Baidu, a leading Chinese self-driving technology developer, has started testing vehicle-to-everything technology that can help vehicles without sensor equipment achieve L4 autonomous driving on open roads with roadside sensing and 5G communication technology.
It has conducted tests at several upgraded road intersections in the Chinese capital of Beijing, the southern China city of Guangzhou and the northern China city of Cangzhou, Baidu said last week.
By deploying autonomous driving capabilities through vehicle-road-cloud coordination, the technology can “supersede the ingrained perception system” of a self-driving vehicle, the company noted.
“This novel approach will help the industry overcome existing challenges to safely scaling autonomous driving by providing a universal, shared infrastructure that can be applied to any smart transportation vehicle,” it said of the technology.