The Roadblock Facing China’s Self-Driving Vehicles
How China’s autonomous driving companies fare in foreign markets will depend on whether they can soothe concerns over how they handle data.
China’s self-driving car revolution is already gathering speed at home. Now the country’s leading autonomous car makers are spreading abroad.
Take Guangzhou-based WeRide. Its robobuses ferried passengers between event venues at the French Open tennis in Paris in May, and carried VIPs attending a major international investment forum in Riyadh last October. By the end of this year, its robosweepers will be cleaning the streets of Singapore around the clock.
A WeRide robob
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In 2021, after four decades of exponential growth in China’s economy, Xi Jinping revived the party slogan “common prosperity” in order to address the country’s glaring inequality. The policy priority was suddenly everywhere: in speeches, in newspapers and in schools. But now, three years later, it has all but disappeared from public discourse even as the country’s economic inequality festers. What happened?
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