Baidu leads Tesla, Uber and Apple in developing self-driving cars
January 23, 2018 Category Automotive, Weekly
Baidu, which bills itself as “China’s Google”, has leapfrogged Tesla, Uber and Apple in the global race to build self-driving cars, according to a study. The Beijing-based company, which has invested heavily in developing artificial intelligence and applications for autonomous driving, outranks the U.S. trio in a study conducted by Navigant Research, which recently released its 2018 leader board report on automated driving vehicles. In the annual report, the U.S.-based research company ranked 19 companies involved in developing self-driving cars, scoring them on 10 criteria, from the company’s technology and vision to its strategy to commercialize products and their quality. Based on the score, companies are divided into four categories.
Baidu was rated among “contenders” along with companies such as Toyota, Jaguar Land Rover and Hyundai Motor. The Chinese company had moved up from the “challengers” section, leaving Tesla, Uber and Apple to the lowest-ranked category. The traditional automotive giants General Motors, Volkswagen and Ford dominated the top tier, together with Google’s Waymo self-driving unit.
As part of China’s hand picked champions for artificial intelligence (AI), Baidu has been charged to develop autonomous driving. At the CES technology show in Las Vegas earlier this month, Baidu Chief Operating Officer Lu Qi said that China is closing the gap with the U.S. rapidly in AI, thanks to strong government support and the country’s huge population size, which are key factors in promoting the development of the technology, the South China Morning Post reports.
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