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In these engineers present, no one has thought that in the technical means of unmanned cars to perceive the external environment, is there any other better choices besides laser radar?

After looking at each other, everyone looked at the young researcher with curious eyes.

Seeing the predecessors lock their eyes on themselves, there was a little panic in the young people here for a while.

After all, in the entire team, the atmosphere of ranking is extremely strong. This is one of the most important labels of neon's corporate culture.

However, it was only a moment to restore nature, and quickly said that he was an important means of reducing costs for the reduction of the driverless vehicle by the little Huang Renren Technology Company.

"I think that in the means of self -driving vehicles to perceive the external environment, the method of detecting is the camera." The young people gave their opinions very seriously and seriously.

It was just that after the exit, he was immediately ridiculed by all seniors.

Everyone did not expect anyway, the younger generation would say such a logical words.

Is this what a normal person can say?

He is a machine, not artificial intelligence. How can he be able to perceive everything alone by the camera.

Only high -grade animals such as humans can experience the depth of field of the space with the visual experience.

For the computer, the screen provided by the camera is just a two -dimensional plane data.

If the laser rangefinder is added to the camera, what is the difference between this is different from the laser radar?

Since the laser rangefinder is to be increased, why should it be so many detours to increase the laser radar directly to the vehicle.

However, in the face of the seniors laughed, this was a young researcher immediately retorted: "Senior may think about things simple. Don't forget that Xiaohuangren Technology Company is now the strongest technology company in the world.

This technology company can develop advanced technology that we can't imagine.

I did a study when I was in college. This research was through the capture data of the camera, and then let the computer calculate the data.

After complex training, the computer can indeed recognize the depth of field in the picture, and it is enough to comparable to the effect of lidar within a certain range.

It's just that at that time, we were controlled by technology. The research we did was just the most fur.

However, the computer hardware developed by Little Huangren Technology Company is quite powerful. They have the ability to perceive everything around the vehicle through the screen captured by the camera.

As long as the computer can keep up with complex road data and calculate the most correct driving trajectory before the vehicle is out of control, you can complete the operation of autonomous driving. "

After these words were exported, the scene fell into silence for a while.

No one expected that this was not a joke, but that I could really capture everything around the camera to let the vehicle perceive the environment.

If you can really do all this, a camera and a computer are much cheaper than a laser radar.

Even if you add a camera to the vehicle, it is equipped with the latest computers launched by the two Little Huangren Technology Company as the calculation unit, which will not cost much.

It's terrible, will it really develop like this?

If things really reached this step, it will cause a huge impact on the automotive industry of the entire world.

After all, the price of adding four-directional cameras, two computers, and other auxiliary function hardware is within the range that anyone can accept for a luxury car.

If all these technical means become a reality, luxury cars like the Mercedes-Benz S can really become the optimal platform for driverless driving.

For an extreme sports car like Lamborghini that focuses on handling, even if it adds driverless functions, it will not bring a sharp increase in the cost of the car.

On the contrary, the addition of driverless functions will make this car more valuable.

Even if people who like sports cars don’t care about whether they have driverless functions, one more function is always good. In addition, most people who buy sports cars are young people, and young people are far more receptive to new things.

Middle-aged and elderly.

Even top-end luxury cars like Rolls-Royce have an autonomous driving function, which is an important window for the rich to experience new technologies.

Even if Minion Technology Company does not choose to build cars in person, but instead sells a complete set of driverless systems, it will bring major changes to the world's automobile market.

If Minion Technology Company provides similar technologies to most of the world's automobile companies, but does not provide corresponding supporting facilities for Neon Country's automobile industry, then Neon Country's cars will be uncompetitive with cars in the same price range.

What is even more worrying is that compared to top luxury cars such as Mercedes-Benz, Lamborghini and Rolls-Royce, once this autonomous driving technology is lowered to a price range that ordinary consumers can afford, it will not be able to provide autonomous driving.

Manufacturers that drive functional cars will definitely be abandoned by consumers.

With the same price but no corresponding functions, consumers will feel that they are being cheated.

And for ordinary people, driverless driving is top-notch high technology.

They even believe that this high technology far exceeds the value of the vehicle itself. Once cars of the same price range cannot provide this service, the sales volume in the second year will definitely be cut in half or even plummet.

"If it's true as you said, just relying on the camera to capture the surrounding images will allow the car to accurately perceive all surrounding environments.

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In this case, we should submit a research and development report to the company and seriously develop similar technologies.

Even if we will not use this technology for mass production for a long time, when our competitors have already developed technical reserves, we do not have any corresponding competitive products on hand, which will make us

The entire company has fallen into a passive position." Some seniors felt that since they thought it was theoretically feasible, they should spend some money on research and development.

