{"id":2238,"date":"2025-05-15T07:03:53","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T06:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/?p=2238"},"modified":"2025-09-03T13:43:53","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T12:43:53","slug":"chinese-tech-company-plans-robotaxi-service-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/2025\/05\/15\/chinese-tech-company-plans-robotaxi-service-in-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese tech company plans robotaxi service in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">According to Dutch tech website <a href=\"https:\/\/tweakers.net\/nieuws\/234940\/baidu-wil-in-europa-robotaxidiensten-aanbieden-eerst-in-zwitserland.html\">Tweakers<\/a>, Chinese company Baidu plans to enter the European market with robotaxis.<br \/>\n<del><a href=\"https:\/\/tweakers.net\/nieuws\/234940\/baidu-wil-in-europa-robotaxidiensten-aanbieden-eerst-in-zwitserland.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2239\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_0244-352x700.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"352\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_0244-352x700.jpeg 352w, https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_0244-1019x2024.jpeg 1019w, https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_0244-76x150.jpeg 76w, https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_0244-768x1525.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_0244-773x1536.jpeg 773w, https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_0244-1031x2048.jpeg 1031w, https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_0244.jpeg 1170w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 352px) 100vw, 352px\" \/><\/a><\/del><br \/>\nSwiss would be the first country to launch the service. I would assume that it because it does not fall under the jurisdiction of the EU, which attempts to develop restrictive policies towards Big Tech. This is a stepping stone to other European countries.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Dutch tech website Tweakers, Chinese company Baidu plans to enter the European market with robotaxis. Swiss would be the first country to launch [&hellip;] <span class=\"read-more-link\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/2025\/05\/15\/chinese-tech-company-plans-robotaxi-service-in-europe\/\">Read More<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_share_on_mastodon":"1"},"categories":[16],"tags":[255,402,293],"class_list":["post-2238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-platform-urbanism","tag-robotaxi","tag-self-driving-cars"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/sciences.social\/@mdelange\/114510345293025245","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_0244.jpeg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peQgW-A6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2240,"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238\/revisions\/2240"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}