Tiger Qie, VP of Didi Chuxing and CTO of Didi's Trip sharing Enterprise Group, speaks with CNBC's Arjun Kharpal onstage on the East Tech West occas
Tiger Qie, VP of Didi Chuxing and CTO of Didi’s Trip sharing Enterprise Group, speaks with CNBC’s Arjun Kharpal onstage on the East Tech West occasion in, Guangzhou, China.
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Didi Chuxing, the Chinese ride-hailing firm, is ready to launch a so-called robo-taxi service in Shanghai “very quickly.”
“We’re going to launch a robo-taxi service in Shanghai very quickly,” Tiger Qie, Didi’s vp and chief know-how officer of its ride-sharing unit, mentioned onstage at CNBC’s East Tech West occasion in Guangzhou, China. “The customers can simply hail self-driving autos via the Didi app.”
Qie mentioned Didi is at the moment solely in a position to fulfil 65% of consumer requests in the case of rides, however the launch of driverless vehicles would assist it plug the hole in provide and demand. He added that the deployment of self-driven autos would not imply a cease to placing people behind the wheel.
“Autonomous autos and human-driven autos are going to co-exist,” Qie mentioned in a fireplace chat with CNBC’s Arjun Kharpal.
Didi has grown quickly because it was based in 2012, with 550 million customers at the moment registered with its platform. The corporate took over Uber’s China enterprise again in 2016, and has extra not too long ago began increasing overseas into international locations like Australia and Mexico.
Qie mentioned the corporate may even be launching in Costa Rica as of Tuesday, in…