Toyota-backed Pony.ai said it was awarded the license to operate 100 vehicles in the Guangzhou city district of Nansha, the first autonomous driving company in the country to do so. Pony.ai will initially deploy driverless cars with safety drivers but expects to remove them ‘over the short to intermediate time frame. In November 2021, self-driving startup Pony.ai won the approval to launch paid driverless robotaxi services in an area in China’s capital Beijing . That approval however only allows the firm to deploy not more than 100 vehicles in the designated area. Less than five months later, Pony.ai obtained a...