Shanghai rolls out commercial robotaxi services
Wire desk byline Sourced from Xinhua, Dawn, Arab News, Anadolu and Minute Mirror. Translated and abridged by the GSRRA Desk.
Shanghai has officially launched commercial robotaxi services in Pudong. Passengers can hail driverless taxis via apps or WeChat, with fares similar to regular taxis. The vehicles navigate complex traffic smoothly, from unprotected left turns to busy intersections.
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Zamir Ahmed Awan is the founder and Chair of the Global Silk Route Research Alliance, a think tank in Islamabad. He studied engineering at Shanghai University in the 1980s, and years later he went back to China as Pakistan's science counsellor in Beijing, from 2010 until 2016, working on science and higher education cooperation between the two countries.…
