Chinese Internet giant Baidu began testing an unmanned Shuttle

23 September 2019

Chinese cities one after the other give a license to test drones

According to the newspaper Automotuve News China capital of Hubei province located in Central China, provided the company Baidu, Inc. a license for testing vehicles with Autonomous control, it becomes a serious step that brings closer the advent of unmanned vehicles in China.

The representative of the transport Department of Wuhan Hu Haisong stated that: "the Internet giant Baidu Inc. received a license to test five of its unmanned shuttles while the company Shenzhen Haylion Technologies Co. and DeepBlue Technology Shanghai Co. will test Autonomous buses".

However, a Baidu representative declined to specify this information, and representatives of two other companies was not available at all.

Beijing has ambitious plans to develop its transport sector, including the achievement by 2035, the share of sales of vehicles with electric drive to 60% of the total car market. As for Autonomous driving, the State Council of China stressed the need to develop this technology and create a comprehensive supply chain components.

Last week, the second city of China – Shanghai announced plans for limited testing of driverless cars, following similar decisions megapolisov Changsha and Guangzhou. The city government of Shanghai issued a license to companies SAIC Motor Corp., BMW Group and Didi Chuxing Inc. for testing machines with passengers.

According to the official news Agency Xinhua, in the Wuhan Metropolitan area with 10 million people, will be testing the car on certain sections of the 28-kilometer road. They refer to the words of the Deputy Mayor, who said that the city will provide for testing "of a subsidy of appropriate levels" and that such tests will help China become world leader in Autonomous driving.

PS When the drones eagerly said to the representatives of our SKOLKOVO still can't shake the feeling that listening to the descendants of the Great schemer (specifically – inspired monologue about the "new Vasyuki"), but when in the case included multi-million Chinese cities with billions of dollars in financial resources – this is serious, despite the coming of the world recession. The output of the next global crisis will new technologies including one of the key Autonomous driving, especially as it is synergistic goes hand in hand with mobility and sharing, i.e. using the public passenger vehicles.