China's Changan Auto to Send Driverless Car on 1,200-Mile Test
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Changan Automobile Group, Ford Motor Co.’s partner in China, plans to send a self-driving test car on a 1,200-mile road trip next month, underscoring its ambitions to produce highly automated vehicles by 2020.
The car will depart Chongqing and arrive in Beijing -- roughly the equivalent of driving from New York to Kansas City -- in time for when the Chinese capital hosts its auto show next month, according to Xu Liuping, Changan’s chairman and Communist Party secretary of the state-owned carmaker. The company will showcase a self-driving model at the exhibition, which takes place in Beijing this year in the world’s largest auto market.