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original title: reporter visits the grassroots | "ai coach" comes to driving school

on august 21, students were practicing simulated driving in the intelligent driving simulator training classroom of jiulong driving school. photo by hebei daily reporter tang runqing

"all trainees on vehicle no. ji b7870 have passed the operation test and have passed the special exercise of subject 2."

around 9 o'clock on august 21, in front of the big screen of the smart management platform of the intelligent training center of jiulong driving school in kaiping district, tangshan city, big data central control engineer wang zheng, wearing a headset and an all-in-one intercom, stared intently at a series of scrolling information and real-time images.

at this time, the data in the upper right corner of the screen shows that 18 class c driver's license test takers are online at the same time.

"my job is equivalent to a 'cloud supervisor'. now these dozen students are training on a driving training ground one kilometer away." wang zheng said that there is an "ai coach" next to each student in the car, and the training situation of the students just now is the information fed back by the "ai coach".

the reporter followed the driving school director ding yuhuan to the driving practice field and saw cars coming and going in an orderly manner in the field which was the size of two football fields.

"this is the class c driver's license practice area of ​​our new energy smart technology testing and training ground." ding yuhuan told reporters that the more than 100 new energy training vehicles here are all equipped with intelligent teaching robots, commonly known as "ai coaches."

full of curiosity, the reporter got into the training car and started a "smart driving learning" journey.

i opened the car door and saw a square-shaped "ai coach" (let me tell you a secret here, it turns out that the coach is an in-car screen) sitting in the passenger seat and displaying a qr code.

since there was no advance reservation, the staff on site could only help me scan the code to enter the driving practice mode.

ignition, start, shift gears… as an experienced driver, the reporter thought he had it all figured out. but just as he was about to move forward, the “ai coach” sent a gentle message: “wrong use of the accelerator pedal.”

afterwards, he crossed the line when reversing into a parking space, and the vehicle touched the electronic fence, triggering the brakes... after stumbling along the way, the "old driver" finally failed.

"it took 1 minute and 29 seconds to drive the curve, 1 minute and 6 seconds to make a right-angle turn, and 100 points were deducted for incorrect driving... i failed the practice." faced with this embarrassing transcript, ding yuhuan told reporters that if you are a student, you can use the mobile phone software to view your driving practice data and videos for the day and adjust your driving practice focus in a targeted manner.

when arriving at the driving school's intelligent driving simulator training classroom, the reporter saw that the seats in front of the 30 intelligent driving simulators were full, and the students holding the steering wheel seemed to have turned into "game players."

"all the steps are the same as in the cab, except that there is no windshield in front of me, but a simulator display - the outside environment and driving trajectory are clearly visible." trainee zhang xinwei told reporters that after five days of simulation practice, she had a good sense of the car when driving a real car, and passed the second subject in one try. "now i am practicing the third subject, and i hope i can pass it in one try!" she said.

"building a smart driving school is a form, and serving citizens' smart life is the purpose." ding yuhuan said that as the first large-scale smart driving school in the province, the school strives to integrate the smart driving training model into the construction of a smart city. "relying on the smart management platform of the driving school's smart training center, we are actively promoting smart driving training into schools, enterprises, and communities, and building an 'ai coach' team around citizens." he told reporters. (hebei daily reporter tang runqing)