China’s proposed rules for car data export could benefit Tesla – report

China has come out with draft guidelines for sending data from automobiles overseas, which could make it easier for Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) to roll out its most advanced driver-assistance functions in the world’s largest car market, according to a Bloomberg report from Friday.

The report said Beijing has, for the first time, clarified how data generated within China in areas from product development to deployment of driver-assistance systems can be queried, retrieved, downloaded, and exported.

The proposed guidelines were jointly released by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and seven other government departments and also sought public comment.

The framework covers critical information like autonomous driving algorithms, training images, operational data, and vehicle-to-road perception data, the report said.

The export of data would likely help to optimize the performance of the automaker’s advanced driver-assisted functions, whose core development and training team for FSD is based in the US, the report said.