Comments by "D W" (@DW-op7ly) on "Vice chairman of Xiaomi shocked by how good Tesla FSD is in China" video.

@Ahda108 China already had FSD and robotaxis Baidu who they partnered up with in China has been doing it since 2022
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@Ahda108 Baidu starts offering nighttime driverless taxis December 26, 2022 Starting this week, the public can ride its robotaxis in Wuhan between 7 am and 11 pm without safety drivers behind the wheel. Previously, its unmanned vehicles could only operate from 9 am to 5 pm in the city. The updated scheme is expected to cover one million customers in certain areas of Wuhan, a city of more than 10 million people. Like most autonomous vehicle startups, Baidu combines a mix of third-party cameras, radar and lidar to help its cars see better in low-visibility conditions, in contrast to Tesla’s vision-based solution. In August, Baidu started offering fully driverless robotaxi rides, charging passengers at taxi rates. In Q3, Apollo Go, the firm’s robotaxi hailing app, completed more than 474,000 rides, up 311% year over year. Accumulatively, Apollo Go had exceeded 1.4 million orders as of Q3. TC
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@calc1657 yea but it was China that saved Tesla from going under 5 years ago. No Amount of US support was going to fix production and EV market to sell into Until the Shanghai Gigafactory came online within a year. And Tesla got handed the largest EV market in the world I clearly remember because…. That’s when everyone was calculating their monthly cash burn rate Plus even in 2022 there were still production issues in the USA 👇 Tesla was 'about a month' from bankruptcy during key period, Musk says Model 3 ramp pushed the electric car maker to the limit Foxbusiness 👇 How Elon Musk Built a Tesla Factory in China in Less Than a Year Elon Musk presided over a ceremony at a new multibillion-dollar plant near Shanghai—its first outside the U.S.—where Tesla handed over the first China-made Model 3 sedans to the public Musk’s charm offensive in China has appeared to pay off. Originally just a muddy plot about a 90-minute drive away from Shanghai’s city center, the China plant has quickly come online since it broke ground at the start of 2019. It took twice as long for Tesla’s Gigafactory near Reno, Nevada to begin churning out batteries. Back in China, Tesla has been winning various concessions from local authorities ranging from approvals to preferential loans — all the more notable given the trade war with the U.S. Fortune 👇 Tesla Sends Shanghai Workers to California for Factory Boost Bloomberg 👇 Elon Musk Brings Tesla’s China Chief to Texas to Run Gigafactory Bloomberg News, Bloomberg News Dec 8, 2022
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