Baidu, China’s search engine equivalent of Google, has introduced its latest self-driving car, which is fitted with a detachable steering wheel.
The company says the battery-powered Apollo RT6 will significantly reduce the cost of public transport.
With a price tag of 250,000 yuan ($37,000), it is almost half the price of the Apollo Moon that was launched last year.
Its technology has the skills of a human driver with 20 years’ experience and the vehicle has travelled a distance of 32 million kilometres in testing, the Beijing-based company said at its annual conference on Thursday.
Chinese driving regulations do not currently allow autonomous vehicles on the road without a steering wheel. Manual override is required for safety reasons.
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