XPENG Praises Hong Kong & Preps For Autonomous Driving Checks

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Hong Kong seems to be prefer it’s able to get shifting quicker within the self-driving automobile market, and XPENG is true there on the doorstep able to be a part of it.

In an announcement a couple of moments in the past, XPENG said: “XPENG welcomes the coverage measures put ahead by the Chief Govt within the Coverage Handle to speed up the unmanned and large-scale improvement of autonomous driving in Hong Kong and obtain business operation as quickly as potential. XPENG will actively cooperate with the SAR Authorities and, leveraging its personal expertise and expertise, promote the business’s use of Hong Kong as a platform to discover abroad markets, particularly right-hand drive markets, and collectively foster the sustainable improvement of Hong Kong.”

Hmm, the word about utilizing Hong Kong as a testing middle for different right-hand drive markets is an attention-grabbing facet word. General, although, it’s clear XPENG was up to the mark and able to take up a management function in autonomous driving in Hong Kong. We’ll see what it results in….

“The promotion of autonomous autos proposed within the Coverage Handle displays Hong Kong’s imaginative and prescient and duty as a world innovation and expertise hub. XPENG is keen to hitch fingers with the Hong Kong SAR Authorities and all sectors of society to assist Hong Kong construct a future-oriented sustainable transportation system with world-leading sensible driving expertise,” He Xiaopeng, Chairman and CEO of XPENG, said. The corporate additionally wrote:

“As an innovation chief within the discipline of sensible EVs and autonomous driving expertise, we are going to actively take part in Hong Kong’s autonomous driving testing and software course of, supporting the development of a better, safer, and greener city transportation ecosystem in Hong Kong. […]

“XPENG will proceed to pay shut consideration to and assist the promotion and implementation of related insurance policies, and appears ahead to contributing expertise and expertise to the development of Hong Kong’s sensible metropolis.”

Naturally, each stepping stone announcement and market on this realm is presumably main to an enormous, quick enlargement of self-driving vehicles and robotaxis. Or, maybe, the “revolution” simply occurs incrementally on this subject. One testing interval at a time, one market opening up at a time, an incremental improve in self-driving taxi rollouts at a time. Maybe it isn’t a revolution in any respect, however a gradual tech swap that kind of upgrades the taxi business. In any case, Hong Kong is shifting ahead on this quicker now, and XPENG is collaborating in that.