Unmanned takeout trucks and unmanned delivery trucks can only grab some good orders that don’t need to be sent upstairs or delivered to your door.

But for those "troublesome orders" that need to be sent upstairs and delivered to your home, riders and couriers still need to be responsible.

But driverless taxis are different.

With the continuous improvement of map accuracy, Carrot Run can run orders that taxi drivers can run for several generations, and it also has some advantages!

For example, unmanned taxis will not take malicious detours or refuse rides. No matter how far or near the taxi is, or how bad the weather is, they will pick you up after accepting the order.

It's not like some drivers who take orders and don't want to make money because of the short distance, so they deliberately don't pick up the order, forcing the passengers to cancel or increase the fare.

It’s not like some drivers who take a fixed-price order and feel bad about not making money, so they feel weird all the way, don’t turn on the air conditioner on a hot day, and make passengers disgusted.

There is no need to worry about encountering unscrupulous drivers and personal danger. After all, there are no drivers and the prices are cheaper.

Some people may worry that once Carrot Run overtakes taxis, online ride-hailing, and monopolizes the industry, prices will quickly rise to start harvesting, and it may even be more expensive than licensed taxis and online ride-hailing!

In fact, there is no need to worry about this at all.

The unmanned taxi industry cannot be monopolized, and it is inherently profitable. Baidu can do it in the first grade, and companies such as Huawei and BYD can do it in the fifteenth grade.

By then, multiple brands of unmanned taxis on the market will be operating simultaneously, all operating at low cost. It would be nice not to engage in price wars in order to grab customers. How could prices be increased like crazy?

It is conceivable that once driverless taxis become popular, the future of traditional taxis and online ride-hailing will be uncertain.

Seven million taxi drivers are also at risk of losing their jobs.

But there is no way, the wheel of the times is moving forward inexorably, and will only crush everything ruthlessly. No one can use a mantis as a chariot.

Just like in the previous life, even if Baidu didn't do Carrot Run, other companies would.

Even if domestic companies don’t make driverless taxis, foreign companies will.

This cannot be changed or prevented.

The ultimate benefit is hundreds of millions of passengers, who can use better services and take taxis at lower prices. They can even save money compared to driving a gas car to work. After all, gas and parking fees are high.

The tragedy is that seven million taxi drivers will face collective unemployment!

And Gaode Taxi is on the verge of bankruptcy!

What everyone often says is that if you lose your job, you can go to Didi at worst.

It is this sentence that has led to oversaturation in the online ride-hailing field.

Even without Luobo Kuaipao, online ride-hailing services are oversaturated, revenue is declining, and people keep joining!

The emergence of driverless taxis has dealt a critical blow to online ride-hailing. Once popularized, this retreat will be completely ended.

But when the tree is removed, it dies, and when people are removed, it lives.

If you can no longer do online ride-hailing, you can go into other industries. There is always a way out.

After all, many industries are still short of people.

For example, in the construction industry, if you go to any construction site, the average age is over 45 years old, and many of them are migrant workers in their fifties or even sixties!

Not to mention that they are overage... There is no pension for migrant workers, and there is no talk of retirement. It is normal to work until they are over sixty.

Young people in their twenties and thirties would rather go to Didi and deliver food than go to construction sites, leading to a labor shortage.

Once these old migrant workers in their 50s and 60s retire and young people stop working on construction sites, things will be completely different.

After all, cities need renovation and development now, they will need renovation ten years from now, and they will still need it twenty years from now.

And all this requires migrant workers.

The emergence of unmanned taxis has cut off the way to operate online ride-hailing services. The emergence of unmanned express delivery vehicles and take-out trucks has reduced the demand for couriers and riders, which can be regarded as forcing some young people to return to the construction site.

Although it is cruel, there is no way.

You can get 8,000 yuan if you work hard at the construction site, or you can get 4,000 yuan if you work overtime in the office until you are bald. You have to choose one.

Currently, Baidu is already deploying autonomous driving research and development.

More than ten years later, Baidu’s Carrot Kuaishou has developed rapidly and continued to gain popularity, while Wang Yi’s AutoNavi taxi-hailing company has gone bankrupt!

The times are developing like this, and Wang Yi is unable to compete.

No matter how good Amap does in taxi-hailing, it cannot withstand Baidu’s self-driving taxis that run 24 hours a day.

There is only one solution, and that is for Xingyi Technology to develop its own AI driverless algorithm and do the "Carrot Run" by itself!

We must plan early and start planning now.

The main task of the Xingyi AI algorithm department is to develop autonomous driving and large AI models.

In a few years, the accuracy of the Amap map will improve to a terrifying level. Wang Yi will also launch driverless cars, but he will not directly destroy the jobs of online ride-hailing and taxis.

After all, AutoNavi's taxi-hailing business is also its own business. Wang Yi will not directly let the online taxi-hailing drivers who have worked with AutoNavi for many years lose their jobs collectively.

