Chapter 1458 The Driver's Second Pair of Eyes

"If you rear-end me, it's entirely your responsibility. There's full audio and video recording inside the car. Aeeis has already completed the reminder task and is not in autopilot mode. The responsibility lies entirely with the driver. Aeeis will truthfully report to the traffic police, and the dashcam footage will be uploaded and backed up simultaneously."

"Speed camera ahead, please slow down."

"Estimated speeding: exceeding the speed limit by 10% but less than 20%, 3 points deducted, fine of 50. Aeeis will automatically generate a fine order after speeding."

"Detected abnormal acceleration behavior from the car behind you. It is recommended to stay away from its front and pay attention to avoiding it."

"Through driving habit algorithms, the danger index of the vehicle approaching from the right front is detected as B-level - relatively dangerous, it is recommended to stay away."

"Dangerous driving behavior detected. It is recommended to review subject four: when passing through sharp turns, non-motor vehicle lanes, railway crossings, residential roads, narrow bridges, downhill roads, U-turns, icy roads, and muddy roads, the speed shall not exceed 30 kilometers per hour."

"Your speed is still not below 30. Would you like to reschedule your driver's license test?"

Zhang Yan exclaimed, "Well, well, well!"

She thought Aeeis had changed its personality, but now she realized that it was still the same old Aeeis, pure!

As soon as it detects a slight bit of dangerous driving behavior from the driver, Aeeis immediately starts "reminding," but this kind of reminder is often quite irritating...

Fortunately, Zhang Yan had also experienced the fully automatic arguing machine and had a thorough understanding of Aeeis' temper, so this kind of nagging didn't make her angry, but rather found it quite interesting.

After all, what Aeeis said was based on traffic rules.

The Aeeis intelligent system in this car obviously had two modes: one was autopilot mode, where Aeeis would not only navigate but also complain about other cars cutting in line; the other was driver-operated mode, where Aeeis would turn its attention to the driver, and if the driver exhibited unsafe driving behavior, it would relentlessly criticize.

As for how Aeeis determined these dangerous driving behaviors?

This was because the car's autopilot system was also working while the driver was driving. Although the driver had the highest authority, in extremely urgent situations, such as an impending rear-end collision or hitting a pedestrian, if the driver didn't react in time, the autopilot system would help to brake.

Even if such an extreme situation didn't occur, the large screen in the car would still display information about nearby vehicles and pedestrians in real-time and calculate the optimal driving method under the current circumstances. It would provide reminders and warnings as needed to help the driver obtain more road information.

It simply didn't take over the driving of the vehicle, but the relevant calculations were still being performed.

Moreover, Zhang Yan noticed that this car could not only detect its own dangerous driving behavior but also detect the dangerous driving behavior of other vehicles.

For example, if a car outside frequently accelerated and decelerated, cut in line, or accelerated where it shouldn't, and the k1's intelligent system scanned it, Aeeis would consider this car to be somewhat dangerous, mark it on the display screen, and give the driver a voice prompt.

Based on these vehicles' dangerous driving behavior patterns, it would estimate a hazard rating and remind the driver to be careful.

Some people might think, what's the use of this thing?

When you encounter a car on the road, you might not see it after a few minutes, so what can you do with that little bit of data?

But, it's better to have something than nothing.

In fact, when driving, especially in traffic jams, you often encounter the situation of being stuck in the same section of road with several cars. A car might cut into another lane to move ahead, but after a while, you see it again in another lane, stuck in traffic. This situation is quite common.

In this case, as long as this car makes a dangerous move, the system will remember it for a while, reminding the driver to stay away and avoid accidents as much as possible.

Moreover, this is just the initial function; in the future, this function has strong extensibility.

If there are more and more k1s on the road, the data collected will become richer, and the stored data will also increase. Then, a large amount of calculation can be used to determine the degree of danger of a certain vehicle. The more data, the more accurate the specific numbers will be.

Even someday in the future, it is possible that k1 car owners can see the degree of danger of most of the surrounding vehicles as soon as they get on the road, so that the car owners will know what to expect.

Not only that, this intelligent driving system has another advantage, which is more accurate reminders than navigation.

Navigation only reminds you about the road ahead, but the navigation doesn't know if the driver makes a mistake.

Only when you completely deviate from the route will the navigation notice and replan the route.

However, since the k1's autopilot system clearly knows when to change lanes and make preparatory actions, if the driver doesn't make these actions in time, Aeeis can give a reminder in advance and even explain the reason for the error.

