Remote control technology could be the key to moving autonomous driving forward, WeRide CEO says

While networks are important especially for functions like teleoperations, the most important thing is to ensure that the self-driving cars are intelligent enough to compute most road situations locally, Han said. — SCMP

After 10 years in academia, Tony Han Xu gave up a coveted tenured position as an associate professor at the University of Missouri two years ago to pursue a new path – becoming an entrepreneur.

Following close to a decade of research in computer vision and deep learning, coupled with a stint as Baidu’s chief scientist for autonomous driving at a time when investors were chasing the industry, Han decided it was time to strike out on his own to build WeRide, a startup specialising in autonomous driving technology.