{"id":12602,"date":"2022-05-12T15:29:53","date_gmt":"2022-05-12T19:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/?p=12602"},"modified":"2022-05-12T15:29:53","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T19:29:53","slug":"baidu-and-pony-ai-become-first-robotaxi-services-to-operate-without-safety-drivers-in-beijing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/baidu-and-pony-ai-become-first-robotaxi-services-to-operate-without-safety-drivers-in-beijing\/12602\/","title":{"rendered":"Baidu and Pony.ai Become First Robotaxi Services to Operate without Safety Drivers in Beijing"},"content":{"rendered":"Originally published in The Verge, April 30, 2022. Baidu\u00a0and\u00a0Pony.ai\u00a0have been given permission to operate their autonomous vehicles without safety drivers in Beijing, a first for robotaxi services in China (via\u00a0CNBC). Although both companies now no longer need a staff member in the driver\u2019s seat, they\u2019ll still need a supervisor present somewhere in the vehicle. Baidu and Pony.ai can\u2019t operate throughout the entire city of Beijing just yet \u2014 they\u2019re limited to a 60 square kilometer (23.1 square mile) area in Yizhuang, Beijing, the home of about 300,000 residents. While Baidu can deploy just 10 autonomous vehicles in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/baidu-and-pony-ai-become-first-robotaxi-services-to-operate-without-safety-drivers-in-beijing\/12602\/\" class=\"more-link\">(more&hellip;)<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published in The Verge, April 30, 2022. Baidu\u00a0and\u00a0Pony.ai\u00a0have been given permission to operate their autonomous vehicles without safety drivers in Beijing, a first for robotaxi services in China (via\u00a0CNBC). Although both companies now no longer need a staff member in the driver\u2019s seat, they\u2019ll still need a supervisor present somewhere in the vehicle. Baidu [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11,48],"tags":[879,368,243,8],"class_list":["post-12602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-news","category-left-hand","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-machine-learning","tag-predictive-analytics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12603,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12602\/revisions\/12603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}