An intelligent transportation project with investment of 500 million yuan (nearly $80 million) is now being carried out in Hengyang City, Hunan Province, the hinterland of China. Mogo Auto Intelligence and Telemetics Information Technology Co., Ltd., an autonomous driving tech start-up headquartered in Beijing, is in charge of the project…

This could be the world’s largest autonomous driving project. With a designed mileage of 200 kilometers, it has been the largest one among all L4-level autonomous driving projects released worldwide. There will be a 38-kilometer-long intelligent road deployed and put into use in September during the first phase of the project, according to the company’s press release. By then, there will be about 500 self-driving vehicles on city streets including robobuses, robotaxis, self-driving shuttle buses and other public service vehicles providing fire-fighting, street sweeping, distributing and emergency medical services.
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