Comments on social media mostly supported the company Baidu, which is behind the driverless car.
This weekend, A driverless rental car ran over a pedestrian in Wuhan who apparently ran a traffic light. The vehicle operator, the Chinese technology giant Baidutold the Chinese media that the car started when the traffic light turned green and had slight contact with the pedestrian.
According to Baidu, the person There were no obvious external injuries. and was taken to a hospital. Comments on social media largely supported Baidu, pointing out that the pedestrian had broken the law, the English-language newspaper ‘Shanghai Daily’ said in a post on X.
The Chinese financial media ‘Yicai’, for its part, cited an expert who stated that technology may have limitations when it comes to unconventional behavior, such as other vehicles or pedestrians that violate traffic laws.
A fleet of 300 cars
Baidu, a search and artificial intelligence engine based in Beijing, leads the development of autonomous driving in China.
Its largest robotaxi operation, with a fleet of 300 cars, is in Wuhan, a major city in central China that suffered the first major outbreak of COVID-19 in early 2020.
Your taxi service too It is present in more limited areas from three other Chinese cities: Beijing, Shenzhen and Chongqing. The company launched the sixth generation of your driverless taxi and stated that it had reduced the unit cost to less than $30,000 (27,700 euros).
