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.
A WeRide self-driving taxi in Beijing's high-level autonomous driving demonstration zone. Credit: WeRide
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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