Transportation is getting smarter in China as wider applications of 5G wireless smart technologies play an increasing role in supporting autonomous driving and vehicle-road coordination, company executives and experts said.
Yu Qian, CEO and founder of Chinese autonomous driving startup QCraft, said the autonomous driving sector is arriving at a “golden inflection point of growth”, with policies becoming increasingly clear and open, and technologies such as 5G and algorithms more powerful.
Starting from July, QCraft and Chinese ride-sharing platform T3 began to provide robotaxi services, offering rides to passengers using self-driving cars within certain areas in Suzhou, Jiangsu province, where the companies had already…