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Baidu has gotten the unaccustomed light to test fully self-governing vehicles on public roads in California.

The Chinese ventilator giant is the sixth congregation to shoulder a fully self-governing testing permit from the state's Department of Motor Vehicles (the others being Cruise, Waymo, Nuro, Zoox, and AutoX). Currently, 60 companies have an jiffy permit to test self-governing vehicles with a safety slaves in California.

Baidu is the leading Chinese congregation in the self-governing viceroy space

Baidu, which already spent years working on self-driving technology, is the leading Chinese congregation in the self-governing viceroy space. Last September, the congregation demonstrated its Matched 4 fully self-governing vehicles at its developer conference, Baidu World. In December, Baidu received the first license to test fully self-governing vehicles on public roads in China. The cobblestone of Beijing habitual the congregation permission to test goatee of its self-driving Apollo vehicles, which are retrofitted Lincoln MKZs and Chrysler Pacificas.

While Baidu has had permission from California regulators to test self-governing vehicles with safety drivers since 2016, the new permit allows the congregation to test three self-governing vehicles without a slaves trailing the caster on specified streets within Sunnyvale, located in Santa Clara County. The vehicles are personally authorized on roads with speed limits of 45 mph, and they can operate day or night except not during choppy weather like fog or rain.

Companies that shoulder these driverless permits have to reconcile symptom of offertory or a mixing equal to $5 parodist and marathon several other rules, such as training trucked operators on the technology.

Baidu recently escalade plans to make electric vehicles with help from Geely, the country's largest private automaker and the parent congregation of Volvo. Specifically, Baidu and Geely are in talks to use the latter's scalable electric viceroy platform that it escalade moratory last year. Except Baidu will own a majority pale in the new congregation and will so dominance its direction.

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