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The Robotaxi Fleet on Saadiyat Just Changed Passports
Space42's decision to replace Chinese-made autonomous vehicles on Saadiyat and Yas Islands with a Korean fleet from Autonomous A2Z is the first legible signal that Gulf sovereign operators are treating AV supplier selection as a geopolitical-risk register entry. A foreign-controlled autonomous fleet can be paused on someone else's political calendar, as WeRide demonstrated during the Iranian missile strikes of March 2026. Abu Dhabi wrote that risk down. Dubai did not.
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