Digital Life (Absolut01) - Chapter 133

[One hundred and thirty two.]

Guide dogs have always been a very special field in pet training.

The extremely demanding requirements for the pedigree of the dog, the character of the dog, and the various performances in training make very few dogs capable of this job.

Even if it is trained, it is not affordable for ordinary families.

The vast majority of blind people are always the disadvantaged groups in society. After they lose their sight due to congenital or acquired reasons, there are not many jobs suitable for them.

It is also a burden to the family.

For most blind people, survival, food and clothing, and a certain amount of entertainment within their senses are the ultimate things, and most of the others are ignored.

Compared with some countries with relatively complete welfare systems, at least in the current country, guide dogs can only be dolls of rich people who lost their eyesight due to accidents.

The cooperation between the Shanghai Municipal Government and Digital Totem is to jointly promote a special improved pet dog produced by Digital Totem through government funding and corporate donations—a pet dog with the function of a guide dog.

In addition to the basic performance of the general pet dog, a bracket is installed in the body, which can be pulled by the user to guide the blind to walk.

In the body of the pet dog, there are also some electronic devices that the general pet dog does not have, such as a data query device and a voice conversion device that are directly wirelessly interconnected with the traffic service website on the Internet.

A simple voice signal of guidance is communicated to the user with an earplug.

This is also the advantage of this mechanical guide dog compared to a real trained guide dog.

For blind people, even with such a useful tool, sometimes there are some special situations.

Such as being attacked by malicious people.

Run into an accident or something like a driver who doesn’t obey the traffic rules driving indiscriminately.

Guide dogs will naturally take action at critical moments, such as knocking the user away from the direction of the vehicle. Anyway, pet dogs are just relatively expensive machines with certain intelligence.

Absolutely cannot be compared with human life.

In order to cope with this situation, a very strong radio signal transmitter is pre-installed in the pet dog, if the guide dog is damaged.

The transmitter starts to emit a signal at a specific frequency.

The nearby service station set up by the government will rush to the scene as soon as possible to help the blind who have lost their guide dogs.

This is by no means just a product, but a more complex service system.

For the digital totem, perhaps it is not a big financial burden to provide a series of guide dog products.

And working with the Shanghai Municipal Government to build a service system for the blind and possibly the vulnerable groups in the future is an extremely complicated task.

For the first time, Chen Jing knew, it turned out.

It’s such a complicated thing to handle a project well.

Although, as the vice president of the group, she has a consultant in the president’s office who can make suggestions for her. As long as she has an idea, there will naturally be competent employees from various departments of the company to take over the task and work hard for her points.

However,

you need to be able to make up your mind every time you need accurate judgment.

That’s really not a simple thing.

The municipal government’s cooperation with digital totems is also conditional, for example, in terms of funding for this project.

In addition to providing the location of service stations in various districts and some personnel support, the city government needs to provide digital totem companies for everything else.

To maintain such a large service system?

how is this possible?

Just in Shanghai, how much is a labor cost?

Although in addition to the initial batch of free guide dogs, guide dogs can naturally be sold at a price.

But even if the price is higher, there will not be enough profit to maintain such a huge expenditure.

Subsidize this project from profits from other projects?

So, it’s really confusing the relationship between philanthropy and business.

Chen Jing had a headache and didn’t know what to do for a while.

The attitude of the municipal government is understandable. Next year will be the World Expo, and the financial and human resources of the municipal government are also very limited.

The project that Digital Totem wants to promote is very promising.

It can indeed help many people, and it can also form a service system for disadvantaged groups in the future.

But the time required is still quite long. Before the new year, it is absolutely impossible to spread the service outlets all over Shanghai, let alone expand.

The popularization of this guide dog project is indeed a long way to go.

“Sister, what should I do in the end?” Chen Jing can say that she has suffered enough these days.

Various businesses in the company have to be dealt with. After several projects are rolled out, various feedback information keeps coming in, and as the project leader, she naturally has to review them one by one and make judgments.

