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Chapter 92 There Are Too Many Models to Screen

Qin Ruya was looking for a way with a bitter face.

"Let's see if we can modify the model based on the existing model. In this case, the workload will be much less."

Jiang Ming suggested so.

"Alright then, I just don't know if it will match well with our driving system."

Qin Ruya said so.

"Let me arrange the work in the near future. The first is the choice of model, a suitable car that can maximize the function of the driving system. Jiang Ming and I will do this work."

"The second aspect is the restructuring of vehicle hardware. For hardware restructuring, Liu Ming, you and your team will come up with a plan as soon as possible after we determine the model."

Qin Ruya said this to the man with glasses who she had worked with before on the smart shuttle bus.

"As for the most important software architecture and strategy, Zhang Ru, you lead people to do it. This time, we will focus on emergency avoidance and automatic parking technologies. We have not done these two aspects before. You should study them as soon as possible. Come up with a plan."

"Everyone, this project is very important, and it is different from our previous projects. If it can be done well this time, the problem of subsequent industrialization will be easily solved."

Qin Ruya said.

Hearing Qin Ruya's words, everyone realized the importance of this project. After all, this exhibition is aimed at terminal car manufacturers, and the results of the challenge will have a very important guiding effect on the subsequent commercialization.

If it really performs well, it is likely to be bought by the car factory and directly used in mass-produced products.

This is very important for Qin Ruya, who has been committed to the industrialization of autonomous driving.

Seeing that Qin Ruya arranged car selection work for himself, Jiang Ming actually wanted to say that he wanted to do more in-depth work, such as software architecture and hardware selection work.

But considering that choosing a car is the first job, it seems that there is no contradiction with the content of the later work.After the car problem is solved, it is not too late to do other work.

"Jiang Ming, sort out the models that are suitable for autonomous driving, and we will discuss them tomorrow."

Qin Ruya arranged.

"Ok."

Thanks to the establishment of the automobile portal website, there is a systematic analysis of the model sector.Originally, Jiang Ming thought that choosing a car model was a relatively simple matter, but after Jiang Ming started to choose, seeing so many car models, Jiang Ming was dumbfounded.

If you really want to read one by one, even if you don’t rest for 24 hours, you can’t finish it in a week.

But Qin Ruya asked to sort it out tomorrow, which is a bit difficult.

Thinking of this, Jiang Ming felt that he had to find a way.

By the way, we also have subordinates, how can we not make good use of this.

Jiang Ming had an idea and wanted to rely on Su Lingjuan and the others.But since they don't understand the technology of cars, we still have to set some conditions for them, otherwise it will be chaotic.

Thinking of this, Jiang Ming opened the document and began to set filter conditions.

First of all, it is to use the car produced as much as possible, and to use the joint venture car at the worst.As for purely imported vehicles, forget it.

It's not that Jiang Ming chose purely imported vehicles out of patriotic considerations, which is very unfavorable for subsequent changes.

Jiang Ming wanted to take the car back and make certain modifications.

Compared with the modification of traditional vehicles, because it needs to adapt to the automatic driving technology, there are many items to be modified.Among them, it involves the opening of some circuits or communication protocols, which still requires the support of manufacturers.

If it is a domestic vehicle, communication will be much easier.

But joint ventures or foreign companies are very difficult.

This point needs to be considered clearly in advance, otherwise it will be embarrassing when you find out that you need a certain parameter but can’t find it later.

In addition, it is the choice of vehicle type.

Although there are no restrictions on the types of vehicles in the challenge competition, everyone knows that it is better not to engage in some special models.

For example, trucks or buses, although they look tall and mighty, are actually not very useful in the Challenger League.

Basically they tend to be cars or SUVs.Of course, there are also individual choices of pickup trucks.Naturally, Jiang Ming would not do anything unusual, and would honestly choose a minivan.

As for whether it is a sedan or an SUV, Jiang Ming prefers the SUV.

After all, SUVs are much better in passability than sedans.Moreover, Xia people like SUV models, and the number of models is relatively high, which has a natural advantage.

As for the third point, it is about the modification requirements.

