Vice Chairman of Baidu Board of Directors, President and Chief Operating Officer of Baidu Group, Li Zhenyu, General Manager of Baidu Intelligent Driving Business Group, Wu, Vice President of Baidu, and General Manager of Baidu Map; Hong Zhou, General Manager of SAIC and Wei Dong, CEO of SAIC attended the signing ceremony. In the future, the technology, resources and capabilities of Baidu Apollo's open platform will be combined with the platform advantages of the first car to bring smarter and more professional travel services to the public.
Li Zhenyu, general manager of Baidu Intelligent Driving Group, said: "Autopilot is entering the explosive stage of commercial mass production. Baidu and SAIC have reached a strategic cooperation, which will jointly explore the innovative mode of sharing self-driving cars, thoroughly improve the long-standing traffic problems in China, and bring about a more orderly and efficient urban traffic system. The Apollo open platform will open Baidu's autonomous driving technology, resources and capabilities to the industry with an open attitude, and warmly welcome more types of outstanding enterprises to join the Apollo ecosystem, bringing innovative changes to China's transportation system. "