Chinese tech giant Baidu will open up its self-driving technology to the open source community, in a bid to more rapidly advance its own autonomous vehicles unit and help it compete with giants in the space like Google and Waymo.
“Open sourcing Baidu’s capabilities in functions such as route planning, vehicle control and operating systems will help Baidu and the autonomous-vehicle industry develop more rapidly, Baidu Group President Qi Lu said in an interview,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
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