Baidu Apollo plans to launch 200 more self-driving cars in 2023.

According to CTOnews.com news on December 26, Baidu today announced a large-scale expansion of fully self-driving commercial operation in Wuhan, which has achieved three breakthroughs: district expansion, volume increase and time increase.

Baidu said that Baidu Apollo will continue to expand its business in 2023 and plans to launch 200 more fully driverless operating vehicles nationwide in an effort to create the world's largest self-driving operating service area.

▲ source: Baidu CTOnews.com learned that data show that Baidu's self-driving travel service platform "radish run" currently operates an area of more than 130square kilometers in Wuhan, covering a population of 1 million.

According to Baidu, the total test mileage of Baidu L4 autopilot operation has exceeded 40 million kilometers, and it has 3477 self-driving patents, ranking first in the world for four consecutive years. Radish Express has carried out self-driving commercial travel services in Beijing, Shenzhen, Wuhan, Chongqing and other cities, among which Chongqing and Wuhan have achieved completely unmanned commercial operation. By the end of the third quarter, the cumulative order volume of radish fast run exceeded 1.4 million.