Many models are expressly prohibited from being modified.For this type of vehicle, it must be excluded in advance, otherwise it will be a bit embarrassing if it is modified to a certain extent and the result is not in compliance.

In addition, the fourth item is the shape of the vehicle, which still needs to be considered.

Aesthetics is one aspect of the problem, and more importantly, the vehicle's wind resistance should be small and the lines should be smooth.

This can be regarded as a condition tailored for domestically produced cars. There are relatively few problems in terms of joint venture cars or imported cars.

The main reason is that in recent years, the automobile industry in Xia Country has developed relatively rapidly, and all kinds of capital have frantically poured into the automobile industry.

Many people are looking for short, flat and fast results, and the corresponding car design is a bit rough.

Not to mention professionals who have gone to see it, even ordinary consumers feel that something is wrong.High fuel consumption, various abnormal noises, and countless minor problems after the vehicle has been used for 2-3 years.

For this kind of internal design, Jiang Ming has no way to directly judge.

Jiang Ming could only use wind resistance as a filter item to filter out most of the bad vehicles.

After all, the exterior design of the vehicle is relatively beautiful, and the wind resistance is relatively small. From Jiang Ming's point of view, it is more conscientious.

As for the fifth point, it is about the intelligence of the vehicle.

Traditional cars have a relatively low degree of intelligence, and at most they are cruise control.However, models aimed at autonomous driving experiments should be as intelligent as possible.

After all, for remote real-time monitoring, as much vehicle data as possible must be uploaded.It is convenient for subsequent analysis of the driving conditions of the vehicle.

Of course, the most important thing in terms of intelligence is that the vehicle must support the remote OTA upgrade function.

Although Jiang Ming and the others can update the car system on the spot, sometimes they need to update the system remotely. At this time, it is much easier to have 0TA.

As for the sixth point, the vehicle is preferably a new energy vehicle.

There are many benefits to using new energy vehicles as self-driving test vehicles.

First of all, in terms of electrification, a lot of energy can be saved.

Traditional cars are mainly based on engines and gearboxes, and the degree of electrification is relatively low.The car-machine system detects the temperature and speed of the engine.

In this regard, many parameters are not suitable for the automatic driving system and need to be converted.

If only one or two items are fine, so many parameters need to be converted, then the requirements for the system are high.

In addition, it is an electric vehicle with a simple structure.In terms of controlling the speed of the vehicle, it is only necessary to send commands to the vehicle controller.

Other control functions do not need to be managed by the automatic driving system.

In this way, the automatic driving controller can free up more resources to improve the response time of the automatic driving system.

Jiang Ming's current understanding is that the current autonomous driving technology has very high timeliness requirements and system resources are very tight.

It is undoubtedly a good choice to release system resources as much as possible.

After Jiang Ming listed the above conditions, he sent them to Su Lingjuan, and she arranged for the company's personnel to screen them.

I have to say that it is good to have someone use it. At this time, Jiang Ming felt the benefits of starting a company.

While Jiang Ming was busy with the self-driving project, the issue of the right to use carbon-based batteries had also been settled.Not beyond Jiang Ming's expectations, the final distribution of benefits was chosen to be led by the New Energy Industry Association, and the main production units formed a joint venture company to distribute the use rights of carbon-based batteries.

This joint venture company is equipped with a large number of legal and administrative personnel to ensure the maximum benefit of carbon-based batteries.

Those who can hold shares in the joint venture are important participating units.

For example, those who participate, but only provide the materials used, do not have the right to participate.

In fact, there are almost 30 member units in the end.

And Jiang Ming was the only unit that participated in his personal capacity.

In fact, after the establishment of the joint venture, the real work has just begun.

In addition to conducting qualification examinations on member units and then authorizing them, various confidentiality work must also be done.

In order to ensure that the core secrets of carbon-based batteries are not leaked, several key materials are specially provided by the corresponding formulation units.

This includes the preparation additives of positive and negative electrode materials, the production method of gel electrolyte, and the production process of diaphragm.

Of course, as the protection of core secrets, these technologies have not applied for corresponding patents.

Patents, how should I put it, can only guard against gentlemen, not villains.

Many small companies are blatantly imitating your patents, making a few changes, and establishing their own products.

