autonomous driving

2025.08.02

09:15

A relevant person in charge of the Shanghai Municipal Commission of Economy and Information Technology: The open areas for autonomous driving will be expanded in an orderly manner in the future

In the Jinqiao Economic and Technological Development Zone in Pudong, Shanghai, people can already hail driverless taxis. Currently, Pony.ai has opened its driverless taxis to the public. The reporter went there as soon as possible and experienced it for 16.8 yuan. Recently, Shanghai issued a new batch of "Intelligent Connected Vehicle Demonstration Operation Licenses". The first batch of licensed companies covers scenarios such as smart travel, trunk logistics, and terminal delivery. In the view of industry insiders, this also means that autonomous driving travel services with a driverless driver based on regulations can be operated openly for a fee, officially opening the door to commercialization. On the open road, the relevant person in charge of the Shanghai Municipal Commission of Economy and Information Technology revealed that the open areas for autonomous driving will be expanded in an orderly manner in the future. The full opening of Pudong New Area will be achieved, and the opening of Fengxian, Minhang and other areas will be promoted simultaneously, and the open roads of the four major test areas in Shanghai will be connected.

06:50

A US jury ordered Tesla to pay more than $200 million in damages, and Musk said he would appeal.

On August 1st, a Florida jury ruled that the American electric car manufacturer Tesla was partially liable for a fatal 2019 crash involving a Model S equipped with Autopilot. The jury also ordered the company to pay approximately $243 million in damages to the family of a woman killed and another injured person. The verdict included $129 million in compensatory damages (of which Tesla was held 33% liable) and $200 million in punitive damages, for a total of approximately $243 million. Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced that day that Tesla would appeal the Florida jury's verdict.

2025.08.01

14:02

Shandong: Gradually and steadily promote the application of assisted driving and implement the "demonstration application" action of autonomous driving

The Shandong Provincial Department of Housing and Urban-Rural Development recently issued the "Implementation Opinions on Promoting New Urban Infrastructure Construction and Building Resilient Cities in Shandong Province." These opinions propose promoting the coordinated development of smart city infrastructure and intelligent connected vehicles. They also propose gradually and steadily promoting the application of assisted driving, implementing "demonstration applications" for autonomous driving, accelerating the deployment of intelligent sensing equipment on urban road infrastructure, and improving vehicle-road collaboration. Accelerating the construction and renovation of intelligent parking facilities will also be crucial. Strengthening the planning, construction, and renovation of urban distribution facilities will help establish an intensive, efficient, and intelligent green distribution system. In conjunction with the development of public infrastructure for both emergency and regular use, rationally deploying urban emergency material transfer facilities will enhance the city's ability to rapidly secure emergency supplies. Jinan will promote the national "vehicle-road-cloud" integrated pilot program for intelligent connected vehicles, accelerating the expansion of pilot demonstration application scenarios. Coordinated implementation will include province-wide unmanned delivery in urban areas, full-scenario unmanned driving in Yantai, and integrated "vehicle-road-cloud" pilot programs in Jinan's new and old kinetic energy conversion starting zone and Qingdao's West Coast New Area, promoting the development of unmanned driving across multiple scenarios.

11:58

Shanghai's driverless taxis are now available for public use

According to Shangguan News, Shanghai has officially issued demonstration operation permits for intelligent connected vehicles, allowing eight companies to operate driverless taxis in pilot areas. Pudong New Area will fully open up autonomous driving services and will also expand access to areas like Fengxian and Minhang. The starting price for driverless taxis is 14 yuan per 3 kilometers, with additional travel time exceeding 3 kilometers at 2.7 yuan per kilometer. Operation hours are Monday to Friday, 7:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. Pony.ai's public relations representative stated that its driverless taxis opened to the public on August 1st. Initial availability is limited, so wait times may be long.

