HONG KONG (REUTERS) – China issued licences to auto makers on Thursday (Mar 1) that allow self-driving vehicles to be road tested for the first time, the state-owned Xinhua news agency reported.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
HONG KONG (REUTERS) – China issued licences to auto makers on Thursday (Mar 1) that allow self-driving vehicles to be road tested for the first time, the state-owned Xinhua news agency reported.
Two licences were offered to Shanghai-based SAIC Motor Corp Ltd, and the other went to electric vehicle start-up NIO, Xinhua reported.
NIO confirmed it received a licence. There was no immediate comment from SAIC.
The licences would allow operators to test drive the vehicles on a 5.6-km public road in Jiading District of Shanghai, Xinhua said.
The licences were issued after Robin Li, the boss of China’s biggest search engine Baidu, tested his firm’s driverless car on Beijing’s roads in July, stirring controversy as there were no rules for such a test, the agency said.
