Chinese artificial intelligence and search engine firm Baidu has been given approval by the Chinese government to launch its driverless taxi service in China next week, according to the company.
Dubbed Apollo Go, the autonomous ride-hailing division Baidu has been granted licenses for its robotaxis to operate in Chongqing and Wuhan without human drivers present inside the vehicles, Baidu said. Five robotaxis will be deployed in each of the two cities, said Baidu according to SCMP.
In Chongqing with 30 million residents, the robotaxi service will operate from 9:30am to 4:30pm, while the fleet in Wuhan will operate from 9am to 5pm. The service in Chongqing will cover an area of 30 square km in the Yongchuan district, while the service for Wuhan will cover 13 square km in the Wuhan Economic and Technological Development Zone, according to the South China Morning Post.
“We believe these permits are a key milestone on the path to the inflection point where the industry can finally roll out fully autonomous driving services at scale,” chief safety operation officer at the Baidu intelligent driving group, Wei Dong said.
The authorities in China are typically “very conservative”, and are often not willing to give approval for technological innovations and innovative products, Unity Asset Management partner Cao Hua was quoted as saying.
Baidu has launched its autonomous taxi service in Beijing in May 2021, though unlike the service that will be rolled out for Chongqing and Wuhan, the operation in Beijing that was fully launched in April this year retained a human security officer in the vehicle’s driver seat in case of any emergency, SCMP wrote.
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Mention Wuhan…oh no..people still have fresh memories.
Somemore driverless…look at Tesla driverless crashes.
If other people can not do, I also can not do – typical loser thinking. If China with this thinking it will not become what it is today.
Enough with your stupid derogatories, you think that cause of Spanish Influenza that all of Spain should be locked down and Spanish ppl must have the flu.
Actually spanish flu was started in the USA. As usualthe Americans always won’t attach their name to bad things so they called it spanish flu. Same with covid. The chinese drs was capable and diagnosed the news virus without knowing they will be manipulated by the americans to tarnished them. The USA is very evil. How many muslims are killed by the Americans in the name of democracy, humanity and countering terrorism.
Clearly you are a victim of western media propaganda and brainwashing. Most low IQ people will not understand that being the first to diagnosed is not equal to the source of the virus. You probably forget about the Vape related lung disease in America that killed few hundred thousands Americans and that lung disease was only happening among American vapers. How come?? Putrajaya was so worried they even ban vape in Malaysia that time causing big protest among Malaysian community at putrajaya although we don’t have those vape related lung disease. Sudah lupa?? Those Vape related lung disease in America was COVID. Google Fort detrick and check out Nathan rich channel that discuss about the timeline and you’ll know covid was originated from USA but they failed to report it
Humanless or not, COVID-19 still stays on object surfaces. Until that thing is back to garage, refueling/recharging station, office…
wuhan eh? no thanks
I bet you must be from a low IQ species. So stupid
only low iq and stupid people who call people as such to hide their deficiencies