2025.07.30

08:16

Huatai Securities: WAIC Shanghai's new policy accelerates Robotaxi

Huatai Securities noted that the advancement of Shanghai's relevant policies at the 2025 WAIC Conference marks another milestone in the Robotaxi industry's transition from "demonstration" to "commercial." On a policy level, on July 26th, Shanghai released the "Model Speed Intelligent Driving Action Plan for Shanghai's High-Level Autonomous Driving Pilot Area," which clarified the mass production timeline and scale-up targets for Level 4 autonomous driving. Regarding road rights, the full opening of Pudong by 2025 will provide a world-leading platform for complex megacities. Furthermore, Shanghai issued its first "demonstration operation" license, allowing commercial trial operations, which will accelerate the commercialization of Level 4 companies. Recommended sectors for attention include core technology solution providers, scenario application integrators, and high-growth hardware suppliers.

2025.07.29

07:34

CITIC Securities: AI-enabled scenarios are accelerating, focusing on digital infrastructure construction and AI and robot applications

According to a research report by CITIC Securities, the AI conference released the "AI Global Governance Action Plan", which will further accelerate the construction of digital infrastructure and the application of AI and robots. Shanghai has issued a batch of intelligent networked vehicle demonstration operation licenses and released the "Shanghai High-level Autonomous Driving Leading Area "Model Speed Intelligent Driving" Action Plan", which will orderly expand the open area of autonomous driving, realize the full opening of Pudong New Area, and simultaneously promote the opening of Fengxian District, Minhang District and other areas, promote the orderly implementation of unmanned driving equipment, and related car-road-cloud construction companies will benefit.

2025.07.28

23:53

Market news: LYFT's self-driving shuttles will land in US cities in 2026.

21:09

Shanghai Economic and Information Technology Commission: Strive to realize the opening of all autonomous driving areas in Pudong within this year, excluding Lujiazui and other areas

At the just concluded 2025 World Artificial Intelligence Conference, the demonstration operation of intelligent connected vehicles in Shanghai attracted wide attention. On July 28, Han Dadong, second-level inspector of the Shanghai Municipal Commission of Economic and Information Technology and director of the Automobile Industry Department, revealed in an interview that Shanghai will orderly expand the open areas for autonomous driving, strive to achieve the full opening of autonomous driving test roads in Pudong New Area within this year, and simultaneously promote the opening of Fengxian, Minhang and other areas.

18:41

Market news: WeRide's driverless taxi has obtained autonomous driving license in Saudi Arabia.

08:51

People's Daily front page: Striving to become a strong transportation nation

The People's Daily article stated that my country's transportation science and technology innovation has achieved a leap from quantitative accumulation to qualitative leap, and from local advancement to system improvement: overcoming geological difficulties, the world's longest highway tunnel, the Tianshan Victory Tunnel, successfully runs through the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains; committed to independent innovation, the world's fastest high-speed train CR450 was successfully unveiled; speeding up smart transformation, more than 2,800 kilometers of the Yangtze River main channel waterway has achieved 5G full coverage, artificial intelligence has accelerated the application of transportation, and new technologies and new models such as autonomous driving, smart shipping, and smart logistics have flourished... Infrastructure construction is changing with each passing day, and equipment manufacturing capabilities have been greatly improved, which strongly supports the increasingly perfect modern comprehensive transportation system. By the end of 2024, more than 1/3 of the provinces in the country have achieved high-speed rail access to all cities, and more than 2/3 of the provinces have achieved high-speed access to all counties; the construction of "four good rural roads" has been accelerated, and the total mileage of rural roads has reached 4.64 million kilometers; aviation services cover 92.6% of prefecture-level administrative units and 91.2% of the population in the country; the number of express service networks has increased by 23,300. In the first half of this year, the fixed asset investment in transportation reached 1,647.4 billion yuan, and the cross-regional personnel flow reached 33.76 billion person-times.

