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The Chinese online search giant Baidu has signed a 3-year cooperation agreement with Germany's BMW to do research on a driverless car, Beijing Daily reported on Sept 17, adding that the two hope to come up with technology that can result in a fully independent car by first focusing on maps and systems that work in certain scenarios.
The German carmaker has already developed some automated functions in its cars that can, for instance, do parallel parking on its own or with the driver's assistance, while Baidu for its part will work on integrating more of its data services with BMW cars.
Prior to signing its research pact with BMW, Baidu, known here as the Google of China, was working on its own version of a self-driving car, but, compared with Google's innovation, which requires no driver at all, Baidu's car changes will serve mainly as an aid to the driver.
