Chapter 2643 Automotive Intelligent Monitoring System
Zhang Tao and the others went back with hope and excitement. In the next few months, they will load all the ideas proposed by Xiao Qi onto their racing partners.
After it is completed, it can be put into trial production for sale. By then they will have both fame and fortune, and a happy life will follow!
Xiao Qi is more optimistic than them all, because he knows that in the next few years, people in the world, especially people in developed countries, will increasingly advocate this kind of green and low-carbon life. Whether in life or exercise, they will use bicycles and racing cars extensively.
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Therefore, the future growth of Racing Partners will be very considerable.
It is conservatively estimated that it has a market share of about 200 million, and China alone can exceed 30 million.
Of course, this market cannot be occupied by Fairy Company alone. Although some patents can put Fairy Company in a favorable competitive position, competitors will continue to appear.
As long as Xiao Qi allows them to maintain the consistent excellence of their racing partners, it will be enough to occupy the high-end part of the market.
Racing Partners naturally uses the Fairy System, which is the same as Labs. This is also Xiao Qi’s requirement for developers. No matter what intelligent system, it must be developed on the Fairy System.
The purpose is naturally to make the Fairy System a complete ecological chain that can extend to every aspect of people's smart lives.
The ideas of several engineers also reminded Xiao Qi that he could make great efforts in another field.
That is the car’s intelligent control system!
Automobile intelligent control system. Simply put, it switches some mechanical functions to electronic mode. This is actually done by many manufacturers now, but the intelligent control system will be more precise and accurate. It can brake, dodge, decelerate, predict road conditions, etc.
etc., all will be controlled by this system.
For example, Volvo now has an active braking system. If the vehicle speed reaches a certain high speed and is close to a certain distance from the vehicle in front, the system will actively brake to avoid the risk of collision.
But from the perspective of the intelligent era, this still has some shortcomings.
For example, how to determine the speed of the car, how to determine the speed of the car in front. If a car hits you from behind, how should you respond?
Also, if a vehicle is approaching from the side, how should you respond proactively?
How to actively adjust the vehicle's tires, center of gravity, etc. in rainy and snowy weather, stormy weather, dry roads, rough roads, etc. These are all very important.
Naturally, current technology has not yet achieved that step, but it does not mean that it cannot be achieved.
Xiao Qi remembered that after Apple made the iPad in its previous life, it began to reach out to the field of automotive intelligent systems. Although this project had no signs of success when Xiao Qi was reincarnated, the launch of any new thing is very important.
Difficult things, such as automobile intelligent systems, require countless amounts of money and energy to be built.
But here lies the charm of technology. Energy can continuously create wonderful products to make people's lives better. This is undoubtedly a very happy thing.
Xiao Qi now has enough money to leave to his descendants, so he wants to do something that benefits everyone, whether it is to satisfy his own ambition or to accumulate blessings.
Anyway, Xiao Qi is very energetic.
The reason why Xiao Qi has not been involved in automobile intelligent control systems before is not that this intelligent system is too difficult. It is not that it requires too much energy and material resources and takes too long, but that the overall technology of automobiles has not caught up.
In Xiao Qi's impression, it was during the financial crisis that in order to improve their performance, major automobile companies took out the high-precision technologies that had been stored in laboratories for many years and used them in cars.
This led to the great development of automobiles in the following years.
The most important part of a car lies in its design and manufacturing concepts. Only when the car itself is good enough can the car's intelligent control system play its greatest role. It is impossible for you to take an Alto car and it can also implement active braking and active braking.
Wait for the function, right?
Even if it is a high-end car, if certain hardware conditions do not meet the requirements, it will be somewhat dangerous when the intelligent control system is working.
Now that the financial crisis has broken out, with the launch of the New Regal, a model that redefines mid-size cars, into the Chinese market, foreign models have also begun a new round of technological competition. This is already an opportunity.
Now that we are starting to prepare, we naturally need to make two efforts.
The first is that Xiao Qi needs to form a professional R&D team, which is not only an expert in intelligent electronics, but also an expert in the automotive industry. Only when experts from both sides are gathered together can the intelligent electronic control system perfectly match the car.
The second is to find a car company that is willing to cooperate with Xiao Qi. The company's vehicles must be mid- to high-end, and they must pass the technical test.
