China’s artificial intelligence (AI) powered autonomous-vehicle market is showing serious promise. So, of course, Elon Musk wants a piece of it, especially since he has struggled to get self-driving technology off the ground in the US. That may not pan out as well as the Tesla chief executive officer’s Beijing-backed electric-vehicle (EV) bet.
Local media say Tesla could be getting ready to test its full self-driving (FSD) technology in China. Given the firm’s FSD track record in America so far, that’s a scary and unsafe prospect.
In May 2021, Tesla announced it was eliminating critical radars on new cars. It then started disabling them in vehicles that were already on the road, resulting in an uptick in crashes, The Washington Post reported. In February, it paused the rollout of FSD. Suffice to say, the global EV front-runner has hit roadblocks on autonomous vehicles (AVs). Presumably, the hope is that a turn to China will help accelerate its ambitions.
That’s unlikely. Even if Tesla is allowed to test its FSD in China, domestic players are speeding ahead, leaving the US-based Elon Musk-run company to play catch up. Bolstered by Beijing’s blueprint for connected and intelligent cars, companies like Pony.ai and Baidu have been operating robo-taxis in designated areas in Beijing and Shanghai after jumping past high regulatory hurdles.
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