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Baidu to Debut Self-Driving Bus in 2018
Chinese internet search engine giant Baidu Inc. plans to introduce a bus in China next year that is fully capable of driving itself along a designated route.
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Chinese internet search engine giant Baidu Inc. plans to introduce a bus in China next year that is fully capable of driving itself along a designated route.
The company also expects to begin building partially autonomous cars by 2019 and fully robotic vehicles by 2021 with partner BAIC Motor Corp.
The vehicles will be controlled by the open-source Apollo software platform Baidu unveiled in July. Apollo is intended to rival the proprietary management system for self-driving cars under development by Alphabet Inc.’s Waymo unit.
Baidu Chairman and CEO Robin Li tells a tech conference that Apollo should appeal to carmakers who want more control over their data and the user experience than would be possible with Waymo’s closed platform.
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