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(Reuters) – Robotaxi startup Pony.ai said on Wednesday that it had received a permit to operate fully driverless ride-hailing services in China’s Guangzhou city. <\/p>\n

The Toyota Motor Corp-backed startup, which has operations in China and the U.S., now has permits for fully driverless robotaxis in China’s capital Beijing and Guangzhou.<\/p>\n

The vehicles will not have humans in the driving seat nor safety operator.<\/p>\n

Pony.ai started driverless testing in Guangzhou in June 2021 and has accumulated nearly 200,000 fee-charging robotaxi orders globally as of this month, the company said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Last year, the ride hailing startup and Baidu had been granted the first licences to test fully autonomous vehicles without safety operators as a backup in Beijing. Both companies won permits for driverless taxi services in Beijing last month.<\/p>\n

California-based Pony.ai’s next generation robotaxi model has obtained on-road testing licenses in Beijing and Guangzhou, it said, adding that robotaxi services with the model were expected to commence in the near future.<\/p>\n

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(Reporting by Yana Gaur in Bengaluru; Editing by Rashmi Aich)<\/p>\n

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