Wednesday, July 10, 2024

The Chinese government is all in on autonomous vehicles

Can you imagine a time when you do not have to waste time anymore behind a steering wheel observing traffic and with your feet on the pedal?

Today's cars are like the horse carriages of times past!

Fewer car accidents, fewer traffic jams ...

"... The government is finally allowing Tesla to bring its Full Self-Driving (FSD) feature to China. New government permits let companies test driverless cars on the road and allow cities to build smart road infrastructure that will tell these cars where to go. In short, there are a lot of changes taking place. And they all point in the same direction: There’s an immense appetite to make autonomous cars a reality soon. And the Chinese government, on both the central and local levels, has been a major force pushing for it. ...
On June 4, the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued nine permits for testing a more advanced version of autonomous driving technologies on the road. ...
And most recently, on July 3, the central government announced a list of 20 cities that will pilot the building of smart, connected roads. The idea is that if a road has various kinds of sensors, cameras, and data transmitters built into it, it can communicate with self-driving vehicles in real time and help them make better decisions. ..."

The Chinese government is all in on autonomous vehicles | MIT Technology Review

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