Capital of China, Beijing has passed new regulations to encourage the advancement of autonomous driving technologies in the city, Reuters reported, citing Beijing Daily.
Autonomous vehicles which have passed road-testing and safety assessments will be permitted to apply for road trials, and the new regulations will take effect from April 1, 2025, the publication wrote.
Beijing supports the use of autonomous vehicles in the form of private cars, urban buses, trams and taxis, and it wants to encourage the construction of road infrastructure in support of these autonomous vehicles, it added.
Separately, the city of Wuhan also stated that it has approved regulations in support of the development of intelligent connected vehicles, wrote Reuters.
Baidu subsidiary Apollo Go opened its fully autonomous ride-hailing service in Beijing in May 2021, and aimed to have 1,000 robotaxis deployed in Wuhan by the end of 2024. Meanwhile, robotaxi operator Pony.ai aims to expand its autonomous taxi fleet from 250 units in operation this year, to over 1,000 units by 2026.
On the assisted driving front, Tesla’s Full Self Driving assistance suite is also set to enter China in the first quarter of 2025, with right-hand-drive markets to receive FSD in the later part of the first quarter, or early Q2 2025.
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If u look at the condition of our road sign and marking on the road. Some missing or worn out how do you expect the car to follow and be guided?.. more interesting is here in bayan Lepas, the roundabout in front of airport, they had revert back to old flow but road marking still no change. Imagine if outstation or autonomous vehicle came across misleading marking it will cause crash!!!… A line across the road means stop and vehicle crossing the path without stop line have right of ways… But here the flow is opposite!! Habislah chaos!.. Our MBPP tidur lagi!!!
Here in bolehland, autonomous car need to retrain to avoid potholes, going super slow over super high speed bump, avoid zipping motorcycle that always squeeze in between cars, zip in very close in front of the car, run red light and cars going wrong way.
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In Malaysia our roads are not suitable for this. The roads in China are very smooth, wide and organized which makes it easire for the GPS to guide the car. Forget about autonomous driving, we can even drive properly because many of our signboards are purposely installed behind a tree or behind something. Many of times our signboards even mislead us to a wrong lane. Autonomous car will surely pening and give up and suicide itself by driving off a bridge together with all the passengers if this is allowed in Malaysia at the moment.