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At the recent 2025 China EV100 Forum, Academician Zhang Yaqin of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and Dean of the Tsinghua University Institute for AI Industry predicted an exciting development: self-driving technology will reach its 'ChatGPT moment' in 2025. This statement has generated significant industry anticipation for the future of autonomous driving. Zhang Yaqin stated that self-driving will be the largest embodied AI application within the next five years, and this technology will pass the 'new Turing test' for the first time. He further elaborated that while 2025 is a crucial year for self-driving...

With Trump's election as President of the United States, his administration is expected to attempt to ease regulations on self-driving cars, a news that caused Tesla's stock price to rise by over 5% on Monday. Tesla's CEO Elon Musk has been actively promoting the launch of its 'Robot Taxi' service, aimed at competing with rivals like Waymo, a subsidiary of Google's parent company Alphabet. The market is optimistic about the Trump administration's intentions to lower the regulatory barriers for self-driving cars, resulting in excited investors buying Tesla shares.

Chinese autonomous vehicle company WeRide has made significant progress in California, obtaining a permit for self-driving vehicle testing that allows passenger rides on public roads, although currently it is not permitted to charge fees or offer services to the public. WeRide had previously obtained a permit in 2021 to test autonomous vehicles without passengers on public roads. However, the company's commercialization progress in California appears to be slow, with its autonomous driving mileage in 2023 far below that of competitor Waymo. WeRide is preparing to raise nearly $5 billion.