Archinect - News 2024-12-22T06:16:43-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/127354099/baidu-is-building-self-driving-smartbikes Baidu is building self-driving "smartbikes" Nicholas Korody 2015-05-15T16:30:00-04:00 >2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/ad/adk89l2iiuo61ava.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>After a flurry of speculation, the&nbsp;Chinese tech&nbsp;giant [Baidu]&nbsp;has confirmed it's&nbsp;gunning for driverless electronic bikes. Baidu is China's largest web services company&mdash;in the region, it commands upwards of 73 percent of the search market&mdash;and it has apparently pursued a "secret plan"&nbsp;to debut a prototype of a self-driving electric bicycle&nbsp;by the end of the year.&nbsp; Baidu calls it, simply. the&nbsp;'smartbike.'</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><head><meta></head></html>