Baidu says its latest robo-taxi has the road skills of a driver with 20 years' experience.
Chinese technology giant Baidu has unveiled the next vehicle to join its self-driving taxi service, Apollo Go.
"This massive cost reduction will enable us to deploy tens of thousands of [automated vehicles] across China," co-founder and chief executive Robin Li told the company's annual technology conference. Baidu wants the RT6 to join its existing fleet in the second half of 2023, for a small-scale trial, and plans eventually to have 100,000 of them on the roads.one 6mm wave radarBaidu says its robo-taxis, running on a trial basis in 10 cities in China, including Shenzhen, Shanghai and Beijing, have given more than one million rides since its service launched, in 2020.
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