Involving an initial fleet of 45 autonomous cars, the Baidu service will start on 50-kilometre-long open roads before gradually expanding. — SCMP
The general public in Changsha, capital of Hunan province, can now have a taste of the future by hopping into a self-driving taxi powered by Baidu.
The search giant and national artificial intelligence champion launched robotaxi services in the city on Sept 26, about two years after Google’s self-driving unit Waymo started its pilot project in Phoenix, Arizona.
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