Mexican Media Brands
Baidu Alliance to Vie with Waymo’s Self-Driving Car System
Chinese internet giant Baidu Inc. has formed an alliance with 50 partners to tout its Apollo self-driving-car platform as a rival to the autonomous-car system being developed by Alphabet Inc.’s Waymo unit.
Share
Chinese internet giant Baidu Inc. has formed an alliance with 50 partners to tout its Apollo self-driving-car platform as a rival to the autonomous-car system being developed by Alphabet Inc.’s Waymo unit.
The alliance includes carmakers BAIC, Chery, Chongqing Changan, Daimler, FAW, Ford and Great Wall. The group also includes universities, municipalities, startups and such suppliers as Bosch, Continental, Delphi, Intel, Nvidia and ZF.
Baidu developed the Apollo system at the company’s tech center in Silicon Valley. The partnership hopes to put the Apollo system into production cars in China, which currently prohibits driverless cars, by 2019.
Chery Automobile is already testing Baidu’s technology in several cars in China, according to Reuters. The news service says the two companies met last month in California to sign an agreement to co-develop internet-connected “intelligent” vehicles.
RELATED CONTENT
-
Things to Know About Cam Grinding
By James Gaffney, Product Engineer, Precision Grinding and Patrick D. Redington, Manager, Precision Grinding Business Unit, Norton Company (Worcester, MA)
-
On Fuel Cells, Battery Enclosures, and Lucid Air
A skateboard for fuel cells, building a better battery enclosure, what ADAS does, a big engine for boats, the curious case of lean production, what drivers think, and why Lucid is remarkable
-
on lots of electric trucks. . .Grand Highlander. . .atomically analyzing additive. . .geometric designs. . .Dodge Hornet. . .
EVs slowdown. . .Ram’s latest in electricity. . .the Grand Highlander is. . .additive at the atomic level. . .advanced—and retro—designs. . .the Dodge Hornet. . .Rimac in reverse. . .
