Jidu plans to launch the standard version next April, which CEO told TechNode could be “very competitive” on price.
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Drive I/O | Shanghai automakers hit by lockdowns, China’s new push for driverless cars
Automakers in China is struggling to regain the momentum lost during a citywide lockdown in Shanghai that began in late March.
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DRIVE I/O | Lidar is hard—but it’s coming soon
While Chinese companies won’t be the first to deliver road-ready lidar systems, they could be the first to do it at a practical price.
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Drive I/O | Key takeaways from Auto Shanghai 2021
Big auto and big tech announced EVs at Auto Shanghai 2021, putting pressure on young EV upstarts.
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A ride in a Baidu self-driving taxi
We took a test drive in Baidu’s robotaxi just as the company ranked highest for disengagements. Where are Baidu’s self-driving cars headed in 2020?
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Disengagements and the race for self-driving supremacy
Baidu’s reports contain significantly less information about disengagements than its peers, causing industry insiders to raise questions about the quality of the company’s tests.
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Drive I/O | Changsha and Guangzhou
Changsha and Guangzhou are the two major Chinese cities aiming to rise above the rest in the country’s AV race.
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Baidu is serious about Apollo’s tech and partnerships
Baidu’s Baidu Create: Artificial Intelligence Developer Conference was held at the National Convention Center in Beijing from July 4-5. During the first day’s event, Baidu made four major announcements. The tech giant said its self-driving minibus will enter mass production phase. New AI chip Kunlun aiming at cloud and edge computing in AI use cases […]
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Live from CES Asia 2017 – An inside look at Baidu autonomous vehicles
Baidu’s GM of Intelligent Vehicles Gu Weihao started his keynote session for CES Asia by asking the question: When will autonomous driving be able to surpass human ability? He cited a report from think tank RAND that calculated self-driving vehicles would have to clock 275 million failure-free miles to demonstrate that it meets the safety standards […]
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Baidu launches their open platform for autonomous cars–and we got to test it
Baidu has launched an autonomous driving ecosystem with 50 partners at its first AI developers conference in Beijing. At its heart is the US-developed code for controlling the vehicles, but the scope of Apollo 1.0 is to create an entire ecosystem encompassing research universities, components makers such as NVIDIA, navigation developers such as TomTom, and […]
