China's Baidu races Waymo, GM to develop self-driving cars
autonomous driving platform was launched in 2017 and the Apollo Go self-driving taxi service three years later.
Other developers include Deeproute.ai and AutoX in Shenzhen. Pony.ai, founded in 2016 and backed by venture capital, is road-testing autonomous cars and semi-trailer trucks. “People are very expensive,” said Wei. “Once this public service no longer needs people, the cost can drop rapidly.” The earliest products are unlikely to earn back their development costs but might be “loss leaders” to sell other services, said Kelly.
Baidu and its most advanced rivals have reached the industry’s Level 4 out of five possible levels of technology. That means their systems can operate without a driver but must be pre-loaded with a detailed map. That limits the area where they can operate. A screen provides a visualisation of the environment around the self-driving taxi developed by tech giant Baidu Inc in Beijing. — AP
To encourage others to use Apollo, Baidu has made the platform open-source and says it has signed up 210 industry partners and 80,000 developers who might create products based on it.Compared with a human driver, “the difference isn’t big,” said Zhang Zhihua, 29, an interior designer who uses driverless Baidu taxis in Yizhuang. “If you aren’t looking at the front and if you are playing on your mobile phone, then it feels exactly the same.
A man on a bicycle rides past self-driving taxis developed by tech giant Baidu Inc on June 14, 2022, in Beijing. — AP
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