Tag: Chinas

The Road Ahead: China’s Smart Vehicle Trials Push the Autonomous Edge

While self-driving cars remain years away for most consumers, China’s recent approval of public road testing for higher automation signals growing strides toward this transformative technology. By enabling trials of Level 3 and 4 vehicles within designated city areas, Chinese authorities aim t...

Finishing China’s Four Classic Novels as a foreigner: redemption, ambition and insecurity

Justifiably so — the above lines concluded my reading of “Romance of the Three Kingdoms” and “Journey to the West”, two of the lengthiest ancient Chinese literary works. Spanning nearly 2,000 pages of vernacular and classical Mandarin, the two books constitute half o...