Baidu Apollo Autonomous Driving Technological Leadership Recognized by China’s First Autonomous Vehicle Road Test Report
April 03 2019 - 1:42PM
Baidu, Inc. (NASDAQ: BIDU) topped industry peers with the most test
license plates (45), the most test vehicles on the road (45), the
longest distance driven (86,922.3 miles) and the most diverse test
scenarios, according to the inaugural Beijing Autonomous Vehicles
Road Test Report 2018 recently issued by the Beijing Municipal
Commission of Transport.
As the first of its kind in China, the report
releases the information and data derived from the road testing of
autonomous vehicles in both enclosed areas and open roads in
Beijing during 2018 by eight companies including Baidu, NIO, BAIC
BJEV, Daimler, Pony.ai, Tencent, Audi, and Didi Chuxing.
License/Vehicles: In total, 56
test license plates were granted by the Beijing municipal
government to the eight companies by the end of 2018 and Baidu won
45.
Road test distance: The total
test distance recorded by vehicles of all eight companies was
95,420.9 miles in 2018 with Baidu alone reaching 86,922.3 miles –
91% of the total distance. After obtaining the first autonomous
vehicle testing permit in Beijing in March 2018, Baidu has been
gradually expanding its testing fleets and mileage.
About Baidu’s Autonomous Driving
Development
Baidu began autonomous driving research and
development in early 2013. In July 2017, the company open sourced
its technology with the launch of Apollo, a software platform that
enables developers and partners to quickly build their own
autonomous driving systems. Since then, the platform has been
significantly upgraded and grown into one of the largest autonomous
driving ecosystems in the world, bringing together 137 partners and
12,000 developers.
The newest and most powerful release, Apollo
3.5, is the first open source autonomous driving platform that
supports complex urban and suburban driving scenarios. Recently,
Baidu also launched Apollo Enterprise, a suite of intelligent
driving products and solutions for mass production vehicles, that
is scalable, safe, and highly customizable based on enterprise
customer needs.
In addition to testing in Beijing, Baidu also
tests its autonomous technologies in other locations in China as
well as in the U.S.
- In 2019, a robo-taxis service will operate on 130 miles of city
roads equipped with Baidu's V2X (vehicle to everything) technology
in Changsha, the capital city of Hunan province in the
south-central part of China.
- Also this year, udelv, a California-based delivery company
whose autonomous vehicles run on main modules of the Baidu Apollo
3.5 software platform, will deploy its delivery vans in several
U.S. locations, including the San Francisco Bay Area.
- Baidu received its initial permit to test its self-driving cars
in California from the state’s Department of Motor Vehicles in 2016
and has been road testing its fleet ever since.
The original announcement by the Beijing
Municipal Commission of Transport can be accessed here (Chinese).
The BICMI Chinese report can be found here (Chinese).
About Baidu Baidu, Inc. is the
leading Chinese language Internet search provider. Baidu aims to
make a complex world simpler for users and enterprises through
technology. Baidu’s ADSs trade on the NASDAQ Global Select Market
under the symbol “BIDU.” Currently, ten ADSs represent one Class A
ordinary share.
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