{"id":74607,"date":"2017-12-18T11:43:17","date_gmt":"2017-12-18T19:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/china-is-opening-up-city-roads-for-driverless-cars"},"modified":"2017-12-18T11:43:17","modified_gmt":"2017-12-18T19:43:17","slug":"china-is-opening-up-city-roads-for-driverless-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/china-is-opening-up-city-roads-for-driverless-cars","title":{"rendered":"China Is Opening Up City Roads for Driverless Cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/china-is-opening-up-city-roads-for-driverless-cars.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Drivers in Beijing, beware: soon, you\u2019ll be driving alongside autonomous vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bjjtw.gov.cn\/xxgk\/dtxx\/201712\/t20171218_189567.html\">Beijing\u2019s Municipal Commission of Transport announced (Chinese)<\/a> provisional regulations for testing self-driving cars on city roads. Companies that are registered in China and have tested self-driving cars in enclosed spaces can now apply for permission to test their vehicles on Beijing\u2019s bustling roads.<\/p>\n<p>It certainly won\u2019t be the first city in Asia\u2014or the rest of the world\u2014to embrace autonomous vehicles: self-driving startup nuTonomy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/s\/602689\/novelty-of-driverless-cars-wears-off-quickly-for-first-timers\/\">already operates in Singapore<\/a>, and several U.S. cities are home to the cars of Uber, Waymo, and others. But the news is the latest sign of China\u2019s commitment to making autonomous vehicles a reality, in hopes of alleviating congestion on city streets and becoming a leading technology power.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/the-download\/609807\/china-is-opening-up-city-roads-for-driverless-cars\/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_content=2017-12-18&utm_campaign=Technology+Review\">https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/the-download\/609807\/china-i...ogy+Review<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drivers in Beijing, beware: soon, you\u2019ll be driving alongside autonomous vehicles. On Monday, Beijing\u2019s Municipal Commission of Transport announced (Chinese) provisional regulations for testing self-driving cars on city roads. Companies that are registered in China and have tested self-driving cars in enclosed spaces can now apply for permission to test their vehicles on Beijing\u2019s bustling [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}