Waymo, Cruise, Tesla, Zoox … but who’s thinking about WeRide? The China-based company has just gotten approval to test robotaxis in California. Okay, it may not be the first company that comes to mind when you think of robotaxis, but it does have some notable points to highlight, which I’ll … [continued]
A few companies are starting to offer geographically limited robotaxi service in China, most notably Baidu and AutoX. You can now add Pony.ai to the mix, sort of. Its robotaxis just got approved for testing from the Beijing Intelligent Connected Vehicle Policy Pilot Zone. To begin, Pony.ai will test 10 robotaxis … [continued]
Five years ago, in a blogging competition about “what will be the most important technological development over the next 10 years that will have the greatest impact in reducing climate change risks,” I concluded that the answer was robotaxis. If true robotaxis, broadly available and deployed in cities around the … [continued]
I recently wrote an article about 10 existing and planned robotaxi services. One of those was the Apollo Go Robotaxi service launched by Baidu in Changsha, China, on Earth Day, April 20. It turns out that robotaxi service was also launched in Cangzhou, China, in August, and now it’s just been launched in Beijing.
DeepRoute and Cao Cao Mobility will launch robotaxis in Hangzhou in 2021.
Didi Chuxing (DiDi), a new mobility company focused on providing people with “app-based transportation and life services,” has just launched a robotaxi service.
