While the pandemic made many commuters wary of public transportation, some turned to personal mobility devices for their travels.
Even after the pandemic, the trend is likely to stay, according to Li. He said people in China are likely to continue commuting on scooters as they offer more freedom compared with public transport.
It takes time for customers to get used to how it feels and understand that autonomous driving is actually safer and more convenient way of transportation."I think from the technical point of view, we have made progress in leaps and bounds in the last several years," he said. Peng added that the company obtained a fully driverless testing permit in California and is about to receive some in China as well.
Regulation is the "biggest bottleneck" when it comes to unmanned passenger drones, according to EHang's Xu. "Right now, the situation is becoming more convincing because we did handle the trial flights over about 43 cities in 8 countries with more than 4,000 flights done," Xu added.
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