Pony.Ai Robotaxi travels by public in the suburbs in southern Beijing on July 11, 2024.
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Beijing-in the latest stage of building the robotaksi industry generating revenues, Chinese start-up Pony.ai He stated that he had obtained the first permission of China to download tariffs for fully without taxi drivers in the basic parts of the Shenzhen business district.
The city is a coastal technical center in southern China, sometimes called Silicon Valley.
The license allows Pony.AI to download tariffs for rides – without any human staff in the middle – in the key parts of the Nanshan district, a home for Tencent and DJI technological giants. The permit does not include traveling throughout the space, limiting them to such areas as financial subjects.
Pony.Ai has already conducted robotaxia in the part of the neighboring Shenzhen district and can lead taxis with human staff on routes that connect with the SHENZHEN international airport and the SHENZHEN BAY control point on the Hong Kong border.
Although Pony.Ai did not reveal how many robotaxes can work in the Shenzhen region, the company said that cars without driver can work every day from 7:30 to 22:00 local time.
Residents can reserve Robotaxi driving via the Pony.Ai application or mini-program in the Wechat message application according to the press message.
Pony.Ai also conducts robotaxia in the main parts of Chinese cities of Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, in total over 250 cars throughout the country at the end of November.
At the end of 2021, the local authorities in Beijing began to allow Apollo Go and Pony.Ai fees for fees for robotaxia in the southern suburbs of the city.
In mid -March Pony.Ai also said that it was the first company that started the paid Robotaksi route from the suburbs to the South railway station. According to current regulations, users must book driving a day before, and a person's personnel employee must sit at the driver's place.
This week, Pony.Ai reported a “significant growth” of passenger tariffs in the fourth quarter of a year ago, without revealing accurate data. But the company said that its general revenues from Robotaxi services dropped by almost 61.9% on year to USD 2.6 million in the fourth quarter due to reduced fees for services for solutions for autonomous vehicle engineering solutions. He also noticed that revenues from Robotruck Services increased 72.7% year on year up to $ 12.9 million due to the extension of the Robotruck fleet.