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Chapter 770

The name of the world's first electric car is already loud enough, there is no need to use those bells and whistles, as long as the first car of Siebel electric car is manufactured, passed the road test, can go on the road normally, plus some automatic reversing Gadgets like storage, on-board sensors, that's enough.

As for other things, the acceleration of [-] kilometers can crush supercars, and it can run hundreds of kilometers on a single charge. Autopilot and the like are all stuff, and they are all things in the future.

"Siebel Automobile Club can form an F1 team to participate in the F1 competition!

Siebel Electric Vehicles can join hands with Bell Labs to host the Global Autopilot Challenge every year, and No.1 can get a cash prize of 300 million dollars.

The rest of the award-winning teams and technicians can get the support of Siebel Electric Vehicles, or be recruited into the Siebel Electric Vehicles team! "

Now for the brand of Siebel, the most lacking thing is reputation. If it can win a championship in the F1 competition, it will be a huge improvement for the reputation.

An F1 championship, of course, cannot prove that this car brand is the best in the world, but at least it is enough to fool the leeks.

For brands such as Toyota, BMW, and Mercedes-Benz, they don’t need the fame brought by F1 anymore. Because of the revenue sharing issue, they are in trouble with the F1 race company, and even want to withdraw from the F1 race.

F1 races are actually very lucrative. Every year, a large number of advertisers and sponsors send money to F1, but most of the money goes to the account of Bernie Eccles, the president of the F1 racing company.

Big teams like Ferrari are okay, they have their own traffic and topics, and a lot of advertisers are willing to invest money, but for small and medium-sized teams, life is hard haha, many small and medium-sized teams even spend money on research and development of new racing cars. I can't even get it out, let alone cultivate and dig talented racing players.

Teams like BMW and Mercedes-Benz don’t need the fame of F1, but Siebel lacks it. If they can win an F1 championship and keep the heat, Siebel will be able to fool Silicon Valley’s venture capital and Wall Street institutions, and be generous with Siebel’s electric cars Unpack.

Anduran was overjoyed when he heard that he was going to form an F1 team for the Siebel Automobile Club. Anyone who makes sports cars would not want his brand to compete with Ferrari and Aston Martin on an extreme track like F1. Even overwhelmed the opponent.

At this time, Anduran suddenly felt, it seemed, that an electric car brand was separated, which is not a bad thing for Siebel Automobile...

In the past, Siebel Motors didn't say that no one cared about it, but at least it didn't get much attention, that is, it just made a splash at the Italian auto show, and it was basically in the foreseeable future to form an F1 team.

But now, Song Yang is willing to spend money on the Siebel Automobile Club. The F1 team can be formed and more talented engineers can be recruited. The reputation of the Siebel Automobile Club will become more and more famous in the future!
Mark Anderson couldn't help showing a surprised look on Song Yang's request for the Siebel Electric Vehicle to hold the Global Autonomous Driving Challenge.

It's not about the millions of dollars in prize money, but holding this competition, what it brings to Siebel Electric Vehicles, is not just to use the competition to publicize how powerful the self-driving technology of Siebel Electric Vehicles is!
Think about it, if the world's top autonomous driving technology giants and autonomous driving teams from major universities all participate in this competition, then the Xibel electric car will only need to spend a few million dollars to see the world's most Advanced autopilot ideas, technologies, and talented engineers can all be recruited under the banner!
This is almost taking the genius of the autopilot industry into Siebel's trap. What you get and the money you spend are almost worthless.

This is similar to the current Internet giants, including Microsoft, ICQ, AOL, Yahoo, IBM, PayPal, etc., who are planning to hold the world's first hacker competition. The major Internet giants have the same purpose.

It is really exhausting to fight wits and bravery with those energetic hackers in the major Internet giants. Nowadays, many Internet geniuses want to prove that they are the best technical geniuses in the world. The websites of big Internet giants, even banks, and federal municipal departments are proud of doing things every day.

The major Internet companies are not afraid of these hackers. The key is that they can only be thieves for a thousand days.

The Internet industry, which has been overwhelmed by the turmoil, came up with a trick called "Internet Martial Arts Tournament", allowing those gangs of hackers to get together to compete and decide the winner, so as not to have nothing to do and mess around.

On the one hand, it is a place for these hackers to exert their power and prevent them from tossing the Internet industry casually. On the other hand, it is actually a wishful thinking. When encountering such a genius hacker, all major Internet companies will take action to recruit them. .

The Global Internet Hacking Contest is essentially the same as the self-driving challenge contest organized by Song Yang asked Siebel Electric Vehicle to do big things with a small amount of money.

"Global Autonomous Driving Challenge, I will personally organize it!"

Anderson eagerly said that he was going to take the opportunity to recruit a group of geniuses to help him, and he was also going to take the opportunity to show Siebel's autopilot to the outside world, so that those who doubted him could see whether he was still That Silicon Valley genius!
"boom!"

A bottle of champagne was opened, and the wine was scattered. Song Yang raised his glass and had a drink with Anderson, Anduran, Marcus and others.

"Mark, if you need it, the headquarters building of Netscape, Siebel Electric Vehicle can buy it, and use it as a Siebel software development base, and it will be managed by you in the future!"

Song Yang took a sip and said to Anderson that the nominal headquarters of Siebel Electric Vehicle is in Houston, and the future production base will also be located in Texas.

But where the R&D base is placed, there is a saying. The software department must be the most beneficial to be placed in Silicon Valley. At least ten years, the status of Silicon Valley cannot be completely replaced.

Since Netscape was acquired, most of the thousands of former employees were dismissed, and the headquarters building that witnessed the miracle of Netscape was also vacant.

Now I hear that Song Yang is going to buy the headquarters building of Netscape, and use it as Anderson's new office space.

Even Anderson, who was used to routines, could not help but change his expression at this time. That building was not only of great significance to Netscape, but also to Anderson.

"Song, I assure you that the driving system of the Siebel electric car will be the best driving system in the world, and the first self-driving car will also be born on the Siebel car!"

"The first electric car in America, Siebel Electric Vehicle, officially announced its establishment. Bruno Song, Mark Anderson, and Anduran became the co-founders of Siebel Electric Vehicle, with a registered capital of more than one billion dollars!"

ICNC TV once again reported the news, announcing the official establishment of Siebel Electric Vehicle. The scene showed Song Yang and Anderson holding champagne together, which made the Internet personnel who saw this scene feel sad.

(End of this chapter)