Qianjiang Evening News hourly news reporter Zhang Yunshan
On March 26, Baidu Apollo's self-driving travel service platform "Radish Run" will officially land in Wuzhen, providing autonomous driving travel demonstration services for citizens. Radish Run launched the autonomous driving travel display service in Wuzhen, marking that the radish fast running automatic driving travel service is extending to more characteristic cities and characteristic service scenarios. Baidu, as the world's largest self-driving travel service provider, has 213,000 manned orders in the fourth quarter of 2021, and the number of travel orders will continue to grow as Radish Run opens the travel display service in Wuzhen.
The landing of "Radish Run" in Wuzhen is inseparable from the full support of government departments at all levels such as Jiaxing City, Tongxiang City and Wuzhen City. Tongxiang Wuzhen has an open policy environment and a perfect road network test environment, which has created superior conditions for the landing of the "radish run" travel display service. According to the plan, the radish fast running autonomous driving travel display service will gradually cover the entire area of Wuzhen, and 84 stations will be opened initially, covering the Dongzha scenic spot, the Xizha scenic spot and the residents' living area. The initial service time lasts from 9:00 to 17:00, and users can call a car through the "Radish Run" App to meet the needs of residents for high-frequency short-distance travel such as daily commuting and tourist tourism.
Wuzhen is located in Tongxiang City, Zhejiang Province, is one of the first batch of China's historical and cultural towns, famous tourist destinations, Wuzhen is also the permanent site of the World Internet Conference, has become an international platform for China and the world interconnection. In Wuzhen, the intersection of history and humanities and modern science and technology has attracted many technology companies, intelligent automobile industry chain and other related enterprises to settle down, forming an intelligent automobile industry ecosystem from vehicles to key components, from software development to vehicle-road collaboration. In fact, as early as 2015, Baidu Apollo's autonomous vehicles were debuted at the Wuzhen Internet Conference, and the following year they conducted autonomous vehicle tests on the open roads in Wuzhen, becoming the first enterprise in China to carry out autonomous driving road tests. In December 2021, Baidu Apollo Park landed in Wuzhen, which is the fourth urban intelligent network ecological demonstration base built by Baidu in China after Beijing, Guangzhou and Shanghai.
Tongxiang City is a strategic highland for the innovative development of intelligent networked vehicles and automatic driving industry, in recent years, Tongxiang City based on the "1 + 3 + 1 + X" industrial development pattern, continue to develop and innovate, combined with its own advantages and characteristics, focus on the intelligent network industry, in-depth development to stimulate the vitality of market players, accumulate economic development momentum. As a tourist city with Internet application characteristics, Wuzhen has taken the lead in carrying out autonomous driving travel display services, which is conducive to promoting the implementation of the "Internet +" strategy, creating new products, new mechanisms, new models and new application systems of "Internet +", making Wuzhen the forefront of the innovation and development of the Internet economy.
Up to now, Baidu Apollo has a total test mileage of more than 25 million kilometers, with 593 Chinese automatic driving test licenses, including 398 manned test licenses, its autonomous driving travel service platform "Radish Run" has opened manned test operation services in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Chongqing, Changsha and other cities, and Beijing, Chongqing, Yangquan have opened pilot autonomous driving commercial services.
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