The Chinese tech giant Baidu has begun public testing of its self-driving vehicle technology along a 2 mile (3.16 kilometer) stretch of road in Wuzhen, China. The city is a popular tourist destination, and thus an interesting choice for a test location.
Baidu USA has been granted an Autonomous Vehicle Testing Permit by the California Department of Motor Vehicles, according to recent reports. What that means, is that the Chinese firm Baidu (Baidu USA is a subsidiary) joins the likes of Google, Tesla, BMW, Ford, Mercedes-Benz, and some others in being granted … [continued]
In this edition of the clean transport and energy news roundup, we’ve got stories on remote EV charging, a cheaper carbon fiber production process, BYD’s EV profits, a water injection system from Bosch, Audi’s Formula E bid, Baidu and Nvidia’s autonomous car project, Portland’s EV showcase, solar shingles, Sri Lanka’s … [continued]
As part of its push to have fully autonomous vehicles ready for use by 2018 (for eventual use in a public shuttle service), the Chinese tech giant Baidu has begun testing specially modified all-electric Chery EQs in China, according to recent reports. Previously, the company had been relying on specially modified … [continued]
We’ve previously reported on the Chinese internet mega-firm Baidu’s work to develop an autonomous vehicle. New reports have now revealed that Baidu is utilizing the Chinese IT manufacturer Inspur’s NF5568M4 server to offer hardware support to the deep learning platform of the company’s autonomous car. Notably, Inspur is currently in a … [continued]
Originally published on EV Obsession. While it’s now widely realized that Google has been putting substantial amounts of its money into the development of autonomous driving technology over the last few years, it’s probably far less widely known that the Chinese equivalent of Google — Baidu, the top search engine … [continued]
