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Recently China’s search engine company Baidu put 1K self-driving cabs Apollo Go to the city of Wuhan. Now these self-driving cabs are on strike: stuck on the roads and block traffic. Cops can’t order them go away, can’t even give them fines because there are no human drivers pic.twitter.com/2FGosehb34
— Bin Xie__The Great Translation Movement (@bxieus) July 12, 2024
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Turns out, the so-called self-driving cars of "Apollo Go (萝卜快跑)", like many things in CCP China, is also a fake.
— Inconvenient Truths by Jennifer Zeng (@jenniferzeng97) July 12, 2024
The "AI drive" is actually "remote drive". Whenever things go wrong with the self-driving, a human being in the remote control center takes over. https://t.co/nTmwSnAmri pic.twitter.com/6wdCkmILJm
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Apollo Go robotaxi, a self-driving mobility service platform copied from Google's Waymo by communist chinese Baidu. A fleet of Apollo Go came to a halt after suffering a system crash, trapping passengers inside as they couldn't open the doors. Police on scene are found helpless. pic.twitter.com/IKS7bo0uz5
— Northrop Gundam ∀ 2.0 捍禦の大佐 (@GundamNorthrop) July 12, 2024
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What will happen if two self-driving cars collide with each other?
— Inconvenient Truths by Jennifer Zeng (@jenniferzeng97) July 11, 2024
You have to admit, China is indeed at the forefront of many things globally.
Baidu's autonomous driving travel service platform, "Apollo Go (萝卜快跑)," has already launched passenger testing operations in 11… pic.twitter.com/gvyjtpzD0H
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July 7: a robotaxi (driverless taxi) belonging to 🇨🇳 Baidu’s Apollo Go (萝卜快跑) ride-hailing service hit a pedestrian in Wuhan — Baidu claimed afterwards that the person was crossing against the light.
— Byron Wan (@Byron_Wan) July 10, 2024
The incident highlights the challenge that autonomous driving faces in… pic.twitter.com/P1SgVzHrEj
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World’s largest driverless car experiment in China? 🇨🇳🚕 Wuhan, a city with 11 million people and 4.5 million cars, is currently hosting the world's largest experiment in driverless cars. More below.
— Ashley Dudarenok (@AshleyDudarenok) July 11, 2024
🚕 Baidu's fleet of 500 robot taxis is transforming urban transport. And this… pic.twitter.com/vq24DploQS
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Overnight Wuhan deploys 1000 driverless taxi/delivery – the world’s largest autonomous vehicle experiment, all using @Baidu_Inc Apollo Go system.
— Jen Zhu (@jenzhuscott) July 8, 2024
Many in China concern abt robots taking jobs cos driving cab/delivering food etc can be blue collars last line of defence for income pic.twitter.com/jUyUoZBgMO
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ApolloGo driverless cabs of @Baidu_Inc in Wuhan:
— Jen Zhu (@jenzhuscott) July 9, 2024
– 6km ride costs RMB4 (or US$0.55) vs RMB18 (US$2.48) w Didi (Uber of China)
– super clean (some cab drivers smoke)
– guaranteed no deliberately taking to longer routes
Human cab drivers obsolete soon if no reg protection. pic.twitter.com/3sJx44HL6v
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Wuhan city deploys 1,000 driverless cars in one night, already picking up 5 million passengers.
— CCL (@CCL2K30) July 8, 2024
The world's largest experiment in driverless cars is underway on the busy streets of Wuhan, a city in central China with 11 million people pic.twitter.com/Ho6BwVXBV4
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