STORY: British blogger amazed by driverless minibus ride in China's Guangdong
SHOOTING TIME: Sept. 23, 2024
DATELINE: Sept. 29, 2024
LENGTH: 00:02:29
LOCATION: GUANGZHOU, China
CATEGORY: TECHNOLOGY

SHOTLIST:
1. SOUNDBITE (English): JAN, British blogger, writer
2. various of the self-driving minibus

STORYLINE:

British blogger and writer Jan visited the Guangzhou International Bio Island, a gathering of the city's biomedical science companies and labs. She got her firsthand experience of taking a self-driving minibus on the road there. 

SOUNDBITE (English): JAN, British blogger, writer 
"Off to review the WeRide Robobus.
It's amazing!
Do you see how the cabin is cut away. This is a pioneering achievement.
We were at a traffic signal, so it clearly identifies there is a signal. It tells what to do and that was a very smooth transition and now it's traveling at 28 km/h. But it has a vehicle in front of it. Now it has pulled wheels back.
This initiative is incredible. Enterprise has been put together through a cooperative effort and that's part of its enormous success.
It's the fact that these countries, people cooperating together to change the world to improve humanity. It's a great thing.
This has been great fun, enormous fun. Everybody needs to come, have their own adventure on the future on wheels.
We're going into the future. So we experience something that's yet to happen. But it's happening if that makes sense. It's here and that's really exciting. The other bus experience, it's past.
It's almost like Alexander Graham Bell's telephone, and now we have our mobiles. The telephone is gone.
You know this is future. I keep using the word absolutely fabulous
but it is absolutely fabulous."

Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Guangzhou, China.
(XHTV)