Teacher Xiang's wager was simple: build roads!
L5 Autonomous Driving Highways could support fully autonomous vehicles without driver's seats. Besides the vehicles' own advanced intelligence, the highways would monitor every vehicle in real time. If anything went wrong with one, the highway would automatically adjust the routes of all vehicles to ensure absolute safety!
This technology was still in the testing phase, but high-tech giants around the world were gradually replacing their internal roads with L5 highways. Practicality was secondary; the main purpose was to highlight the technological feel of high-tech companies and show off their capabilities.
Song He and Xiang Xiaotong had agreed that whoever lost would fund the replacement of all the internal roads at the other's company with L5 Autonomous Driving Highways, along with a certain number of autonomous vehicles, within the next ten years!
It was an enormous sum of money. Both Chenghuang Company and Neuron Company were acquiring land and building their own industrial parks. Over the next ten years, both companies' territories would expand explosively, so this wager could very well be worth hundreds of millions!
When he had designed roads for Lvteng City, Song He had studied a pile of information related to road construction. There was a saying in the industry: gold bridges and silver roads. Building a qualified, durable highway cost more than simply paving it with banknotes!
Site clearing, earthwork, soil transport, asphalt concrete surfacing, cement-stabilized gravel bases, gravel cushions, drainage works, and countless other expenses meant that each kilometer of road often cost tens of millions or even over a hundred million!
But he did not regret it. Even if he lost, he would not regret it.
With Chenghuang Company's current development, eight- or nine-digit sums would be insignificant pocket change in a few years.
Whether he won or