‘System failure’ paralyzes Baidu robotaxis in China

Robotaxis operated by Baidu’s Apollo Go became stranded throughout Wuhan, China, in some cases stranding passengers for up to two hours, according to multiple media reports as well as multiple videos and social media posts. Baidu has not shared what caused the widespread outage. However, local police said it was a “system failure” that affected…

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Uber’s latest robotaxi partner is China’s Baidu

Uber has made another deal with a robotax provider, and this time it is with Chinese tech veteran Badu. Two companies Announced On Tuesday that they have agreed to a multi-year strategic partnership to deploy thousands of Baidu’s Apollo Go Autonomous Vehicles (AVS) on the Uber platform in several markets outside the US and the…

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