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…