This is the case in the domestic business world. No matter how you talk in the conference room, you really have to talk about friendship, you will only be at the dining table after the meeting.

For example, Lu Yu, Mr. He, Mr. Bin and others have never met before. If you have a contact in the conference room, it can only be said that you have a one-time relationship.

And after a drink, it can be said that it is more or less a bit of friendship.

If you have a few more meals, you can say that you are an old friendship.

Of course, this kind of friendship is just superficial, and the friendship with Lu Yu and Chen Xiaofei is a completely different concept.

To put it seriously, it is almost the same as friends and friends who drink and eat.

After seeing off Mr. Li and the other four, Lu Yu, Lao Liu and Jiang Yunzhu waved their hands and took the car home.

On the way, Lu Yu stared at the Shudu real estate market outside the car window, and was thinking about autonomous driving.

In the morning and noon, he had a deep conversation with Mr. Li and the others, which gave Lu Yu a deeper understanding of the current autonomous driving market.

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In their words, the market in the past felt like a pit competition.

In the face of the huge self-driving travel market, both technology companies and traditional car companies have shown unprecedented enthusiasm.

They took action and made bets, not only did they end up in person, but also invested in potential startups everywhere.

Although autonomous driving technology is very core and difficult, it has blocked many small and medium-sized players, it cannot stop the pace of the giants.

Because it is still in the early stages of development, the current track is large enough to accommodate many players, so they all take the trap.

In addition to the self-development of the whole vehicle, there are more than a dozen companies in China that are currently doing autonomous driving and are doing well.

If we count the lack of strength and are planning to enter, this number will only be even bigger.

This makes the track of autonomous driving seem a bit crowded.

However, it is not easy to achieve results on the track of autonomous driving, judging from the current development situation.

In addition to the most important technical strength, there is another important condition, capital.

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Now it has passed the early stage of hot money, and you can get hot money by relying on a PPT. The actual financing tends to be rational, and only invest in leading companies with big money.

For example, Malaysian Intelligence Bank mentioned earlier, Didi received US$500 million from SoftBank Vision Fund in May, and Geely Yikatong’s 1.3 billion yuan financing revealed by Mr. Bin.

All these reflect the fact from the side that small financing can no longer support the research and development of high-level technologies.

The autonomous driving track is becoming a "rich game" and is entering the knockout stage.

Self-driving companies that cannot afford to burn money and have no actual implementation scenarios, and those with average technical content will leave this track one after another.

Things should have continued to develop according to this script and become a competition among the giants.

But an accident happened and Yunhan Technology, which suddenly broke into the track.

Although Yunhan Technology itself will not do autonomous driving, Yunhan Technology's patent authorization at this time will undoubtedly allow many companies with average technical strength to regain the opportunity to return to the track and will also intensify the intensity of market competition.

This made the autonomous driving market confused again.

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If the external conditions analyzed by Lu Yu are added, the competition in the autonomous driving market will evolve into a real protracted war.

From the vehicle side, L5 autonomous driving requires extremely strong perception capabilities, which requires high hardware requirements. The cost of hardware such as lidar is too high, and there is no possibility of reduction in a short period of time.

Judging from external conditions, infrastructure supporting facilities and so on are far from mature, including vehicle-road collaboration, 5G, cloud services, etc.

And everyone knows that infrastructure is the most expensive.

Developing the infrastructure required for autonomous driving will cost more money.

The first fully automatic "super highway" in China, Hangzhou-Shao-Ningbo Smart Expressway, will set up a dedicated lane for autonomous driving, with all required external supporting facilities, and support the free driving of all autonomous driving vehicles on the entire line.

What is the investment amount?

70.7 billion yuan.

The average construction cost per kilometer exceeds 400 million yuan.

If L5-level autonomous driving is really implemented, let alone ordinary highways, it is an unimaginable astronomical figure.

As Lu Yu said in the conference room, high-level autonomous driving is an integrated intelligent transportation system and a complex and comprehensive system project, including intelligent roads, high-speed communications and intelligent cities, etc., and it is by no means just relying on one car.

To realize L4 alone, intelligent changes in the entire road traffic environment, let alone fully automated driving of L5, there are more places to change.

