Abstract:
I couldn’t receive express delivery in the past, so I most likely suspected that the package was lost. Now I can't receive the express delivery, maybe it was detained by the dog. Yes, I’m talking about dogs in the literal sense.
Please see the crime scene:
The Three Kingdoms Party said that this was the battle between the Three Heroes and Lu Bu, the Digital Party said that it was the first time for a puppy to play with electronic products, and the Details Party analyzed that the black dog kept running on three legs.
This is just the tip of the iceberg of jokes about unmanned delivery vehicles.
The world of cyberpunk is much more lively than the human world. Why stop in the middle of the road and shout battle...
Sometimes, I feel like there is a Lu Xun living in their CPU.
Repeatedly find out between 0 and 1, "In fact, there is no road on the ground. When there are more people walking, it becomes a road."
As a result, they sometimes appear on motorized lanes, sometimes on non-motorized lanes, sometimes park directly on the road, and occasionally walk on the sidewalk. The main theme is to be unexpected, love exploration, and go their own way.
Retrograde...
Walking the zebra crossing...
However, in Shichao's eyes, after the sentence "go your own way", there is another half sentence that leaves others with no way to go.
For example, during the morning rush hour, the bus suddenly stopped in the middle of the road, blocking the road and preventing me from clocking in in time.
But recently, I found that I have looked down on these conspicuous bags...
Not only are these small cars proliferating crazily in Hangzhou visible to the naked eye, but capital is also surprisingly optimistic. A few days ago, the self-driving company Neolix completed its E-round financing, raising nearly US$400 million, and its cumulative financing exceeded 10 billion.
While being a funny guy in short videos, he is also crazy about making money in the capital market. People are becoming more and more curious about it:
Are all roads accessible to it now? What should I do if it overturns? What should you do if you hit someone with a car? Will it replace the courier guy?
Okay, let’s study it.
If the car overturns, it will still call for help
Let me first give you a brief introduction to this kind of unmanned logistics vehicle.
As early as 10 years ago, JD.com, Cainiao, and Meituan, giants with delivery services such as express delivery and takeout, began to study unmanned delivery vehicles. However, the technology was not mature enough and there was no legal support, so they mainly roamed in closed areas, such as schools, communities, and parks.
Because whether an autonomous vehicle can run depends on whether it has obtained the right of way to a certain place or road section.
In 2021, after public roads began to have legal rights of way, the conspicuous bags really came out of Novice Village.
So far, how many places can driverless cars be used on roads...
The largest unmanned vehicle logistics company in China is China Post. According to data released by them at the end of July, nearly 5,000 vehicles have been deployed, covering 31 provinces and 263 cities, transporting more than 130 million express items.
However,
many covered areas may have opened a certain area or certain sections of operational routes,
Running is not necessarily allowed in the entire city.
These unmanned vehicles must have license plates and abide by traffic regulations when on the road.
The rules focus on one city and one strategy, and each one is different.
Generally speaking, there are requirements for the size, top speed, safety officer ratio, insurance configuration, etc. of these small cars, and even the insurance amount is required, which is in the millions. Accident handling is the same as when we go on the road. The traffic police will determine the responsibility.
But the World Super League advises you to keep your distance from driverless cars...
Unmanned vehicles are different from people driving. They may stop or start suddenly on the road. If an accident does occur, although there is insurance, as an emerging thing, liability determination is still relatively complicated.
It lacks a clear subject of responsibility like the driver, so even if the accident can be handled in the end, the handling process may be quite torturous.
Well,
Don’t touch the car, let alone the people...
Don’t joke with your own safety
Talk about the return express delivery...
The unmanned express delivery vehicle can be used so quickly.
The fundamental reason is: it is so cheap...
The cost of using an unmanned logistics vehicle was still in the millions in 2018, but last year, you could buy a naked vehicle for 20,000-30,000 yuan, and the annual service fee was about 20,000 yuan. Based on five years, the cost of use is mostly around 120,000.
