Baidu’s robotaxis froze in traffic creating chaos

A Baidu Apollo robotaxi successful Wuhan, China. | Image: Bloomberg via Getty Images

Numerous robotaxis operated by Chinese tech elephantine Baidu froze successful a large metropolis connected Tuesday, reportedly trapping passengers inside, stranding them connected highways, and causing astatine slightest 1 mishap successful snarled traffic.

Police successful Wuhan confirmed receiving aggregate reports of Baidu's Apollo Go robotaxis stopping successful the mediate of streets and being incapable to move. Police said nary injuries person been reported and that preliminary investigations suggest an unspecified "system failure" is liable for the outage.

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