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It's just like what the smartphone does to our life. About 80 percent of features on a smartphone are no longer related to making phone calls. In the future, about 80 percent of the functions of a car will not be related to transportation."

Jack Ma, executive chairman of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd, which on July 6 unveiled an internet-enabled vehicle fitted with the YunOS operating system, part of its partnership with SAIC Motor Corp.

(China Daily European Weekly 07/08/2016 page24)