Chapter 285 The Era of Automatic Cars (Second update, please subscribe)

After a busy day at the automobile company, Li Anlin slept soundly that night. As usual, he was awakened from his dream by the crowing of a rooster.

The chicken was a rooster raised by a neighbor. Although the houses in Fukang Village 16 are all independent two-story buildings, and most of the people living here are senior employees of the company, it is inevitable that some people still raise a few chickens at home, and some even start small vegetable gardens in front of and behind their houses.

Compared to most people, their lives are undoubtedly extremely comfortable.

In the past few years, as more and more immigrants started families and had children, despite the companies' best efforts to solve the housing problem, a "housing shortage" was inevitable. The subsequent increase in the number of marriages and the emergence of the "baby boom" made the housing shortage problem even more prominent.

The scale of Nanhua city has also expanded with the construction of new communities. In addition to the more densely populated communities, a series of quiet towns have appeared outside Nanhua City. These towns are all around certain factories, or have public horse-drawn carriages connecting to the main city, so there is no problem with transportation.

For example, Fukang Village 16, where Li Anlin lives, is two or three kilometers away from the main city of Nanhua, and it takes about 20 minutes to get there by horse-drawn carriage. But thanks to the convenience of bicycles, it only takes a dozen minutes to reach the main city.

Bicycles - this is the most fashionable product at the moment. This bicycle with front and rear wheels of the same size and pneumatic tires was invented by Zhu Xianhai to solve the transportation problems of employees. Don't underestimate it as it is just a human-powered bicycle. In order to manufacture it, the company's several laboratories spent nearly a year conducting scientific and technological research.

This bicycle draws on the model of the old Forever bicycle of later generations. The main components such as the frame, front fork and chain are made of high-strength low-alloy manganese steel, which ensures the strength of the product and improves the processing precision. At the same time, nickel plating technology and 6 kinds of paint are used to make 10 indicators such as vehicle weight, riding lightness, component strength, gear bowl wear resistance, electroplating and paint quality, vehicle decoration and tire performance meet the quality requirements of durability.

Among all bicycles, the most popular one is not the light bicycle, but the load-bearing bicycle. Its rated load capacity is 170 kg. Because of its stable riding and large load capacity, it is known as the "pony that does not eat grass" and is very popular in cities and mines.

Although popular, bicycles are extremely expensive - one bicycle costs at least 150 yuan. Despite its high price, it is still popular because it does not need to be cared for all day like a horse, and it does not need to be fed and watered, and of course there are no problems with diseases.

Buying a bicycle may seem expensive, but if you use it to transport goods, you can still get a lot of rewards. After all, it can transport almost the same amount of goods as a Pony, but it is definitely faster than a Pony and cheaper to use.

It is for this reason that many people buy bicycles, on the one hand to make it convenient for them to commute to get off work, on the other hand to use their time after get off work to do transportation, or even to act as peddlers and sell goods at nearby farms.

However, Li Anlin, a technician at the company, rides a light bike, which is lighter and more expensive. Of course, it is also a symbol of status - it means that he does not need to use a bicycle to intercept people to carry goods.

Of course, he didn't need to use a bicycle to deliver goods. He had just returned from studying in the UK at the beginning of the year, and as soon as he entered the company, he was a level 6 employee with a monthly salary of 80 yuan and 16 salaries a year. Not only was the treatment absolutely generous, but he was even allocated a house as soon as he entered the company, and it was a detached small building.

In other words, only technical personnel can enjoy such treatment. In fact, this year is a watershed. More and more Chinese technical personnel are graduating from school or returning from studying abroad. Soon they will replace some foreign employees and become the technical backbone of Nanhua.

Now everything is just beginning...

As usual, after getting up and washing up, Li Anlin had a few brief words with his wife, then rode his bicycle straight to the company. The Automobile Company, like all Nanhua factories, provides breakfast for its employees, and meals start on time at 5:30 every morning.

As a young man, Li Anlin likes the feeling of pedaling a bicycle, enjoying the morning breeze, and occasionally ringing the bicycle bell. The crisp sound of the bicycle bell echoes in the empty street...

"In order to have breakfast, I always have to start work half an hour earlier..."

Li Anlin, who was riding his bike, muttered to himself that workers would never be calculated by their bosses, so he would naturally start working after breakfast.

The stipulated working time is 6:30, but for breakfast, everyone always has to go to work half an hour earlier, including workers and technicians.

After finishing his breakfast in the company cafeteria, Li Anlin started his day's work as usual. The automatic car researched by the automatic car company established a year ago is a tram.

As early as two years ago, some experimenters installed electric motors on horse-drawn trams, trying to use electric motors to replace horses to drive the vehicles. In fact, the technology of old trams is not complicated, and the technology of the carriages is not much different from that of horse-drawn trams, but after installing electric motors, they faced many problems.

For example, the problem of power supply, how to supply power while driving?

Using batteries is obviously not realistic. Batteries are expensive and have limited capacity. More importantly, they take too long to charge.

"The key is still the wires."

It was obviously not possible to drag a wire, so at the test site of the Automotive Company, a wire was suspended in the air, and an iron ring at the end of a large "pigtail" on the top of the yellow carriage was placed on the wire. That was the coil used for power supply.

"We need to ensure that the intersection of the tram contact wires does not lead to the wrong position..."

When Li Anlin was holding the intersection model and trying to switch, the test field car and the tram started to run again with a "clang clang" sound. In the past year and a half, from direct current to DC motors, and then to tram control systems, one subsystem of the tram has been solved after another.

The only limitation on the application of trams at present is the switching of contact lines at intersections. Although this technology is very complicated, the technical difficulties are still being overcome bit by bit.

"Perhaps we can learn from the switch system of trains..."

Thinking this in his mind, Li Anlin hurriedly stood up and took out an English book about railway tracks from the bookcase. Having studied in the UK, he could naturally understand English books. It only took him a short while to find the information he needed.

"Xu Tao, Xu Tao, come here, I have an idea, maybe we can try this,"

He walked to the balcony with the documents in his hand and shouted loudly to his colleagues on the test site.

"What do you think of us putting the switchboard on the road in the air..."

Pointing his finger at the sky, Li Anlin suddenly stopped talking. He just stood on the balcony, staring at the sky with only astonishment in his eyes.

"What? Switch the fork road..."

Xu Tao felt the same. He looked up at the sky with his mouth wide open, dumbfounded.

Most of the other people looked the same. They even blinked their eyes, trying to confirm whether what they saw was real or fake, or whether they were still sleepy in the morning.

"What is this?"

(End of this chapter)