news

Tencent News "First Line"

Author: Guo Yifei Editor: Yang Hao

"We are determined not to make driverless taxis (Robotaxi), which is not an exciting technology and a sustainable business model." On July 27,NIOOn the Science and Technology Innovation Day, NIO founder Li Bin said that the significance of intelligent driving is to solve energy problems and reduce accidents.

Recently, byTeslaThe Robotaxi route led by China has activated driverless cars represented by Luobo Kuaipao in the domestic market. However, in addition to technology, a series of factors such as laws, regulations, and moral ethics have sparked widespread discussion from the outside world.

Li Bin said that the value of autonomous driving is not to eliminate the jobs of some private car drivers and taxi drivers who work so hard today. I very much recognize their contribution to society, and society should give them reasonable rewards. I think this matter is really not exciting at all and not worthy of inspiring people. The real value is to liberate the energy of driving, so that people are not so tired and become safer.

In the field of shared transportation, as an investor in Mobike and Didi Chuxing, Li Bin believes that the business models of these two companies "are meaningful and valuable." Transportation is not a separate technical issue, but a social issue. The scale of operating vehicles that a city can accommodate is limited. Robotaxi will not be a business without borders like software cloud services.