However, just as he said these words, he was interrupted by a long sigh from the young man.

"I'm afraid...I'm afraid that only Minion Technology Company can do such technology research and development in the world today.

The technology research and development we have done in the university only allows the computer to calculate the surrounding obstacles and environmental assessment through the screen when it is traveling forward at a speed of twenty centimeters per second and there are no moving obstacles around.

I believe all seniors can understand that at a speed of twenty centimeters per second, this technology cannot be applied to normal driving cars.

The bottom line is that our computer computing speed cannot keep up with the captured screen data.

The faster the speed, the more data the camera will naturally capture.

And with the influx of large amounts of data, computers must be happy to analyze it all.

At present, even Intel cannot build such a high-performance computing center on a vehicle.

And if it's just calculations, our country has huge computer data centers that can fully satisfy the calculations of these data.

However, these huge computer data centers can be installed on trains, but even container trucks cannot fit such huge data centers.

This means that unless we can get powerful hardware support from Minion Technology, everything is empty talk, or we have to wait for Minion Technology to sell the autonomous driving technology they have mastered to the market." The young man said.

The final explanation was given, and this explanation made the seniors present feel heartbroken.

Who would have thought that technological breakthroughs in the semiconductor field could affect the automotive industry.

A few years ago, computers were not widely popularized.

There are very few electronic products on the car, namely some radios and tape players.

With the widespread popularity of CD players, music CD players were installed in cars.

Although there are very few luxury cars equipped with TVs, such vehicles are still in the minority.

However, even if a car is equipped with all the electronic products that can be seen on the market, everyone's impression of the automobile industry is still a mechanized industry, a heavy industry dominated by steel.

Who would have thought that industries dealing with steel, not affected by the price of iron ore, would be frightened by technological breakthroughs in the semiconductor industry.

In the past, when every car company made a breakthrough in new technology, people would wait and see whether the engine could be made more energy-saving and the energy consumption ratio would continue to improve.

However, perhaps for a long time in the future, people will no longer focus on the technological breakthrough of the engine, but on whether the car is smarter.

Is it possible to free up both hands, allowing the driver and the family to enjoy the scenery outside the window all the time without putting too much energy into driving control?

If the maturity of autonomous driving technology is far beyond imagination, and if it can be widely popularized in just a few years, this will indeed be a major event that will completely reform the future of the automotive industry.

Although we can't see the future yet, and we don't know whether the technology released by Minion Technology Company is mature, but since the other party dares to show it, I believe it must have the capital to show it.

“No matter what, we must make the company take it seriously, and we cannot just let a company outside the automotive industry kill us.

We are doers who are determined to become the world's number one automobile company. We must not turn a blind eye when we see danger signals in the market." After a senior said this, he had already called his superiors to give feedback on what the research team had discussed.

result.

Regardless of whether the technology developed by Minion Technology Company is mature or not, the company must take it seriously. Even if the technology developed by Minion Technology Company is a piece of shit, at least someone has begun to explore this path.

At this moment, everyone is still on the same starting line. If we invest money now and start to keep up, once there is a big technological breakthrough in the future, at least we will not be left behind by our competitors.

But if you don't invest money in research and development now, once your competitors' technologies begin to mature and are actually put into the market, it will be too late to regret it.

However, after the head of the R&D team finished the call, the senior person in charge of answering the phone just replied that we will study it at the next meeting.

With just one word, he hung up the phone.

Obviously, for the senior management here, he does not think that autonomous driving is operable.

The sudden debut of such a technology by a technology company is nothing more than a dazzling gimmick to the world to attract the attention of global consumers to its computers.

Through this gimmick, consumers around the world believe that Minion Technology's computers are extremely powerful and can even enable driverless driving.

Once this subconscious mind is injected into the minds of consumers, their computers will definitely sell well after they are launched in the future.

This is just an advertisement. How can it be possible to develop driverless functions?

The judgment of senior management depends on their position and experience. After all, the R&D team only focuses on one thing in its life, which is to constantly develop the performance limit of the car.

However, the things that the company's top management should pay attention to and the perspectives from which they look at the problem are very broad. When others are worried about whether driverless driving will really come.

These high-level officials seemed to be able to see through all these tricks at a glance. No matter how deceptive the other party concealed such tricks, they still couldn't change that it was just an advertisement for auxiliary purposes.

Similar things happen frequently in the entire Neon Country automobile industry circle. If such technology were born in well-known European car companies such as BMW and Mercedes-Benz, perhaps the entire Neon Country automobile industry circle would be faced with a formidable enemy.
To be continued...