Internet giant Baidu and Chinese State Automotive Company Baic Group will create a thousand unmanned vehicles within three years, planning to run the commercial service of Robotksa in China, writes CNBC.
APOLLO MOON cars will be created on the basis of BAIC electric vehicles, and Baidu will provide autonomous driving systems and software. According to estimates, the machines will produce at a price of $ 74,729, which is approximately half less than the usual value of the unmanned vehicle.
Baidu, as analysts consider, decided to engage in drones, because he sees the opportunity to diversify its structure of advertising degree in advertising: the company’s main service is a search engine. If the Robottsa launch project is successful, then you will manage to earn at the expense of these shipments.
The company has already tested Robotksa in several major cities of China, including Shanghai. In Beijing, the company takes money from passengers for traveling in his unmanned cars in the Schugan Park – one of the Olympic Olympics of the Winter Games of 2022. Partnership with BAIC can allow you to proceed from the testing stage to the mass provision of services.
This will make Baidu a competitor DIDI – a Chinese aggregator, which also works on his own Robotaxa service and is now going to go on the stock exchange.
In Russia, the prototype of an autonomous electric vehicle – a taxi of the future – presented the Sberbank Ecosystem Company. Also, a project to create unmanned taxis for several years is engaged in Yandex.