On February 17, the reporter took the lead in shenzhen to experience Baidu Apollo's self-driving travel service platform "Radish Run", and hit a self-driving taxi. The reporter experienced the total length of the road is 6 kilometers, the driving time is about 13 minutes, and the speed is about 30 kilometers per hour.
Pictured: The ride-hailing page of the Radish Run App
According to the plan, after the "Radish Run" opens the normalized demonstration application in Shenzhen, users can experience the autonomous driving travel service through the "Radish Run" App, opening nearly 50 stations in the early stage, and the running time lasts from 9:00 to 17:00. The demonstration application route covers the core areas of Shenzhen Bay MixC, Poly Cultural Square, Talent Park and so on. In the future, the "Radish Run" operating route will continue to expand, and it is expected that by the end of 2022, the scale of stations in the travel service area will reach more than 300, meeting the daily travel needs of local residents such as public transportation connection and holiday business circle transfer.
On the side of the road at the west gate of the Shenzhen Bay Sports Center in Nanshan District, the reporter opened the "Radish Run" App, entered the pick-up point, and the page recommended "popular sites", these sites include Coastal City Shopping Center, Nanshan Book City, Haiyin Great Wall, etc., are currently reachable locations, enter the drop-off point, the page will show the distance and driving time. Since it is still a free experience, the fee will not be displayed, click "Call Vehicle" to complete the ride request.
Pictured: Baidu's self-driving model in Shenzhen is a Hongqi EV
Baidu's self-driving model in Shenzhen is The Hongqi EV, the first batch of front-loading and mass-produced L4-level autonomous driving passenger cars in China jointly built by Baidu and FAW, is China's first front-loading mass-produced unmanned vehicle (Robotaxi) and the fourth generation of Baidu Apollo unmanned vehicle. The reporter saw that the body of this car was printed with the words "Radish Run", equipped with 1 40-line lidar, 2 millimeter-wave radar, 9 cameras, and 1 group of ultrasonic radar, which were used to distinguish vehicles, obstacles, pedestrians and so on on. Baidu founder, chairman and CEO Robin Li has previously said that the biggest difference from many unmanned cars is that Hongqi EV began to be designed according to unmanned vehicles, rather than buying a car and then installing various things.
Pictured: The "safety officer" in the driver's seat does not touch the steering wheel with both hands while driving.
The starting and ending stations of the reporter's experience are the west gate of the Shenzhen Bay Sports Center. Inside the car, a safety officer in the driver's seat is ready, and his task is not to drive, but to ensure the safety of passengers during the drive. Before leaving, the security officer took the temperature of the reporter and showed the 'green code'. Behind the driver's and co-pilot's seats, there is a screen each, everything is ready to be completed, click "Start Trip" on the screen, and the car slowly starts.
Video: Autonomous vehicles arrive at the station.
According to the screen, the experience is 6 kilometers long, the driving time is 13 minutes, and the speed is maintained at about 30 kilometers per hour. The reporter saw that during the driving process, the steering wheel slowly rotated, but the safety officer kept his hands on his legs and did not touch the steering wheel. The remaining distance and travel time of the trip are displayed, as well as the roads traveled. The vehicle was driving smoothly throughout the whole process, and it was very smooth to change lanes, turn around, and pull over on the way. When passing an intersection on the way, a car on the right suddenly "killed" out, and the car in which the reporter was riding also reacted quickly and braked sharply.
Figure: The route of this trip is shown on the screen.
According to Baidu, Hongqi EV has realized the all-round upgrade and optimization of automatic driving software and hardware, pre-installation and mass production capacity of the production line, human-computer interaction in the car, safety redundancy guarantee and cloud fleet management, which is the result of the iteration of Apollo's automatic driving technology. Hongqi EV Hongqi EV is equipped with Apollo customized OBU (vehicle unit), which can carry out L4 level vehicle road collaborative perception driving with intelligent networked roadside equipment, and realize the close integration of "smart car" and "smart road".
Figure: The route shown on the map, the red is the road experienced by this reporter, and the blue is the current operating road.
At the end of the ride, the screen displays the "Satisfied" and "Dissatisfied" options, and passengers can feedback the ride experience by tapping on the screen. Baidu relevant personnel said that at present, Baidu has obtained 22 autonomous driving manned test licenses in Shenzhen and 22 self-driving taxis in Shenzhen, which is currently the company with the most automatic driving licenses in Shenzhen. In the future, with the liberalization of policies, the number of releases will slowly increase. As of now, the experience in Shenzhen is still free, and whether it will be charged in the future depends on the relevant situation.
Readers/Shenzhen Business Daily reporters Chen Shu and Liu Xinyi
Edited by Shin Ka-yi
Editor-in-charge Zhu Feng
Executive Producer Wu Ji
Proofreader Sun Shijian
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