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Tech billionaire Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla, aims to implement his company’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) technology into robotaxi services in China, according to a report by staterun China Daily. Last month, the Tesla CEO made an unexpected trip to China, where he had a meeting with Premier Li Qiang, the country’s second-highest-ranking politician.
According to news agency Bloomberg, Musk, whose company is facing sluggish sales, received a significant boost when Chinese officials gave their initial approval for Tesla to introduce its FSD technology in the country. However, according to the report from China Daily, that wasn’t the sole topic of discussion.
The report, citing sources familiar with the matter, reported that the Chinese government also offered partial backing to Musk’s proposal to integrate Tesla’s FSD technology into the country’s taxi services.
Musk’s wager on fully autonomous vehicles isn’t particularly unexpected, given the recent shifts he’s made to reorient the automaker as a software company.
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