Yan Xiao quickly sent a reply, thanking Wang Yiying.
In fact, if Wang Yiying had contacted him a week later, he would have been ready to submit the manuscript to another publisher.
Because,
Yan Xiao had complete confidence in the quality of Fortress Besieged.
Of course, he had no idea that Wang Yiying had contacted him as soon as she finished reading the novel.
The reason he was still awake so late
was that he was preparing a research project.
The project was about autonomous driving.
Making a car handle all kinds of complex environments without anyone controlling it sounded difficult.
In practice, it was no easy task either.
But,
if he broke it down and focused purely on the theory, the difficulty dropped considerably.
It came down to just two things.
One was using lasers to scan the surroundings and guide the car's driving behavior.
The other was using satellites to assist with adjustments.
Because,
in terms of reliability,
satellites were far away, after all, and subject to more limitations. In places like underpasses and tunnels, the signal would cut out.
Laser scanning, on the other hand, was much more reliable.
Of course,
that reliability came with conditions of its own.
Because,
even after detecting changes in the surroundings and road conditions, he still needed to choose an algorithm to address them.
There were plenty of algorithms.
Through mathematical modeling, Yan Xiao quickly selected roughly nine different types.
The reason he chose so many
was that those were all the publicly available ones he could find in the system's books.
If Yan Xiao wanted to know what deeper adjustments or crucial steps individual companies had implemented, he could only purchase their patents.
But,
with his current study coins, he could not even afford the cheapest "autonomous driving" technology.
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