When Liu Yang began his present job, he discovered it onerous to return to driving his personal automobile: “I instinctively went for the passenger seat. Or once I was driving, I might count on the automobile to brake by itself,” says the 33-year-old Beijing native, who joined the Chinese language tech large Baidu in January 2021 as a robotaxi driver. Robotaxi driver is an occupation that solely exists in our time, the results of an evolving expertise that’s superior sufficient to do away with a driver—more often than not, in managed environments— however not ok to persuade authorities that they’ll...