Your device
What the Didi Robotaxi knows about you
Didi Autonomous Driving, the autonomous-vehicle subsidiary of the Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing, is a distinct Level-4 robotaxi stack developer rather than a ride-hailing aggregator, and the one genuine missing active Chinese robotaxi operator beyond Baidu, Pony.ai, and WeRide. It launched a fully-driverless robotaxi service in Guangzhou's demonstration zone in December 2025 and reports more than 3,000 Level-4 test vehicles across eleven cities including Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou with over 80 million cumulative kilometers, integrating its own stack into Didi's ride-hailing network in a captive structure paralleling the Waymo Driver. It raised a 2 billion yuan, roughly $281 million, Series D in October 2025 from GAC Group, Beijing funds, and Didi Group, for about $1.83 billion across seven rounds including the SoftBank Vision Fund, and runs a joint venture with GAC-Aion called Guangzhou Andi Technology with an R2 production model. The registry records it at early, zone-limited driverless commercial maturity. Several cap-flags apply: the paid-versus-free status of the December 2025 Guangzhou driverless service is not explicitly confirmed in sources and should be verified before asserting commercial-paid operation, the 3,000-vehicle, eleven-city, and 80-million-kilometer figures are company-reported test-fleet rather than commercial-revenue numbers, and the total-funding figure includes aggregator-derived round history. On the public-versus-private verification axis, unlike the NASDAQ-listed Pony.ai and WeRide whose SEC filings give stronger verification, Didi Autonomous Driving is a private subsidiary of Didi Chuxing, which delisted from the NYSE in 2021, so its robotaxi metrics carry the weaker private-company and Chinese-market-disclosure verification posture.
Track the Didi Robotaxi and we will tell you the moment its privacy, price, or safety record changes.
Track this device →What it knows about you
7 findings on record · 7 verified against primary sources
What it collects about you
Where your data goes
What you can control
What it collects about you
The data this device picks up.
Recording you
Didi records in-car audio, including your conversations and sounds of movement, for the full duration of every trip from the moment the driver accepts your ride until after it ends.
Your body data
Didi scans your face through in-car tablets to estimate your age and gender, then uses that to show you targeted ad videos during the ride.
Your location
DiDi collects location data when the app is running in both foreground and background using GPS, IP address, Wi-Fi access points, and base station information; location services must be enabled for the app to function.
Where your data goes
Who else can see it once it leaves the device.
Shared with others
Your personal data is passed to DiDi Mobility Pte. Ltd. in Singapore and DiDi USA Inc. in Delaware for processing.
Selling your data
DiDi's privacy policy explicitly states it does not and will not sell personal information to third parties.
What you can control
Your say over the data it holds.
How long they keep it
DiDi's passenger privacy policy states personal information is retained only as long as necessary for the purposes collected, but no robotaxi-specific retention schedule exists for the 33-sensor data collected by autonomous vehicles; in-vehicle video recordings from human-driven trips are retained between 15 days and 6 months depending on the scenario.
Deleting your data
DiDi passengers have the right to request deletion of personal information and can withdraw authorization by unlinking bank cards and deleting information in the app; no robotaxi-specific deletion mechanism for trip or sensor data has been published.
The full record
- Specs
- Didi Autonomous Driving (Didi Chuxing's AV unit): own L4 robotaxi stack integrated with Didi's ride-hailing network. Launched fully-driverless robotaxi in Guangzhou's demonstration zone Dec 2025; 3,000+ L4 test vehicles across 11 cities (Beijing/Shanghai/Guangzhou), 80M+ km cumulative (company-reported). GAC-Aion JV 'Guangzhou Andi Technology' (2024) + R2 production model. Distinct AV-stack developer, NOT a ride-hailing aggregator.
- Form Factor
- av (autonomous robotaxi; L4; commercial early / zone-limited driverless)
- Autonomy level
- Level 4