396: We don't do immoral things.

Also attending this gathering were:

Chen Jinliang and his wife.

As rising stars in the car review circle, this was their first time attending an industry gathering.

Although they were newcomers, their ability to create engaging content and their video scripts, which resonated with young people, led to rapid fan growth.

They now have two million followers across all media platforms, and their popularity is soaring.

Liu Hai from Old Liu's Car Reviews.

He is among the top five in the car review circle, with a fan base second only to Yang Yang.

However, he previously often disparaged domestic cars while praising foreign ones. In recent years, with the rise of domestic cars like Fenglei, many negative stories about him have been dug up by netizens, and his popularity is declining.

Liu Hai was also very anxious.

Normally, he looked down on such industry gatherings, considering them to be mere small-time players huddling together for warmth.

After being taught a lesson by reality, he had no choice but to swallow his pride and come.

"Huh, the deployment of Radish Run has increased to five thousand vehicles. Are they crazy?"

Liu Hai looked at the news on his phone, utterly bewildered.

He felt that Fenglei had recently introduced many new technologies.

Each of these, if placed on the international stage, would require decades of research to yield results, and the research and development expenses would naturally be an astonishing figure.

He estimated that the total would be at least hundreds of billions.

Of course, as a state-backed enterprise, the government must have provided a lot of subsidies, but that's beside the point.

However, now that Fenglei's brand sales have picked up, it should be a time for them to recover their capital.

Suddenly launching unproven technology like autonomous taxis seemed like a foolish move to him.

Not to mention, deploying this new technology in a city with extremely complex traffic conditions like Wu Du would undoubtedly increase the operational difficulty many times over.

In fact, Fenglei could have chosen a city with relatively simpler road conditions as a trial point, but they stubbornly chose Wu Du, which was simply insane.

He knew that the more complex the traffic conditions, the greater the demand on autonomous driving computing power, and the more likely accidents were to occur.

If a major traffic accident occurred, all their previous investments would be for naught, and their efforts would be in vain.

Not only would their brand image suffer, but their stock price would also be greatly affected.

For such a small amount of money, was it worth making such a big fuss?

Although Chen Jinliang held a different opinion, since it was his first time attending such a gathering and Liu Hai was an elder in the field, he didn't want to offend him, so he could only say:

"Perhaps this is the boldness of the big brother of domestic new energy!"

"Boldness? What boldness can a fraudulent company that barely gained a foothold in the market through marketing and government support have?"

"I think it's more like a lack of conscience, treating the public's safety as a child's game. But then again, it's the nation's money they're losing, and other people's lives they're risking, so what does it matter to them?!"

Seeing that it was a newcomer, Liu Hai retorted without any politeness.

Hearing the rising volume and tone of their voices, Yang Yang instantly sobered up quite a bit.

He also checked the news and found that Fenglei and Radish Run had both issued announcements, inviting major car review bloggers to experience the autonomous taxi service.

"Oh, this time Fenglei's announcement actually has a registration channel, where you can pre-experience by filling out personal information."

Upon seeing this news, Liu Hai scoffed.

"Fenglei was very arrogant when they held their press conferences before, completely looking down on us people in the car owner circle."

"Now they're openly inviting us to review, it seems they're not confident about this autonomous taxi service either."

"They want to win people over but don't want to pay, not even reimbursing travel expenses, yet they expect us to review for them for free. Isn't that clearly treating people like donkeys?"

Seeing the message from Mitsubishi about further revisions, he licked his chapped lips, a result of lack of sleep.

"I've decided to go to Wu Du and see for myself."

"Ah? Yang Ge, don't you still have a big order from Mitsubishi in hand? How come..."

Liu Hai was stunned. He was very envious of Yang Yang.

Having been in the car review circle for so many years, with new faces constantly coming and going, Yang Yang had consistently remained a top-tier figure, with a steady stream of commercial orders. It was undeniable that he was very capable.

Moreover, he was handsome and could keep up with trends, unlike himself, who was like a faded beauty; no matter what he did, his fans wouldn't buy it.

This worried him immensely.

He also knew that Yang Yang had recently received a large order from Mitsubishi.

Now, especially with Toyota's reputation plummeting, it was a critical moment when new cars were desperately needed to save them.

If this order was handled well, the returns would certainly be very generous.

But Yang Yang had now decided to go and review for Fenglei first, serving as a free laborer.

Why?

Chen Jinliang was also very curious at this moment.

"That's right, Yang Ge, the compensation from Mitsubishi should be good, why aren't you rushing to do it?"

Looking at the two of them, Yang Yang sighed, seemingly having made up his mind.

"To be honest with you, Mitsubishi's demands are quite unethical."

"Ah, unethical?"

This piqued everyone's curiosity.

Unrelated people nearby also seemed to sense something and turned their attention towards them.

Seeing this, Yang Yang knew he couldn't speak carelessly, so he lowered his head and his voice:

"I'm telling you this because I consider you friends, so please don't spread it around."

"Understood."

Everyone present immediately crowded closer, nodding repeatedly, indicating that they would definitely keep it a secret.

Yang Yang then said with a heavy tone:

"Actually, there's no need to make a big fuss. You all know what this circle is like, it's nothing more than some unethical dealings."

"It's just that Mitsubishi's new car will be equipped with a free L2-level autonomous driving software package, which is actually a stripped-down version with very serious safety hazards."

"When I was doing the actual testing, there were some out-of-control scenes, but they wanted me to cut them out."

"I've revised it several times, trying my best to cover for them, but they're still not satisfied and insist that I promote it as having L3-level performance."

"Isn't that clearly scamming people? They don't treat consumers as human beings at all."

Chen Jinliang exclaimed.

"Hey, what's that? Mitsubishi has built 1366 ship engines in the past ten years, and 1364 of them had falsified data, a falsification rate of 99%. This is just their normal operation."

Someone pulled out their phone and re-watched a video of Mitsubishi apologizing from before.

"These things are common in Little devils' companies. It was fine when they faked things in some harmless areas, but now they dare to fake autonomous driving, which can cost lives."

"I was confused before, only thinking about making money and not considering the consequences. Now I've thought it through. Whoever wants Mitsubishi's order can take it. I'm not doing this unethical business anymore."

Yang Yang said with a sense of relief.

Liu Hai, on the other hand, fell into deep thought. He was currently in a low point in his career.

As a blogger with nearly ten million followers in the car review industry, he hadn't received a large commercial order in a long time.

Should he volunteer himself and take on this order?

Anyway, he didn't care about whether it was fake or not, as long as there was money to be made.

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