For example, some intersections in urban roads do not allow left turns. The navigation may directly mark to go straight. The driver does not see the no-left-turn sign and may still be wondering, isn't it okay to turn left directly? In the heat of the moment, they might not think it through and turn left directly.

At this time, the navigation will not have any reaction.

But as long as Aeeis detects that the driver has turned on the left turn signal and turned the steering wheel, it can know that the driver is going to turn left and remind them immediately, this intersection does not allow left turns, turning left will result in 3 points deducted and a fine of 200.

At this time, the driver still has room to recover, so they won't be dumbfounded when they receive the ticket.

There are many similar things like this. In short, Aeeis drives very standardly, strictly follows traffic rules, it is a little slow, but very safe; and when people are driving, Aeeis will also constantly remind and correct erroneous driving behaviors.

For some drivers who are used to cutting in line, it may be quite annoying and they will turn off Aeeis, but for others, this may be a good thing.

After all, people who walk by the river are bound to get their shoes wet. You keep cutting in line, and nothing happens for ten years, but what if the next driver is stubborn and doesn't let you in at all? Then you may be facing a car accident or rollover.

This game is called "Safe and Civilized Driving," and it's not just an empty name.

During the driving process, Zhang Yan also realized that this car, in addition to autopilot, actually has another advantage, which is that it expands the driver's vision and increases driving safety!

Even without autopilot mode, it is safer than other cars.

There is actually a paradox in autopilot technology: autopilot requires high-definition cameras and sensors, and powerful vehicle-mounted chips and algorithms. These all cost money, so new energy vehicles equipped with autopilot may be more expensive than traditional branded gasoline vehicles.

If you don't use autopilot, then these devices are useless, isn't that a waste of money?

But if you use autopilot, the driver will naturally relax their vigilance. What if the autopilot system has a problem?

In other words, the driver still has to stare at it all the time. Even if this autopilot system has run tens of thousands of kilometers without a problem, it doesn't mean that it won't have a problem in the next second. The driver still can't completely relax.

So, how much peace of mind can this autopilot technology give the driver?

Using it is not safe enough; not using it is a waste of money.

This paradox is also an important reason why many people believe that autopilot is still a long way from being truly mature.

But now, while driving the k1, Zhang Yan realized another role of this technology: expanding the driver's vision.

Because it has high-definition sensors and cameras, the vehicle can monitor the driver's blind spots and give timely reminders.

In other words, even if you don't use autopilot, buying this car is equivalent to having an artificial intelligence veteran driver in the passenger seat helping you keep an eye on things and giving you suggestions.

Then the money spent on these sensors and cameras is worth it, because it is equivalent to the driver's second pair of eyes, it is really useful!

As long as you can put up with Aeeis' nagging.

Zhang Yan drove the car away from the downtown area, and Aeeis nagged her all the way.

"Alright, alright, seeing how awesome you are, you drive. I'll go back to driving on the track."

Race car drivers drive very fiercely on the track, desperately fighting for that one-tenth of a second, but when they get to urban roads, they drive very规矩, completely different from the racetrack.

Because race car drivers are professionals, they know that the track and urban roads are different, and race cars and family cars are also different, so the two driving methods are naturally different.

The worse people are, the more they like to be brave and fight fiercely, speed recklessly, and drift on urban roads. This is because they have absolutely no clue about their own skills, and they don't take their own and other people's lives into consideration.

Although Zhang Yan doesn't have the identity of a race car driver in reality, she has developed a similar mindset after practicing in the game for so long.

She switched this car to autopilot mode, continued to drive a ride-hailing car to make a living, and chatted with the barrage.

At this time, the discussions on the barrage were all focused on the k1's autopilot.

"This is too outrageous, how does it feel like Aeeis drives better than people? This is not scientific, right?"

"Reminds me of the fully automatic arguing machine... I couldn't argue with Aeeis before, now I can't drive better than it either..."

"Is this autopilot technology almost at L4 or L5? It's been so long, and it hasn't taken over once, right?"

"There were so many people in front of the mall just now, I thought I had to take over, but it really drove over slowly? More stable than people driving!"

"That's why they say this car is an official cheat, isn't it invincible to run a ride-hailing car with it? Earning money is a little slow, but you can just hang up!"

"Buy a k1 and let it run ride-hailing car to earn money on its own."

"I know why this DLC is free, did they take money from斯特弗's advertising fees? Although斯特弗's cars are indeed okay, isn't it a bit too much to do this?"