Silicon Valley is a hub for psychotherapy and research of autonomous vehicles, subsequently five dozen companies allowable to test such cars not far-off off from California roads. But make a clean breast chronicles as of last month did not conduct yourself a role Tencent had an autonomous vehicle psychiatry disclose. We are building a research team for our Auto-hope Team based in Palo Alto, CA, the company said in job advertisements in symbol to LinkedIn. There are at least nine postings in financial version to LinkedIn for engineering positions in areas including motion planning, sensor union, vehicle shrewdness and robot learning. The job postings date benefit together moreover two weeks and a month, according to LinkedIn. Tencent declined to comment gone hint to its self-driving plans in Silicon Valley. Tencents Chinese enemy Baidu Inc (BIDU.O) was one of the first of the added generation of Chinese companies to set taking place a base in Silicon Valley in 2011. It has an autonomous vehicle scrutiny make available in California. According to Chinese own going on news agency Xinhua in May, Tencent got the green fresh by the southern city of Shenzhen to test self-driving cars upon some public roads. Tencent is headquartered in Shenzhen. Reporting By Jane Lanhee Lee; Additional reporting by Alexandria Sage in San Francisco; editing by Peter Henderson and Susan Thomas