{"id":73368,"date":"2024-06-15T09:03:25","date_gmt":"2024-06-15T13:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=73368"},"modified":"2024-06-15T09:03:25","modified_gmt":"2024-06-15T13:03:25","slug":"china-automated-car-adoption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=73368","title":{"rendered":"Robot cars get a big push in China’s cities – Autoblog"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thanks to the extensive support of the Chinese government \u2014 and the acceptance of China<\/a>\u2019s drivers to essentially give up driving \u2014 an ambitious experiment to put autonomous cars<\/a> on busy city streets is well underway there.<\/p>\n

In Wuhan, with a population of 11 million people and more than four million cars, a fleet of 500 taxis navigated by computers, often with no safety drivers in them for backup, cruises the streets. It is one of many Chinese cities that allow testing of driverless vehicles<\/a> on public roads.<\/p>\n

A report recently in The New York Times<\/em><\/a> has found that China has taken the lead in developing leadership in this market, not only to show off its technological prowess globally, but to support its all-important local automotive industries.<\/p>\n

While the introduction of robo-taxis on American roads has been stymied by safety issues \u2014 Ford<\/a> and Volkswagen<\/a> both shut down their robot<\/a> taxi joint venture, Argo AI,<\/a> two years ago \u2014 the Times<\/em>, quoting surveys by J.D. Power, found that Chinese drivers are more willing than Americans to trust computers to guide their cars.<\/p>\n

The story also noted that the Chinese government employs censorship to discourage discussion of crashes and other safety issues involving robot vehicles to dissuade public criticism.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, the paper said, on June 4, \u201cBeijing authorized nine Chinese automakers \u2014 including Nio, BYD and SAIC Motor \u2014 to begin tests of advanced assisted driving systems that go beyond Tesla<\/a>\u2019s Full Self-Driving.\u201d Also, it said that China Society of Automotive Engineers forecast that 20% of the cars sold in China in 2030 will be completely driverless and that another 70% will have advanced assisted driving technology.<\/p>\n

China has a step up in this field because electric cars<\/a> in that country comprise about 25% of the market, compared to 7% in the US, and \u201cdriverless technology works much better with battery electric cars than with gasoline-powered cars or most hybrid<\/a> gasoline-electric cars.\u201d<\/p>\n

Also noted by Times<\/em> reporter Keith Bradsher, author of the report, is that another issue that affects the autonomous driving scenario is data transfer.<\/p>\n

\u201cChinese companies set up crucial research facilities in the United States and Europe and sent the results back home,\u201d he writes. \u201cBut any research in China is not allowed to leave the country. As a result, it\u2019s difficult for foreign carmakers to use what they learn in China for cars they sell in other countries.\u201d<\/p>\n

The full report can be seen here<\/a>. A subscription may be required.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thanks to the extensive support of the Chinese government \u2014 and the acceptance of China\u2019s drivers to essentially give up driving \u2014 an ambitious experiment to put autonomous cars on busy city streets is well underway there. In Wuhan, with a population of 11 million people and more than four million cars, a fleet of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73369,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/73369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}