Employees work on Baojun RS-5 cars at a final assembly plant operated by General Motors Co in Guangxi, China. Photo: Reuters
Employees work on Baojun RS-5 cars at a final assembly plant operated by General Motors Co in Guangxi, China. Photo: Reuters
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Inside China Tech: Leaders in Technology – self-driving cars in China

  • The current state of autonomous cars in China and the roadmap for implementation
  • We talked to Jianxiong Xiao, the founder and CEO of AutoX, a high-tech company working on self-driving vehicles

Chua Kong HoYang Yang
Chua Kong Ho and Yang Yang

Updated: 3:16pm, 17 Sep, 2019

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Employees work on Baojun RS-5 cars at a final assembly plant operated by General Motors Co in Guangxi, China. Photo: Reuters
Employees work on Baojun RS-5 cars at a final assembly plant operated by General Motors Co in Guangxi, China. Photo: Reuters

AutoX Inc. is a high-tech company working on self-driving vehicles. It’s mission is to democratise autonomy and enable autonomous driving to improve everyone’s life.

Dr Xiao Jianxiong is the founder and CEO of AutoX Inc and has over 10 years of research and engineering experience in computer vision, autonomous driving and robotics.

Along with Pony.ai, AutoX recently received a robotaxi licence in California and it’s now in the process of applying for a permit to test drive without a safety driver in the US.

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Chua Kong Ho, the South China Morning Post’s technology editor, speaks with Dr Xiao about what this means for the company and the future of self-driving cars in general.

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Chua Kong Ho

Chua Kong Ho

Chua Kong Ho is a former technology editor at the South China Morning Post.

Yang Yang

Yang Yang

Yang Yang was a podcast producer at the Post from 2019 to 2020. Before joining the Post in 2019, Yang was a TV producer and editor for 2M Media Group in Washington, where she produced mini-documentaries and studio interviews.