Driving in Beijing can be a stressful experience both for drivers and pedestrians and now, AI will also get to endure its notorious traffic jams. Beijing’s first self-driving pilot zone will be set up in Yizhuang, a southeast suburb that hosts the Beijing Economic and Technical Development Area (BDA). The news was announced today by […]
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China to open its first high-speed smart highway by 2022 with eyes on Germany’s limitless Autobahns
Hangzhou and Ningbo will be linked by China’s first smart high-speed highway in time for the 2022 Asian Games in Hangzhou. With six lanes in each direction, the 161km route through Zhejiang will use navigational and sensor technology to increase the speed of traffic to 120km/h. An underground charging system will effectively “electrify” the road […]
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NIO and SAIC given China’s first licenses to road test driverless cars
China issued on Thursday the first batch of licenses for road tests of driverless vehicles to NIO, a Chinese electric vehicle startup, and the state-owned auto maker SAIC Motor. The licenses would allow the two auto makers to test the vehicles (in Chinese) on a 5.6-km public road in Jiading District of Shanghai, as reported by […]
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Baidu signs strategic partnership agreements to accelerate autonomous driving
Chinese tech giant Baidu announced signing strategic cooperation agreements with two of China’s leading automotive companies, BAIC Group and Xiamen King Long United Automotive Industry Co., Ltd. (“King Long”). Baidu and BAIC Group, one of the largest automakers in China, will mass-produce vehicles with Level 3 autonomous features around 2019 and fully autonomous Level 4 cars […]
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Baidu announces RMB 10 billion yuan fund for autonomous driving and launches Apollo 1.5
Baidu’s self-driving vehicle platform Apollo, known as the “Android of the auto industry” for its open source code has gotten its first update. The platform— designed to speed up speeding up self-driving development and boost cooperation between automotive and internet companies—was announced in July at Baidu’s inaugural AI Developers Conference in Beijing where TechNode got […]
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JD rolls out driverless trucks to add to its logistics service
JD on Thursday announced that it is cooperating with SAIC MAXUS and Dongfeng Motor Corporation to roll out driverless trucks, local media are reporting. JD said that the government’s transportation unit is running road tests for the trucks. JD and SAIC MAXUS jointly launched the EV80 autonomous light-duty truck equipped with cameras, radar, sensors, maps, […]
