On February 17, Baidu Apollo's self-driving travel service platform "Radish Run" officially landed in Nanshan District, An innovation highland in Shenzhen, providing citizens with autonomous driving demonstration application travel services. Previously, on February 14, Radish Transport (Shenzhen) Technology Co., Ltd. was approved as a demonstration application of intelligent and connected vehicles in Shenzhen. This marks that Baidu, as the earliest enterprise in China to enter the field of automatic driving, has achieved full coverage of services in the first-tier cities of Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Shenzhen, and its business layout is far ahead in China.
"Radish Run" landed in Nanshan District, which is inseparable from the full support of the municipal government. The Shenzhen Municipal Joint Working Group led by the Municipal Transportation Bureau fully implements the development concept of Shenzhen's inclusive and open development, implements the work requirements of the municipal government's forward-looking layout of strategic emerging industries, and gives strong support and help to Nanshan's demand for demonstration applications, creating superior conditions for the rapid landing of "radish fast running" and the vigorous development of automatic driving technology.
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, and nearly 50 stations will be opened initially, and the running time will last from 9:00 to 17:00. The demonstration application route covers core areas such as Shenzhen Bay MixC, Poly Cultural Plaza, and Talent Park, and can provide artificial intelligence travel services for surrounding living areas, commercial areas, leisure and cultural areas, etc. In the future, the "Radish Run" operation 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, which can better meet the daily travel needs of local residents such as public transportation connection and holiday business circle transfer, and become the first choice for smart travel in Shenzhen.
As an innovative highland in Shenzhen and even in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, Nanshan District has an open policy environment and a perfect road network test environment, which has created superior conditions for the rapid landing of "radish fast running" and the vigorous development of automatic driving technology. As a scientific research, education and sports center in Shenzhen, Nanshan District has significant competitive advantages in digital technology, artificial intelligence, new materials, high-end offshore equipment, marine electronic information and other fields. In 2021, the GDP of Nanshan District reached 763.059 billion yuan, an increase of 112.837 billion yuan compared with the same period in 2020, an increase of 9.1% over the previous year at constant prices, ranking first in Shenzhen, and the only area in Shenzhen that has increased by more than 100 billion yuan. In recent years, Nanshan District has actively promoted the global opening of unmanned road testing, and accelerated the orderly inclusion of urban trunk roads, highways, low-altitude areas, port terminals, regional distribution, and railway logistics bases into the test open catalog.
Baidu Apollo has industry-leading technology and mature autonomous driving solutions, with a total test mileage of more than 21 million kilometers so far, and its self-driving travel service platform "Radish Run" has opened manned test operation services in seven cities: Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Chongqing, Changsha and Cangzhou. In addition, the Apollo Moon, a new generation of mass-produced unmanned vehicles, has also joined the "Radish Run" operation map to provide the public with richer travel options.
At present, Shenzhen is making every effort to promote the construction of the Socialist Pilot Demonstration Zone with Chinese Characteristics, and automatic driving has the characteristics of green, low-carbon and high traffic efficiency, which can provide support for Shenzhen's high-quality development and the happy life of the masses. With the opening of the demonstration operation service of "Radish Run" in Shenzhen, it will help Shenzhen build a national-level intelligent networked vehicle test zone, promote the formation of a good intelligent automobile industry development environment, promote the improvement of the regional layout of related industries, and help Shenzhen become a global benchmark for new smart cities and a model of "digital China" cities. In the future, Baidu Apollo will continue to strengthen innovation and collaboration in the fields of automatic driving and intelligent networking, comprehensively promote the transformation and upgrading of regional digitalization, intelligence, networking and service, and bring safer and more convenient autonomous driving travel services to the public.