According to BYD, Self-Driving Car Technology Is Best Suited For Manufacturing

Self-driving car technology is better suited to manufacturing, according to BYD, the largest seller of electric cars in China.

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As reported by Trade Algo, BYD spokesman Li Yunfei told the news outlet that fully autonomous cars are still a long way off, according to the press release. 

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In their comments on Tuesday at the Shanghai auto show, BYD (ticker BYD.HK) worked with translators to provide their comments in Mandarin.

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In an interview recorded by the press, a spokesman for the company was reported as saying that the goal of having fully autonomous cars might be impossible given concerns related to safety, regulations, and ethics.

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This same technology, however, offers the possibility of creating robots that need not sleep or take breaks throughout the course of a working day. 

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Even so, there is still a great deal of uncertainty about how far robots can be trained to perform welding or assembly tasks, he explained.

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