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CTOnews.com news on January 13, January 12, Wuhan City, the fifth batch of about 344km intelligent network car test roads completed the risk assessment and passed the expert review, and is scheduled to be officially opened in the near future.

At the same time, Baidu signed a cooperation agreement with the Wuhan municipal government to announce a comprehensive strategic cooperation in the field of intelligent Internet connected cars. Baidu's self-driving travel service platform "radish fast run" has carried out completely unmanned commercial operation in Wuhan. With the opening of the policy, new vehicles are also being launched one after another, and the scale of the total unmanned fleet is about to exceed 100.

▲ map source Apollo intelligent driving CTOnews.com learned that all the roads to be opened in Wuhan are located in Wuhan Economic Development District. After the official opening, Wuhan Economic Development District will become the fourth and the first global road in the central region to support intelligent network vehicle testing. So far, Wuhan Economic Development Zone will accumulate more than 660 kilometers of all kinds of open test roads, covering an area of about 490 square kilometers.

After the opening of the Economic Development Zone in Wuhan, the area covered by operation in Wuhan will exceed 530 square kilometers, covering more than 1.5 million permanent residents.

According to the person in charge of Wuhan Economic and Information Bureau, "after five batches of intelligent network test road evaluation and opening, all kinds of streets and short-distance life scenes in the city have been relatively rich, which can well support the testing and application of enterprises." the next step may include more medium-and long-distance road testing needs in the city, such as transportation hubs, covering more business life application demonstration scenarios. "

Wuhan will also actively and steadily promote the self-driving policy to achieve global opening up in Wuhan in stages, and gradually open up the application in airports, highways and other scenarios. Within the scope of laws, regulations and policies, Baidu Apollo and its related parties are supported to deploy large-scale self-driving commercial operation services throughout the city. The two sides will work together to build the world's leading self-driving operation zone in Wuhan.

The completely unmanned self-driving fleet of Baidu's self-driving service platform radish fast has entered Wuhan, Beijing and Chongqing, making it the first company to carry out self-driving operation and testing in many cities across the country.

▲ drawing source Apollo intelligent driving

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