On June 8, a netizen took a photo of a traffic accident of Baidu's driverless test vehicle. From the photo, it can be seen that the left rear of the vehicle was seriously damaged, and it is suspected that a rear end collision occurred** The word "bjhai" on the body is the symbol of "Beijing high level autonomous driving demonstration zone", indicating that this vehicle is an autonomous vehicle that has been regularly tested in Beijing Economic Development Zone.
According to media reports, relevant insiders revealed that the accident occurred in early May. The rear car was responsible for the rear end collision. It had nothing to do with automatic driving. The photos of radish fast running test vehicles being rear ended circulated on the Internet are traffic accidents caused by radish capacity test vehicles being rear ended by rear trucks under normal driving conditions in the economic development zone in early May. The radish transport capacity of the accident has been reported to the relevant regulatory authorities for the record as soon as possible**
"After the accident, the traffic management department of the public security organ conducted on-site investigation, evidence collection and other work according to law. The cause of the accident was the illegal act that the truck did not maintain a safe distance from the front car enough to take emergency braking measures. The driver of the truck was found to be fully responsible for the accident." Baidu said.
It is reported that as early as April, Beijing issued the notice of unmanned manned demonstration application, baidu became the first approved enterprise, and its self driving travel service platform turnip express officially opened the unmanned self driving travel service.
It can carry out unmanned automatic driving and manned demonstration application on open roads within 60 square kilometers of Beijing high-level automatic driving demonstration zone. Baidu invested 10 unmanned vehicles in the first batch, and plans to add another 30 unmanned vehicles in the follow-up.
In November last year, baidu turnip express started its commercial charging operation in Yizhuang, covering an area of 60 square kilometers in the economic development zone at the initial stage, with more than 600 stations, passing through the Management Committee of the economic development zone, Han Zu square, Yicheng Times Square, AVIC international square and other core areas.
At present, baidu turnip Express has realized automatic driving and manned travel services in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and other cities.