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autonomous driving company we ride has

unveiled its first cargo van the vessel

upon which it will self-drive into the

world of urban logistics

we ride will work with chinese

automobile manufacturer jungling motors

jmc and chinese express delivery company

zto express to commercialize its first

self-driving ban at scale

the deal was signed on wednesday by tony

han founder and ceo of we ride when we

jin executive vice president of jmc and

ren chun jin vice president of zto

during warride's latest online press

conference dubbed the next

as part of the agreement we ride in jmc

will jointly design purpose-built models

of the robovan for mass production on

jmc's assembly lines and zto will put

the robovans to good use in their urban

logistics service according to a

statement released by the company

we ride has been raking in cash over the

past year on its route to

commercialization with over 600 million

dollars raised from series b and c

rounds in the span of five months and a

current 3.3 billion valuation

in june the company acquired moon x

ai a guangzhou-based autonomous trucking

company although it hasn't yet committed

to developing a commercial product in

that space yet

either way having ride hailing

autonomous busing urban logistics and

even just a hint of self-driving trucks

in the pipeline means war rides moves to

diversify its autonomous portfolio are

edging it ahead of the competition

chinese search engine baidu self-driving

unit mainly focuses on robo taxi and as

of april this year buses

alongside its robo-taxi's pony ai has at

least piloted last mile logistics and

just recently got the go-ahead to test

its trucks out in china but so far no

buses

waymo via knocks both last mile and

trucking off the list and its autonomous

taxis make for a very long feather in

the company's cap but waymo hasn't yet

released any news about self-driving

buses

gm backed crews seems to be sticking

with small vehicles and all they can

provide which includes rideshare and

delivery

we ride says its van already has level 4

autonomous capabilities which the

society of automotive engineers defines

as a car that takes the wheel and

doesn't require human interaction in

most cases although a human still has

the option to manually override

level 4 vehicles can only operate in

limited areas which is why they have

most recently catered to ride sharing

but delivery vehicles could conceivably

operate within a geofence as well

because we ride already has two years of

experience testing out its robo-taxi

service with the public the company says

it's confident that the robovan will be

able to handle itself in a variety of

different traffic scenarios from inner

city to tunnels to highways across zto's

7SKU OEM Network which covers over 99 of china's

cities and counties according to zto

it's still too early in the process to

provide a detailed timeline on when we

ride in jmc will begin mass production

but the spokesperson said the next step

for we ride will be to pick one to three

locations to conduct pilot testing to

verify the vehicles and the system

stability

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