Baidu EV Arm Jidu Auto’s autonomous driving technology will be ahead of Tesla, CEO Robin Li claims
Baidu’s electric vehicle (EV) company, Jidu Auto, will be a generation ahead of Tesla in autonomous driving technology, Robin Li, Baidu’s chief executive officer, said in a statement on Monday.
“Our understanding of smart vehicles is that electric is semi-final while smart is final,” added Li.
Jidu aims to be able to deliver 800,000 of its “robot” cars by 2028, Jidu chief executive Joe Xia Yiping said in the statement.
Jidu also plans to offer a second model for mass production by 2024, Xia said.
Jidu unveiled its first “robot” concept car, which has no door handles and is fully controllable via voice recognition, in June, with plans to mass-produce the model in year 2023.
In addition to equipping the vehicle with automated driving software technology supported by Baidu, Jidu’s “robot” vehicle will have two lids and 12 cameras. The lid is a detection system that, similar to radar, uses pulsed laser light rather than radio waves.
Tesla do not use lidar moderator.
Baidu’s plan to produce electric vehicles comes as technology companies around the world race to develop smart cars after Tesla’s success in commercializing electric vehicles.
Smartphone manufacturer Xiaomi and Didi Global are among other Chinese tech giants pursuing automotive ambitions.
Baidu speak on Monday, it obtained a license to operate the first fully driverless robotaxi services on open roads in two Chinese cities.
The search engine giant said permits issued by the southwestern city of Chongqing and the central city of Wuhan marked a “turning point” in China’s policymaking towards autonomous driving. onion.
“These licenses have profound implications for the industry,” Wei Dong, director of safety operations at Baidu’s Intelligent Driving Group, told Reuters in an interview. “
First, Baidu will deploy a series of 5 toll collection robots in each city, where they will be allowed to operate in designated areas from 9am to 5pm in Wuhan and 9:30am to 4pm. :30 p.m. in Chongqing, the company said in a statement.
The business areas span 30 square kilometers in the Yongchuan District of Chongqing and 13 square kilometers in the Wuhan Economic & Technological Development Zone.
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