Self-driving

Pony.ai sued two former employees and the self-driving truck company they founded, claiming they violated the company's trade secrets.

The joint venture plans to begin small-scale deliveries of robotrucks in 2022 and 2023, with mass production of L4 trucks to begin in 2024.

Baidu aims to put a large fleet of mass-produced Apollo RT6 vehicles into trial operation on its Robotaxi platform Apollo Go in the second half of 2023.

The regulations will take effect on August 1, marking a breakthrough in autonomous driving legislation in China.

Deqing in Zhejiang has become the first in China to issue a license allowing companies to conduct public road tests of L4 self-driving trucks without safety officers, with Alibaba receiving one of the first 2 licenses.

The product includes two versions with one and two DRIVE Orin chips, with mass production set to begin in the fourth quarter.

Alibaba-backed DeepRoute will provide self-driving medium-duty trucks to Deppon and they will provide the courier company with a year-long regular freight transit service.

The accident was caused by a truck that failed to maintain an adequate safety distance, and the driver of the truck was found to be fully responsible.

WeRide SS 5.0 runs stably on all platforms with 250-500 TOPS of computing power, further lowering the threshold for Robotaxis, WeRide said.

Baidu's Apollo Go continues to solidify its global leadership position, despite Covid's resurgence in China posing a challenge to local companies' operations.