Chinese autonomous-driving firms are accelerating their expansion into the United Arab Emirates (UAE), with WeRide entering a new operational phase and Geely-backed CaoCao making its debut in the Middle Eastern market.WeRide on Monday announced that it had received formal approval from the UAE authorities to launch a fully driverless robotaxi service – without a safety operator on board – which the company described as a significant milestone.“This is the first city-level commercial licence...