Blackberry and Baidu Extend Partnership to Work on Autonomous Driving Jan 26 2021 · 13:36 UTC | Updated Jan 26 2021 · 13:38 by John K. Kumi · 3 min read Photo: Shutterstock You have successfully joined our subscriber list. The partnership between Baidu and Blackberry will help car manufacturers to effectively and efficiently produce safe autonomous vehicles. Blackberry Limited (NYSE: BB) has seen its 2018 partnership deal with Chinese search engine heavyweight Baidu Inc (NASDAQ: BIDU) expanded in a bid to provide enough tools for automakers to produce next-generation connected and autonomous vehicles in China. The expansion of the deal will see the high definition map of Baidu launched on the QNX® Neutrino® Real-time Operating System (RTOS) of Blackberry. This is a real-time microkernel operating system that ensures that flexibility and deterministic performance are provided as a measure to make solutions available to the scarce resources of the embedded system.