WeRide, autonomous vehicles startup in Beijing said on Friday that it has become the first autonomous company to start fully driverless vehicle testing in China. China is the world’s biggest auto market accelerates the development of autonomous technologies.
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Three-year-old WeRide, backed by Nissan, Renault and Mitsubishi, said in a statement that it started tests on Wednesday on open roads in a designated area of Guangzhou after the southern Chinese city granted permission.
There are several other company China such as Didi Chuxing, Baidu Inc and Toyota-backed Pony.ai try to build the autonomous vehicles and they also start on these projects. They also were testing on autonomous cars. Though, they all have someone or two safety staff onboard. The people onboard take control in unexpected situations.
WeRide is 1st company who star testing fully autonomous cars. They said it will use the remote centre to take control of their vehicles if needed.
Before this, a U.S autonomous vehicle company Alphabet Inc, Waymo also tested passenger vehicles without a safety driver. A California based startup called Nuro also gets permission to test the driverless vehicles on a small scale.
A day before Tesla executive chief Elon Musk also revealed that U.S electric vehicle inc. Tesla “very close” to level 5 autonomous driving technology.
However, WeRide is now on the level 4 autonomous standard. Now, WeRide cars can handle all aspects of driving without any human interaction. It said its driverless testing fleet comprises 10 Lincoln MKZ sedans.
Another autonomous company ‘Baidu’s’ executive head, Tony Han works on a fleet of near about 45 autonomous taxis and 60 test cars.
Other Autonomous technology such as Waymo, Uber Technologies also work on this. An industry insider said that it will take time for technology to get ready and gain trust by the user.
We will hope the upcoming years we will see driverless autonomous cars.
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