{"id":82049,"date":"2018-08-25T13:42:21","date_gmt":"2018-08-25T20:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/waymo-takes-a-tiny-step-into-china"},"modified":"2018-08-25T13:42:21","modified_gmt":"2018-08-25T20:42:21","slug":"waymo-takes-a-tiny-step-into-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/waymo-takes-a-tiny-step-into-china","title":{"rendered":"Waymo takes a tiny step into China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/waymo-takes-a-tiny-step-into-china.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Alphabet\u2019s self-driving car subsidiary, Waymo, has kicked off speculation about its ambitions for the Chinese market by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/waymo-alphabets-self-driving-unit-steers-into-china-1535095678\"> creating a small outpost in Shanghai<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s it mean?:<\/strong> If Waymo is aiming to break into China, then this would be a very preliminary step. The new office might also be something less exciting: a means of working with Chinese hardware suppliers for instance.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Auto revolution: <\/strong>T hat said, it would make a lot of sense for Waymo to target China. It is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/2009\/10\/23\/motoring-ahead\"> the world\u2019s largest auto market<\/a> and a hotbed of technology and market innovation. And while Google\u2019s plans to re-enter the Chinese market have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/08\/16\/technology\/google-employees-protest-search-censored-china.html\"> proven controversial<\/a>, the truth is that China cannot be ignored by any tech company that wants to a global force.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/the-download\/611939\/waymo-takes-a-tiny-step-into-china\/\">https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/the-download\/611939\/waymo-t...nto-china\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alphabet\u2019s self-driving car subsidiary, Waymo, has kicked off speculation about its ambitions for the Chinese market by creating a small outpost in Shanghai. What\u2019s it mean?: If Waymo is aiming to break into China, then this would be a very preliminary step. The new office might also be something less exciting: a means of working [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82049","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\/82049","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\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}