介绍:
: Terrill how far away are we from the technology of self driving becoming a reality and reaching consumers? As we’ve spoken about before; Tesla has its Autopilot system, Google has been experimenting with driverless cars and GM has also stepped in and made investments. Which company is best placed to be able to take advantage of the technology and bring it to a mass market?
Terrill Frantz: The reality is its here now. Theses cars are here now as we know from the recent Google crash. I think the governor of this idea is really going to be the legal system. I think legally this presents far more issues than the privacy of a smart phone. I think that’s going to be the limiting factor here.
Zhao Yang: One of the issues that car hailing companies have been having is in terms of classifying drivers in terms of what roles they play in the companies. Taking drivers out of the questions could potentially solve this problem. What are your thoughts?
Liu Baocheng: To respond to your previous question. Now we have a whole list of questions about when the autonomous car can be used on a massive scale. Some have forecast by 2020. Baidu by 2019. The Toyota will make a car available by 2020. So it seems like it is really something that is on the horizon already.
Terrill Frantz: One of the things that is special about this driverless car thing is that, in least in my experience, people enjoy driving. So you’re actually taking something away [Zhao Yang: That is why there is a car culture right?]. Yeah people collect cars and all that but, in the United States at least, driving on the highway fro two hours can be quite relaxing, believe it or not. So I’d say that it’s a large number of people, in the United States at least that enjoy driving at least to some extent. So you’re actually trying to take something away which actually adds more challenges when you’re trying to disrupt the industry.
Liu Baocheng: To that I have a slightly different opinion. People are actually very vulnerable to changes that are presented by businesses. People used to enjoy fighting. Now instead of going to war they design games to play ball. People have online games. Individuals are very vulnerable to the directions of businesses. The culture will change and the habits will change.
