{"id":1005868,"date":"2026-04-30T09:10:03","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T03:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1005868"},"modified":"2026-04-30T09:20:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T03:50:02","slug":"china-suspends-new-autonomous-vehicle-permits-after-baidu-outage-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/30\/china-suspends-new-autonomous-vehicle-permits-after-baidu-outage-report\/","title":{"rendered":"China suspends new autonomous vehicle permits after Baidu outage: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China has suspended issuing new licenses for \u200bautonomous vehicles after robotaxis \u200boperated by Baidu&#8217;s Apollo Go abruptly stopped \u200bin Wuhan last month, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter. <\/p>\n<p>The halt means self-driving companies cannot \u200cadd robotaxis \u2060to their \u2060existing fleets, launch new pilot projects, or expand into additional \u200bcities, the report said. <\/p>\n<p>Baidu&#8217;s robotaxi operations in Wuhan have also \u200bbeen suspended as local authorities&#8217; investigation into the outage is underway, it added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China has suspended issuing new licenses for \u200bautonomous vehicles after robotaxis \u200boperated by Baidu&#8217;s Apollo Go abruptly stopped \u200bin Wuhan last month, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter. The halt means self-driving companies cannot \u200cadd robotaxis \u2060to their \u2060existing fleets, launch new pilot projects, or expand into additional \u200bcities, the report said. Baidu&#8217;s robotaxi operations in Wuhan have also \u200bbeen suspended as local authorities&#8217; investigation into the outage is underway, it added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1005868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1005868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1005870,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005868\/revisions\/1005870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1005868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1005868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}