Help all mankind

Chapter 39

The Tieniu X, priced at 35,000 yuan, benefited from the promotion of old customers and the pricing strategy. It sold 20,000 units in a few months, although it did not make much profit as agricultural equipment.

At this price, the automated farming function is worth it, and most people will not leave the equipment so idle after the planting season.

Customers are very enthusiastic about various other uses. Tieniu X can record the GPS coordinates of several locations on the screen, and then it can move from one place to another without an unmanned operation.

The Beidou GPS system does not need to be connected to the network. This function can be used offline at any time.

However, in the early days of Tieniu X, when the driverless mode was activated, the user's mobile phone was still required to install an APP, so that there was a way for feedback.

Gradually, the company's server received more and more various data. Liang Shicheng sought to improve by observing these data.

First of all, there is no accident in the entire unmanned driving system. The program code extracted by the universal editor is very reliable, and the program code used in the later period is from a carefully selected group of drivers with more than 30 years of driving experience, and there has been no accident. Old driver.

Looking at the feedback data of nearly 20,000 electric tractors, Liang Shicheng quickly discovered a problem. The original design of the Tieniu X, which can travel 120 kilometers with one charge, is far from the actual situation in many cases. When this number is reached, the battery is almost exhausted.

The employees in the company disagreed and explained that this was not a design problem, but that many road sections in the countryside were rugged, or some road sections had uphill slopes that required additional power consumption.

Faced with this problem, Liang Shicheng personally led a team to investigate the countryside. This is not a problem that easily attracts the attention of others, or it is just common sense.

For traditional cars, traveling the same mileage, bumpy roads need to consume more gasoline, of course, the same is true for electric cars, and they have to endure the bumps along the way.

But he is still a little unwilling, hoping to make improvements on this issue.

Things quickly turned around. I found an old man using a manual wheelchair in the country by accident. The old man was experienced when the wheel encountered a stone, he first accelerated and then forced in the opposite direction, so the wheelchair seemed more stable throughout the process.

Inspired by this, and extracted the old man's program code in this process, a patch package is in the making.

A motor controlled by a circuit only needs one conversion of the control chip to change from a motor to a generator.

And from being connected to the high-voltage battery power supply circuit, it is transformed into series with other low-voltage empty batteries.

The whole process can be carried out thousands of times per second, and the rough road is equivalent to very small uphills and downhills in some cases.

In order to maintain the overall stability of the car without major changes in speed, it is necessary to increase the force uphill and use force in the opposite direction like the old man.

For Tieniu X, it can instantly switch to generator mode in the latter case to recover a little power resource.

In the end, this patch allowed Tie Niu X to increase its range in rough road conditions and improve car stability.

After finishing all these things, Liang Shicheng intends to reorganize this agricultural equipment company and integrate it into another artificial intelligence company, Yilong Technology, in order to facilitate the listing to raise more funds.

He is ready to enter the field of driverless electric vehicles from scratch in a few years, and is ready to find a reliable hand to take care of, and then he can study other fields with peace of mind.

At present, the purpose of making Tieniu X running all over the street, in addition to checking whether there are any shortcomings in this system that needs improvement, another important purpose is to prepare for listing.

More money is needed to develop driverless electric vehicles.

Before a company goes public, it must show itself as much as possible.

This will consume fewer shares and raise more funds.

The real purpose of the Tieniu X project is to show the strength of this artificial intelligence company to the outside world, whether it is the various praises and uploading experience of users, or the road between it and the city and the countryside, and the good performance record. A reassurance for investors.

For the field of electric vehicles, Liang Shicheng intends to give himself five years. He has this patience, but he has no time.

The influence of Tieniu X has been noticed by two other companies, and they attach great importance to this issue.

Two passers-by respectively ordered nearly 10 Tieniu X at one go, and a batch of them were sent to a certain domestic electric vehicle research and development center.

Another batch was packed into containers and has already traveled overseas.

At the same time, one of the companies is also anxiously seeking partners, they are anxious.

One day, Yilong Technology received a letter of intent from an electric vehicle company called Lingdong, which roughly stated that it hoped to acquire Yilong Technology.

Of course, Liang Shicheng decisively rejected this matter, and later received an invitation from this company again.

Lingdong is an established company in the field of electric vehicles, focusing on high-end models. Their latest product is Fengshen 27, which is a luxury model, but the initial price was 550,000. As a result, no one cares about it. Now it is looking for new ones. Way out.

If you can no longer find a suitable selling point for this car, this product will only face the risk of delisting and clearing up at a loss. All previous investments will be invalidated, and Lingdong will face a huge financial crisis at that time.

"Our electric cars are very different from all other products. Since the beginning of the design, an important issue has been taken into consideration, and that is the sound.

Road noise, wind noise, compressors, and finally the engine, the noise they produce has only been with the car since the birth of the car, until now.

But starting today, our flagship model of Atom, Fengshen 27, will completely end this era!"

As soon as the voice fell, a large number of digital video bloggers walked into the factory of Atom under the leadership of Mr. Mu Xin, the CEO of Atom.

And came to a research institute dedicated to noise research in the company park.

Next, they will see a variety of noise comparison tests between Fengshen 27 and similar competitors.

In order to study ways to reduce noise, Atom has invested heavily in the construction of this research institute.

At the same time, several employees handed the newly produced promotional video to the company's CEO Mr. Mu Xin. Although the promotional video has not been released yet, as CEO Mu Xin has no confidence.

He had already foreseen in advance that the effect of these propaganda would not be too ideal.

Fengshen 27 is a product he has worked hard in the past few years, but according to market research, consumers do not pay the bill.

The advantages of Fengshen 27 are actually many. The company has always spared no effort to introduce the characteristics of its products to the outside world. There is no problem in terms of quality, but the reality is cruel, and the opponent's products are too bright.

If time goes back another 5 years, everything Tesla’s CEO says may be taken as a joke by others, but these jokes are being fulfilled one by one.

With the exception of Tesla's rising stocks in recent years, the rest is the survival crisis that friends are gradually feeling.