As self-driving technology develops rapidly in China, more and more cities are starting to pilot allowing the public to ride in such vehicles, with the central city of Zhengzhou becoming the latest.

On June 26, the Zhengzhou city government said at a briefing that self-driving buses and self-driving passenger cars will be put into the Zhengdong New District from July 1, opening up the city to the public for test rides, local media outlet dahe.cn reported Monday.

Local residents will be able to book self-driving vehicles on their cell phones for trips to venues including Zhengzhou East Railway Station.

The local Zhengzhou Yutong Bus announced at the launch that it had built China's first commercially operated self-driving bus line and the industry's first unmanned yard station.

Yutong's self-driving buses have now operated safely for more than 900, received a total of 360,000 citizens, and accumulated more than 710,000 kilometers of open road operation, the company said.

Starting July 1, the self-driving experience line in Zhengdong New District will be open to the public. In the future, 100 self-driving buses and 100 self-driving passenger cars will be put here.

In addition to self-driving passenger cars, Yutong has also launched driverless sanitation vehicles in the Zhengdong New District.

The equipment is implemented around three aspects: health monitoring system, driverless sanitation, and automatic operation system, realizing rapid positioning of pollution sources and featuring 10-minute rapid emergency response.

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