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Andrew Stokols
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Andrew Stokols writes Sinocities, a personal blog at sinocities.substack.com about politics and economics. Since 2026, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-28, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link these posts on autonomous driving and Chinese cities. The one comment disputes Uber's claim that data is the bottleneck for self-driving and mentions Beijing's autonomous driving demonstration zone. It does not assess the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Cities, China, Geopolitics, Technology, and everything in between. By: Andrew Stokols ; Phd, MIT Department of Urban Studies & Planning, Masters in Urban Planning, Harvard.
What Hacker News says?
> “The bottleneck is data.” This seems to be wishful thinking on the part of Uber, and also Tesla. Google StreetView data is probably sufficient. Waymo's expansion into new cities does not seem to be delayed much by the need for more data. Most of the reported problems with self-driving come from transient situations. More mapping data will not help with those. China has the Beijing High-level Autonomous Driving Dem…
Comment linking /p/inside-chinas-connected-vehicle-road
on “Uber wants to turn its drivers into a sensor grid for AV companies”Submitted China's Data Center Boom: A View from Zhangjiakou (2025) as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted The "Low Trust-Open Source" Paradox of AI Adoption in China as a story · 2 points
HN discussion