BAIC Blue Valley said on the interactive platform that the company has completed the delivery of nearly 1,000 units of Baidu's fifth-generation shared unmanned vehicles, mainly in Wuhan, Beijing and Guangzhou, and the two sides will work together to ensure the autonomous driving test and operation of these vehicles.
IT Home noted that in April 2021, BAIC POLEFOX signed a joint technology development agreement with Baidu's Apollo Intelligent Driving Division, based on the BAIC POLAR FOX Alpha T model, the two sides jointly completed the research and development of Baidu's fifth-generation Robotaxi product Apollo Moon, and demonstrated fully unmanned autonomous driving technology in Shougang Park in October of the same year. At present, some models of "Carrot Run" on the market are Baidu's fifth-generation Robotaxi products.
On June 4, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and other four departments jointly issued the "Intelligent Connected Vehicle Access and Road Access Pilot Consortium", and the first batch of units to enter the Intelligent Connected Vehicle Access and Road Access Pilot Consortium include Changan Automobile, BYD, GAC, SAIC, BAIIC Blue Valley, FAW, SAIC Hongyan, Yutong Bus, and NIO.