07:48

A new batch of intelligent connected vehicle demonstration operation licenses issued, Shanghai builds a high-level autonomous driving leading area

The 2025 World Artificial Intelligence Conference opened in Shanghai on July 26, and the "Analog-Digital Leadership, Intelligent Future" AI Empowered Autonomous Driving Innovation and Development Forum was held at the same time. A new batch of intelligent networked vehicle demonstration operation licenses were issued, and 5 consortiums and 8 companies were awarded intelligent networked vehicle demonstration operation licenses. Shanghai Jinjiang Taxi Service Co., Ltd. and Shanghai Youdao Zhitu Technology Co., Ltd. became the first batch of approved companies. Industry insiders said that the official landing of a new batch of intelligent networked vehicle demonstration operation licenses marks that Shanghai's intelligent networked vehicle demonstration operation has entered a new stage of normalization and scale. This will further promote the large-scale commercial application of L4 autonomous driving technology, and my country has taken another positive step in the global autonomous driving commercialization competition.

2025.07.26

20:21

Tesla appears at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference: Intelligent Assisted Driving Plan will be further implemented in China this year

The 2025 World Artificial Intelligence Conference is being held, and Tesla is attending this AI event with its latest achievements, including smart electric vehicles, humanoid robots, smart assisted driving technology, and V4 supercharging piles. It is reported that Tesla's Robotaxi driverless taxi service is based on a visual architecture, combined with a neural network trained with data from millions of vehicles around the world, supports cross-regional deployment, and can be quickly replicated to new regions. Tesla's smart assisted driving system (driver-supervised version) is planned to be further implemented in China and Europe in 2025 and is awaiting review by regulatory authorities. Tesla expects to open its smart assisted driving system (driver-free version) to individual users in some parts of the United States by the end of this year, on the premise of ensuring that all safety measures are in place. In the next few years, Tesla will undergo a fundamental transformation from the "pre-autonomous driving era" to the "post-autonomous driving era."

19:38

Shanghai will promote the operation of 500 data collection online ride-hailing vehicles and establish a large-scale model evaluation system for autonomous driving

On July 26, Tang Wenkan, deputy director of the Shanghai Municipal Commission of Economy and Information Technology, said at the "Model-to-Digital Leadership, Intelligent Future" AI Empowered Autonomous Driving Innovation and Development Forum, an important special event of the 2025 World Artificial Intelligence Conference, that by 2024, the output value of Shanghai's automotive industry above designated size will reach 703.5 billion yuan, and the cumulative promotion of new energy vehicles will reach 1.645 million, ranking first among global cities. In order to accelerate the construction of a high-level autonomous driving leading area, Shanghai will promote the operation of 500 data collection online ride-hailing vehicles, and the data collected this year is expected to exceed 10 million clips, and establish an autonomous driving large model evaluation system to achieve mass production and application of end-to-end intelligent driving models.

17:14

California regulator: Tesla not allowed to provide self-driving passenger service

The California Public Utilities Commission confirmed on the 25th that Tesla has not yet applied for the necessary licenses to operate self-driving cars. This decision essentially halted Tesla's self-driving taxi service, which was originally launched in the Bay Area of California this weekend. The California Public Utilities Commission said that Tesla has not yet received approval from the agency to provide self-driving passenger services to customers, regardless of whether they are paid or not and whether there is a human driver in the car. This means that Tesla cannot test or operate self-driving passenger services in California, and the existing license only supports the traditional taxi model.

16:16

WeRide, Chery and Jinjiang Taxi were approved for L4 intelligent connected car unmanned driving demonstration application license

On July 25, at the 2025 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC 2025) held in Shanghai, Shanghai officially issued a new batch of intelligent connected vehicle demonstration operation licenses. Autonomous driving technology company WeRide, together with Chery Automobile and Jinjiang Taxi, successfully obtained approval to carry out autonomous driving demonstration application services based on regulations in Pudong New Area, Shanghai. This also marks that WeRide Robotaxi has officially opened its 10th city in the world.

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