Baidu builds world’s biggest autonomous car, vehicle-road cooperation test base in Beijing
Shanghai (Gasgoo)- On May 26, Chinese Internet giant Baidu announced the completion of Apollo Park, which is purportedly the world's biggest base for the application and testing of autonomous vehicles and intelligent vehicle infrastructure cooperative System (IVICS).
Located at Beijing Economic-technological Development Area, the newly-completed base combines the functions of the storage of complete vehicles and components, the cloud-based remote control of big data, the vehicle maintenance and calibration, as well as the R&D and testing.
There have been over 200 autonomous vehicles deployed in the 13,500-square-meter Apollo Park, according to Baidu. Its completion will help the company boost the maturity of the Apollo self-driving cars and IVICS-related technologies.
On the same day, Gosuncn, a Chinese company focusing on IoT-/AI-based products and solutions, joined Baidu's Apollo ecosystem. Both parties will conduct in-depth cooperation on IoV, IVICS and smart traffic by drawing on each other's strengths and sharing resources.
Baidu Apollo, today's biggest open-source autonomous driving platform in the world, has so far completed more than 100,000 safe passenger-carrying trips in 24 cities worldwide. In Beijing, Baidu has honored the No.1 company in terms of the number of vehicles put into autonomous driving tests and the testing mileage for two consecutive years.
On December 30, 2019, the Chinese capital initiated the tests for self-driving car loaded with passengers or goods. On the same day, the Internet giant Baidu obtained license plates for carrying passengers in autonomous driving tests of 40 vehicles.
In April 2020, Baidu launched its Apollo Robotaxi service through its popular search engine app Baidu and navigation app Baidu Maps, which allowed commuters in Changsha hail free autonomous ride (photo source: Baidu).
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