Baidu receives driverless vehicle test permit in California By Fan Feifei | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2021-01-28 20:36 Baidu has been approved by the California Department of Motor Vehicles to test fully driverless vehicles. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]
Chinese internet search giant Baidu Inc announced on Thursday it has been approved by the California Department of Motor Vehicles to test driverless vehicles on public roads.
The permit will allow Baidu to test three autonomous vehicles without a safety driver on designated streets within Sunnyvale in Santa Clara County. The company had obtained a permit to test its autonomous vehicles with safety drivers in the US state in 2016.
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The California Department of Motor Vehicles has granted Baidu permission to test its autonomous vehicles without a driver behind the wheel. It’s had authority to test its vehicles in California since 2016, but up until now, it could only do so with a backup driver. This development means it can now conduct full driverless road tests using Lincoln MKZ and Chrysler Pacifica vehicles loaded with its self-driving technology within Sunnyvale in Santa Clara County.
This makes Baidu the sixth company to secure a permit for driverless road testing in the state, joining the likes of Alphabet’s Waymo, GM’s Cruise and Nuro. To secure the permit, the company had to prove to the California DMV that its technology is capable of Level 4 or 5 autonomy. It also had to write up detailed instructions on how law enforcement and first responders should interact with their test vehicles in case of accidents or emergency. The Chinese tech giant will be allowed to conduct driverless tests on
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Microsoft is part of a group of companies investing $2 billion into General Motors Cruise, the carmaker s autonomous-vehicles effort.
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The Redmond, Wash., software giant and Detroit automaker plan to combine their software and hardware engineering experience, cloud-computing capabilities and manufacturing know-how to facilitate expansion of the self-driving-vehicle market. Our mission to bring safer, better and more affordable transportation to everyone isn t just a tech race – it s also a trust race, Cruise Chief Executive Dan Ammann said in a statement.