After the cooperation with the city government, there will naturally be some entertainment with government officials. Although she has a special status, no one dares to toss her, but it is also extremely annoying.

Then, the contact with the people of the Shanghai Volunteer Association, the contact with the Shanghai Disabled Persons’ Association, and the contact with the streets, neighborhood committees and other grassroots organizations… These are all too complicated.

Let this innocent little girl really can’t eat it.

“This… I don’t know. Charity can’t be confused with business after all. At least, you are still a little anxious. Although we don’t have money to support the continuous operation of this project, if we can’t make this mechanism at least It is not a good mechanism to be able to be responsible for profits and losses. What if our company collapses after a few years? What if we do not manage well and no longer have the financial resources to support these relatively marginal projects with only input but no output? ? What if I encounter something messy? In fact, the ideal state is not that we build the framework ourselves, but that after the framework is built, we provide us at a low price or for free. The order of the products…the sequence between these. And when we should stand in the light and when we stand in the dark, you need to know more.” Chen Ning said to his sister about his feelings for Knowing things, he pointed at his lovely sister.

Chen Ning has seen a lot of things, and her personality is more suitable for complex affairs than Chen Jing, which is why she was able to pass the training of the Security Bureau and assist Lu Zhenyu to build numbers from the poor and the white (perhaps not accurate). totem.

She understands the rules of how the world works better.

Maybe it’s because Chen Ning is a bit of a crow-mouthed Tian Bin.

Although Chen Jing’s service network plan was not favored by Chen Ning.

But just as everyone was preparing to seriously advance the project, an unexpected thing happened.

One of the first blind people who received a free electronic guide dog died in a car accident while walking on the street excitedly.

If it was a simple car accident, it might not have happened.

A car accident kills a person, in this world, in this city.

It happens all the time, and even a blind person with an electronic guide dog is not immune to it.

However, the development of things is not so simple.

When the blind man was passing an intersection, a car tried to run a red light, and the guide dog had a timely response and knocked the blind man away.

Falling to the side, the guide dog became a piece of debris, and the blind man was still safe.

However, at that very moment, another car, at the intersection where the blind man fell, also ran through the red light and turned the blind man into a mass of meat sauce under the wheel…

Thankfully, anyway The Guide Dog Project is a collaboration between Digital Totem and the Shanghai Municipal Government.

For everyone’s sake.

This matter was suppressed in time by the media and was not reported.

However, this will not affect the flaws in the judgment of the guide dog products about the digital totem, so that serious rumors such as the death of blind people are circulating on the Internet and other channels.

Problems with judgment?

Technicians at Digital Totem immediately performed a thorough inspection of the guide dog procedure, in the lab.

A series of tests were performed on the guide dogs in the factory’s testing grounds to simulate the situation at the time.

the answer is negative.

Although guide dogs are not perfect.

However, there is no problem with the operating mechanism and response of the program.

At this time, Lu Zhenyu, who was far away in Germany’s Bogenheim circuit for technical preparation, also took the time to check the entire procedure.

The conclusion that there is no problem with guide dogs is recognized.

Is this an acceptable result?

do not know.

Because, digital totem does not need to clarify anything to the public for this matter.

in the public eye.

The accident did not “exist”.

However, the entire project in cooperation with the city government came to a screeching halt.

The guide dogs that have been distributed will not be affected, but after that, the project will not be continued.

The addresses of those service outlets that have been implemented will continue to be reserved, but everything will have to wait for the right time…

People always say that building is hard, but destroying is surprisingly easy.

It seems that this is the case. The argument that the artificial intelligence machine created by the digital totem through various channels, investing a lot of money and manpower and material resources will be able to improve human life seems to be broken overnight.

Naturally, there are still many who believe that this was a complete accident.

However, many arguments have turned to combating digital totems and artificial intelligence machines.

Saying that digital totems provide substandard products to the public may be a relatively low-level accusation among these arguments.

