Tesla may be wasting its time and energy developing its Full Self-Driving technology, according to its top rival in China.
, which is the same tech used by Jaguar, Polestar, Volvo, Mercedes, Lucid, and a bunch of Chinese manufacturers. But now, company reps are saying self-driving technology is still a long way off—if it ever goes mainstream at all.
Speaking to a group of reporters at last week's Shanghai auto show, a BYD representative suggested that self-driving tech may never get good enough, but the world may never be ready for it.
Like in the U.S., Chinese development of self-driving vehicles on the ground has so far only taken shape in approved regions with permission from local authorities, CNBC reports. BYD's rep is now suggesting that it may never expand beyond a locked geographical area that the technology is permitted to operate in, like Waymo's testing on the streets of Arizona's cities, or an automated robot traversing a factory building.
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