China suspends all new robotaxi licenses after Baidu outage
China has halted the issuance of new autonomous vehicle licenses following an incident last month in which more than 100 Baidu Apollo Go robotaxis abruptly stopped on the streets of Wuhan, stranding passengers and snarling traffic, Bloomberg reported on April 29, citing people familiar with the matter.
The freeze prevents self-driving companies from adding vehicles to existing fleets, launching new pilot programs, or expanding into additional cities. No end date has been set.
A Night of Chaos in Wuhan
On the evening of March 31, Apollo Go robotaxis across Wuhan — where Baidu operates its largest fully driverless fleet of more than 1,000 vehicles — lost contact with the company's cloud dispatch system and stopped mid-route. Videos circulating on Chinese social media showed a passenger trapped inside a vehicle halted in the fast lane of an expressway as trucks sped past, while other images depicted a robotaxi struck from behind after stopping in the middle of a highway.
Many passengers were unable or too frightened to exit their vehicles because of surrounding traffic and had to call police for assistance. Local law enforcement confirmed a "system failure" had caused the outage but did not specify how many vehicles were affected; Chinese media reports put the figure at more than 100. Baidu has not publicly commented on the root cause
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New report denounces Havana and claims ‘campaign of subversion’ has infiltrated highest levels of US government
"...There is overwhelming evidence that the machinery of the Cuban Government has been progressively organized around… a fundamental hatred of the United States,” the report stated. “Many of the most significant upheavals in recent American political history —from the George Floyd riots to the rise of Antifa to the explosion of pro-terrorist activism on American college campuses— can be linked, in some way, shape, or form to Cuban influence.”
The report doesn’t just hand-wave. It names names. It details how the Venceremos Brigade and other “revolutionary tourism” programs have funneled thousands of American activists to Havana for ideological (and sometimes literal) weapons training.
The Venceremos Brigade has brought 10,000 American activists to Cuba since 1969. This is because nothing says “I am fighting for the oppressed working class” quite ...
Now there is a plan! Of course dumb Canadians will not have the courage to vote with their brains, instead of their propagandized feelings of fear.
Canada’s economy is stalling badly.
We just endured the worst decade for real GDP growth per person since the Great Depression.
Over the past ten years, real GDP per capita limped along at an average of just 0.6% annually.
And Bloomberg’s consensus forecast for 2026? A paltry 0.7%.
Why does GDP matter?
Because family disposable income follows GDP like a shadow. Anemic economic growth resulting from lower investment means stagnant wages. Period.
The Liberals and fake Conservatives won't fix this.
The People's Party has a comprehensive plan to unleash private investment, supercharge productivity, and put more money back into your pocket:
Make the Accelerated Capital Cost Allowance (ACCA) permanent – Let businesses write off capital investments rapidly and skyrocket cash flow.
End Corporate Welfare – Zero subsidies. Zero bailouts. Zero regional ...
