The news never stops, whether in tourism or other sectors. It’s easy to miss important developments that might interest us. That’s why we regularly revisit recent news stories to highlight them again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Although their public deployment is quite recent, dating back only to 2023, what we call “autonomous taxis” – driverless vehicles – are gaining momentum and attracting interest from multiple countries and municipalities worldwide. So far, only the United States and China have truly taken the leap with public services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But things are moving fast. Beyond those still testing like France, Germany, and the United Kingdom, China is thinking big about the future in this field, as it often does. The country has made autonomous vehicles a “national priority”<\/strong> and envisions having up to 300,000 “robo-taxis”<\/strong> (5% of the country’s taxi fleet) on the streets of its major cities by 2030, including Beijing and Shanghai. This would significantly leverage China’s advances in Artificial Intelligence and its dynamic automotive industry, backed by government support and ambitions to “conquer” the world. This should perhaps concern Europe before it’s too late…<\/p>\n\n\n\n The news never stops, whether in tourism or other sectors. It’s easy to miss important developments that might interest us. That’s why we regularly revisit recent news stories to highlight them again. A National Priority Although their public deployment is quite recent, dating back only to 2023, what we call “autonomous taxis” – driverless vehicles – are gaining momentum and attracting interest from multiple countries and municipalities worldwide. So far, only the United States and China have truly taken the leap with public services. But things are moving fast. Beyond those still testing like France, Germany, and the United Kingdom, … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2075,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_strive_editorial_status":"complete","_strive_copy_of":0,"_strive_checklists":"\"\"","_strive_active_checklist":"","_strive_post_notes":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[206],"class_list":["post-2074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia","tag-china","no-featured-image-padding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebesttimetovisit.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebesttimetovisit.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebesttimetovisit.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebesttimetovisit.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebesttimetovisit.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2074"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebesttimetovisit.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2076,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebesttimetovisit.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2074\/revisions\/2076"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebesttimetovisit.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebesttimetovisit.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebesttimetovisit.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebesttimetovisit.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Key Milestones for Autonomous Taxis<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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