As it looks to break into the growing autonomous driving market, Chinese tech giant Baidu is rumored to be planning to launch its robotaxi services outside of China. This is a trend that other Chinese players and European companies are working toward.
According to reports from Nikkei Asia and the Wall Street Journal that cited people with knowledge of the situation, the Beijing-based organization hopes to check and use its Apollo Go robotaxis in locations like Hong Kong, Singapore, and the Middle East.
According to the studies, Baidu has been in conversations with businesses and authorities there.
Apollo Get intends to launch a new edition of its autonomous-driving system, Apollo 10.0,  , that’s “designed for a world audience”, the Wall Street Journal quoted a delegate as saying.
Robotaxi solutions are already being offered by Baidu in a number of Chinese cities. It provided nearer to 900, 000 trips in the second quarter of the year, up 26 per cent year-on-year, according to its latest earnings call. As of late July, more than 7 million robot axi excursions were being run overall.
Another Chinese operators are also looking to take a bite out of the autonomous driving pizza.
Pony. ai and Singapore-based travel operator Comfort DelGro signed a deal in July to observe large-scale business robotaxi activities.
“( The collaboration ) will extend the benefits of autonomous driving to a wider audience and to more regions, creating value to more people and societies”, said Pony. ai co-founder and CEO James Peng.
Pony. ai has also initiated intelligent driving alliances in South Korea, Luxembourg, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.  ,