{"id":159920,"date":"2026-11-07T13:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-11-07T13:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=159920"},"modified":"2026-11-07T13:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-11-07T13:30:08","slug":"robotaxis-are-taking-over-chinas-cities-what-are-they-actually-like-to-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=159920","title":{"rendered":"Robotaxis are taking over China\u2019s cities. What are they actually like to ride?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Tech &#8211; South China Morning PostThe driver\u2019s seat was empty and the steering wheel was turning on its own. Sitting in the back of a Pony.ai robotaxi in Shenzhen, I felt a flicker of nervousness.<br \/>\nBut as the car glided into traffic, the initial unease gave way to an appreciation of something far less futuristic: the blissful absence of small talk with the driver.<br \/>\nMy test rides in two of China\u2019s major tech hubs \u2013 with Pony.ai in Shenzhen and Baidu\u2019s Apollo Go in Beijing \u2013 offered a first-hand experience of how autonomous vehicles&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/big-tech\/article\/3373603\/robotaxis-are-taking-over-chinas-cities-what-are-they-actually-ride\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Tech &#8211; South China Morning PostThe driver\u2019s seat was empty and the steering wheel was turning on its own. Sitting in the back of a Pony.ai robotaxi in Shenzhen,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159920"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=159920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}