212: Intelligent driving system for drifting?

The fierce confrontation between the two instantly brought the atmosphere to a small climax.

All media outlets and online influencers swarmed to the racetrack outside the exhibition hall.

Cameras focused on the two of them, afraid of missing any crucial shots.

The employee assigned by Elon Musk was a senior software development Engineer with rich driving experience.

The Engineer nodded to Elon Musk and then entered the driver's seat of the Tesla Cybertruck to debug the equipment.

At this moment.

Elon Musk, not seeing Fenglei's car, couldn't help but laugh and deliberately taunted,

"Mr. Ren, where is your car? Is it too ashamed to show its face?"

Ren Yi smiled.

"I'm afraid you won't be able to smile later."

As soon as he finished speaking,

a golden sedan, over four meters long, slowly drove over; it was the Fenglei M11.

Elon Musk's expression became slightly unpleasant.

Because Fenglei actually used their cheapest car to compete with Tesla's most expensive Tesla Cybertruck.

This clearly showed disdain for Tesla.

Elon Musk was very angry.

Soon, however, his expression became one of surprise and uncertainty.

It seemed there was no one in the driver's seat of Fenglei's car.

But Elon Musk couldn't see clearly, because for some unknown reason, all the car windows were covered with black film, making it impossible to see the exact situation inside.

"Brothers, I didn't expect Tesla and Fenglei to compete again after the last supercar race."

"Last time was a competition between engines and electric motors, and Tesla was completely defeated."

"But this time the outcome is a bit uncertain; Tesla is far ahead of its peers in autonomous driving technology by at least one level."

"While the Fenglei M11 might be faster than the Tesla Cybertruck in terms of performance, the track is complex, and it would be difficult to gain an advantage without human control."

"And Tesla's Zhi Jia System is said to have 16.8 driving modes recorded, allowing it to quickly adapt to 99% of road conditions."

Chen Zhen followed both parties to the outside of the track.

He squeezed into the best viewing spot and immediately became the live commentator.

Indeed, the Fenglei M11 was already formidable in all aspects of its hardware, but he found it hard to say how big their chances of winning were this time.

As Elon Musk said, the future intelligent era is an era where software and hardware cooperate with each other.

Because there is no driver operation, no matter how good the performance, it is difficult to fully utilize the car's performance in some complex road conditions.

For example, cornering, U-turns, and evasive maneuvers are all major challenges for autonomous driving.

If the algorithm is not up to par, once a calculation error occurs, it could fly out when turning.

Therefore.

This competition is not only about the car's performance but also about the computing power of the Zhi Jia System.

Quite obviously.

Everyone believed that Fenglei had no advantage whatsoever.

A full straight line might still offer a chance.

But with curves and obstacles set on the road, it would be difficult.

When it comes to Zhi Jia System, if Tesla claims to be second, no one dares to claim to be first.

"Who do you guess will win later?"

"Let me first explain the rules to everyone. This is not a supercar race where cars go one by one, but rather two cars competing simultaneously, so the situation will be more complex and will test the capabilities of the Zhi Jia System even more."

Chen Zhen said to the netizens in the live broadcast room.

Since neither side had a driver and relied entirely on the system for autonomous driving, there was no need to discuss fairness of operation; it was simply about which Zhi Jia System was more powerful.

The live stream was flooded with bullet comments.

"I have nothing to say, I must support domestic products."

"Oh, Fenglei shouldn't have been so overconfident and brought out the Fenglei M11; they should have brought out the thor m14 instead."

"Are you out of your mind? This competition is mainly about the Zhi Jia System, not the car's mechanical performance."

"Heh heh, if they really brought out the thor m14, that old man Elon Musk would say you won unfairly even if he lost. If that happened, Fenglei would be terribly embarrassed."

"No matter what, Fenglei is a bit condescending. Let's see how they clean up if they lose."

...

All eyes were fixed on the starting point of the track.

It was an S-shaped and L-shaped combined track, not long, but with many obstacles in the middle.

It was specially designed as a test track for autonomous driving.

Clearly.

Elon Musk came prepared.

"Ready... Go!"

With a command.

Boom!

"Screech..."

It could be seen.

The two driverless cars started almost simultaneously.

As the two most famous new energy car companies in the world, both sides started very fast, with torque at maximum the instant they started, and tires already burning black marks on the ground.

Then they shot out fiercely.

The first two hundred meters were a straight track.

In such road conditions.

Fenglei's car's mechanical performance advantage became apparent, quickly pulling ahead of the Tesla Cybertruck, which started at the same time, by a car length.

No one was surprised by this.

After all, the data for the Fenglei M11 was there; in a straight line, almost no new energy vehicle could match its acceleration.

"It's overtaken on the straight. Next, let's see the first turn... and how Fenglei's Zhi Jia System performs."

Chen Zhen nervously watched the track.

The first turn was a wide right-angle bend.

This was a five-ton car.

Facing such a large right-angle turn, the Tesla Cybertruck had already begun to slow down, looking for a suitable entry point into the curve, so that as soon as the Fenglei M11 showed a slight flaw, it could use the curve to overtake.

This had already been calculated in Tesla's algorithm.

But when everyone looked at the Fenglei M11 running in front, their eyes widened instantly.

"My goodness, it's still not slowing down. Can't it detect that there's a turn ahead?"

With such a big turn, if it didn't slow down, it would really fly off the track.

However, just then.

The front of the Fenglei M11 suddenly made a sharp turn, and the entire front of the car almost scraped the wall of the right-angle bend, with the huge inertia carrying the rear part of the car, completing an S-shaped semi-drift trajectory, successfully straightening the car.

The entire audience gasped, their scalps tingling.

What kind of heaven-defying maneuver was this?

This behemoth, the Fenglei M11, actually completed a nearly perfect semi-drift turn without a driver.

However, due to its immense self-weight, its speed still significantly slowed down during the turn.

It happened to be just ahead of the Tesla Cybertruck.

Elon Musk was full of disbelief; this was nothing like what he had imagined.

He had originally thought that the Tesla Cybertruck could use the advantage of the curve to overtake, but Fenglei's Zhi Jia System actually showed off a wave of skill.

It completely stunned him.

"Holy cow, Fenglei's Zhi Jia System can even drift? Isn't that a maneuver only top race car drivers can perform?"

That extreme right-angle turn just now, most ordinary drivers couldn't do it.

Then he thought.

"Was it just a fluke?"

The next section of the road was a series of continuous curves, more difficult than the first right-angle turn.

He didn't believe that the Fenglei M11 could perform the same high-difficulty drift turn as it did in the first curve.

That would be too terrifying.

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