On the afternoon of April 29, Baidu (09888. HK) rose in a straight line in the afternoon, up more than 7%. On the news side, foreign media reported that Tesla will use the advanced assisted driving map (Gaofu map) provided by Baidu Maps for the Chinese version of FSD (Full-Self Driving, full self-driving).
According to CCTV news, at the invitation of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, on the afternoon of April 28, Tesla CEO Elon Musk arrived in Beijing, and Ren Hongbin, president of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, met with Musk to exchange views on the next step of cooperation and other topics.
According to people familiar with the matter, Musk's trip will discuss the permission to launch FSD in China. Previously, on April 20, Musk replied to questions from netizens on social platforms and said that Tesla's FSD may soon be able to enter China.
However, Tesla's FSD did not have the conditions to enter China before, and now, several obstacles to data security and surveying and mapping qualifications have been cleared, and Tesla's FSD has given a "green light" to enter China.
Especially in terms of surveying and mapping qualifications that must be solved for intelligent networked vehicles to enter China, Tesla and Baidu Maps have already had in-depth cooperation. A week ago, Baidu Maps officially announced its cooperation with Tesla, and Baidu Maps real lane-level navigation will be launched in Tesla's world premiere in May.
This also means that Tesla has completed the lane-level map data required for FSD together with Baidu Maps. It can also be seen from the Reuters map of netizens that the upcoming Baidu map Tesla lane-level navigation interface integrates lane-level map + visual perception information, which is very similar to the recently updated US FSD interface, and is expected to be realized in the same OTA.
It is worth noting that in addition to the cooperation in the field of maps, Baidu and Tesla, the world's top technology companies, will also "meet at the top" in the field of L4 autonomous driving.
On April 5 this year, Musk announced that he would release the Tesla Robotaxi on August 8. Baidu immediately responded: Welcome to the game.
It is reported that Baidu has been deploying autonomous driving technology since 2013 and is the first company in China to explore autonomous driving technology. As of April 4, Baidu Radish Express has tested and operated more than 100 million kilometers of roads in China's complex cities. At present, Baidu has built the world's largest driverless travel service area in Wuhan, realizing demonstration operation across the Yangtze River and 7*24-hour service in some sections. In China's unmanned battlefield, Baidu is already far ahead.
At present, the dawn of commercialization of autonomous driving has appeared. With the arrival of Tesla's Robotaxi, the industry also expects Baidu and Tesla to jointly promote the popularization of autonomous driving technology, accelerate autonomous driving from "demonstration application" to "available to everyone", and make the final sprint for commercialization.