What will the city cars look like in the future?

Future city cars should be developed with the help of driverless vehicles, car networking technology, electric vehicles, intelligent infrastructure and big data technology. The future must also be the road to artificial intelligence.

At the 217 Future Science Awards Ceremony and Future Forum Annual Meeting, Professor Washington University (Seattle), Director of the Transportation Research Center of the 1th District University of the US Department of Transportation, Chairman-designate of the Transportation and Development Branch of the American Society of Civil Engineers, and Kai-fu Lee, Chairman and CEO of innovation works and director of the Future Forum, gave keynote speeches on the theme of "Human Transportation 2.: From the Speed Age to the Digital Age". Yu Kai, founder and CEO of Horizon Robotics, youth director of Future Forum, John Du, President of China Research Institute of General Motors, Kai-fu Lee, Freeman Shen, founder, chairman and CEO of Weimar Automobile, and Wang Yinhai held discussions on the theme of smart city.

"From 198 to 215, in these 35 years, China's road mileage has increased by seven times, but the number of motor vehicles has increased by more than 11 times. According to the current trend, the scissors difference between supply and demand will become bigger and bigger. Therefore, the most important thing to control traffic problems is to avoid traffic congestion, which requires the operation of transportation systems to solve the relationship between supply and demand, and the solution lies in innovation. "

"what is the biggest obstacle to intelligent transportation in the future? It is human. " Kai-fu Lee believes that "drivers are human beings, and they may have emotions, or they may not get enough sleep, or they may be distracted, or their reactions may not be fast enough, which may lead to traffic accidents. But when unmanned driving develops to a certain extent, unmanned driving will not only make traffic safer, but also make the whole traffic more predictable. Artificial intelligence will make cars truly autonomous, and its core is to collect and organize a large amount of data. "

After the keynote speech, Yu Kai hosted a live dialogue and discussed new energy vehicles with John Du, Freeman Shen, Wang Yinhai and Kai-fu Lee. During the discussion, Yu Kai raised a question about new energy vehicles. "If new energy vehicles are popular, will their batteries cause environmental pollution?" In this regard, John Du said, "The management and research of batteries should be considered from the whole life cycle of batteries. Because the battery can be used step by step after it is retired from the new energy vehicle, for example, the lead-acid battery in the new energy vehicle can be used as a base station battery after retirement. "