Xiao Ming's Qinghe equipment, relevant information about Baowo appeared. With the information, Xiaochu introduced:
"As one of the top three German autos and a world-renowned luxury brand, Baowo also has a glorious history. However, for various reasons, Baowo has lost in the competition in the automotive industry and has disappeared in this car market. Ten years. If Baowo did not fail, what I see on the street today is not one of the B in the BBA or Baowo instead of BMW.
Within decades of disappearing, Baowo will not completely disappear, but will help other car companies to design and produce body, chassis and even assembly to survive. "
"During this period, Baowo was able to retain the production chain and R & D team it completed. It was quite difficult for Baowo Group to announce its resurrection at the Ribewa Auto Show a few years ago, including the shadow of Xia Guo Capital. The capital injection of Bao Wo is the main reason for Bao Wo to reproduce 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 Xia, Germany, India and Brazil."
Xiao Chu gave Xiao Ming the sales data of Baowo Automobile in recent years. After reading it, Xiao Ming couldn't bear it because it was miserable.
First of all, as an old luxury brand, Baowo does not see the word luxury in its price. The price has reached the 100,000+ level that competes with domestic cars and a large number of joint ventures.
Secondly, it is still sales volume. In recent years, the sales volume of Baowo in Xia Guo has been hovering between three and four digits, and no monthly sales have exceeded 10,000.
In such a bleak market sales, Xia Guoyanjing Automobile Foton Co., Ltd., which had been investing in Baowo in the early stage, was also more than capable.
Foton, which transfused 10 billion soft sister coins to Bao Wo, finally let go and sold all 67% of the shares in its hands. The buyer was Tianxing Youche (fictional company, please don't take the seat right).
The selling price is only 4.1 billion soft sister coins, which is not as good as the 10 billion soft sister coins that Futian had transfused.
This is definitely a loss-making deal for Foton.
Born as a rental car, Tianxing UCAR, after acquiring Bao Wo, is to enter the automotive industry and complete its own closed-loop industry.
Xiao Chu said: "From 2019 to 2021, we found an important change-Bao Wo started to launch new energy vehicles under the control of Tianxing UCAR ~ EbookFREE.me ~ Completion of Tianxing UCAR in Xiaguo New Energy Vehicle Layout."
Xiaochu also presented a set of data, "After the acquisition of Bao Wo, Tianxing UCAR no longer has to worry about its car source supply chain being interrupted by competitors because they have their own car production chain.Since 2019, Tianxing UCAR Its car rental companies have changed most of their rental cars to Bao Wo. Self-produced and sold are also a way to save Bao Wo, while maintaining Bao Wo's production chain. "
Xiao Ming quickly discovered the problem of Tianxing Ucar from the data provided by He Xiaochu.
"This should be a capital company, not a physical company," Xiao Ming said.
"Yes!" Qian Yi, who was born next to Xiao Ming, was born financially, and she also saw the problem: "Like all the startup companies in Xia Guo, the main business of a car rental company without technical content may be car rental and online contract. Car, but the larger 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 a market value of 643 billion soft sister coins. At the same time, Tianxing UCAR has been losing money every year for the past three years, and the annual loss has reached 3 billion soft sister coins."