Eric Schmidt's experience and achievements have become a legend in the United States.

But if compared with Abel, it seems bleak.

After shaking hands, Abel smiled and said to the two co-founders Larry and Sergey:

"Larry, Sergey. I regret it."

Larry and Sergey didn't know what he was regretting.

Larry even worriedly thought, could it be that Abel regretted giving the voting rights to the two of them?

Sergey smiled and asked: "Is there anything else that you, a Wall Street tycoon, can regret?"

"I regret introducing Eric to you!"

Abel smiled and said:

"I should have tricked Eric Schmidt into joining my new company, Tesla New Energy."

Hearing that he regretted this, Sergey and Larry felt relieved.

It's not that I regret giving them the right to vote.

Larry also smiled and said:

"That won't work. Regret has no effect. Eric is now our CEO at Google. This is already an established reality.

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Abel laughed and chatted again about whether they would get used to it after moving to the new headquarters.

There is nothing unfamiliar to Larry and others.

Palo Alto is right next to Mountain View, and the distance between the city and the city is about ten miles.

Even if some people are reluctant to leave Mountain View.

This little distance will not be an obstacle.

After this small exchange of pleasantries, Abel proposed his real purpose.

"Let Google help Tesla New Energy develop a car-machine system?"

Larry asked in confusion: "Isn't Tesla New Energy mainly researching battery and photovoltaic energy technologies?"

It turns out that Tesla New Energy, which was just established, has not announced to the public that it will build electric vehicles.

In addition to the core layer within the company.

Tesla’s main business and main research directions announced to the outside world.

It was a very trendy and advanced photovoltaic and battery technology during this period.

"What is the other car-machine system?" Sergey also asked:

"Intelligent systems used in cars? Are there already cars equipped with computers that need to run the system?"

The limitations of the times are here, even for the innovative Google elites in this period.

They also can't understand the crappy car-machine systems that will be everywhere in a decade or so.

At this time, no one thought that heavy and complex computers could be put into cars.

As early as the 1990s, the automotive mechanical part had reached a peak in development.

This is all because the level of semiconductor products, which are still in their infancy, cannot keep up with the mechanical part.

Take Abel's favorite Cadillac STS as an example.

Even the flagship version of this car equipped with a V12 engine and 7.6L displacement is not equipped with a decent screen.

The largest screen in the car is the black and white dot matrix screen on the car phone behind the cover above the air conditioner.

As a top-notch luxury car, it does not have as advanced electronic systems as later generations.

How can we help the driver maintain so many functions?

The answer lies in the densely packed buttons and scroll wheels on the center console.

They are in this era without buses and esp.

Through mechanical design, the buttons serve each function "one-on-one".

The real central control screen on the car was the Mercedes-Benz 220 "Butterfly Ben" that appeared in 1998.

As a pioneer of the times, Mercedes-Benz successfully "incorporated" a color screen into the center console, where it was originally reserved for the audio system.

And added multiple media buttons for control.

The entire central control layout is slightly messy but not annoying.

Like a box of sushi.

By the standards of future generations, its human-computer interaction experience can be described as "bad".

You need to insert a sim card to make calls, and Bluetooth is non-existent.

The entire car can be understood as a functional machine that can fly.

There is navigation, but you need to type slowly to set the navigation.

If you have the skills to type out the words, you can find them by yourself while driving.

At the same time, the accuracy of navigation and the update time of detailed geographical information are very painful.

Abel also used 220 as an example to explain this issue to Larry and others.

Sergey's car happened to be the latest 220, and Sergey immediately understood what Abel wanted.

Sergey explained to his colleagues what Abel wanted with the thinking of an elite programmer.

"The computer system in the car." Larry pondered, "It's very interesting. But is there a market for it?"

"Besides," Larry looked at Abel: "Tesla doesn't have a car, so what's the point of developing such a thing?"

Abel smiled and said: "Tesla will make its own cars in the future. Now it is

We are making technical reserves."

"Oh" Larry nodded.

Sergey said: "This shouldn't be difficult. The difficult thing is what kind of configuration should be used to allow a computer system to run on a car."

"This is what you need to consider," Abel said.

Eric Schmidt, the newly appointed CEO, said at this time:

"This is indeed not difficult. Google can set up a team to develop this thing. In the early stage, only twenty programmers are enough."

Abel also added: "Tesla will pay for this."

"That's no problem." Larry said directly.

What Larry is worried about is that Abel is paying Google for nothing and letting Google do its work for free.

If he could get money, Larry wouldn't ask so many questions just now.

Sergey also agreed with Larry.

Abel smiled on the outside but was secretly happy in his heart.

At this time, Google can be said to have assembled a group of the most elite programmers in Silicon Valley.

Abel asked Google to move to Palo Alto.

The main purpose is to allow early Tesla to take advantage of Google's programming and software development capabilities.

This can greatly save Tesla’s cost and energy in this area in the early stage.

Wait until a suitable power battery is developed.

Then you can directly connect to the car-machine system developed with Google's help.

Even the electronic control system later can be developed by Google, or people can be poached from Google.

With batteries and electronic controls, motors are the simplest.

Google is the godson that Abel picked up on the road.

Tesla was Abel's biological son.

Naturally, Abel had different treatment in his heart between his biological child and his adopted child.

After settling this matter, Abel went to Tesla New Energy next door.

Just like what Larry and others think at Google.

During this period, Tesla's main research direction was really power battery and photovoltaic technology.

Among them, the research on power batteries was the most important to Abel.

As for photovoltaic research, it is just incidental.

It’s not that Abel doesn’t pay attention to photovoltaics.
To be continued...