China's Didi To Roll Out Self-Developed Robotaxis By 2025 (reuters.com) 5
Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi Global said on Thursday that it is working with Chinese carmakers to develop its own robotaxis, which it aims to put into service by 2025, revealing a concept one with robotic arms it called "Didi Neuron." From a report: The company said that it is collaborating with multiple new energy carmakers in China on developing robotaxis. "We hope they can enter Didi's network and provide services by 2025," Didi Autonomous Driving COO Meng Xing said at a company event that was livestreamed online. "We hope they will be domestically produced. We hope the supply chain is controllable, and even 90% of the key components inside can be domestically produced," he said. He also showed off a robotaxi concept car called "Didi Neuron", with robotic arms that can help passengers pick up luggage.
missed it by *that* much (Score:3)
and not a single line of someone else's code! (Score:3)
Re: (Score:2)
In a few years time Uber will be demanding Didi is blocked from operating in the US and prevented from buying any US made hardware, because they are controlled by the CCP and stealing your personal data or something.
And yet again we will have assumed the Chinese can only steal technology, until one day it turns out they have jumped ahead of us.
In fact they have been developing this technology for many years now, along with several other Chinese companies like BYD. They have been testing the technology in Gu
What a terrific idea for a country... (Score:3)
...where it's so easy to file civil lawsuits in the event of bad outcomes.