Even if these technologies, funds and other problems are overcome, consumers still need to keep up with their concepts and laws and regulations such as transportation must also keep up with them.

Otherwise, there will still be many variables in actual implementation.

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Taking these factors into consideration, even if the official promotes it vigorously, and then comes a crazy combination of infrastructure, even with Rabbit's infrastructure capabilities, it will not be completed in a short time.

The renovation on the old foundation is different in each place. Some have better foundations and some have worse foundations, making it difficult to come up with a unified standard.

In any case, it is not as convenient and direct as the newly built ones. Just design a mold and copy it everywhere.

Thinking of the new one, Lu Yu couldn't help but think of NEOM Future City.

Thinking of NEOM Future City, I couldn't help but think of Counselor Sun.

So long has passed, and Counselor Sun, who has been waiting for his good news, has not had any news yet, and he does not know how the communication is going.

If the communication is really in place, the big dogs are also interested. Then you can try these technical applications you just mentioned.

While testing technology, it can also accumulate experience for intelligent transportation systems, intelligent cities, and complete sets of comprehensive system projects.

Using the money from the big dog households, verifying technology and accumulating experience, what you have won is just the title of "the world's first future smart city", which is simply too cost-effective.

Anyway, their money is no different from the wind blows. Why not do something that is of great significance to the humans of Blue Star?

Ahem, right?

If you think so, there is nothing wrong with it.

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When Lu Yu was thinking of Counselor Sun, Counselor Sun was busy with Lu Yu's affairs.

As a big dog, the medieval feudal country dressed in the cloak of modern Guo Jia, under the feudal bureaucracy, all the disadvantages you can think of or imagine, coincidentally, it has it.

If you are procrastinating and often you can’t find a real person. These things are too common and not new at all. If you suddenly get faster one day, you will find it strange.

Counselor Sun has contacted multiple departments, and is also the departments specifically responsible for the construction of NEOM Future City.

After hearing what Counselor Sun said, these departments expressed their good intentions and great interest after reading the information and videos.

But Counselor Sun waited for a while, but never waited for the follow-up.

As mentioned earlier, all departments of the big dog households have actually become the fiefs of all princes and nobles, and I stepped down as my son to take over.

A comprehensive project like this that needs to span multiple departments will inevitably involve the vested interests of different princes and nobles, and the difficulty of bottom-up implementation can be imagined.

Can you imagine building a road across multiple fiefs in ancient times?

If not, refer to the construction of the Bald Eagle's high-speed railway and the construction of the Elephant Country's railway.

Not everyone in every place has collective consciousness like rabbits. The official has planned the path according to the optimal method and can repair it as much as you should.

People jump out from time to time in these places, saying that your path has affected the scenery and feng shui on my land. In short, it is not allowed to pass by me unless...

Unless the following content is included, it is not difficult to guess.

The various departments of the dog owner are also similar to this one. If you want to... unless..., this is a very skillful game.

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Counselor Sun has been working for a big dog for a while and is quite familiar with these things.

This is also his helplessness. He himself really wants to help Lu Yu advance this matter. He is not thinking too far-reachingly, but just wants to help domestic companies strive for more projects from NEOM Future City.

However, although he is a counselor, he is only a counselor, responsible for economics and business, and cannot reach too many top powerful people in the big dog market.

That's why things have not made much progress so far.

NEOM Future City is a project led by the prince of the dog family, but the specific responsibility is different princes and nobles.

The plan Lu Yu came up with involves many projects currently underway, which require more or less some modifications, and even some original blueprints need to be modified.

If you don’t get the highest decision-making level to discuss such a big event, and just go back and forth in the following circle of departments, you will definitely not gain much.

Counselor Sun also ran for several days before he realized this problem.

Previously, he thought that no matter how feudal or bureaucratic, he would have to do something like this, even if it was a little slower, and he would always pass it on to the decision-making level after going around.

It turns out that he was thinking too much, not the slowest, only the slower.

How slow can it be?

Anyway, since he first came into contact, he has not received any response.

So Counselor Sun changed his route this time and went to the embassy to find the ambassador of the rabbit to the big dog family, and prepared to go directly to Tianting.
Chapter completed!