On the contrary, Wang Yi will take out the first batch of online taxis and sell them to experienced car owners of AutoNavi, so that they can have income and security for the rest of their lives.

By then, Gaode will give half of the money earned by autonomous taxis every day, and the other half will be given to the driver.

Perhaps the commission will be lower than before when driving every day, but fortunately they can get money without driving every day, which is also a good thing.

With this after-sleep income, whether those online ride-hailing drivers retire early or do some other work, they will be more secure and will not lose their jobs instantly.

Of course, this discount is only available to experienced AutoNavi drivers with more than five years of experience, and does not apply to new drivers who have just joined the company, Wang Yi.

Otherwise, there will inevitably be a large number of people who originally did not want to drive an online ride-hailing service. In order to earn this "after-sleep income", they will temporarily join AutoNavi as a driver.

That would be a mess.

What Wang Yi does is just to provide benefits to the old employees so that they will not collectively lose their jobs and become homeless. This is not charity.

In addition, a five-year contract will be signed with the old employees before this. The content of the contract is that the driver needs to help Xingyi Technology train a large autonomous driving model and draw accurate map data!

Autonomous driving is done by algorithms, but this algorithm is not done once and for all, but is a large model that has been trained and upgraded over many years!

For example, is Baidu’s Carrot Kuaishou really only launched in 2024?

No, as early as 2020, Luobo Kuaipao started operating in some areas such as Imperial Capital and Changsha.

As early as 2017, Baidu launched Apollo, the world's first open platform for autonomous driving.

As early as 2013, Baidu began research and development of autonomous driving!

Although Baidu's autonomous driving and Luobo Kuaipao had little presence in the past few years, they are very powerful. In the field of L4 autonomous driving, they are among the best in the world and can be said to be far ahead.

Huawei, Tesla, Xpeng and other companies all provide L2 level conditional autonomous driving, that is, assisted driving.

Of course, this does not mean that Baidu will beat Huawei and Tesla. It can only be said that there are two tracks.

What Baidu is directly doing is L4 level autonomous driving. The advantage is that it is truly driverless and not half-assed assisted driving. However, the disadvantage is equally obvious. It can only operate within a high-precision map area. Once it goes out of this range, it will be blinded instantly.

Although the L2 level autonomous driving of Huawei, Tesla and other companies is assisted driving and cannot be separated from people, it cannot truly drive fully autonomously like Carrot Run. However, with the combination of powerful software and hardware, it can adapt to more

The road conditions are not restricted by the map.

Even when driving on a small road in the countryside without a map, it can assist driving.

There is no way to say who is stronger or weaker between the two, nor can we say who has taken a detour. We can only say that the tracks are different and the groups they target are different.

Baidu's L4 autonomous driving can drive unmanned, but it cannot be separated from accurate maps. It is destined to be suitable for B-end commercial use, and it can be used as autonomous taxis in limited areas.

Huawei and Tesla's L2 assisted driving can adapt to all road conditions and is not restricted by maps, but it cannot be separated from people and is more suitable for assisted driving by C-end consumers.

The same thing is that both Baidu and Huawei began to develop autonomous driving research and development in 2012-2013.

Yes, this industry requires ten years of hard work!

Similarly, Xingyi Technology also has to plan and prepare in advance.

Wang Yi acquired Xiaoi Robot and established the Xingyi AI algorithm department just for this purpose.

At present, we are investing heavily in developing AI algorithms and self-driving algorithms.

As for the direction? L2 assisted driving or L4 autonomous driving?

Only children make choices, and Wang Yi wants them all.

That’s right, Wang Yi does both L2 assisted driving and L4 autonomous driving.

There is no way. In the future, Xingyi Technology will develop new energy sources, and assisted driving is indispensable and has to be done.

Similarly, Xingyi Technology owns AutoNavi. If it does not implement L4 autonomous driving, once Baidu’s autonomous driving is launched and the streets are full of carrot-running unmanned taxis, then AutoNavi will completely collapse and it will go bankrupt!

Its millions of online ride-hailing drivers will collectively lose their jobs.

In order to give these people some way out, Wang Yi has to do L4 autonomous driving!

After all, Baidu’s Carrot Kuaipao leaves no room for survival, and Wang Yi’s L4 autonomous driving can be sold to experienced drivers of AutoNavi, giving them a stable income!

Let Amap take a taxi against Baidu’s Carrot Run!

Therefore, Wang Yi has to do both L2 and L4.

The advantage is that Wang Yi has Amap Navigation and Amap Taxi. It has advantages in database and driverless algorithm training that Huawei and Baidu do not have.

The simplest one is that in order to train self-driving algorithms, Baidu and Huawei need to get a lot of cars, run around every day, collect data, train algorithms, and iteratively update them from generation to generation.

Not just algorithm updates, but also device updates.
To be continued...