Chapter 2541 Chapter 2540 Yang Dongdongs Story (2)
Chapter 2541 Yang Dongdong’s Story (2)
From the company to the activity center and then home, this is equivalent to drawing a triangle on the city map. Coupled with the traffic in Anxi during the evening rush hour, this journey also makes this journey extremely long.
Therefore, Yang Dongdong always chooses to drive on the self-driving expressway for a period of time. On the one hand, this can increase the speed of his peers and avoid being as congested as ordinary roads. On the other hand, by entering the self-driving express ring road, he can temporarily
Leave the vehicle to the autonomous driving system to take charge of driving, while he himself can take the opportunity to rest for a while.
After all, working all day is already exhausting, and running around in the city is really exhausting.
It was another ordinary night. He successfully drove the car onto the self-driving express loop and activated the self-driving system. As for himself, he finally stretched out and leaned back comfortably on the chair.
In order to solve the increasingly congested traffic problem in Anxi, and also to explore the application of autonomous driving technology in the city, Wu Hao and the others reached a cooperation with the local government of Anxi a few years ago and jointly transformed a rapid loop line in Anxi city into
Autonomous driving express loop.
As the name suggests, this is a special road built and opened specifically for self-driving cars. In order to ensure the safety and stable operation of this self-driving loop, only self-driving technology can be used on this self-driving fast loop, and manual driving cannot be used.
Driving skills.
That is to say, all vehicles on this autonomous driving fast loop will automatically switch to autonomous driving mode, and manual driving will be disabled. When the vehicle exits the autonomous driving rapid loop, the vehicle will automatically switch to assisted driving mode.
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The reason for this design is mainly because people have too much uncertainty in manual driving. They can turn at will, change vehicle speeds, and sometimes fail to comply with traffic regulations. Therefore, on the self-driving rapid loop, it is never other vehicles that threaten the safety of other vehicles.
self-driving car, but someone turned on the manual driving mode.
Therefore, several major accidents occurred one after another, so this regulation was introduced. As long as the vehicle enters the automatic driving fast loop, it will automatically switch to automatic driving mode and cannot switch to manual driving.
In addition, the entire self-driving rapid loop can actually be regarded as a huge system. It can monitor the status of each self-driving car in real time and provide them with accurate road navigation information to help them avoid lanes.
all obstacles, other passing vehicles, and emergencies.
It stands to reason that autonomous driving systems can be responsible for all of this. However, the autonomous driving technologies on different cars are uneven, some are advanced, and some are relatively backward.
If you only rely on the automatic driving systems on these cars, you will definitely not be able to guarantee the safe and stable operation of the entire lane change. Therefore, this automatic driving rapid lane change system is equivalent to allowing all vehicles to have very accurate road navigation information.
, so that even if the automatic driving systems of these vehicles are relatively poor, they can still drive safely and smoothly on this fast automatic driving loop.
Just when Yang Dongdong closed his eyes and chatted wordlessly with his wife, suddenly a warning sound came from inside the car.
"Warning, data connection error. For your safety, please take over the vehicle immediately and drive carefully."
What's going on? Hearing the warning sound, his wife, who was sitting in the back seat holding her daughter, asked involuntarily.
I don't know, there won't be a malfunction. Even though he said that, Yang Dongdong immediately put his hands on the steering wheel and looked at the situation outside.
What caught his eyes was that all the vehicles in front had their red taillights on and slowed down, and there were also many frightening sounds coming from the vehicles.
At the same time, the light on the iron frame above the self-driving rapid loop line was no longer green, but turned into a flashing red light.
Could it be that there was an accident ahead? Yang Dongdong drove the vehicle carefully, then looked ahead and said.
Hearing Yang Dongdong's words, his wife also sat up and looked outside. When she saw the situation outside, she couldn't help but frowned and said: "Why is there an accident at this time? How long will this be blocked?"
I don’t know. Let’s check the situation first. The exit is one kilometer ahead. Let’s drive out of the ring road first. Yang Dongdong thought about it for a while and then made a decision.
I'm afraid everyone thinks so. His wife said with worry.
There is no other way, the traffic is here, just wait. How about you sleep for a while, and I will call you when I get home. Yang Dongdong took a breath, then glanced at his wife's haggard face in the rearview mirror, and then said
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As for his wife, she shook her head: "I don't know what happened. How can I sleep now?"
In this way, Yang Dongdong drove the vehicle slowly forward in the heavy traffic flow. Although it was only one kilometer, it felt like it was going very fast, and there were even some signs of collisions and accidents on the road.
The two parties involved in the accident stood in the driveway arguing, and no one wanted to let go, causing the road to be very congested.
"It's strange, the traffic control drone should have appeared at this time, but at this time, we haven't seen the shadow of the drone yet." Yang Dongdong said with some confusion as he drove the car forward and looked out the window at the accident.
The so-called traffic command drone is actually part of the entire city's intelligent transportation system. It is also a huge basic service project that Haoyu Technology cooperates with Anxi local government and traffic management departments.
This system is responsible for many things, the most famous of which are the white intelligent traffic control drones with red and blue warning lights flashing in Xu Dongdong's mouth.
The main function of this kind of intelligent traffic command drone is to patrol the road conditions in the entire Anxi city, and sense the accident scene immediately, identify the accident scene, handle the command and coordinate. For some small accidents, their command and guidance
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For some large-scale accidents, it can continue to monitor the scene. On the one hand, it protects the scene, and on the other hand, it can also transmit real-time dynamic information to the command center to facilitate command and rescue.
This type of intelligent traffic command drone is very common. Basically, as soon as an accident occurs, it can arrive at the scene within a minute or two. It’s just that it’s been so long today, why haven’t we seen this smart traffic command drone yet?
This inevitably makes Yang Dongdong and other car owners puzzled.
What makes them even more confused is that this does not seem to be a congestion caused by a simple traffic accident, but it seems that the entire self-driving rapid loop has collapsed and lost its function, otherwise so many vehicles would not be jammed here.