China Doesn’t Want to Stay Behind the Pack for Long

China’s push into autonomous vehicles is barely out of first gear, with only a handful of cities allowing limited trials by search-engine giant Baidu, Pony.ai — a startup founded in 2016 in Fremont, Calif., by ex-Baidu engineers Peng and Lou Tiancheng — driverless trucker TuSimple Inc. and others since last year. Domestic and foreign testers are putting cars, buses, trucks and delivery vans through self-driving trials to teach them how to navigate the notoriously congested streets of the world’s biggest auto market.

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