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Autonomous vehicles at Baidu Apollo Park in the Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area. Completed in 2020, Apollo Park is currently the world’s largest autonomous driving and vehicle-road collaboration test base. by Dong Fang/*China Pictorial*

China’s multinational technology company Baidu has built the world’s largest innovation platform for autonomous driving. In November 2017, Baidu undertook the task of building a National Open Innovation Platform for Artificial Intelligence with Autonomous Driving. It boosts autonomous driving, intelligent vehicle infrastructure cooperative systems, and intelligent car connectivity. It has applied for more than 3,000 autonomous driving-related patents, and its platform-based road test mileage has reached nearly 20 million kilometers.

Testers in Baidu Apollo Park conduct remote 5G parallel autonomous driving tests. The park conducts autonomous driving research including big data, 5G parallel driving, sensor system calibration, and safe operation command. by Dong Fang/*China Pictorial*

On May 26, 2020, Apollo Park in the Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area (BDA) was completed and officially began operation. Integrating seven functions of autonomous driving research such as testing, big data cloud control platform, 5G parallel driving, sensor system calibration, safe operation command, vehicle, and accessories storage, Apollo Park is currently the world’s largest autonomous driving and vehicle-road collaboration test base.

A closer look at the radar system of an autonomous car. Apollo Park is China’s largest base for autonomous car R&D and testing. by Dong Fang/*China Pictorial*

The torchbearer autonomous car developed by Baidu. This Level 5 autonomous vehicle carried the Olympic torch for about 800 meters in the torch relay of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. It has no steering wheel and pedals. by Zhou Xin/*China Pictorial*

Baidu Apollo Park: The Largest Autonomous Driving Test Base

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