A layman watches the excitement, while an expert sees the tricks.

The wonderful debut of the driverless bus in Sucheng only provides new topics for ordinary netizens.

But companies like alphabet, Baidu, Tesla, General Motors, Uber, Apple, Toyota, Intel, etc., almost lost their eyes.

Behind the unmanned driving technology shown by Xinghai is the comprehensive leadership of Xinghai Technology in various fields such as cameras, computer vision, radar sensors, navigation and path planning.

It has reached the point of beating all companies, or in other words, they are no longer on the same technical level as Xinghai Technology.

But how is this possible?

The United States has been studying autonomous driving technology since the 1970s, and the domestic National University of Defense Technology also entered this field in the 1990s.

And what about Xinghai Technology?

They were only established for more than three years, how could they be ahead of them so quickly?

I won’t talk about the software. Chen Xu is the winner of the Turing Award and has also developed the world’s first intelligent software. He may have mastered some technology that is under the control field and has not been announced.

However, many companies think that they are much ahead of Xinghai Technology in environment perception equipment such as cameras and satellite navigation. They don’t understand how Xinghai Technology is able to stand out?

This is a fantasy.

But no matter how hard they don’t believe it, it’s useless. Sucheng driverless buses are running on various roads in the city. Facts are better than words. They are indeed inferior to others.

I don’t know what the foreign company is feeling for the time being, but when Baidu founder Li Yanhong heard the news, he seemed to have grown ten years old overnight.

The former Baidu was the leader of the bat, which was worthy of its name. Fujixun and Ah Liba were just children, but as time went by, the grave grass once "I don't decide on Baidu" had already reached ten feet high.

Six major profit sectors, social networking (Titaiba), comprehensive information (Baidu News and Baijiahao), maps (whiteness map), browsers (whiteness browser), videos (iQiyi), and artificial intelligence (unmanned driving.

Now, except for unmanned driving + map, the rest are basically in their twilight years and are shaking.

Li Yanhong has always fantasized about using artificial intelligence to overtake and recreate his past glory. He has high hopes for unmanned driving technology. He even had confidence in 2019 because he was the first to get an unmanned driving license.

But what we waited for in the end was this result.

Baidu has no hope of rising again.

Li Yanhong felt as if he was dead.

The facts were just as he expected.

After Xinghai Technology entered the search field, Baidu's stock price continued to fall, from the original US$30 billion to US$20 billion.

After Xinghai launched its powerful autonomous driving technology, Baidu's stock price fell by 10 percentage points again.

But no one cares anymore.

Baidu has long been like an outdated star, becoming a past tense, no one cares about whether he is dead or alive.

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Sucheng Wusongjiang Science and Technology Park, Xinghai Group Headquarters.

When the first show of driverless bus in Sucheng was a complete success, Lan Xi formed a strong sales team and went all over the country to discuss cooperation agency matters with local governments or enterprises.

As for overseas markets, the overall environment is not yet mature at present. After all, not every country has introduced policies like China to support driverless driving, and it involves many interests.

Just like mobile payment, how convenient and fast? However, most countries in the world do not support it, such as Europe, America, Japan and South Korea. Because mobile payment has moved the interests of big capital.

Xinghai Technology’s driverless technology has certainly touched the interests of many people.

However, Xinghai relied on his powerful strength to suppress all the opposition voices. For example, the Sucheng government actually had opposition voices at the beginning, but the top leader and the provincial government had already unified their opinions.

Finally, Sucheng became a demonstration city for driverless buses.

After the regular meeting in the morning, Chen Yanan, who was promoted to deputy director of the project department, went to the Alloy Manufacturing Department of the Institute of Materials Science on the fifth floor.

The huge laboratory is filled with various cutting-edge research equipment. Chen Xu, wearing a dust-free suit, is talking to Dr. Yang Xuantong, the head of the Materials Research Institute.

Chen Xu asked, "What's the matter?"

Chen Yanan said: "The technical department has developed a strong electromagnetic wireless charging module dedicated to buses. We plan to launch wireless charging buses and wireless charging piles in the near future. What do you think?"

Chen Xu asked: "Is the bus an electromagnetic ground pile?"

The so-called electromagnetic ground pile is to bury electromagnetic induction strips 5 cm underground of the bus station and connect them to the power grid. The car can charge when entering the station.

However, the charging effect of electromagnetic ground piles is not good. Currently, only Hanguo in Asia has opened a dedicated line.

"No~ it's not that troublesome." Chen Yanan shook her head, took out her mobile phone from her pocket, and found the design drawing for Chen Xu to see, "It's like a lamppost, with a height of about 3 meters. It is set up on the bus stop and the wireless charging module we developed is arranged on the top."

After pausing, Chen Yanan said, "Compared with traditional electromagnetic ground piles, my technology is more advanced, the charging speed is faster, and it has the possibility of commercialization."

Chen Xu looked at the design drawings for a while, returned the phone to Chen Yanan, and said with a smile: "The design is OK. You can find a pilot city to experiment, but there is no need for large-scale experiments for the time being. Now we should focus on the new battery."

Chen Yanan asked, "What are you referring to?"

Dr. Yang Xuantong next to him smiled and said, "Mr. Chen is talking about graphene batteries."

"Graphene battery?" Chen Yanan asked a question, and then said, "This thing is difficult to achieve in a short period of time."

As the project director of a technology company, Chen Yanan is naturally very familiar with international cutting-edge technology.

She knew that graphene batteries were developed by using the characteristics of lithium ions to quickly and extensively shuttle between the graphene surface and electrodes.

According to data released by many laboratories around the world, graphene batteries store three times the power of the best products in the market. Electric vehicles that use this battery to provide electricity can travel up to 1,000 kilometers, and their charging time is less than 10 minutes.

The second is to resist cold and heat, minus 100 degrees Celsius, which can achieve 50,000 stable cycles, and will not catch fire or explode even if the battery cell is exposed to the flame.

There is also a long life span. According to the most conservative estimate, graphene batteries can last at least 10 years.

It can be said that graphene batteries are the future development direction of the battery industry.

However, the situation of graphene and nanomaterials is very similar. Many of the special properties of graphene are based on its monolayer structure, but there is no hope for batch acquisition of a graphite monolayer with an atomic thickness in the next ten years.

In other words, even if graphene batteries are made, they will be very expensive due to their complex preparation processes.

However, what Chen Yanan did not expect was that Yang Xuantong said unsurprisingly: "We have developed a new type of CVD device that can realize the continuous preparation of single-layer graphene, with a length of up to 500 meters.

In theory, we can already mass-produce graphene batteries…”
Chapter completed!