Chapter 336 Brave New World (Part 3)
The train is 73 kilometers long and stops at Johor Electronic City before heading to Kampung Town at full speed.
To some extent, the comprehensive urbanization strategy of the Sapiens company has greatly helped to increase the speed of trains because they do not need to stop at too many stations along the way.
46 minutes later, the train arrived at Kampung Town.
“Dear passengers, the train has arrived at Kampung City, please take your personal belongings with you.”
With the help of Zhao Jingcai, Chen Yanxiu and his family got off the bus smoothly, and then took the elevator back to the ground station.
Zhao Jingcai hailed a self-driving taxi and took Chen Yanxiu and his family to Block 204 in Kampung Chengnan.
Looking at the orderly traffic on the street, Chen Yanxiu found that there were many armed traffic police on the street. He asked curiously:
"Jingcai, the traffic control personnel here are equipped with rifles? Is it because everyone is armed?"
Zhao Jingcai turned the steering wheel and said, "The reason we carry guns is because the Ministry of Internal Security requires it. It is mainly to guard against foreign enemies and to be ready for war at any time."
"As for the idea of universal gun ownership, this is actually a misunderstanding. Only militias certified and reviewed by the Ministry of Internal Security are eligible to purchase firearms. Currently, there are about 150 million militias registered with the Ministry of Internal Security."
Haha, Chen Yanxiu was too tired to complain. How many people does the Sapiens company have? Even if the Dongba area and Mada Island are included, the population is only about 800 million.
150 million militiamen basically caught most of the young and middle-aged people.
In fact, the 150 million militiamen means that there are 150 million new humans within the Sapiens company, but new employees like Chen Yanxiu are not quite clear about the connection.
The car automatically slows down when it detects a traffic light ahead.
Chen Yanxiu, who was sitting in the passenger seat, also saw that Zhao Jingcai didn't seem to be doing anything and the car started to slow down on its own.
“Is this car self-driving?”
"No, it's assisted driving. It's mandatory to install. It's mainly to reduce traffic accidents. The department I work in is responsible for developing in-vehicle assistance computers."
“Will there be a risk of loss of control? It seems that those car companies engaged in autonomous driving do not have mature autonomous driving technology?”
Zhao Jingcai explained: "Don't worry! Our company's technology is already very mature. In fact, I think it can all be directly put into autonomous driving, but the headquarters does not seem to have approved autonomous driving. All vehicles are still required to use assisted driving mode."
Chen Yanxiu agrees with the approach of Sapiens. After all, the current autonomous driving technology still has some shortcomings and can easily cause concerns among the public.
He shared his thoughts: "Although the company's chip technology is great, it seems that autonomous driving requires advanced vehicle radar, right? I have seen that many car companies' tests are conducted in very ideal environments. In real driving environments, it is difficult for the vehicle computer to cope with all emergencies."
"You are correct, but our department has adopted another solution."
"Huh?" Chen Yanxiu was confused: "How do you solve it?" Suddenly he reacted: "Haha, if it involves confidential information, then just pretend I didn't ask."
The car stopped in front of the zebra crossing.
Zhao Jingcai smiled and replied: "It's not confidential. Even if you tell others, other car companies won't be able to imitate it."
Now, Chen Yanxiu also became interested: "Oh? What is the method?"
"You guys got the smart bracelet, right?"
"Smart bracelet?" Chen Yanxiu raised his hand, revealing the black smart bracelet: "Is there any secret in it?"
Zhao Jingcai explained: "All employee wristbands and mobile phones have built-in positioning functions. Similarly, all vehicles operating within the company also have built-in positioning functions. We use this positioning function to achieve autonomous driving."
"That means the company can determine everyone's location through wristbands and mobile phones?"
"That's right."
Chen Yanxiu suddenly thought of a question: "What if I forget to bring it? Or the bracelet and phone are out of battery?"
"No, there is an automatic voice reminder device at the door of your residence. Once it detects that you are not carrying your mobile phone bracelet with you, the system will automatically issue a voice reminder."
The car detects that the red light reading has returned to zero, then starts the motor and continues to move forward.
"As for running out of power, your mobile phone bracelet will also automatically remind you, and the company has equipped public chargers and shared power banks in various places, so it is quite difficult for your mobile phone to run out of power."
"Even if you really run out of power and there are no power banks around, there is still another option, which is to walk with someone who has a bracelet and a mobile phone, or simply walk on the sidewalk, so that motor vehicles cannot threaten you."
But Chen Yanxiu still had doubts: "What if a disobedient child ran onto the motorway without a bracelet? Wouldn't it be easy for an accident to happen?"
"That's why the company does not agree to promote autonomous driving immediately!" Zhao Jingcai shrugged helplessly.
In fact, neither of them knew that Sapiens planned to use pheromones and magnetic field radar in conjunction with autonomous driving in the future.
It’s just that the pheromone and magnetic field radar are kept confidential at this stage, so the autonomous driving project has been shelved.
Although Chen Yanxiu is somewhat concerned about the reliability of autonomous driving, he is still optimistic about this technology as an assisted driving technology.
"This technology is a good solution to reduce traffic accidents."
"Needless to say, at least speeding, drunk driving, fatigue driving , running red lights, overloading, intentional dangerous driving and other situations are directly prevented by the assistance system."
Since Sapiens promoted assisted driving , traffic accidents around the world have dropped by 99%, leaving only a small number of traffic accidents caused by mechanical failures and wild animals.
Although some car owners complain that the assisted driving is too rigid, the company wants the assistance system to be a bit rigid.
After all, many people have a devil hidden in their hearts.
In many car accidents, countless accidents are caused by drivers losing control of their emotions, especially those violent drivers with road rage.
In addition, female drivers who are prone to brain freezes are also a high-risk group for traffic accidents.
The existence of the assisted driving system is to reduce human abnormal factors during the driving process.
Safety is the development direction that automobiles should pursue.
Currently, all the automobile manufacturing subsidiaries of Zhiren Company have put a lot of effort into various safety measures.
For the Sapiens company, the life of every employee is actually the company's property. In order to protect these properties that can continue to work for the company, specializing in researching some safe cars is also a reasonable strategy.
Only with the assisted driving system did Zhao Jing dare to chat while driving.
Twenty minutes later, the car arrived at the destination.
Zhao Jingcai got out of the car, took off his suitcase, and pointed to a residential building not far away: "We're here. The building next to the crocodile statue in front is yours."
Chen Yanxiu took a look around and found that the buildings here all looked the same from the outside. Fortunately, there were neon signs with numbers hanging above the buildings.
Moreover, there will be an animal statue at the entrance of each residential building, and different fruit trees will be planted around it to make it easier for residents to find their way.
Liu Meizhu held her little daughter in her arms and came to the bronze statue of the Malayan crocodile. After posing, she took a selfie.
"Let's go. We still have to buy daily necessities later." Chen Yanxiu took his son and walked towards the gate of the residential building with .
