On December 21, baidu Apollo won five L4 automatic driving test licenses issued by Nanjing municipal government. This is the first batch of automatic driving test license plates issued by Nanjing City, and also the first batch of automatic driving test license plates for front loading and mass production vehicles in Jiangsu Province.

According to the previous strategic cooperation plan of both sides, Nanjing city and Qinhuai District will carry out in-depth cooperation with Baidu in the fields of automatic driving, vehicle road coordination and intelligent vehicle connection, so as to assist the construction of Qinhuai provincial pilot area of Internet of vehicles and promote the high-quality development of Nanjing intelligent Internet connected automobile industry. After being awarded the L4 automatic driving test license, the red flag EV automatic driving vehicle jointly developed by Baidu and FAW Hongqi will carry out automatic driving test in Qinhuai District of Nanjing city. Hongqi EV automatic driving vehicle is also the only L4 class automatic driving passenger car with front loading and mass production in China.

Source: Netease technology report, translated by Baidu