China Resumes Robotaxi Permits After Three-Month Freeze中国解除三个月无人出租车牌照冻结,百度、Momenta首批获批
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China has resumed issuing robotaxi permits, ending a freeze that had been in place since April 29; Momenta and Baidu — the operator behind the incident that triggered the suspension — were among the first to receive new licenses, according to people familiar with the matter cited by Bloomberg.
The freeze followed a mass outage on March 31 in which more than 100 Baidu Apollo Go robotaxis stalled simultaneously across Wuhan, many on busy motorways, leaving passengers stranded for up to two hours after in-car SOS systems failed and customer service calls went unanswered.
At least three collisions were reported in the aftermath as other road users crashed into the stopped vehicles, prompting regulators to impose the permit freeze on April 29 with no resumption timeline announced at the time.