Baidu self-driving vans to deliver Walmart groceries

Editor | January 9, 2019 | World | No Comments

Hong Kong (CNN Business)China’s leading search engine will soon be helping make deliveries for Walmart, bringing it into direct competition with Google’s driverless technology.

California startup Udelv announced Tuesday that it will deploy self-driving vans using Baidu’s technology in Surprise, Arizona, as part of a pilot program to deliver fresh groceries for Walmart (WMT).

Udelv has developed a fleet of autonomous delivery vans on Baidu’s (BIDU) open-source autonomous driving platform, Apollo.