Li's boast came true

On July 4, baidu CEO robin li via remote connection with more than 7000 live audience witnessed the world's first level L4 production automatic driving bus wave dragon "o" referrals, fulfilled his promise last year "in 2018, production of unmanned vehicle" commitment. In addition, baidu also revealed that apolong has received commercial orders from Japan, officially starting the global commercialization process.

Apolong will operate commercially
According to reporter understanding, from L0 to L5 level of autonomous technology, a hierarchical L4 and L5 level technical can be referred to as a fully automated driving, at this level, the car has already can with no driver intervention for all driving operation. The difference between the two is that the L4 level of autonomous driving is applicable to some scenarios, usually in cities or on highways. The L5 requires autonomous vehicles to be fully driven in any scenario.
Reporters yesterday at the scene to see, jinlong bus chairman Xie Siyu through video shows off the day the wave dragon "o" in a complete assembly 100 bus, and there is no steering wheel, the driver, there is no accelerator and brake pedal... In other words, by using baidu's Apollo autonomous driving system, apolong does not need human assistance in operation, but is controlled entirely by machines.
Li said that this batch of wave dragon "o" will be sent to Beijing, male, shenzhen, fujian pingtan, hubei wuhan commercial operation, etc, and will jointly jinlong bus, softbank corp., SB Drive self-driving company will wave dragon "o" sold to Japan, has realized the automatic Drive electric vehicles in China for the first time "the sea".