{"id":335334,"date":"2017-03-09T06:07:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-08T22:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2017\/03\/08\/didi-creates-self-driving-car-lab-in-us\/21|21876564"},"modified":"2017-03-09T06:07:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-08T22:07:00","slug":"china-ridesharing-giant-opens-a-self-driving-car-lab-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/china-ridesharing-giant-opens-a-self-driving-car-lab-in-the-us\/","title":{"rendered":"China ridesharing giant opens a self-driving car lab in the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The company <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/0xcharlie\/status\/839529219969466370\">has hired<\/a> Uber&#8217;s Charlie Miller, best known for his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2015\/08\/28\/uber-jeep-hackers\/\">remote control Jeep hack<\/a> (and plenty of Apple device hacks before that), to head up its safety and security work on self-driving cars. He&#8217;ll make sure that intruders can&#8217;t compromise your ride, to put it succinctly. Didi has also scored some engineers from Alphabet&#8217;s Waymo, one of which (Jia Zhaoyin) will be a principal engineer.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t a secret that Didi was interested in driverless cars, but the creation of the lab makes it official. And setting up shop in the US is as much a declaration of its commitment to self-driving tech as it is a practical move. Didi maybe relatively late to the party, but it&#8217;s determined to catch up quickly.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c6\" readability=\"6.0171428571429\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\" readability=\"5.5542857142857\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Excited to announce I&#8217;m joining Didi Research America to lead the safety and security of their autonomous transportation systems.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Charlie Miller (@0xcharlie) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/0xcharlie\/status\/839529219969466370\">March 8, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/o.aolcdn.com\/hss\/storage\/midas\/c60d8ecd8586e824670161244405f0f0\/205030112\/533645958-ed.jpg\" \/>Didi&#039;s ever-expanding ridesharing empire might be centered in China, but it&#039;s still willing to head overseas to advance its goals. The company is opening an AI lab in Mountain View, California for the sake of its self-driving car ambitions. This does&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5817,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[27,59,26],"class_list":["post-335334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","tag-engadget","tag-media","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}