Chinese search giant Baidu is racing to deliver self-driving cars

Dec10

by Sindy Cator on December 10, 2015 at 7:54 am

Posted In: Around the Web, Asia, Autonomous vehicles, baidu, Self-driving car

China’s leading search company Baidu announced that its self-driving car has successfully completed autonomous tests on an 18.6 mile route through Beijing. Baidu revealed that it was working on self-driving technology back in 2013. Wang Jing, a senior vice president at Baidu, told The Wall Street Journal that the company now plans to set up a new business unit to develop autonomous vehicles for use as public shuttles within three years. The company put a modified BMW 3 Series through its paces, testing its ability to make turns, decelerate when it detected other vehicles ahead, change lanes, merge into traffic and…