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China’s Baidu to Test Driverless Cars in U.S.
Baidu Inc.—often described as the Google of China—says it plans to begin testing self-driving cars in the U.S. later this year.
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Baidu Inc.—often described as the Google of China—says it plans to begin testing self-driving cars in the U.S. later this year. The company aims to debut a marketable model by 2018.
Baidu chief scientist Andrew Ng tells The Wall Street Journal the company’s first autonomous vehicles—self-driving shuttles that travel a repetitive loop within a small area—will debut in China by the end of 2018. Ng adds that its vehicle may eventually be refined enough to drive like a human driver but “not in two years.”
Ng joined Baidu in 2014, where he leads the company’s tech center in Sunnyvale, Calif. The company has been testing its autonomous vehicle technology in modified BMW 3 Series sedans.
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