"Do you want to prepare?" Kong Guanyu asked. "Prepare some materials or something."
"Forget it!" Ji Fan said. "It's not like we're welcoming investors or big clients. This is enough."
They continued to work. After more than an hour, Lu Zixin and the rest arrived.
"It's here. I've been here before. Although the place is small, it's done well." Xu Xiuying led the way for Lu Zixin.
"Welcome to our company." Out of courtesy, Ji Fan came to greet them personally.
Lu Zixin said, "Today, I want to know more about your project. This is Mr. Zhu Liangyan. He's an expert in the field of autonomous vehicles. "
Zhu Liangyan was in his forties. He was wearing a neat suit. Because he was much older than Lu Zixin, Ji Fan paid more attention to him. He guessed that Zhu Liangyan might be a capable person.
"Hello, Mr. Zhu. Please come in."
They walked into the company and looked around. The other employees of Forwarder Entrepreneurship seemed to be used to this scene. They were busy with their own work.
"Did you guys make this radar yourself?" Zhu Liangyan asked curiously when he saw the vehicle radar.
"We improved it," Zhang Wei introduced. "It was originally a product of a civilian radar company in Germany. After we bought it, we improved it for autonomous vehicles."
"With this radar, the car will be able to detect obstacles and moving objects within a hundred meters in advance. Then, it will adjust its driving mode through the AI system."
Lu Zixin asked, "What if there's wireless interference and other interference when the radar is installed? Wouldn't the autonomous vehicle be 'blind'? "
"This … Generally speaking, there won't be so much interference on the road. Also, our radar can prevent interference to a certain extent," Zhang Wei explained.
"The road situation is very complicated. There's no room for accidents." Zhu Liangyan said. "How did you solve the problem of accurate vehicle positioning?"
Hearing Zhu Liangyan's question, Ji Fan and the rest felt that he was a real expert. Nowadays, vehicles had positioning systems. However, for a fully autonomous vehicle, they needed more accurate positioning data to be fed to the system to ensure that there would be no mistakes.
Currently, even the most advanced positioning system on the market had a five-to-ten-meter error. This was a very serious error for a fully autonomous vehicle!
"Under normal circumstances, we use China's Beidou Satellite Positioning System. The onboard computer automatically corrects itself every ten seconds. When the weather is bad or the positioning system is affected by passing through tunnels, we use the inertial navigation with the odometer and gyroscope. "
As soon as Ji Fan finished speaking, Zhu Liangyan directly pointed out the problem in his words and said, "There will be accumulated errors in inertial navigation units. If the tunnel is too long, the accumulated errors will increase. And this will increase the cost of the fully automatic driving system. "
"There's nothing we can do about it. Our solution is already the best in the world. These technologies are limited by the sensor equipment. Unless we can improve the sensor system and positioning service, we can only solve this problem. "Ji Fan was very calm.
Zhu Liangyan nodded. Hongxin Group had also encountered this problem when they were researching this project.
They continued to investigate and asked many more questions.
What surprised Lu Zixin was that this Pioneer Startup was even better than he had imagined. Although the company was small and had little registered capital, when it came to technology, they were really not bad. They could already achieve a highly automated system.
In the field of autonomous driving, there were a total of four stages: Driving Assistance System, Partial Automation System, Highly Automation System, and Complete Automation System.
Currently, no company in the world dared to claim that they could reach the fourth stage. The leaders were basically at the third stage.
Ji Fan and the rest were not simple people. Many of the people in their company had left other technology companies and started their own company. There were executives and technicians.
"Can we see the actual road test?" Zhu Liangyan asked. They had been in the company for a day.
Ji Fan and the rest did not do anything. They just accompanied them to tour and explain.
Now that they heard that they still wanted to see the situation on the road, they felt a little tired.
"Sure, we will test on the designated road." Ji Fan agreed. He still had a glimmer of hope in his heart. Zhu Liangyan was said to be an executive of a big company. If his company was interested in this project, it would be great if they could invest a few million yuan in Pioneer Startup.
As for Lu Zixin, he was treated as Zhu Liangyan's assistant and did not pay much attention to him.
Their company's specialized test vehicle was on the road. It was driving slowly on a road with fewer pedestrians and vehicles.
In front of the real-time monitoring screen, Lu Zixin watched the specially modified autonomous commercial vehicle driving on the road.
Under normal circumstances, it would naturally have no problems at all. When it encountered pedestrians or vehicles, it could also respond accordingly.
"Is it too slow?" Lu Zixin asked.
"It is a little slow, but our sensor system is not perfect. If it is too fast, we are afraid of safety accidents." Ji Fan explained.
"Oh."
Lu Zixin also saw the actual test. It was not as amazing as he imagined. The reason was probably because the speed was too slow and the AI's processing speed was not agile enough.
"Mr. Zhu, what do you think? We are trying to contact Hongxin Intelligent Development Co., Ltd. We want to reach a cooperation with them to solve the most difficult autonomous driving problem, the AI problem. As long as we have a certain amount of funding, we may be able to break through to the fourth stage of autonomous driving within a year. Completely autonomous driving! "
Ji Fan and the others were promoting the company's startup project to Zhu Liangyan. Zhu Liangyan just smiled and said, "You are doing well. Although there is still a gap between the technology of companies like Baidu and Google, in the field of autonomous driving, you are considered a first-class startup company.
"As for the rest, we will talk about it when we have the chance."
Hearing his words, Ji Fan and the others were a little disappointed. Did this mean that he was not interested in their project? Then, they had worked hard all day for nothing!
Xu Xiuying looked at Lu Zixin. Seeing that he was thinking, she did not interrupt him.
Lu Zixin was thinking whether to buy this company or Hongxin restarted the autonomous driving project. He needed to go back and talk to Zhu Liangyan.
"That's all for today. Thank you for your hospitality. We will contact you tomorrow." Lu Zixin said.
When Xu Xiuying heard this, her beautiful eyes lit up. There was still hope! She hurriedly hinted to Ji Fan and said, "Why aren't you sending them off?"
Ji Fan sighed helplessly in his heart. He still maintained his politeness and sent Lu Zixin and Zhu Liangyan downstairs.
However, as soon as he returned upstairs, he was dissatisfied with Xu Xiuying. "Xiuying, you brought these two people here to play with us, right? We have not done anything for the whole day. We only introduced the two of them to the project. In the end, you sent us away with one sentence. Is this how you play? "
Not only did Xu Xiuying not admit her mistake, she even retorted, "Play? Ji Fan, do you think I brought people here to play with you? Do you know who they are? "
"Who?"
"I can't tell you now, but I am sure that if they find you to cooperate again, your company will be rich." Your company will be rich! "Xu Xiuying said confidently.
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