It’s easy to say before that there are actually quite a lot of European car factories, but the Japanese car companies are also very powerful. As long as Xiao Qi is willing to pay, there will always be experts willing to join the R&D team.
The problem behind is the difficulty.
Xiao Qi and BYD have cooperation in the battery field and have a good relationship, but you can't ask BYD to serve as an experimental model, right?
If BYD is used as the carrier model of the intelligent control system, will anyone be willing to buy it? This will increase the cost by tens of thousands. It has always been only used on mid-to-high-end models, and then when people recognize it, the technology
When the market matures and costs drop, mid-sized cars, compact cars, etc. will be available.
And it has to be said that the intelligent control system is also a brand, and it must choose to join forces to establish its position in the field of automotive intelligent electronics.
Japan's automobile industry is very developed, and Xiao Qi has many acquaintances in Japan. If he wants to cooperate, there should be no problem.
Xiao Qi naturally doesn't like Japanese people very much, and he doesn't want to use his own intelligent car monitoring system to increase the competitiveness of Japanese cars, so he rules it out.
The British and Italian automobile industries now have very few products for the general public. Most of them are high-end, such as Ferrari, Rolls-Royce, etc., which are not suitable for promoting technology, so they are also excluded.
Germany's automobile industry is very suitable. BMW, Mercedes-Benz and Audi are all world-famous and have very good technology. However, Xiao Qi also dislikes the Germans and wishes to weaken their power a hundred times, so he still doesn't look for them.
The rest are American cars.
Although the three major automobile companies, Ford, General Motors and Chrysler, do not have the most high-end cars, they do have a lot of mid- to high-end cars and have a good reputation in the Chinese market. This is their advantage.
And Fairy Company also has great influence in the United States. So far, most of the companies it has sold shares have sold to Americans. It is also on good terms with Citibank, and its relationship with Wall Street is not bad.
More importantly, just last month, General Motors and Chrysler filed for bankruptcy, causing a sensation around the world.
Unlike the previous life, GM and Chrysler only filed for bankruptcy in October in this life. In the previous life, they did so in June. It seems that there is still a lot of butterfly effect in Xiao Qi's reincarnation.
How GM and Chrysler were unlucky was none of Xiao Qi's business, but taking advantage of GM's difficult times in the next few years, if Xiao Qi went to talk to them about cooperation, he would naturally get more attention.
Of course, although Xiao Qi knew that 60% of GM's shares would be held by the U.S. government in the future, and that the U.S. government wanted to sell off these shares anytime and anywhere, Xiao Qi had no intention of doing so.
The reason, of course, is that the labor union in GM is too overbearing. It's not asking people to work at all, it's purely supporting the ancestors!
Why do most of the U.S. factory industry have to move overseas?
One of the most important reasons is the existence of trade unions.
Not only do these unions have to restrict various regulations of capitalists, including working hours, location, overtime, layoffs, etc., they all have the right to decide, and they even have to occupy the company's shares. Neither your boss nor the board of directors can compare.
They have great power!
In fact, part of the reason for GM's loss and bankruptcy is that under various restrictions from the union, the labor costs and retirement costs they paid were too high, more expensive than raising 10 Chinese workers, so they could not sustain it.
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Tell me, if your company is full of people like this, who do everything possible to be lazy but don't want to work hard, how can your company do well?
Even if Xiao Qi had more money, he would not invest it in it!
In contrast, although Germans are very precise about their work schedules, they are serious about their work and are definitely worthy of the salary you give them.
The Japanese are even more exaggerated. It is common for them to take the initiative to work overtime. If they don't do a good job, they have to kneel down and apologize without having to speak to the people above them. Therefore, the three major Japanese automobile companies directly overthrew the three major American automobile companies.
Became number one in the world.
Okay, the topic has gone too far.
Since GM is so difficult, Xiao Qi will naturally get a lot of attention if he comes to cooperate with them.
The profits of mid-to-high-end vehicles are also the highest. In order to make more money to get out of the predicament, GM will definitely make enough concessions to let Xiao Qi lead the operation of this intelligent control system.
With a platform as large as General Motors, the intelligent vehicle monitoring system can naturally be promoted faster and better, with immediate results.
In addition to General Motors, Xiao Qi’s other company Tesla Motors can also come in handy.
Chapter completed!