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I would love to see it actually try to drive in a city like Beijing or Shanghai. I've been to both cities several times for work, and I can say that if it can

by steven2012 11y ago

I would love to see it actually try to drive in a city like Beijing or Shanghai. I've been to both cities several times for work, and I can say that if it can drive in conditions like that, then it can drive anywhere.

train_robber 11y ago
You haven't been to India I suppose. But more seriously I agree. Having self-driving cars negotiating road traffic in places where the traffic rules are 'blurry' and rarely (if ever) followed to the dot; is going to be a big challenge.
chvid 11y ago
Road conditions and general behaviour in traffic is much better in China than in South-East Asia or India. I would not be surprised if China ends up being the first place with self-driving cars at a large scale. Because the road instructure is in general good and new - and with government support (which a company like Baidu has) legislation and infrastructure will be changed to accommodate self-driving vehicles much faster than we would be willing to do it in the west.
SimpleMinds 11y ago
According to other sources, they did drive it in Beijing - and in bad conditions [1] "We’ve tested the car at night and day, as well as in medium rain, and – since this is Beijing – in smog of course." [1] https://www.techinasia.com/baidu-autonomous-car-hits-roads-china/ https://www.techinasia.com/baidu-autonomous-car-hits-roads-c...
- lukewrites 11y ago
  Beijing covers a very large area, including isolated (if not deserted) country roads and massive amounts of highway. It's much more likely that they drove in a rural area (or in a deserted corner of Zhongguancun) than on any road inside the fourth ring road.
tim333 11y ago
Saigon where I am would be an interesting test case too: http://www.saigon-gpdaily.com.vn/dataimages/original/2011/12/images212794_traffic.bmp http://www.saigon-gpdaily.com.vn/dataimages/original/2011/12... It takes a bit of getting used to as a human driver too but in some ways isn't so bad. The rules work more like walking through a crowd of pedestrians going in random directions than regular driving.

train_robber 11y ago

You haven't been to India I suppose. But more seriously I agree. Having self-driving cars negotiating road traffic in places where the traffic rules are 'blurry' and rarely (if ever) followed to the dot; is going to be a big challenge.

chvid 11y ago

Road conditions and general behaviour in traffic is much better in China than in South-East Asia or India. I would not be surprised if China ends up being the first place with self-driving cars at a large scale. Because the road instructure is in general good and new - and with government support (which a company like Baidu has) legislation and infrastructure will be changed to accommodate self-driving vehicles much faster than we would be willing to do it in the west.

SimpleMinds 11y ago

According to other sources, they did drive it in Beijing - and in bad conditions [1] "We’ve tested the car at night and day, as well as in medium rain, and – since this is Beijing – in smog of course." [1] https://www.techinasia.com/baidu-autonomous-car-hits-roads-china/ https://www.techinasia.com/baidu-autonomous-car-hits-roads-c...

lukewrites 11y ago
Beijing covers a very large area, including isolated (if not deserted) country roads and massive amounts of highway. It's much more likely that they drove in a rural area (or in a deserted corner of Zhongguancun) than on any road inside the fourth ring road.

tim333 11y ago

Saigon where I am would be an interesting test case too: http://www.saigon-gpdaily.com.vn/dataimages/original/2011/12/images212794_traffic.bmp http://www.saigon-gpdaily.com.vn/dataimages/original/2011/12... It takes a bit of getting used to as a human driver too but in some ways isn't so bad. The rules work more like walking through a crowd of pedestrians going in random directions than regular driving.