For such imitation, it is very difficult to prove legally.Others are not completely copying, they will make changes at certain points, and transform them into their own technology.

Judicial proceedings are time-consuming and labor-intensive.

It is with this in mind that the New Energy Industry Association has chosen an undisclosed plan to protect its products.

Member units also need to pay authorization fees for using carbon-based batteries.

In addition to licensing fees, companies that use carbon-based batteries have to pay a lot of money based on sales.This fee is different for each manufacturer, and will be deducted accordingly according to the raw materials you use.

The purpose of doing so is to ensure the interests of member units to the greatest extent.

After the New Energy Industry Association announced the use plan of carbon-based batteries, the international lithium battery giant was a little dumbfounded.

Because the authorization fee is classified according to the sales volume, according to the sales of these lithium battery giants, they are basically assigned to the highest gear.

The annual license fee is almost 2 million US dollars.

Although the authorization fee is high, as a lithium battery giant, this is still not painful.But the annual sales fee is a bit high.

Lithium battery giants did some calculations, and they had to pay almost 10% of sales.For the entire lithium battery industry, if the annual output value is 8000 billion, the sales fee will be 800 billion, which is a bit scary.

Like these lithium battery giants, each accounted for almost 20% of the share. If calculated in this way, it would cost 160 billion.

After such a calculation, the lithium battery giant vomited blood a little bit.

I've seen a commission, but I haven't seen such a commission. This is killing them.

In addition, some materials cannot be produced by themselves, but must be purchased from Xia Guo.

More importantly, these handed over commissions are distributed by the joint venture company and then returned to the participating units.

Isn't this equivalent to using their money to subsidize Xia Guo's new energy companies!
It is tolerable and unbearable.

For such conditions, they made it clear that they could not accept it.

Foreign lithium battery giants cannot accept this condition because they are too large and involve too many interests, so they cannot make a decision at the moment.

But many small businesses abroad do not have such concerns.

These small businesses are not large in size, and it is not easy to survive in the cracks among giants.

Lithium battery giants don't produce carbon-based batteries, but they can.

After all, the market demand is there, as long as the batteries are produced, there will be no worries about sales.And they have also calculated that according to the current policy and market conditions, there is a lot of profit.

Therefore, when the lithium battery giants hesitated, many foreign small and medium-sized enterprises acted quickly and negotiated with the New Energy Industry Association to arrange authorization work.

Its speed is much faster than many domestic enterprises.

The first batch of authorized companies is also unambiguous, and they are working hard to produce carbon-based batteries and accumulate original capital.

It will take a long time for the lithium battery giant to react.

With the blessing of carbon-based batteries, these companies have grown rapidly, and even individually threatened lithium battery giants.

Under such internal and external troubles, the attitude of lithium battery giants has gradually changed.Of course, this is a follow-up.

These things were notified by Wang Mingyang to Jiang Ming.Wang Mingyang told Jiang Ming not to worry, and the promise to him would be fulfilled.

To be honest, Jiang Ming doesn't pay much attention to carbon-based batteries anymore.Jiang Ming is currently focusing on the Intelligent Driving Challenge.

After a day of screening, Su Lingjuan finally gave Jiang Ming the information on the car models.

I thought that after Su Lingjuan's screening, there would be fewer suitable models, but when he saw the dense information, Jiang Ming was still dumbfounded
"Why are there so many?"

Jiang Ming asked Su Lingjuan.

"Not much more, we have already screened out most of the models, leaving only some OK models."

"In addition, I see that there are many models. According to the complaint list on the Internet, the models with relatively high complaints are also screened out."

Su Lingjuan said.

"Well, this is well done. I didn't consider it before. These cars have many quality problems, which are likely to affect our testing and should be screened out."

"But even if this is the case, there can't be so many left. Besides, what's the problem with this Leopard? Isn't the manufacturer all closed down? Why are the models listed on it?"

Jiang Ming pointed to one of them and said to Su Lingjuan.

"Whether this factory has closed down, we don't know."

Su Lingjuan said.

After all, it's just screening the vehicle model, and it's not an insider. It's normal not to know this information.

(End of this chapter)