2024-08-05
27 分钟Discussion keeps the world turning.
This is round table.
The conservatives fear the loss of control.
The adventurists look forward to lives made much easier.
The pragmatists complain about the lack of efficiency, while the human taxi drivers are worried about the end of their career.
Driverless cars now have taken to the roads across many chinese cities and in recent weeks has triggered a lots of discussions.
What are the most common schools of thought about the application of robo taxis?
Hello, I'm Lai Ming and this is roundtable today with Niuhouling and Li.
Let's try and find a reasonable angle to examine the driverless cars for the moment.
So, in recent weeks, like I said earlier, there's been quite a lot of discussions about the introduction and application of robo taxis across many cities in China, most notably in Wuhan, where people, well, mostly drivers, are complaining that the robotaxis are priced so low that is almost a non fair competition against them.
So there's a lot of noises, a lot of discussions, and we want to capture what are the schools of thoughts that dominate the discussions these days.
To begin with, let's look at, examine the extent to which the robotaxis are being applied in different cities.
It's actually happening around China.
It's beyond Wuhan, it's beyond just this one brand of robo taxis.
Yes, it's happening around the country in the way that many cities have designed and designated a piloting area, allowing automobile taxis to function or to operate.
It also has, for example, in Beijing.
There is this.
I think it has been here for more than a year, actually, when it first started operating here in Beijing, we had the conversation, discussion here on roundtable, and our reporter Guo Yan has even tried it herself.
It's in the designated area of the.
West Beijing, just a few kilometres from where we speak now, the old capital steel factory ground.