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What the AutoX RoboTaxi knows about you
AutoX (founded in August 2016 by Jianxiong Xiao, known as Professor X, a former Princeton assistant professor; based in Shenzhen and California and backed by Alibaba and Dongfeng Motor Group) was an early Chinese robotaxi leader and the second company in the world to run a public fully-driverless robotaxi service, in Shenzhen in 2021, holding driverless permits across six cities and opening a San Francisco operations center in 2022. The registry records it at commercial maturity to reflect that historical peak, with a discontinued lifecycle state: AutoX has wound down its China robotaxi operations entirely, with China operations divested, offices closed, and the brand discontinued, while the founder pivoted the company into a Silicon Valley personal-robocar startup called Tensor with no active China presence, so it is not a currently-operating robotaxi service. This follows the active-retired split, with maturity reflecting the historical commercial peak and lifecycle reflecting the wind-down. The frequently cited 2021 claim of a fleet of more than a thousand vehicles, the largest in China, is stale and self-reported and does not reflect 2026 reality, the roughly $267 million total-funding figure is an aggregator number rather than primary-sourced, the exact wind-down date is unconfirmed with the company having gone quiet around 2022 to 2023 and completing the wind-down around 2024 to 2025, and Tensor's planned second-half-2026 consumer-robocar launch is a forward-looking claim rather than a shipped product.
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What it collects about you
Where your data goes
What you can control
What it collects about you
The data this device picks up.
People around you
AutoX vehicles scan everything around them at all times with cameras, LiDAR, and radar, which means pedestrians, cyclists, and other people nearby are recorded without their consent.
Where your data goes
Who else can see it once it leaves the device.
Sent to the cloud
AutoX sends petabytes of sensor data from its fleet every week to its Shanghai data center, where servers run around the clock to process it.
Training their AI
AutoX uses real-world driving data from its fleet for simulation and to create more complex test scenarios to improve its autonomous system.
What you can control
Your say over the data it holds.
Kept on the device
Each AutoX robotaxi has an onboard computer that processes sensor data in real time on the vehicle.
The full record
- Specs
- AutoX RoboTaxi: L4 autonomous robotaxi operated in Shenzhen (and permitted in Beijing/Shanghai/Guangzhou/Hangzhou + CA Silicon Valley testing). Founded Aug 2016 (founder Jianxiong Xiao, 'Professor X'; ex-Princeton); Shenzhen + California; backed by Alibaba + Dongfeng Motor Group.
- Drive mode
- remotely-supervised
- Form Factor
- av (autonomous robotaxi; remotely-supervised L4; DISCONTINUED China operations)
- Autonomy level
- L4 autonomous