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This is Round Table.
What if your boss was an algorithm that couldn't see red lights?
And for China's food delivery riders, that is the daily reality until now.
In the city of Suzhou, traffic signal data is finally talking to delivery apps,
and the countdown freezes when riders wait for traffic lights.
Can this one city's experiment rewrite the rules of the gig economy?
And then, we thought buffets were dead, killed by the pandemic, changing tastes,
or a generation that swore off shared serving spoons.
And now they're coming back, but not exactly as we remember them.
Gone are the sprawling spreads with a hundred dishes.
The buffet reinvented itself, and how long they can survive this time.
Coming to you live from our studios in Beijing.
This is Round Table. I'm Fay Faye for today's program.
I'm joined by Steve Hatherly and Xingyu.
First on today's show.
For millions of food delivery riders, every second counts.
A red light, a traffic jam, or a very crowded intersection could mean
the difference between making a delivery on time or facing a penalty.
But in East China's Suzhou city, a new pilot program is trying to change