A look at the self-driving car startup’s emergence and warm welcome in China, and the challenges it faces amid U.S.-China technological decoupling.
This year Pony.ai announced they had received a permit "to provide fare-charging driverless robotaxi services in Beijing". Credit: Pony.ai
When the Biden administration announced expansive new chip export controls this month, its main target was the Chinese military.
A host of other organizations have been caught in the crossfire, however — including Pony.ai, an autonomous vehicle (AV) startup founded in California by two prodigious Chinese-born engineers. Whether the company can eventually succeed in bringing self-driving cars to the mass market may now depend not just on its technological prowess, but on its political
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California-based Jupiter Systems sold high-tech wall screens to U.S. military and government clients. On June 14, The Wire China revealed how Jupiter was sold to a Chinese company in 2020 without the first Trump administration’s knowledge. Now Trump is back and on the case as Jupiter teeters on the verge of bankruptcy.
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