On February 27, Baidu's Luobo Kuaipao fully driverless self-driving car drove across the Wuhan Yangsigang Yangtze River Bridge and Wuhan Baishazhou Bridge, completing the "first span of the Yangtze River" for autonomous driving. Wuhan became the first country in the country to realize intelligent network Connected automobiles cross the Yangtze River and run through the city for demonstration operations.
As the largest city in central my country, Wuhan has complex urban terrain, crisscrossed by rivers and lakes, and 11 bridges connecting the north and south of the Yangtze River, which together form Wuhan's complex and unique transportation network.
Traveling across the river is also the most important scene in the daily lives of the 14 million permanent residents of Wuhan.
This time, Luobo Kuaipao is the first to cross the Yangsigang Yangtze River Bridge and Wuhan Baishazhou Bridge, realizing fully unmanned autonomous driving regional connectivity from Jiangbei to Jiangnan. While providing Wuhan citizens with a wealth of choices for good travel, Luobo Kuaipao has expanded its autonomous driving capabilities. The driving service area and service scale continue to help Wuhan become the "first city for autonomous driving".
Chen Zhuo, general manager of Baidu's autonomous driving business department, said: "Wuhan is one of the first dual-smart pilot cities in the country. Over the years, it has been seizing new opportunities for the upgrading and development of the intelligent connected car industry and cultivating and strengthening new productive forces. Luobo Kuaipao is fully unmanned and autonomous. Driving a car across the river for the first time is an initial manifestation of Wuhan’s years of vigorous development of new energy and intelligent connected vehicle industries and its focus on the development of artificial intelligence.”
This autonomous driving across the Yangtze River is also a true portrayal and epitome of Wuhan's cultivation and expansion of "new productive forces" in the new era.
After crossing the river, Wuhan's two strategic emerging industries of new energy vehicles and artificial intelligence have been connected in series, building a bridge between the two technological innovation highlands of Auto Valley and Optics Valley, and promoting China's intelligent connected automobile industry to achieve global parallel development. Move towards the lead.
In recent years, with the rapid development of new technologies such as artificial intelligence, 5G communications, and big data, autonomous driving technology has accelerated its application in the field of transportation, with rapid iterations from closed site testing to road testing, and from pilot demonstrations to commercial trial operations.
So far, 21 cities in my country, including Beijing, Wuhan, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen, have issued local policies for autonomous driving testing, and more than 60 companies have obtained autonomous driving testing licenses.
In conjunction with the implementation of policies, cities have actively carried out the construction of autonomous vehicle testing bases, accelerated the introduction and training of talents, and improved supporting industrial chains, providing a solid foundation for the rapid development of autonomous driving technology.
Baidu began its deployment in the field of autonomous driving in 2013. Over the past ten years, it has insisted on intensive and marathon R&D investment, driving long-term development with technological innovation.
Up to now, Baidu Apollo's high-level autonomous driving safety test mileage has exceeded 90 million kilometers, and it has more than 5,000 autonomous driving patent families, among which the number of high-level autonomous driving patent families ranks first in the world.
In the future, Luobo Kuaipao will continue to follow Wuhan's autonomous driving innovation policy, continue to improve service quality and optimize user experience, and continuously expand travel scenarios; at the same time, it will further form the radiation of large-scale high-level autonomous driving demonstration applications with Wuhan as a model. effect, promoting the large-scale implementation of autonomous driving from "regional demonstration" to "city-level application", making the final sprint for commercialization.