Self-driving

In the fourth quarter of last year, Baidu's robotaxi platform Apollo Go saw about 213,000 orders for manned rides, an increase of nearly 100 percent from the third quarter.

Volkswagen is in discussions with Huawei about acquiring the latter's self-driving team and plans to announce further information by the end of March, local media said.

Volkswagen is in talks with Huawei with plans to buy the latter's self-driving unit for billions of euros, German media reported.

Baidu's robotaxi service achieves full coverage of four super tier 1 cities in China - Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen.

The number has surpassed its US counterparts, with Alphabet's Waymo's Robotaxi fleet of about 800 vehicles.

Su Jing, who has held the position of head of Huawei's smart driving product division, will leave the company before the Chinese New Year, local media said.

The model will begin road testing in China this year and enter the daily operation of self-driving mobility services in the first half of 2023.

Pony.ai has begun road testing with the Nvidia DRIVE Orin, and the new computing unit will begin mass production by the end of 2022.

The platform will be built on Black Sesame's HuaShan-2 A1000 self-driving computing chip, with volume production targeted for 2022.

WeRide has also conducted simulations on its in-house developed platform, resulting in over 8 billion simulated test miles.