Some arguments even directly say that these are digital totems, or that they are deliberately set up by artificial intelligence created by digital totems to reduce the number of humans and prepare for artificial intelligence to rule the world…

If this accusation is true, That Lu Zhenyu should be nailed to the cross, and the crime is a crime against humanity.

This is a privilege that very few tyrants, lunatics, pagans and cult creators can enjoy…

In any case, the digital totem and Lu Zhenyu’s long-term efforts were instantly wiped out.

Chen Jing feels that it is her responsibility. She also believes that, like Chen Ning, Lv Zhenyu and the technical team of Digital Totem always present perfect and near-perfect products to the public.

Then, when the perfect product led to extremely serious consequences, Chen Jing had to think that it was her responsibility.

Although she did not know the existence of Yue Yu, Qingqing and Bodhidharma.

But she knew what Lu Zhenyu had been working towards.

Playing chess with Qingqing in a cafe also made her realize something.

Lv Zhenyu had to come back. When the Kylin team was running the qualifying race on the Bogenheim circuit, Lv Zhenyu came back with Su Wan and the guards who always followed him.

It didn’t attract much attention. Lu Zhenyu was only going to stay in Shanghai for a few days, and then he was going to return to Europe, where the Kirin team will play the most important round of this year.

It was a round in the Alps and the entire special section traversed several countries, starting in France and ending in Italy.

This is the most severe and best detection of digital totems and intelligent auxiliary decision-making systems.

Lu Zhenyu needs to be there.

Lu Zhenyu returned to Shanghai just because he needed to comfort his sister-in-law, and at the same time, to confirm how it happened.

He didn’t believe that, in a split second, two cars ran a red light at the same time, and they were still at an empty intersection without many witnesses.

Although not all drivers in Shanghai are perfect, even if there is no supervision, they will not be so chaotic.

“Pang Hai, you are not familiar with this kind of thing, can you recommend a familiar person to investigate this matter?” Lu Zhenyu ordered.

“I originally worked in the Beijing Police Department, and then went to Scotland Yard for further studies. I used to be the investigator and senior technical consultant of Interpol in China. How about such a person?” Pang Hai thought for a while and recommended someone.

“No problem.” Lu Zhenyu nodded.

Afterwards, Lu Zhenyu drove Chen Jing to the R&D center, to the room where the first-generation manipulators and vision systems with the most complex and perfect tactile senses were placed.

Bodhidharma quietly entered the system and prepared tea and snacks for them on the workbench.

“Jingjing, it’s not your fault. At least 80% sure, it’s not your fault.”

“I screwed up, didn’t I?”

“No. It’s just an accident. I’ve seen your entire Although the promotion plan may not be able to make money, it still has to be subsidized by our other projects, but I think the ideas and plans are very good. I am a little anxious, so that’s all. Is good intentions a bad thing? No, it is not. It is true that good intentions do bad things again and again. But people still have basic tolerance. What is remembered is good intentions, and bad things are just one of the results of good intentions, and that’s all Sigh. Besides, you can’t even count this, at most you’re just out of luck. This incident just happened at this critical moment.” Lu Zhenyu patted Chen Jing’s shoulder and said, “Have a cup of tea with this guy. Well, although he can’t speak, he is very considerate.”

Lu Zhenyu just left.

On the last day of Lu Zhenyu’s planned stay in Shanghai, a report from Pang Hai’s friend came.

…the two cars, both drove straight through the red light, without braking.

Although the two drivers have records to investigate, they cannot follow their resumes forward.

The information is fake.

Because the matter is for the traffic police to investigate, they have not been traced.

…And where exactly these two drivers are now seems to be a problem.

Conspiracy?

It seems so.

The conspiracy doesn’t have to be vigorous, it doesn’t have to cause earth-shattering results, and it doesn’t have to be complicated, as long as it can achieve its purpose.

I don’t know who it is, but through such a small incident, the long-term efforts of the digital totem came to nothing.

This is a good conspiracy.

After Lu Zhenyu put the report on Chen Jing’s desk, he went to the airport and continued to fight in Europe.

[End of this Chapter]