China is betting on slow but steady to win the self-driving car race

Over the past two years, China has been setting the stage for a revolution in autonomous driving. Just don’t expect that revolution to come quickly. In the United States, individual states are taking the lead in deciding how self-driving cars will be rolled out in their communities, and the companies making those cars are determining what “safe” self-driving technology looks like. Meanwhile, China’s regulatory bodies only started allowing local governments to issue road-test licenses to autonomous-car companies last year, and China has only recently begun the arduous process of building compatible highway infrastructures.

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