covering the week's top textbooks like Linux bias Chinese ride-hailing firm DD - Ching says it plans to operate more than a million self-driving driving vehicles by 2030 according to Dedes chief operating officer Manning the robo tacky taxis are to be deployed in places where ride-hailing drivers are less available the company last month completed a more than 500 million dollar fundraising round for the autonomous driving unit led by Softbank group's vision fund - Apple who is known to be interested in the development of autonomous driving invested 1 billion dollars into DD back in 2016 last year DD said it would start using autonomous vehicles to pick up passengers in Beijing Shanghai and Shenzhen this year before expanding the scheme outside China in 2021 automakers and tech companies in China are investing heavily in the autonomous driving industry to compete with the likes of Tesla alphabet way Moe and uber while some industry insiders say it will take time for the public to trust autonomous vehicles fully mang said DeeDee expects autonomous vehicles to be in mass production by 2025 competitors are already offering Robo taxi service but a fleet of 1 million vehicles would put them all to shame we'll keep our eye on this and see if DeeDee is able to deliver [Music]