Didi Chuxing says the deployment of driverless vehicles won't mean a stop to putting humans behind the wheel.
"We are going to launch a robo-taxi service in Shanghai very soon," Tiger Qie, Didi's vice president and chief technology officer of its ride-sharing unit, said onstage at CNBC's East Tech West event in Guangzhou, China. "The users can just hail self-driving vehicles through the Didi app."
Qie said Didi is currently only able to fulfil 65% of user requests when it comes to rides, but the launch of driverless cars would help it plug the gap in supply and demand. He added that the deployment of self-driven vehicles wouldn't mean a stop to putting humans behind the wheel. "Autonomous vehicles and human-driven vehicles are going to co-exist," Qie said in a fireside chat with CNBC'sDidi has grown rapidly since it was founded in 2012, with 550 million users currently registered with its platform. The company took over
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