Chinese Baidu set up pursuit of Google's automatic driving car in partnership with BMW

German automaker BMW in September 2014, China's search service giant "Baidu (Baidu)"To cooperate in developing an automatic driving carAnnouncementdoing. Baidu called "Google's in China" is in a position to compete with Google even in the field of automatic driving cars.

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Baidu is not only the largest search service in China, it also has a map service, conducting artificial intelligence research, etc. It is an IT company that can say "Google in China" as it is. We have revealed that the development is smooth as regards the automatic driving car that Baidu has developed jointly with BMW for a while.

Baidu's senior vice president Wang Jin is a cloud computing conference held in China,The Guardian"We are planning to announce an automatic driving car by the end of 2015", he said. In addition to major automobile manufacturers such as Mercedes · Benz, IT companies such as Tesla Motors also participate in the development of the automatic driving car, and development is progressing all over the world, but Baidu's automatic driving car is also about to be announced It can be expected to be at the state of the art level.

Google's department to study artificial intelligenceDeep MindJust like holding a Baidu Institute of Technology Institute for Institute of Deep Learning in Silicon Valley has established. BothDeep learningIt is believed that technology is applied to an automated driving car, and deep learning technology is thought to grasp the key to achieving an automatic driving car.


Although Google has taken the process of building a self-developed car from Lexus's commercial cars and building an automatic driving car from scratch, Baidu supports driving of drivers such as automatic braking technology and lane keeping technology Different approaches are being done in that it captures automatic driving technology as the final form of application of assistive technology.

Baidu has already studied data mapping technology on China's expressway network and by utilizing this data, for example, even when a driver who is tired of driving breaks his hand from the handle and took a break, it will travel to the destination It is thought that it is relatively easy to realize automated driving technology and the like that can continue the operation.

BySee-ming Lee

Google and Baidu have technologies indispensable for realizing automatic driving cars such as map data and deep learning technology, but unexpectedly there is a point that Baidu is more advantageous in completing an automatic driving car.

Google is already in California, even in Texas Auto-driving carStart public road testAt present, it is considered that technology development of automatic driving cars is advancing more than Baidu. However, while public road tests are indispensable for practical use of automatic driving cars, it is unlikely that it will be difficult to struggle to obtain approval and approval for test driving under American laws and regulations.

Meanwhile, Baidu said that it is also possible that the public authority's ambitions such as completing the automatic driving technology as soon as possible and leading the world in the automated driving car market are possible without barriers. With the support of the authorities of the Chinese authorities, with the support of the Chinese authorities, Baidu can raise the development speed by public road test, and can compare the difference of the present technology at a stroke and reverse it.


Legal regulations on the safety of automobiles are strict in the mature industrialized nations, and recently Honda has been forced to recall a large scale due to a malfunction of the automatic brake assist function, and recently, Development is essential. On the other hand, in China, the possibility that technology development will progress dramatically is likely to be developed as the development of automatic driving technology in the country is carried out freely and boldly due to deregulation depending on the authorities' thought is.

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