Baidu’s Testing a Self-Driving Car and Samsung Is Building Autonomous Car Parts

Asian tech giants are scrabbling to join the self-directed elevator car race . A twosome of new announcements reveal that Baidu has successfully examine a self - driving BMW in China , while Samsung has decided to begin bring forth portion for use in autonomous vehicles .

Speaking to the Wall Street Journal , Wang Jing , a Baidu senior vice president , excuse that the hunting company has build two prototype BMW 3 Series Gran Turismo self-directed cars . Much like Google ’s sweat , the vehicles use Lidar and other sensors to see their surroundings , with highly detailed anterior maps and mystifying - learning software being used to make sense of the data and actually control the railway car ’s motion . They ’ve so far been try on freeway in northerly Beijing , “ hundreds of times , with several trip each day , ” shoot speeds of 60 mph . The long - term end , agree to Jing , is to develop the autonomous vehicle for use as public shuttles , though the details of how that might work remain unclear .

Elsewhere , Samsung has announcedthat it ’s create a new division to manufacture kit for car . According to Reuters , it ’ll focalise on “ in - automobile entertainment , satellite navigation and autonomous driving engineering . ” There are n’t too many more point , but it ’s in in force company — LG , also based in South Korea , isworkingon car components too .

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