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| − | <br>By Jane Lanhee Lee and Munsif Vengattil<br> <br>OAKLAND, Calif, Jan 27 (Reuters) | + | <br>By Jane Lanhee Lee and Munsif Vengattil<br> <br>OAKLAND, Calif, Jan 27 (Reuters) - Baidu Inc has received a permit from the state of California to test self-driving cars without a driver behind the wheel, the state's Department of Motor Vehicles said on Wednesday.<br> <br>Although self-driving vehicles are designed to eliminate the need for a driver, most testing thus far has been with a safety driver behind the wheel who can take over in case of emergency.<br> <br>Currently, 58 companies have permits in California to test self-driving cars with such a backup driver, [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-nam-ninh-truong-gia-gioi-phuong-hoang-co-tran-6-ngay.html tour du lịch phượng hoàng cổ trấn] including most major automakers and Apple Inc.<br> <br>Baidu is the sixth company to have a permit to test without a driver behind the wheel.<br><br>The permit allows it to test three autonomous vehicles on specified streets within Sunnyvale, Santa Clara County.<br> <br>According to Baidu, it will be using two different models of cars for testing its self-driving system, the Lincoln MKZ sedan and the Chrysler Pacifica van.<br> <br>The Chinese search engine leader has 500 self-driving cars testing mostly in China and some in the United States with safety drivers.<br> <br>It has not said when it will start testing without a driver in California.<br> <br>Baidu said it already has been testing cars on public streets of the city of Changsha, Hunan Province, without a driver behind the wheel, [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-trung-quoc-nam-ninh-truong-gia-gioi-phuong-hoang-co-tran-6-ngay.html kynghidongduong.vn] and has received a license to test empty self-driving cars in the [https://www.flickr.com/search/?q=Chinese Chinese] capital of Beijing.<br> <br>It also runs a robotaxi service open to the public in Changsha, Beijing, and the city of Cangzhou in the northern Hebei Province, but with a safety driver behind the wheel.<br><br>(Reporting by Jane Lanhee Lee, in Oakland and [http://sportsrants.com/?s=Munsif%20Vengattil Munsif Vengattil] in Bengaluru; Editing by Vinay Dwivedi and Marguerita Choy)<br> |
