Chapter 871

The display of Hangzhou 5G smart city has caused more and more people to flock to Hangzhou to experience the style of the world's first 5G smart city.

Among them, the one that attracts the most attention from young people is no different from cloud games, and another thing that makes young people squeeze their heads and want to experience it is unmanned online car-hailing.

Under the coordination of multiple parties, Hangzhou has truly become the country's first driverless online car-hailing test city, and a large-scale trial operation began on January 1, 2018.

However, although it is a large-scale trial operation, Fengxing has invested a total of 1,000 vehicles, which is obviously in short supply for a city with a population of several million. Condition.

However, the Dafeng Group is not capable of solving this problem, so it can only let everyone wait.

Almost half a month later, tens of thousands of users have experienced unmanned online car-hailing, and the first batch of unmanned online-hailing cars are equipped with safety officers. This is a process that cannot be canceled. Influence, but overall it still satisfies everyone's novelty-seeking mentality.

After a period of trial in Hangzhou, some overseas countries have also passed the trial application of Fengxin unmanned driving.

The first country to open up was Singapore.

And the popularity of unmanned driving is also stimulating the popularity of Fengxing. Gu Junhui, who has always been worried about Uber's chaos in the Chinese online car-hailing market, took advantage of the popularity of Fengxing's unmanned online car-hailing business and began to operate frantically overseas. Fengxing It has become the largest brand sponsor of the 2018 World Cup.

Gu Junhui's displeasure with Uber began to explode.

It is a coincidence for Uber that Fengxing is making efforts at this time. The founder of Uber, Travis Kalanick, was recently dismissed by the board of directors for negative news such as harassment of female employees by many people in the company, monitoring the information of law enforcement officers, and insulting the drivers of his own platform. Forced to resign as CEO.

However, after Kalanick resigned, he has been interfering in the company's development as a member of the board of directors. The new CEO Dara Khosrowshahi has not gained a firm foothold at Uber. It can be said that Uber is undergoing an internal adjustment period.

And Uber’s external situation also just encountered a major adjustment. Germany, Spain, the United Kingdom and other countries have raised dissatisfaction with Uber and even asked Uber to leave. Although Uber used some very clever tricks, such as Uber POP in Spain because of violation When it was banned, Uber canceled Uber POP, and then put an Uber X on the shelves. Finally, everyone found that Uber X was Uber POP with a different vest.

But he is not a fool, this kind of trick can be fooled for a while but not for a lifetime.

The most important thing is that the development of Uber in the past two years has been too chaotic. Even the native country of the United States has begun to suppress Uber. Therefore, in another time and space, 2018 is a critical year for Uber's transformation. After this year, Uber has become more and more popular internationally. The more smooth it is, but in this time and space, it happened that Fengxing made such a move at the beginning of the year.

"Fengxing has always focused its development on Asia before, and our development focus is on Omi, so we haven't had too much positive confrontation, but this time, Fengxing has focused on the European market, and deliberately imported from the UK, Germany, and Spain. A few countries will start." Khosrowshahi was inexplicably uneasy at the thought of confronting the Gale Group, after all, he had just taken office not long ago, and he definitely didn't want to meet such a difficult opponent.

"Specifically select the countries that have recently adopted policies to suppress us." Kalanick saw through it at a glance, "But don't these countries allow private car drivers without business licenses to operate online car-hailing services? How does Fengxing solve this problem? Do you also cooperate with taxi drivers?"

"Well, Fengxing's development has always maintained a close cooperation with taxis, which makes Fengxing's overseas development a lot less troublesome, but the biggest feature of Fengxing is its self-built driver team."

"Self-built team? Have they moved overseas what they played in China? Even moved to Europe?" Kalanick was also a little surprised.

Kalanick immediately picked up a detailed map of Fengxing's overseas development in the Asian market in the past two years. From the perspective of Fengxing's development in Asian countries, Fengxing really built its own team in each country, and actively approached the local government to discuss driver business. Licensing issues, well received.

"The advantage of Internet companies lies in their light assets. Fengxing builds its own team everywhere. Doesn't this increase the cost of expansion and increase the burden on the enterprise? It's fine to play locally, but how can it be possible to expand at such a speed overseas? quick?"

This is indeed difficult for Kalanick to understand. The self-built team is taking the long-term model of fishing for big fish, which will definitely affect the speed of development in the early stage. Many countries have their own online car-hailing platforms, and Fengxing has its own in China. Home field advantage, but how did China win the competition?

This is where Kalanick, a standard asset-light Internet thinker, finds it incredible.

In the end, an answer Kalanick didn't want to face was in front of him, "Because Dafeng Group has money."

A company like Uber has always been in a state of loss. Its operating expenses are all financed, which means that it must develop rapidly, and then use the market for financing, and then continue to burn money. Once the speed of expansion slows down , Once the number of users does not increase, it will not be able to raise funds. This is one of the reasons why Uber left China. The Huaxia government ended up demanding regulations. Uber could not expand wildly under the requirements of such regulations, let alone Dafeng Group and Didi are both masters who can burn money.

However, Fengxing’s development model is completely different from Uber’s. Fengxing is supported by Dafeng Entertainment. It does not need financing, data, or rush to grab the market. In the country, the first two years are to build the foundation, and there is no need to think about traffic or money. Building the foundation well is the company's biggest requirement. Fengxing looks at long-term development and is a strategic project.

This is also the reason why Gu Junhui hates Uber so much and can only exert his strength until now. The foundation in Europe has not been established before, so he can't rush to give away the head.

Only then did Kalanick realize that Fengxing had already arrived in the European market, but he had been building the foundation before, and he ignored Fengxing's actions.

The biggest advantage of Fengxing’s model is that once the foundation is established, it will have in-depth connections with governments and the taxi industry in various countries. It will be difficult for other online car-hailing platforms to follow Fengxing. The National Gale Group that cannot be connected will give up directly.

But at the moment, Kalanick only sees the flaws of this model, "The Dafeng Group still took too much time to build the foundation. Although a lot of things did happen last year, we have already communicated with the governments of various countries. We just got the latest financing at the end of last year, and now the technical team has been built. Next, we just need to complete our original plan according to the plan.

Dafeng Group wants to take a standardized route, but we are actually taking a standardized route now. He has discussed the cooperation model with the governments of various countries, and we have also discussed the cooperation models with the governments of various countries.

But we have the user base, they don't.

How long will it take for the technical department to complete our security system? "

"About half a year should be enough, and it will be improved gradually later."

"Give them a little pressure to make the product as soon as possible. It is almost impossible for Fengxing to snatch users from us with just one specification within a few months." After calming down, Kalanick still felt that the situation Relatively stable, not too worried about the impact of the Gale Group.

Khosrowshahi, who listened to Kalanick's analysis of the situation, gradually felt that what Kalanick said made sense. After all, Uber's user base in the Omi market is so strong. The troubles encountered last year were basically settled, but it took about half a year. adjustment period.

Now it’s just that we encountered Fengxing during the adjustment period. In fact, if you think about it carefully, Uber’s fate is good. If Fengxing started to make efforts a year earlier, with Fengxing’s normative nature, Uber might have really suffered a big crime last year.

Thinking of this, Khosrowshahi also felt relieved, and immediately began to formulate detailed rules for the response.

The international stations of Fengxing and Uber were on the verge of breaking out, but just when the war was about to start, a piece of news suddenly broke out in the American media.

"Thousands of Uber Riders Will File a Class Action Lawsuit Against Uber."

A big variable has emerged.