Sure that is the general belief. Free speech in China is limited compared to the west. Even though you can see public outcry comment on the factory explosion i

Sure that is the general belief. Free speech in China is limited compared to the west. Even though you can see public outcry comment on the factory explosion in Tianjin and the recent smog in Beijing. But what is mostly missing from the picture are the collosal improvements in public safety, pollution, health that has happened in the country over the past decades. These improvements are far larger than anything we have done in the west. And are a result of directed government policy. Why would the Chinese government allow self-driving cars that kills people just because it can censor Twitter?