In the past two years, China ’s most popular startup projects and the most crazy business stories are the radical expansion and rapid silence of ofo and Mobike in the field of bicycle sharing.
However, the failure of a commercial company does not represent the failure of a business model and the emptiness of user needs. After all, the problem of the “last mile” in travel still exists. However, in many cases, the problem of the “last mile” is actually likely to be the “last two kilometers”: Many community gates will use the initial A4 paper to write “Shared bicycles are not allowed inside.”
For many very large communities like Tiantongyuan, which is the first choice for Beibuo to buy a house, it usually takes more than ten minutes to walk from home to the door of the community. In a space without shared bicycles, both feet become the best gift to nature for commuters.
What about the community driverless car experience?
Many communities actually have shuttle buses in the community, but sometimes waiting for a bus is like waiting for a man who does n’t like to go home: when you wait, he is at someone else ’s house; he decides not to wait After sleeping, he came quietly, without any sound.
In fact, the closed community environment is very suitable for unmanned experiments, and it can also be said to be a natural applicable scenario for unmanned driving.
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Yai Faner experienced a hachi auto drone that was already in use in the field ivy community on the outskirts of Guangzhou.For commuters, for other people who are far away from driverless experiments, this may be the closest to driverless driving. After all, many owners here have experienced it.
Unlike many vehicles that have various sensors installed on mature sedan models for driverless road tests, this hachi auto driverless commuter vehicle running in the community is designed for driverless commute in the community For example, it is difficult to distinguish between positive and negative symmetrical design styles, there is no steering wheel, only a touch screen, pure electric power, body lines with some sense of technology, and so on.
Just jokingly, this Hachi auto driverless commuter from Field Group is very much like a futuristic community battery car.
In the actual experience, we also boarded this compact driverless commuter car and ran back and forth in the community.
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Due to legal restrictions, although it is called a self-driving car, there is actually one employee in each car, but the identity of the employee is a security officer and concierge, not a driver. The test ride experience is quite easy. Basically, waiting for the bus at the platform, the car comes to open the door with a button, enters the door and sits on the tablet to select the station, then arrives at the station, the door opens automatically, and then gets off.
This automatic self-help experience is quite friendly to young people in the community. You do n’t need to beckon at the battery car, and you do n’t need to chase the car and shout “Master, wait for me”.
Positive owners of the community need to be more automated and Internet-based. It is probably to log in on the app, send a ride request, send a car in the background, and choose the place where passengers board and get off. After you are ready, you can choose face recognition to get in or get in the car, and finally get off at the station. This is basically a fully automated “didi taxi” for the community, knowing where the car is and how far away it is from you.
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The area of the first phase of the field trial of the unmanned vehicle is not large, and the driving route is only 5 stations. According to the current speed of 10 kilometers per hour, it can go from beginning to end in a few minutes.
Is this a good way to solve the “last mile” in the community?
Before that, Ai Faner reported various unmanned scenarios and experiments. For example, we took a modified version of the unmanned Mondeo in the large test park in Detroit, and also reported that Baidu unmanned Driving a car does n’t matter if you drive the car on the fifth ring road, but it ’s really the first time you have seen unmanned driving in the community.
Human intelligence and stupidity are beyond imagination. When it comes to driving, human beings are smart because they can adapt to the environment and road conditions, and stupid is that human beings can do dangerous behaviors like cars. In contrast, unmanned driving is a purely rational driving behavior driven by hardware, data and algorithms. Community scenes and highway traffic scenesThere are large differences in traffic rules, types of traffic participants, and behavioral characteristics, resulting in mixed traffic in the community and children and pets running on the road, so this means that hardware and algorithms need to be targeted for adjustments .
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▲ A multi-line radar
In the body sensor configuration, the hachi auto is equipped with four 16-wire lidars on the front and rear, two on the front of the car, two on the rear, and a single-line lidar and a monocular camera. As for positioning, a 3D laser point cloud-based solution and a GPS-assisted solution are used. Before putting into operation, you don’t need to build antenna base stations like the RTK positioning method, you only need to collect 3D lidar point cloud information in advance to build high-precision maps.
Finally, a hachi auto with a top speed of 25 kilometers per hour is designed to achieve low-speed L4 level unmanned driving in community scenarios.
▲ Automatic obstacle avoidance test
Although the top speed of 25 kilometers per hour is only a little faster than the Kenyan Erud Kipjog, who represented the human race in the first time in 2 hours, the road to the city can only be seen by others “The world in the rear-view mirror says farewell farther and farther”, but in the community scene, speed is not the first pursuit, safety is. For example, the current test speed of 10 kilometers per hour is almost the level of leisurely cycling. The advantage of low speed is that it can effectively control the braking distance. In a more sudden situation, such as when a big head son suddenly breaks the hands of a small head dad and runs into the driveway, a hachi auto can stop at a distance of 30 cm to 1 m from a person.
In addition to exchanging safety at a lower speed, formulating safety warning plans, and equipping with on-board safety personnel, the real estate company Field Group also provides community unmanned commuter car insurance. In general, at the beginning of the trial operation, it was still Efficiency is second, safety is first.
As mentioned earlier, in the community, especially in large communities, in terms of closed environment and “last mile” demand, it is naturally the first land suitable for driverless cars. If you do a good job in intelligent and Internet, the experience must be better than walking or the current shuttle bus. Sun Leizhi, the person in charge of the strategic ecology of unmanned vehicles at the Institute of Field Engineering and Technology told Ai Fan’er that this community unmanned vehicle project had a good test run in the Guangzhou Ivy League community, and multiple communities in the field group will also follow up on unmanned vehicles car.
Few people will deny that the right to drive a car in the future will be given to the computer. Before this future comes, someone must first give the right to drive to the computer, but what is surprising is that this is actually caused by A real estate company to do it.