Chapter 924 New Unmanned Driving Promotion Plan

At this time, Google’s pressure is very low. The more it is because other industries cannot do it, the more Google relies on advertising. At this time, 95% of Google’s profits come from advertising, and those few famous projects have been burning money. , no one can make money.

If you let Google give up advertising, it is tantamount to letting Google die.

"Is Ying Haiwei crazy?" Eric called Page and Brin to his office, and couldn't help complaining.

Paige's face was very ugly, and he said in a low voice, "Although I haven't fully figured out how Ying Haiwei will make money in the future, I can basically confirm that Ying Haiwei's profit point should be more on the enterprise side. .

Now both Taobao and Qingfeng.com search engines are developed by Ying Haiwei, and Ying Haiwei has opened up information channels with so many applications. Behind this is definitely a huge enterprise-side transaction.

Ying Haiwei no longer uses user traffic to earn corporate advertising fees, but uses user traffic to earn money in other aspects of the company. I heard that there are big data analysis services. "

Brin asked directly, "Is it possible for us to change the profit model now?"

"It's almost impossible." Page said bluntly, "Advertising profit has always been the foundation of the platform. Twitter, YouTube, all rely on advertising to make money. On our side in the United States, it can even be said that almost no one in our entire Western world tries to make money. Break this tradition.

It can only be said that Huaxia companies have always had more ideas on profit models. "

"Then maybe Ying Haiwei won't have a big impact on us this time purely from the advertisement?"

"No one can tell now, and Ying Haiwei not only gave up advertising, but also pushed the search engine forward a generation.

This is what users care most about. "

Page had to face the reality and said, "Our market share can no longer fall. Now both quantum computing and artificial intelligence are waiting for blood transfusion, and they have reached the most critical stage of development. The pressure is really high at this time. big."

"Consider another issuance of Class C shares. I'll talk to investors. Now I'll ensure cash flow first, and I'll have time to solve other problems." Eric quickly made a decision, because at this time Google There is no other choice.

The three had a meeting together all night, and they were about to have breakfast and go back to sleep at 5 o'clock in the morning, when the new news was handed to them.

Dafeng Group will sign a new unmanned driving promotion plan with a number of Chinese companies including Ying Haiwei. From January 1, 2019, Dafeng Group and these companies will accelerate the promotion of unmanned driving on a global scale. The promotion platform in the early stage is Fengxing.

"How does Fengxing have such a large market share now?" Eric looked at the data with some surprise, "It has more than doubled in a year?"

"Uber was caught in the storm of public opinion and couldn't extricate itself. Fengxing seized this opportunity and quickly annexed Uber's market. At this time, Uber has no chance to turn around."

Page is still puzzled, "But the previous Uber, to put it bluntly, has been relatively successful in four or five countries such as the United Kingdom and France, and has almost no advantage in the confrontation with local brands in other countries.

It's just that Uber has been relying on its rogue development model to force local brands in various countries to deal with it, creating the illusion that Uber has a relatively large global influence.

If Uber really falls down, it is reasonable to say that local brands in various countries should rise up. It is not Fengxing's turn to develop like this, right? "

"This is the difference between Fengxing and Uber. Uber will sell the market to local brands in exchange for certain shares if it fails to develop after it expands its business in a country. Uber has tasted the sweetness in China and Southeast Asia through this model, just like As you said, Uber is a rogue company, but it is indeed a very smart company that understands the capital operation rules of this era.

Fengxing, on the other hand, finds others to discuss cooperation after fighting with local companies, and spends a year or two laying the groundwork in each country to build a good relationship with the local government, so now more and more countries are appearing Fengxing and local brands are divided into two or three parts of the world.

Although Fengxin has hardly monopolized the online car-hailing market in any country, it is one of the top three leading companies in most countries, and its overall global market share is unmatched. "Brin still has a good understanding of Fengxing's situation.

Eric quickly understood the meaning behind these operations, "What Dafeng Group wants is not just money, but to use the market share opened up by Fengxing to promote more follow-up promotions, just like the current promotion of unmanned driving. Accelerate promotion."

"There will be a press conference in a while, let's watch the live broadcast first."

The three of them are not in the mood to go to bed now, they are eating breakfast while waiting for the press conference of Dafeng Group, Ying Haiwei and other companies.

At the press conference, Gu Junhui made a simple interpretation of the basis and purpose of this cooperation.

"The reason why we want to launch a new unmanned driving promotion plan in 2019 is due to the very successful market trials in 2018.

Since New Year's Day 2018, unmanned driving has become one of our core development directions. In less than a year, we have tested 3,200 unmanned vehicles around the world through Fengxing, and the total test process has exceeded 100 million kilometer.

In 2018, a large amount of data was provided for the deep learning algorithm of unmanned driving, and with the help of promotion in countries around the world, we can face more uncertain factors. After all, the environment, road construction, and surrounding facilities of different countries are different. In the same way, unmanned driving can be made smarter.

At the same time, in this year's trial, we not only trained the algorithm, but also continuously optimized the core components including lidar and millimeter-wave radar with the help of market data.

So now we have the confidence and ability to announce to you that starting from 2019, we will join forces with Yinghaiwei, BYD, Geely and other companies to start large-scale commercial mass production of advanced driverless cars.

There are two key words here. First, commercial mass production. We plan to mass-produce 100,000 driverless cars in 2019, and the number will gradually increase later.

Second, advanced driverless cars, in simple terms, are driverless cars that no longer require a safety officer.

And our unmanned driving commercial landing will start from Fengxing.

Starting from 2019, more users around the world can call unmanned online car-hailing through Fengxing.

We have 58 first cities in the world, including three cities in China, namely Hangzhou, Shanghai and Chang'an. "

Everyone has guessed what the new promotion plan is about. After all, it has been promoted to this point in 2018, but it is really confirmed that the result still cannot help but discuss.

"Huaxia Enterprise has taken another step ahead in a key field. This step is of great significance."

"No, this is a brand new field. Once unmanned driving starts mass production, it will affect the entire ecology. Take lidar as an example. Now Dafeng Group's lidar and Google's lidar are the most advanced in the industry. Admired two kinds of radar.

However, because the output of unmanned vehicles has been too small, the price of lidar has remained high. Now that Huaxia is the first to start mass production of unmanned vehicles, the price of lidar of Dafeng Group will naturally be reduced in the future, and then other unmanned automobile companies in the future. Naturally, it will give priority to the lidar of Dafeng Group.

Unless Google can have a great breakthrough, but it seems unlikely at present. "

"The high cost of self-driving cars is not only in spare parts, but also in operating costs.

Google said before that even if their Waymo starts large-scale commercial use, it will have to continue to burn money for at least 5 years, because Google does not have any relevant business operation experience.

And Google mentioned that the most likely early operation mode is to cooperate with online car-hailing platforms such as Uber and Didi.

However, Dafeng Group itself has the Fengxing online car-hailing platform with the highest market share in the world, which directly solves the profitability problem of large-scale commercial implementation.

Perfect advantage. "

"When I saw Dafeng Group's online car-hailing and live broadcasting, I felt that this company had to be involved in everything, but now it is increasingly discovered that all the industries that Dafeng Group is involved in have deeper meanings in the follow-up.

Google's unmanned driving failed to seize this opportunity, and it may really never have a chance to turn around. "