{"id":923605,"date":"2026-07-30T09:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T14:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/30\/bytedance-denies-plans-to-enter-smart-driving-business\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T09:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T14:14:09","slug":"bytedance-denies-plans-to-enter-smart-driving-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/30\/bytedance-denies-plans-to-enter-smart-driving-business\/","title":{"rendered":"ByteDance denies plans to enter smart driving business"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<article id=\"post-197525\">\n<div>\n<p>ByteDance has denied reports that it plans to enter the autonomous driving sector. Recent media reports claimed the company was exploring autonomous driving, with a particular focus on driverless logistics, and that the initiative would fall under the automotive division of ByteDance\u2019s cloud platform, Volcano Engine. Responding to China Star Market, ByteDance said: \u201cByteDance is conducting early-stage research and exploration in frontier AI large model technologies, including Physical AI. However, we have no plans to develop a smart driving business.\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinastarmarket.cn\/detail\/2424611\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.chinastarmarket.cn\/detail\/2424611\">China Star Market<\/a>, in Chinese]<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> TechNode Feed <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/technode.com\/2026\/07\/14\/bytedance-denies-plans-to-enter-smart-driving-business\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ByteDance has denied reports that it plans to enter the autonomous driving sector. Recent media reports claimed the company was exploring autonomous driving, with a particular focus on driverless logistics, and that the initiative would fall under the automotive division of ByteDance\u2019s cloud platform, Volcano Engine. Responding to China Star Market, ByteDance said: \u201cByteDance is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":923606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33107,994],"tags":[43482,11500],"class_list":["post-923605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bytedance","category-denies","tag-bytedance","tag-denies"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=923605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/923606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=923605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=923605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=923605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}