Chinese search giant Baidu has announced the imminent market launch of unmanned vehicles. According to representatives of the company, to produce cars that Baidu will not, but, as Engadget reports, will provide turnkey solutions for autopilot to your partner BAIC is a large automotive company.
Like many other developers from the US and Europe, the Chinese company invests a lot of money and effort in their own development in the field of artificial intelligence and systems of Autonomous driving. The recent partnership with Chinese company BMW tempered the ardor of developers, so they started to support other vehicle manufacturers, and iron. Among them was the NVIDIA project Appolo, and recently signed a contract with BAIC.
According to the paper, certified by both parties, the carmaker will massively introduce the development of Baidu in their products beginning in 2019 and agrees to begin production of cars with the third level of autonomy. A little later, presumably by 2021, it is expected to run the autopilot with the fourth level.
While Intel and Waymo thinking about the issue of fully robotic and intelligent taxi from the fifth level of autonomy, requiring no driver intervention, the Chinese have decided to go the other way, starting to release more simple and, consequently, cheaper cars. Production of cars with lower levels of autonomy will allow to optimize existing technologies and to “fill the hand” that over time will also allow you to make fully Autonomous cars.
By 2019, Baidu will launch mass production of cars with the autopilot
Vyacheslav Larionov