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Unmanned food delivery vehicles and unmanned express delivery vehicles can only grab some good orders that do not require delivery to doors or homes.

However, those "troublesome orders" that need to be taken upstairs and delivered to homes still need the responsibility of riders and couriers.

But driverless taxis are different.

As the accuracy of maps continues to improve, all the orders that taxi drivers can run can be run by Luobo Kuaipao after several generations of development, and it has some advantages!

For example, driverless taxis will not take detours maliciously or refuse passengers. No matter how far or near you are, or how bad the weather is, they will pick you up after receiving the order.

Unlike some drivers who accept orders but decide not to take them because the distance is short and they cannot make money, forcing passengers to cancel the orders themselves or increase the fare.

Nor will they be like some drivers who accept a fixed-price order, act sarcastic all the way because they are dissatisfied about not making any money, do not turn on the air conditioner even on hot days, and annoy passengers.

There is no need to worry about encountering unscrupulous drivers and being in personal danger. After all, there is no driver and the price is cheaper.

Some people may worry that once Luobo Kuaipao defeats taxis and online ride-hailing services and monopolizes the industry, it will quickly raise prices and start reaping the rewards, and the prices may even be more expensive than taxis and online ride-hailing services!

Actually, there is no need to worry about this.

The driverless taxi industry cannot be monopolized and is a profitable business. If Baidu can make a profit on the first day, Huawei, BYD and other companies can make a profit on the fifteenth day.

By then, multiple brands of driverless taxis will be operating simultaneously on the market, all at low cost. It would be good enough if they don't engage in price wars to win customers. How could there be a crazy price increase?

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

700 million taxi drivers are also facing the risk of unemployment.

But there is no way. The wheel of time is moving forward relentlessly and will crush everything ruthlessly. No one can stop the wheel with a mantis arm.

Like in the previous life, even if Baidu didn’t do the Carrot Run, other companies would do it.

Even if domestic companies do not make driverless taxis, foreign companies will.

This cannot be changed or prevented.

The ultimate beneficiaries are hundreds of millions of passengers, who can take taxis with better service and lower prices, which may even save them money compared to driving their own gasoline cars to work, after all, the cost of fuel and parking fees are not small.

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

And Gaode Taxi is on the verge of bankruptcy!

A common saying is that if you lose your job, the worst that can happen is you drive for Didi.

It is this sentence that has led to the over-saturation of the online ride-hailing industry.

Even without Carrot Run, online ride-hailing services are oversaturated, revenues are declining, and people are constantly joining!

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

But a tree that is not moved will die, but a person who moves will live.

If you can’t make it in the online ride-hailing business anymore, you can try other industries. There is always a way out.

After all, there is still a shortage of people in many industries.

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

Not to mention being over the age limit...migrant workers don't even have a pension, nor is there any concept of retirement, so it's very normal for them to work until they are over 60.

Young people in their twenties and thirties would rather drive for Didi or deliver food than work on construction sites, leading to a labor shortage.

Once these migrant workers in their 50s and 60s retire and the young people stop working on the construction sites, it will be completely over.

After all, the city needs renovation and development now. It will also need renovation ten years from now, and even twenty years from now.

And all this requires migrant workers.

The emergence of driverless taxis has cut off the way of driving online ride-hailing vehicles. The emergence of driverless express and food delivery vehicles has reduced the demand for couriers and riders, and has also forced some young people to return to construction sites.

It's cruel, but there's nothing we can do about it.

You have to choose between working hard at a construction site and earning 8,000 yuan, or working overtime in the office and earning 4,000 yuan.

At present, Baidu is already deploying autonomous driving research and development.

More than ten years later, Baidu's Carrot Run developed rapidly and became increasingly popular, and Wang Yi's AutoNavi Taxi went bankrupt!

With the development of the times like this, Wang Yi is powerless to compete.

No matter how well AutoNavi Taxi performs, it cannot withstand Baidu's driverless taxis that operate 24 hours a day.

There is only one solution, and that is for Xingyi Technology to step in and develop AI driverless algorithms on its own and become the "Carrot Runner" itself!

You must plan early and start planning now.

The main task of Xingyi's AI algorithm department is to develop unmanned driving and large AI models.

A few years later, the accuracy of Amap will be improved to a terrifying level, and Wang Yi will also launch driverless cars, but he will not directly destroy the jobs of online car-hailing and taxi companies.

After all, Gaode Taxi is also its own business, and Wang Yi will not directly let the online taxi drivers who have worked for Gaode for many years become unemployed.

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

At that time, Gaode will take half of the money earned by driverless taxis every day, and the other half will be given to the drivers.

Maybe the commission will be less than before when the car was driven every day, but at least they can get the money without driving every day, which is also a good thing.

With this income while sleeping, online ride-hailing drivers can retire early or do other jobs more securely and will not be unemployed instantly.

Of course, this offer is only available to Gaode drivers with more than five years of service, and it does not apply to new drivers like Wang Yi.

Otherwise, there will inevitably be a large number of people who originally did not want to drive online ride-hailing cars who temporarily join Gaode drivers in order to earn this "passive income".

That would be a mess.

What Wang Yi did was just to seek benefits for old employees so that they would not be collectively unemployed and left without support in their old age. It was not charity.

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

Autonomous driving is accomplished by algorithms, but this algorithm is not something that can be created in one go. Instead, it is a large model that is trained and upgraded over many years!

For example, will Baidu’s Carrot Run really only be operational in 2024?

No, as early as 2020, Luobokuaipao started operations in some areas such as the capital and Changsha.

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

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

Although Baidu's autonomous driving and LuoBoKuaipao had a low presence in the past few years, they are very powerful. In the field of L4 autonomous driving, they are the world's top companies and are far ahead.

Huawei, Tesla, Xiaopeng and other companies all have L2 conditional autonomous driving, which is also called assisted driving.

Of course, this does not mean that Baidu is better than Huawei and Tesla. It can only be said that they are two different tracks.

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

The L2 autonomous driving of Huawei, Tesla and other companies is assisted driving and cannot be done without people. It cannot be truly unmanned like Carrot Run. However, with the powerful combination of software and hardware, it can adapt to more road conditions and is not restricted by maps.