Didi, Uber's Prime Rival In China Will Set Foot in Self-Driving

Oct 07, 2016 05:05 AM EDT | Ribhu .

With what seemed like a thing of the future, or a part of a science fiction, self-driving has come a long way. Numerous car manufacturers and independent technologies are storming their minds in the self-driving industry - many coming with fruitful results. And there is another one in the queue.

Didi Chuxing, Uber's previous furious adversary in China, needs to construct a self-driving car
In a meeting with Bloomberg, Didi and CE's founder and CEO Cheng Wei said he is chasing for information researchers in Silicon Valley to build up a self-driving car. Didi Chuxing purchased Uber China in a $35 billion arrangement over the late spring. 

Cheng included that he's likewise been in chats with Gansha Wu, the previous chief of Intel Labs who additionally established UiSee Technology, a Beijing-based self-driving car organization. 

Uber is propelling its self-driving car endeavors all alone. The ride-hailing administration as of late launched a pilot in Pittsburgh where select Uber riders can hail a self-driving car. This means that Didi will have to excite its advances further.

Didi will indeed have to progress fast to reach where its competitors are standing. China is quickly becoming a major testing ground for self-driving cars. Volvo has recently decided to put 100 cars in the hands of people to d a test run. Alongside, Baidu, China's search engine giant has been testing its very own self-driving technology in California.

With the self-driving industry quickly building up, it will be interesting to see what the future holds for cars on the road. Will it be wrong to say that in the coming years, or decades, self-driving cars is what we will find on the road?

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