Some securities companies have calculated that when converted to a single month, the monthly cost is about 2,500 yuan (including vehicle depreciation, FSD service fees and electricity fees), while the traditional logistics vehicle is 7,700 yuan (also taking into account depreciation, driver wages and gas costs).
Think about it, for a logistics giant like SF Express, the number of collection and delivery vehicles at the end is often tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands, and the savings are all in vain.
The above vehicles are basically junior versions, used for transportation between sites.
If you need to transport from county to county or village to village, you will need a higher-standard unmanned vehicle.
Of course, that’s another price~
Generally speaking, the operation logic of these cars is relatively stupid. The routes are pre-made. After the express is put in, the car can set off. The safety officer will keep an eye on it remotely. Usually one person will keep an eye on a few or a dozen cars. If there is a problem, someone will take over.
Where the vehicle is, whether it is performing a task, whether there are any obstacles blocking it, system abnormalities, low battery, etc., can all be seen in the background.
The background interface of the bicycle can also manually whistle, haha...
It sounds like the situation is great, but there are some imperfections.
First of all, even if autonomous vehicles win the right of way in the city, they may not be able to hit the road at full capacity.
A courier boy told Shichao that there used to be a number of unmanned vehicles at their site, but now the traffic police are controlling them. They are definitely not allowed to use them during morning and evening peak hours and during school commuting hours. In many cases, only a small number of unmanned vehicles can be driven on the road.
Another courier man told Shichao that it was much easier after using this thing, but there would still be accidents from time to time. "If it doesn't come back for a long time, you have to look for it to see where it is stuck."
Okay, the silly son of a landlord...
In addition, I don’t know if you have noticed that although we are usually called unmanned express vehicles, in the industry, it is more academically called unmanned logistics vehicles.
The reason is very simple. We only deliver express delivery, so the layout is small.
Jiushi Intelligence, the leading company of unmanned vehicles, stated this year that
Currently, the company's unmanned logistics vehicle application proportion in express delivery scenarios has reached less than 40%, compared with about 50% in Q3 last year.
What are you doing with the remaining 60%?
In fact, if you think about it differently, you can understand that this is actually a cargo box that can drive automatically. It can play a role in transporting from point A to point B. It is part of the city's transportation capacity.
So it can be used for replenishment in supermarkets and real-time logistics.
In the past, many small items would need to be delivered by Didi Taxi. In the future, it is estimated that many people will choose such unmanned cars.
There are also some scenes that humans may not be willing to do, and it can also be used to fill them. For example, delivering meals to some elderly people with limited mobility is a bit of a charity, but the tasks are not necessarily small. You have to run more than 10 meal aid points every day. It is not cost-effective to hire a driver. Self-driving cars are just right.
The unmanned vehicle will be delivered to the location, and volunteers will then deliver it.
Of course, it can also sell goods...
Install a freezer and you can sell ice cream in scenic spots and parks, and you can also use the car display to throw advertisements to you.
But for Shichao, who lives in Hangzhou, what he feels most deeply are unmanned police cars, especially in Yuhang, where they can often be seen strolling on the streets.
After checking it, I found that this thing can identify traffic violations, and after identifying it, take a photo and send it back to the police station backend for manual review.
There is an alarm button on the car body, which is directly connected to the police station. There are also some first aid supplies and firefighting supplies in the belly of the car. In case of emergency, the police station can choose to open the door for use.
So although these self-driving cars have become popular on the Internet, they do so by making jokes about themselves.
But for capital, these small cars have their own charm, and they will be promising urban transportation capabilities.
However, as a player who has just left the Novice Village, it still has a long way to go. The algorithm still needs to be iterated, and it still needs to continue to adapt to traffic regulations and right-of-way boundaries.
I hope that when I see them on the road in the future, they will be less jokes and more reliable...
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