Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, has tried for years to persuade the Chinese organizers to allow him to provide self -leadership capabilities in one of the most important markets of the company.
After a series of wrong beginnings, Mr. Musk is now closer than ever.
Tesla said on Tuesday that some drivers in China will be able to use the company’s automated pilot’s feature in the city’s streets to help corridors and other most advanced tasks, Tesla said on Tuesday. Cars that use update, which resemble the Autopilot feature in Tesla in the United States, are not completely independent and still require supervision from the driver. The update is available to Tesla owners who paid an additional $ 8800.
The news was a penetration of Mr. Musk in China, where his company has increasingly intense competition. It is an important step towards Mr. Musk’s goal of providing full leadership in China, which would help Tesla restore the market share that you have lost in recent years.
Mr. Musk has identified independent driving technology as a crucial matter for the future of Tesla. The company left in China, where the organizers were slow to agree to its latest self -driving functions. Days after stressing the importance of technology for investors last year, Mr. Musk traveled to Beijing to meet No. 2 in China, Lee Qiang. It was not long before, Tesla was among a group of Chinese auto manufacturers who obtain approval for their data safety reserves in some models.
Mr. Musk since then has risen to the position of power in the United States government as an assistant to President Trump, who is flowing with China on commercial policy.
Michael Dan, a former CEO and CEO of General Motors, said that obtaining approval for its most advanced technology in self -driving would help grant Tesla from three to five other years of technology driving in the excessive electric car market in China. .
Tesla was once the dominant player in China, where she expanded in a market where it was granted privileges that were granted a few other foreign companies. These days, Tesla is racing to keep up with China with their local competitors. Its largest competitor, BYD, has announced a helpful driving system that uses artificial intelligence and other advanced technology.
Mr. Musk persuades the organizers to offer full approval to self -leadership. However, as Mr. Musk recently described it to investors, Tesla is stuck among the Chinese regulations that prevent it from removing data from the country to train leadership models and American authorities that will not allow them to train self -driving systems in China.
While Tesla has a data center in Shanghai, collecting years of data from the cars that he sold in China, information cannot leave the country. Mr. Musk told the investors in a recent profit call.
It is part of an issue related to the broader digital curtain that is drawn between the United States and China with the aggravation of relations between the two economic powers. Last year, the Biden Administration banned Chinese electric cars and programs that were effectively developed in cars connected to the Internet.
“The key is whether computing and other things in China can be translated,” said Cui Dongshu, Secretary -General of the China Automobile Association for passengers. “If you don’t prepare a computing center in China, you cannot calculate these things and you cannot adapt to the ability of Chinese road driving.”
for me It contributed to the research from Beijing and Claire Fu She contributed to the reports of Seoul.