What I learn from this week's emerging technology class - week eleven

 What's up, everyone!


Today, let's talk about something happening in China: self-driving vehicles.


In the middle of this month, “Apollo Go” has been put into operation in a large number of 20 cities, including Beijing, Shanghai, Chongqing, Jinan and Wuhan, to start trial operation, of which Wuhan is the largest driverless operation city. The most significant selling point of “Apollo Go” is its low price, which soon hit the Wuhan cab market. Its cost is very cheap, about 3 or 4 yuan (about 0.4 to 0.55 U.S. dollars) for 10 kilometres, a kilometre contract of 30 or 40 cents (about 0.04 to 0.055 U.S. dollars), which has a significant impact on the cab market, especially on the Internet taxi constitute a fatal blow. Because both have the same way of hailing a taxi, the starting price of an online cab is 7 yuan (about 0.96 U.S. dollars), and the starting distance is 2 kilometres, which directly pushes the online taxis into a corner.


On the one hand, this driverless technology affects the lives of other drivers carrying passengers, such as Uber and taxi drivers. On the other hand, the technology behind it is still immature. Multiple traffic accidents have caused the people of China great apprehension about this technology. They believe that technology should not rob them of the jobs they depend on and should not risk the lives and safety of the people.


What's even funnier is to have the netizens reveal that the backend of this technology is being monitored by someone in real-time who can ensure that there is human intervention while the AI is malfunctioning.😂






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