Washington Post:

China has moved with surprising speed to prepare for the next generation of automotive technology. Government officials recently unveiled a draft proposal that would let fully driverless cars onto highways by roughly 2020, and on city streets by 2025. And unlike the United States, which features a criss-crossing jumble of federal, state and local automotive regulation, China’s more centralized approach to governance could allow Beijing to leapfrog Washington on the technology.

Apple’s investment in Didi seems quite nuanced, serves Apple on a number of levels.