On February 9, the "New Atmosphere of the City of the Two Olympics - 2022 Chinese and Foreign Media Beijing Tour" hosted by the 2022 Beijing News Center walked into Baidu Apollo Park, the world's largest autonomous driving and vehicle-road collaborative application test base, and nearly 100 Chinese and foreign media reporters experienced Baidu's autonomous driving technology strength at close range.
Media reporters interviewed at Baidu Apollo Park
On the day of the event, the reporters visited the Baidu Apollo Park exhibition hall and experienced the Baidu Radish Run autonomous driving travel service. Wei Dong, Vice President and Chief Safety Operation Officer of Baidu Intelligent Driving Business Group, shared Baidu's latest thinking and practice in the field of autonomous driving.
Automotive robots are Baidu's forward-looking judgments on the future development of automobiles, and they are also the integrators of Baidu's AI and autonomous driving technologies. At the National "13th Five-Year Plan" Scientific and Technological Innovation Achievement Exhibition held in October 2021, automotive robots received widespread attention.
In the test ride, after the reporters personally experienced the turnip fast running autonomous driving travel service, they praised Baidu technology and believed that Baidu's automatic driving technology was comparable to that of human old drivers. Many reporters said after the test ride that safety, quietness and peace of mind, this is the biggest feeling of riding Baidu Robotaxi, Baidu automatic driving technology has brought a ride experience comparable to that of old drivers, acceleration and deceleration, turning and other operations also bring excellent riding security, these details highlight the progress brought by technology, which is a futuristic automatic driving experience.
Wei Dong, vice president and chief safety operation officer of Baidu Intelligent Driving Business Group, introduced to reporters that since the layout of automatic driving technology in 2013, Baidu Apollo has grown into the world's most active autonomous driving open platform, with the actual road measurement mileage of more than 21 million kilometers on urban roads, and plans to expand Baidu's autonomous driving travel service platform "Radish Run" to 65 cities by 2025 and 100 cities by 2030.
Scientific and technological innovation can bring about an increase in production efficiency and provide impetus for economic growth. In recent years, the mainland's scientific and technological innovation has made great progress, a series of cutting-edge scientific and technological research has made major innovations and breakthroughs, and a large number of scientific and technological achievements have continued to emerge. The autonomous driving enterprises represented by Baidu have proposed China's unique large-scale automatic driving landing solutions, and gradually formed a full coverage of the industrial chain such as hardware production, technical solution research and development, and vehicle manufacturing such as autonomous driving chips, laying the foundation for independent technological innovation.
"A new round of global scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation is giving birth to the rise, and automatic driving, as one of the important application carriers of artificial intelligence, has outstanding strategic significance for accelerating the construction of a transportation power and an intelligent automobile power." At present, Baidu has conducted road tests in 30 cities in China, and has opened up autonomous driving services in six cities, including Beijing, Guangzhou, Changsha and Chongqing, and we are working hard to build autonomous vehicles into travel services that can meet the real needs of the public, so that autonomous driving technology can truly impact and change everyone's life. Wei Dong said.