Baidu's RoboRun Involved in Accident with Pedestrian in Wuhan
TapTechNews July 9th news, on the afternoon of July 7th, a netizen released a video on the short-video platform, claiming that Baidu's driverless taxi RoboRun collided with a pedestrian on the streets of Wuhan. In the video, a pedestrian can be seen lying in front of the taxi, and the traffic police are at the scene, and the accident has caused partial traffic congestion.
According to the Red Star News report on July 8th, a relevant person in charge of Baidu said that this accident occurred at the intersection of Parrot Avenue and National Expo Avenue in Hanyang District. It was when the vehicle started at the green light and had a slight contact with a person running a red light. After the accident, our company cooperated with the police to handle it in the first time and accompanied to the hospital for examination. After examination, there were no obvious external injuries, and now it is further observing and resting in the hospital.
According to the Xiaoxiang Morning News report on July 8th, it was learned from the Publicity Department of Wuhan Economic and Technological Development Zone that regarding this matter, it is verifying the situation with the transportation department.
TapTechNews found out that in August 2022, RoboRun launched China's first batch of fully unmanned autonomous driving commercial travel services in Wuhan; in December 2022, RoboRun expanded fully unmanned autonomous driving commercial operations on a large scale in Wuhan, and officially achieved cross-regional passage and fully unmanned autonomous driving at night.
In May this year, citizens in the Wuhan Economic and Technological Development Zone (Economic Development Zone) made a large number of complaints about RoboRun on the urban message board, mainly reflecting that RoboRun stopped in the middle of the road for no reason during the morning and evening rush hours, occupied the leftmost lane and drove at a low speed on the viaduct, and got stuck when turning, etc., resulting in traffic congestion. On May 29th, the official WeChat of RoboRun posted, Recently, the network contents such as malicious complaints and false accidents that have emerged. After verification and evidence collection, it is confirmed that they are seriously inconsistent with the facts. For the black water army behavior of confusing the public and manipulating public opinion, we have reported to the public security organs at the first time. At present, the public security organs have filed a case for investigation.
