Chinese web firm Baidu to launch own self-driving car later this year

10 Jun 2015

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Following the lead by Google, leading Chinese search rival plans to launch its own self-driving car later this year.

Chinese web services company Baidu would work with a third party automobile manufacturer to launch the driver-less car based on computer technology and artificial intelligence, according to the company's senior vice president, Wang Jin at the China Cloud Computing Services Summit.

A number of technologies including big data, Baidu Map, artificial intelligence and Baidu Brain would find application on the self-driving car, according to a report  in state-run People's Daily online yesterday.

Additionally, based on computer technology and artificial intelligence, Baidu Brain could stimulate the thinking mode of the human brain.

It added, with 20 billion parameters, Baidu Brain could store information and ''think''.
Earlier with a view to enhance the accuracy of Baidu Map, Baidu acquired a Finnish technology company.

The announcement comes in the backdrop of Google conducting the trials of its driver-less car in the US.

According to the report, in the future the comparison between the self-driving cars of Baidu and Google would probably be a hot topic.

Baidu would work with  an unnamed car manufacturer, according to  Wang.

The company had earlier teamed up with  BMW to develop semi-autonomous car technology.

Artificial intelligence was rapidly emerging as a key battleground for tech firms, with self-driving cars seen as one of the first practical applications for the technology.

Baidu's impressive showing in the field of artificial intelligence suffered a setback last week when it was banned by Stanford University from from participation next year in its AI test which is conducted to test  whether computers could recognise and sort images.

It was stripped of its 2015 after it was found to have broken the rules over how many tests it could run.

According to Google's announcement last month that its prototype self-driving cars would take to the public roads this summer around its headquarters in Mountain View, California.

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