Introduction
Baidu gets permits for first fully driverless taxi service in China3
Baidu obtained China's first fully automatic driverless taxi service license
Tech giant Baidu announced Monday that it has obtained permits to operate fully autonomous taxis without Any human assistants on board in two of China's megacities, marking a first for the country.
Tech giant Baidu announced on Monday that it has obtained a license to operate fully automatic driverless taxi services in two megacities in China, the first in China.
Baidu, which operates China's largest search engine, said it received the regulatory approvals for its autonomous ride-hailing service Apollo Go to operate on open roads during the daytime in Chongqing and Wuhan. The cities have populations of some 30 million and 11 million people, respectively.
Baidu, which operates China's largest search engine, said that its automatic ride-hailing service platform Radical Race (Apollo Go) has obtained regulatory approval to operate on open roads in the two cities of Chongqing and Wuhan during the day. The population of these two cities is about 30 million and 11 million, respectively.
The move represents a notable step forward for Baidu and a potential shift in China's comfort with the new technology. In other cities where the company's robotaxis operate, including Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen, Baidu is required to have a human safety operator present in the vehicle.
This move marks a significant step forward for Baidu and also indicates that China's attitude towards this new technology may change. In other cities that allow the company's self-driving taxis to operate, including Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen, Baidu is required to equip a human safety operator on the vehicle.
Keywords
. permit: an official document that allows you to do something or go somewhere License, license
- She has managed to obtain a temporary residence permit.
. megacity: a very large city, especially one with more than 10 million people living in it Giant City
- The landscape will just become one undifferentiated spraying megacity.
. ride-hailing: used for or involved in the activity of asking for a car and driver to come immediately and take you somewhere you use a ride-hailingapp?
4. notable: important and deserving attention, because of being very good or interesting
- Getting both sides to agree was a notable achievement.
5. robotaxi: a self-driving car that operates as a taxi in an e-hailing service; also known as robo-raxi, self-driving taxi or driverless taxi, is an autonomous car operated for a ridesharing company China.
Extended reading
The permits will allow Baidu to provide fully driverless robotaxi services in designed areas in Wuhan from 9 am to 5 pm and in Chongqing from 9:30 am to 4:30 pm local time. Service will be limited at first, however, with just five robotaxis operating in each city.
Baidu is licensed to provide fully automatic driverless taxi services in designated areas from 9 am to 5 pm local time in Wuhan and 9:30 am to 4:30 pm local time in Chongqing. However, the service will be restricted at the beginning, with only five self-driving taxis per city allowed to operate.
In the United States, robotaxi offers remain extremely sparse and ridehailing giants like Uber and Lyft have abandoned in-house self-driving taxi efforts.
In the United States, self-driving taxi services are still extremely rare, and online car-hailing giants such as Uber (Uber) and Lyft (Lyft) have abandoned their self-driving taxi within their company.
In June, General Motors-backed Cruise gained permits in California to charge a fare for driverless rides in San Francisco. In July, however, Reuters reported that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration opened a probe into a crash of a Cruise self-driving vehicle that resulted in minor injuries.
In June this year, GM's Cruise obtained a license in California , which can charge driverless taxis in San Francisco . However, in July this year, Reuters reported that the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration launched an investigation into a crash caused by a Cruise self-driving car, which caused minor injuries.
