Baidu unveils 1st fully autonomous (L5) robocar prototype

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Robin Li (R), Baidu CEO, sits in the Chinese tech giant's new "robocar" prototype, an autonomous vehicle, at the company's annual Baidu World conference on Wednesday, August 18, 2021. /CMG


Chinese internet search giant Baidu Inc. unveiled on Wednesday its first L5 self-driving robocar prototype with no steering wheel, and an upgraded autonomous driving service platform named Luobo Kuaipao, in a bid to speed up the commercialization of autonomous driving technology.

The future cars will be the robocars, which possess L5 autonomous driving ability, speech and face recognition capacity analyzing the potential needs of users, as well as self-learning and continuous self-improvement abilities, said Robin Li, chairman and CEO of Baidu, at Baidu World 2021.

Autonomous driving is categorized from L1 to L5 – the higher the level, the more intelligent the technology. L5 represents fully autonomous driving.

The robocar subverts the traditional automobile design concept. In terms of appearance, it has automatic gull-wing doors, an all-glass roof and external sensors. There is no steering wheel and pedal in the robocar and it has intelligent configurations such as a large curved screen, intelligent console and zero-gravity seats.

The Beijing-based company has invested heavily in self-driving technology. To date, its robotaxi services have been launched across Changsha, Cangzhou, Beijing and Guangzhou, serving more than 400,000 passengers, with the testing mileage exceeding 14 million kilometers by the end of June.

Baidu has opened its fully driverless robotaxi service to the public in Beijing, where users can hail a robotaxi without a safety driver behind the steering wheel. It also plans to expand its passenger robotaxis to 30 cities across the nation within the next two to three years.

Source(s): China Daily

 

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Robin Li (R), Baidu CEO, sits in the Chinese tech giant's new "robocar" prototype, an autonomous vehicle, at the company's annual Baidu World conference on Wednesday, August 18, 2021. /CMG


Chinese internet search giant Baidu Inc. unveiled on Wednesday its first L5 self-driving robocar prototype with no steering wheel, and an upgraded autonomous driving service platform named Luobo Kuaipao, in a bid to speed up the commercialization of autonomous driving technology.

The future cars will be the robocars, which possess L5 autonomous driving ability, speech and face recognition capacity analyzing the potential needs of users, as well as self-learning and continuous self-improvement abilities, said Robin Li, chairman and CEO of Baidu, at Baidu World 2021.

Autonomous driving is categorized from L1 to L5 – the higher the level, the more intelligent the technology. L5 represents fully autonomous driving.

The robocar subverts the traditional automobile design concept. In terms of appearance, it has automatic gull-wing doors, an all-glass roof and external sensors. There is no steering wheel and pedal in the robocar and it has intelligent configurations such as a large curved screen, intelligent console and zero-gravity seats.

The Beijing-based company has invested heavily in self-driving technology. To date, its robotaxi services have been launched across Changsha, Cangzhou, Beijing and Guangzhou, serving more than 400,000 passengers, with the testing mileage exceeding 14 million kilometers by the end of June.

Baidu has opened its fully driverless robotaxi service to the public in Beijing, where users can hail a robotaxi without a safety driver behind the steering wheel. It also plans to expand its passenger robotaxis to 30 cities across the nation within the next two to three years.

Source(s): China Daily

Where is west and america now?

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

Where is west and america now?

Um..riding in driverless autonomous cars for years now.

Here's an example video posted a few hours ago

First launched in November 2017



Tesla has had a highway version in every day consumer cars for years and is testing a street version all across the US with volunteers since last year.

Where have you been?????

 

[j20blackdragon]

Um..riding in driverless autonomous cars for years now.

Here's an example video posted a few hours ago

First launched in November 2017



This is old stuff pioneered by Americans...not Chinese.


Tesla has had a highway version in every day consumer cars for years and is testing a street version all across the US with volunteers since last year.

Where have you been?????

Nothing you posted describes a true L5 self-driving robocar with steering wheel removed and no acceleration/braking pedals.

China is now light years ahead.

Instead of a steering wheel, you get this. This is true L5.

Where is west and america now?

Where indeed.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

Nothing you posted describes a true L5 self-driving robocar with steering wheel removed and no acceleration/braking pedals.

Um..I can easily fix that.

Dec 14, 2016

China is now light years ahead.

No, you are lightyears behind



So I suppose next up in angry desperation you are going to change the params of what you consider the definition of what "lightyears ahead" is?


Here's a video of the interior showing no pedals or steering wheel

Where indeed.

 

[j20blackdragon]

Here's Waymo getting confused by traffic cones earlier this year. Not L5.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

Here's Waymo getting confused by traffic cones earlier this year. Not L5.

LOL! And where are the dozens of videos proving Baidu's excellent L5 progress??

Right now it is limited to a handful of very carefully scripted media blurbs...making Baidu basically vaporware...not showing L5 prowess by a longshot!

Try desperately again